Dishes! Coffee! Sanity!

Overheal

Okay its got me a little cracked at this stage

Every couple weeks ill get fed up with everyone and clean up the kitchen in the knowledge that about 1/3 of it is my **** and 2/3 isnt. Because nobody else seems to wanna wash up. Your ones girlfriend clearly doesnt. He always leaves hid coffee spills everywhere and his dirty mugs and the other 3rd one is always using the grill and plates and never washing up. I use bowls mostly and glasses.

Downstairs theres a heap of plates and crockery for meals long past. The wok was used to cook chilli that we all had but the cook in question has left it there a week now. As If Im expected to clean it having been the last to eat out of it - wait now; nobody cleans up my cookware when ive made a meal either so im not going to give in to the double standard here.

I've switched of glasses and stopped drinking coffee (because everytime i buy some it disappears - flatmate uses a bowl-sized mug!) and drink solely out of a sports bottle. I use one frying pan. There is a pot full of dirty cutlery that has been sitting there for 2 weeks. There are new lifeforms and civilizations growing in the dishware.

I think the biggest problem is mystery dishes crop up because him and her always have the same 2 people over - it always starts out with mystery mugs and slips into spoon madness and before you know it - chaos!

This rant is now running out of steam. whew. I'm just sick to death of it!

feylya

Well why don't you say it to the other people you live with?

flanum

move out.

Red Hand

"Lads, either each person cleans up after themselves, we sort out a washing up rota, or else I'm talking to the landlord..."

Summurised, but that's the jist of it.

ThE_IVIAcIVIAIV

take a piss in their beds

Abi

Everyone pitches in for a cleaner that visits once or twice a week, or they stfu and do their bit.

i71jskz5xu42pb

I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

That or talk to your flatmates. It's good to talk.

kerry4sam

The next time you're all kicking back with a few just speak to them ... let them know how it's annoying you and just ask them to do their fair share ... if everyone done something/anything ... You can't be expected to do it all and i'm sure once they realise that you won't do it all, all the time, some if not all will help out ...

Just have a chat with them and ask them to do their fair share

veXual

Dip their toothbrushes in the toilet! Muhahaha revenge is best served when the victim is oblivious!

Blush_01

You could always nuke their country. Works remarkably well.

tribulus

veXual wrote: »

Dip their toothbrushes in the toilet! Muhahaha revenge is best served when the victim is oblivious!

Someone after Abigayles heart.

Ginny

Take all they're dirty dishes, bring them to his room, pull back his duvet, place dirty dishes in bed, replace duvet.
Preferably do this after he's gone out to the pub, great present when he comes home.

Marz66

When i was living with messy people, i used to tidy all the unwashed dishes that were left beside the sink, ie stack all the dishes/cups etc together. It makes the place cleaner and easier to look at for you but least you dont end up doing their dishes all the time..Then take 1 cup, 1 dish, 1 plate etc, keep them in your press and wash and dry them yourself. If the others are so oblivious to the mess, they probably wont notice you doing this!

Course its harder if u regularly need a clean saucepan, frying pan etc, you might need to talk to your housemates about the situation then!

Creature

Kaya Tasteless Nitpicker wrote: »

I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

You can't make that sort of descision, you're just a grunt. No offence.



Sit them down a talk to them.

takola

Have you talked to them about it Johnny? Cos that would probably be a good place to start!

Marz's is a good idea though. Just stack all the dishes beside the sink and keep your own clean if you can?

Toto Wolfcastle

Ya stacking everything next to the sink so it looks tidy and then just keeping one of everything for yourself in a press works.

I had to do this after I made dinner only to find that all I had to eat my dinner from was a pyrex dish and a spoon....everything else was in my housemate's room.

Doesn't work so well when you need a pot or pan and they're all dirty. (I didn't have this problem until today when my housemate decided to cook pasta for the first time....she burnt the pot!)

Failing the above, just hide all the dirty dishes and then post their reaction.

xsiborg

y'know you could just do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN-2urEPZ_4

or get these fine lasses in:

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/how_clean_is_your_house/index.html

flanum

god be with the days of sharin with people.

*shudders*

Chunky Monkey

Talking to fellas about dishes doesn't work! I got sick of doing them so I left it until the sink clogged and the smell got so bad they had to do something.

Course I emigrated to the roof during that time

Xavi6

Overheal wrote: »

The wok was used to cook chilli that we all had but the cook in question has left it there a week now.

Sorry but if you cook you don't clean. Unwritten rule.

Overheal

I would agree with you there; but nobody cleans after me it would seem so I no longer feel obliged.

takola wrote: »

Have you talked to them about it Johnny? Cos that would probably be a good place to start!

Careful Now

takola wrote: »

Marz's is a good idea though. Just stack all the dishes beside the sink and keep your own clean if you can?

I like this. shame I dont actually 'own' any of the dishes but I will keep what I need, for sure.

garbage was stacked high with cans and ****. Asked him about it he said oh his friends mustve done that... as if that absolves him for being host to them? Bah!

The Roach

Go to your local Tesco's and buy a pack of disposable plates, knives, forks, spoons etc, should come to less than €10. Then just use them yourself (hide them away somewhere so the others can't use them), and it's just a case of waiting till they run out of clean stuff and are forced to clean!

Of course this won't work for the pots and pans.....

useful_contacts

Overheal wrote: »

Okay its got me a little cracked at this stage

Every couple weeks ill get fed up with everyone and clean up the kitchen in the knowledge that about 1/3 of it is my **** and 2/3 isnt. Because nobody else seems to wanna wash up. Your ones girlfriend clearly doesnt. He always leaves hid coffee spills everywhere and his dirty mugs and the other 3rd one is always using the grill and plates and never washing up. I use bowls mostly and glasses.

Downstairs theres a heap of plates and crockery for meals long past. The wok was used to cook chilli that we all had but the cook in question has left it there a week now. As If Im expected to clean it having been the last to eat out of it - wait now; nobody cleans up my cookware when ive made a meal either so im not going to give in to the double standard here.

I've switched of glasses and stopped drinking coffee (because everytime i buy some it disappears - flatmate uses a bowl-sized mug!) and drink solely out of a sports bottle. I use one frying pan. There is a pot full of dirty cutlery that has been sitting there for 2 weeks. There are new lifeforms and civilizations growing in the dishware.

I think the biggest problem is mystery dishes crop up because him and her always have the same 2 people over - it always starts out with mystery mugs and slips into spoon madness and before you know it - chaos!

This rant is now running out of steam. whew. I'm just sick to death of it!

i think i may vomit

this is why i wont live with anyone besides my partner , cos at least then i know who made the mess, and yes i end up cleaning it, but he gets a lecture and a cushion thrown at him! Doesnt make a diff but it shows him im pissed(hense no sex)

Was with a guy before NO FOOD in the house got take outs all the time, didnt even put out the bin so the stink of take out when ya walked in- and the flies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sex was good tho :D

Sherifu

Posting on boards will fix it. To the batcave!

Chakar

That's all crazy talk.

nkay1985

Oh God I seriously pity you. Spent four college years living with a minimum of 5, and a maximum of 7 people!

If even one person is like that, the whole house is going to be disgusting.

Keeping one of everything yourself is good, I did it. It works. What it doesn't do is enable you to wash a pot or pan if you use it. So, cooking is kinda out the window. It also doesn't get rid of the disgusting smell that is sure to have taken hold of the place.

When my girlfriend used to visit me, she refused to go into the kitchen/living room because of the squalor!

The overall best suggestion is the one about everyone pitching in for a cleaner - which is actually surprisingly cheap - or else you go to the landlord (if this threat holds any weight). Because the reality is that no amount of talking or celaning rotas will work with disgusting pigs like you live with. :mad: