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10-05-2010, 11:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Chicago | | | slouch roommates, how do you deal?
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Ok, i'll preface this by saying im not the tidiest individual, but my roommates are some serious slouches.
So my friend called me and told me to check my couch to see if he left his medication there. I went to go check, and i turned a couch cushion over, and there is ****ing strawberry jelly ALL OVER the underside of the cushion.
Sadly, the "its not mine, so why does it matter" philosophy permeates america. I know when I confront whichever roommate did it, they will use getting black out drunk as an excuse and shrug it off. No, its not that big of a deal, but ***!!!  |
10-05-2010, 11:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Carol Stream, IL | | No such thing as a good roommate.  |
10-05-2010, 11:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Yerf Dog  No such thing as a good roommate. | ^^
Yup, hate to say it man, but get out while you still can! Take it from someone who has had his fair share of awful roommates (and now refuses to live with them ever again). Bad roommates can't be changed, but where you live can be.
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10-05-2010, 11:22 AM
| | | | Yep, even your best friends make crappy roomates. Now all I have is a slouch wife who leaves crap all over the house, but I signed a contract for this one.
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10-05-2010, 11:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Absentia Yep, even your best friends make crappy roomates. Now all I have is a slouch wife who leaves crap all over the house, but I signed a contract for this one. | HAH
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10-05-2010, 01:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Listowel/KW Ontario | | | My roommate is tidy and my girlfriend (future wife) is a clean freak. I don't and won't have this problem.
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10-05-2010, 01:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by iamlowsound My roommate is tidy and my girlfriend (future wife) is a clean freak. I don't and won't have this problem.
lowsound | Yes, this is certainly the advice the OP wants.
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10-05-2010, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Chicago | | | it all depends on the roommates and the house. I've had good and I've had bad. If you have a roommate who just flat out will not listen, then there's not much you can do short of finding a sublet (or suffering out your lease) and leaving. It speaks volumes to the maturity level of your housemates if they refuse to clean up after themselves. If you sit them down and talk to them about it, and you see a change in behavior, then you got through to them, congrats, enjoy your living situation. If they continue to blow smoke up your ***, then it may just not be worth it- let them live in their filth and move on.
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10-05-2010, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound
...my girlfriend (future wife) is a clean freak. I don't and won't have this problem.
lowsound
| -but she will. 
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10-05-2010, 02:06 PM
|  | Registered User | | | | | If you think it will continue with that kind of scene, then I'd just look for your own place before things get sour, I've had quite a bit of experience of sharing, it can get tetchy and silly and divided, basically a pain, maybe save yourself the grief and look for your own space.....or find a nice girlfriend with one ; )?
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10-05-2010, 02:10 PM
|  | THIS HAND OF MINE GLOWS WITH AN AWESOME POWER! | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA; Mitchellville, Maryland | | | If you're cool with them just let them know to clean up after themselves. My roommates last semester were awesome guys but they smelled like hell after coming in from working out or ultimate frisby and I let them know, lol. So they would febreeze their clothes turn on the fan and open the windows when they came back. If they start getting their crap on your side of the room or in the way of your stuff toss it on their bed.
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10-05-2010, 02:40 PM
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Originally Posted by bassteban -but she will. | I am clean as well, not a freak about it, but good enough.
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10-05-2010, 02:42 PM
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10-05-2010, 02:43 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | i hold to a keep the mess in your room policy. your room can be as unkempt as you want as long as you can close the door. the main living/ dining area must be kept reasonably clean.
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10-05-2010, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by iamlowsound My roommate is tidy and my girlfriend (future wife) is a clean freak. I don't and won't have this problem.
lowsound | Congratulations?
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10-05-2010, 03:48 PM
|  | Hammer On! | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Babbling Brook | | | A roommate who's room looks trashed or worse, is doin' damage to floors/carpet, right?
Guess who will end up paying? Kind of like payback for living with an overgrown teenager <--- Polite description.
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10-05-2010, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Stacatto overgrown teenager <--- Polite description. | My roommate's description. I deal with it by being frequent and mature in my requests. Things like using all dishes and cleaning none, or leaving dirty stuff in common rooms don't run well here. Fortunately I have agreement from the other roommates (we're four in a huge apartment).
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10-05-2010, 04:50 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | How do I deal with it? I live alone, it's the only way to stay sane 
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10-05-2010, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by i_got_a_mohawk How do I deal with it? I live alone, it's the only way to stay sane | There's your answer-----
If you simply need a decent and clean roommate for finances-start looking and the leave---just have the new place confirmed before you tell'em or (based on the behavior you have revealed) they may trash/break crap and leave you holding the bag before you can escape.
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10-05-2010, 05:07 PM
| | | | really, nobody else is curious?
ok, how exactly does jelly end up under a cushion? like the only way i can think of is that someone dropped a very wet sandwich on the couch, then (very purposefully) flipped over the cushion so no one would notice. is that about right?
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