Housemate trouble.

LickLickLick

Yesterday I came back to college after two weeks being at home, My flatmate decided to throw away all my food in the fridge. I can see why she would throw away some things (Say if they were like stinking up the place)
It really irritates me that she literally most likely went to through everything and threw it away in the bin.

Its one thing to do it but another to not tell me she was going, I would at least expect her to gimme a text saying to I mind throwing away food that has gone off.

Since I havnt been here for 2 weeks,I cant quite remember everything that was in there, I am sure there is food that was most definately not gone off etc
I'm unsure how to go about this. I know a lot of people will say I should have thrown my food out etc (IMO majority of it would not have gone off in the past few weeks)

We both have two shelves in the fridge to ourselves so it wouldnt have taken any of her space.

Thanks for any sort of advice on how to bring it up etc. I'm not one for starting arguments etc so I'm slightly nervous even though I think it was wrong of her to do so.

site designer

You left food to go rotten in the fridge for 2 weeks??? Thats really inconsiderate, I dont blame her, would have done the same

Ickle Magoo

I'd just forget about it.

You left food in the fridge while you went away on hols and you can either trust your house-mate that it was stinking up the fridge, thank them for doing your dirty work & apologise for leaving them in the position of having to face and then clean out your mouldy food - or you can accuse them of stealing food, not going through things with a fine tooth-comb and throwing things out that you think may not have been stinky and cause yet more hassle for your house-mate in which case you'll probably have the whole fridge to yourself pretty sharply.

Best of luck.

LickLickLick

site designer wrote: »

You left food to go rotten in the fridge for 2 weeks??? Thats really inconsiderate, I dont blame her, would have done the same

No, not everything actually

site designer

So what if it wasnt everything, you made her have to clean out rotten food that wasnt hers, and you expect her to pick through YOUR food to see whats in date or not.

of course she just lobbed it all in the bin

LickLickLick

site designer wrote: »

So what if it wasnt everything, you made her have to clean out rotten food that wasnt hers, and you expect her to pick through YOUR food to see whats in date or not.

of course she just lobbed it all in the bin

It wasn't rotten at all. Even so,I would expect to be told that my food has been thrown away and not come back foodless.
i didnt make anyone do anything. If there is a problem she should probably just send me a quick text.

LickLickLick

I definately see where you are coming from, however she could have told me to remove it etc or at least told me she was going to

Ickle Magoo

Why should it be your house-mates responsibility to tell you the fridge is starting to stink whenever they open it? I'd have assumed you couldn't care less by virtue of the fact you just left it there to go off in the first place. I've never heard of permission needed granted before mouldy food can be binned from a communal fridge - and I certainly wouldn't expect anyone having to clean out someone else's stinky mouldy food to carefully inspect each item to see which was emanating the most offensive odour...

It's a tough lesson if you haven't much money for food but it should go without saying that you don't just go off and leave things to go mouldy in a shared fridge.

LickLickLick

Ickle Magoo wrote: »

Why should it be your house-mates responsibility to tell you the fridge is starting to stink whenever they open it? I'd have assumed you couldn't care less by virtue of the fact you just left it there to go off in the first place. I've never heard of permission needed granted before mouldy food can be binned from a communal fridge - and I certainly wouldn't expect anyone having to clean out someone else's stinky mouldy food to carefully inspect each item to see which was emanating the most offensive odour...

It's a tough lesson if you haven't much money for food but it should go without saying that you don't just go off and leave things to go mouldy in a shared fridge.

It's not her responsibilty at all, I dont see how juice or say biscuits are gone off etc. Its not the first time she's done this. I went through everything I owned before I left,checked dates etc and through out some things and brought some home.
She also through away full shampoo and conditioner from the shower for no reason.

I can see my own flaws in this situation but only to an extent.

Ickle Magoo

Okay, well your OP says...

My flatmate decided to throw away all my food in the fridge

So unless you keep biscuits and shampoo in the fridge then it's not what you originally posted about. If your flat-mate is throwing away toiletries and food from your allotted cupboard (I'm assuming you have one?) or your room or shelf in the bathroom then you need to sit her down & tell her you don't think that is acceptable and take it from there. Why is she doing it? Is food mouldy, are things messy and all over the place? Is she being completely unreasonable? If so, tell her that.

mood

LickLickLick wrote: »

It wasn't rotten at all. Even so,I would expect to be told that my food has been thrown away and not come back foodless.
i didnt make anyone do anything. If there is a problem she should probably just send me a quick text.

But you would have been foodless if it was past it's use by date anyway! I don't think she needed to ask or tell you she was dumping your food if it was stinking.

However, trowing out shampoo etc if a different issue.