How well do you get on with your housemates?

stupidusername

I want to know is it just me that has problems getting along with strangers you live with.

so take the poll please.....

Most common problems I've encountered are over people never cleaning up after themselves, making crazy amounts of noise until 5/6 am several nights a week, people using up all the stuff in the fridge, and not replacing it.

What are the regular problems with your housemates (assuming you have any)?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

What poll?

Sykk

Refer to the "Cnut taking 90 minute showers thread".

easyeason3

When I was sharing the biggest problems for me was:
- Dirty clothes left everywhere.
- Eating food I bought, never replacing it & never offering money for it.
- Listening to MeatLoaf at ridiculous volumes.
- Finding food on plates underneath the couch.
- Complete lack of understanding that he had to pay his share of the bills.

Fcuking asshole was like a thorn in my fcuking foot. How I didn't kill him is beyond me.

Ticktactoe

So glad I dont share anymore...

starbelgrade

I don't have any house mates. I have a missus. I do what she tells me & we get on great.

KeithM89_old

Well my mom thinks im cool.... :cool:

Dravokivich

got the 1 flatmate...

works out fine between us. Doesn't eat as much meat as me.. so doesn't eat into my food... Doesn't drink as regularly as I do... so doesn't... drink into my drink...

we go halves an ditergents and washing stuff and what not...

Fúckers got a killer poker face though... he's got this stunned "I've no idea what the hell I'm doing here" look... and it works...

wayne0308

I only have the one, but I don't get on with him at all. It's easy enough to ignore him though as he's not overly noisey. I'm only living there out of necessity and not wanting to take a chance moving in with someone I don't know as I may end up worse off.

Kiera

I've lived with a bleeder who bled all over my shampoo/shower gel/toothbrush. Another guy who wore little pantys and would walk around the house all day in them. Another guy who showered for what felt like hours (when dying to use the loo).

All my other housemates were cool but I'm glad i live on my own now.

Bob the Seducer

Only got one and I get on well with her, so, happy days.

PeterIanStaker

Mine all have real jobs and I'm always away writing up college work or looking for a job (if thats possible) so I never really see them. Ships in the night really.

Milky Moo

Mine are generally ok one of them,a taiwanese girl,can be abit intense sometimes and leaves passive agressive notes from time to time, but alla nd all it is all very easy going.

Most people are handy enough to live with, don't rob their food, clean up after yourself and don't make too much noise! Easy peasy

Sanjuro

There are niggling little problems, as there are in most relationships with people, but otherwise, we get on perfectly fine.

The Waltzing Consumer

Kiera wrote: »

I've lived with a bleeder who bled all over my shampoo/shower gel/toothbrush.

:eek: What was wrong with them? Was it a nosebleed?

ElaElaElano

Kiera wrote: »

Another guy who wore little pantys and would walk around the house all day in them.

We've been through this before Kiera. Stop being so discriminatory, they were comfortable, efficient and very reasonably priced. It just made sense.

Anyyyway, I live with my missus and her best friend, who is a complete and utter fúcking nightmare. Puts plates still covered in food/grease back in the press, eats everything in the fridge without replacing it, and worst of all imo, just barges into our room without knocking just to say hi or find out what's on tv later.

SoupyNorman

Well I have intercourse with my housemate, so pretty well.

Kiera

The Waltzing Consumer wrote: »

:eek: What was wrong with them? Was it a nosebleed?

Yeah a nosebleed. He had to get it clamped every few months. Blood everywhere and he never cleaned it up right so you'd go to reach for something and find his blood all over it

anniehoo

Live on my own now (THANK FCUK!) but my last housemate was a bloody nightmare. She lied to me from day 1 and said she was doing a hairdressing course and wasnt working fulltime. Cue randomers coming at all hrs of the day and night to get their hair cut/blowdried/dyed you name it. She was makin a fortune and claimin the dole. Id constantly come home to find a mixture of different coloured hair welded into the carpet. She never paid her bills on time...for an entire yr and a half and owed me €800 by the time i moved out. Her friend used to wax "her bits" on the dining room table..ah the list is endless!

Never never never sharing with a randomer again!

bluto63

Just moved in with two friends from home. No problems so far, we share meals, clean up after ourselves. I know it's not gonna stay this good, the last time I moved in with friends it went to sh*t, so it could easily happen again. I have high hopes though

Dudess

Fantastically. They only do one thing that annoys me - make a lot of noise if they're getting up really early and I'm either off or starting a later shift. It's an apartment so everything is obviously really close together, and it has wooden floors so that amplifies any noise. I wouldn't expect mouse-like quietness but they slam doors, talk really loudly with the door open, stomp around the place - drives me mad but at least I don't feel uncomfortable asking them nicely to keep it down. They always forget to though...

Other than that, faultless - and no house-share is gonna be perfect. By far the best house-share ever for me.

stovelid

Always seemed that about 80% of the people I ever shared with were either cunts, boring or dumb. Maybe it was just me.

As I'm quite quick to point it out, it led to some wars.

TouchingVirus

I live with 3 others. One of them usually goes home every weekend. The other two are shift workers. One of the shift workers has a girlfriend, she comes up pretty much every week for a few days too.

There are a few issues:

1) It's always me or the guy's girlfriend that do the household stuff (cleaning, putting out the bins). I moved in a few months ago and I've cleaned the bathroom out several times, nobody else has touched it. It'd be a disgusting mess if I didn't do it. The bin is never put out unless I'm there. The living room would be a disgrace if it wasn't tidied over once a day too, even though I hardly use it. hoovering the hall and upstairs is also only done by her or myself, usually me though.

2) They don't recycle and make no effort to. I've lost count of the amount of times I've pulled stuff from the waste bin and put it into the recycling one (stuff like bottles and large food packaging boxes, I never pull anything out that's not on the top). I've mentioned this to them, still find beer cans and the aforementioned in the waste bin nearly every day. They don't do glass either, there were 10 boxes of empty beer bottles/glass in the dining room that we never use, I brought them to the bottle bank, just like I did the last time.

3) I'm a little paranoid about the kitchen. It's very small so if somebody leaves something dirty it is actually in the way. So finding cups/bowls draining facing up, unwashed dishes in the sink an crumbs/food left on the counter is a big annoyance as is the state of the floor. We'll never get it spotless because it's old,misfit lino that covers the floor but there's no need for me to step on your potato peels from earlier either.

The lads are just generally untidy. They leave stuff around for days (e.g. there's been a belt and a backpack from one of their weekends at home sitting at the foot of the stairs for nearly a week now. I dunno who owns it or I'd have put it in their room).

On the upside, we're all friends and have had many good nights in the house I'm sure I'll lose the plot with 'em at some stage about me doing all the cleaning (or the guts of it).

Dudess

Menstrual cycles becoming synchronised is true btw.

keepkeyyellow

One of my room mates from last year is probably reading this now but I'm not saying anything bad

I lived with 3 randomers last year in UCD and it was fiiine. No one was loud or annoying, I liked them all but the I did have a problem with dirty dishes being left around the place and food packaging too.....like just put it into the bin or the sink

but yah no I wasn't perfect either so it doesn't matter, and I'm gonna live with randomers next september so here's hoping it goes well...

KevinVonSpiel

Dudess wrote: »

Fantastically. They only do one thing that annoys me - make a lot of noise if they're getting up really early and I'm either off or starting a later shift. It's an apartment so everything is obviously really close together, and it has wooden floors so that amplifies any noise. I wouldn't expect mouse-like quietness but they slam doors, talk really loudly with the door open, stomp around the place - drives me mad but at least I don't feel uncomfortable asking them nicely to keep it down. They always forget to though...

Other than that, faultless - and no house-share is gonna be perfect. By far the best house-share ever for me.

Isn't it possible that it's actually your bionic ear that is picking up all this noise?

Can't you turn it off..?

Regarding the original issue... last time I shared I had to move out eventually, it was good initially, they always bought nice food, nice alcohol, the right brand of cigarette, y'know... however, slowly over the months, I found they began buying stuff that was no longer to my taste, cheaper biscuits, Dutch Gold, Rothman's... it was like they were all deliberately buying stuff that I don't like to eat/drink/smoke...

& as for the shower gel, toothpaste & toilet paper... well, let's just say I left when I saw 'own brand' labels stuff appear.

& they hardly EVER cleaned or cleared up after me... tut.

Disgusting.

TouchingVirus

Sitec wrote: »

I read that in a Monica Geller voice.

:rolleyes: Except unlike Monica I'm not giving out to my housemates about it, just detailing some minor annoyances to the anonymous boards.ie users.

It can be summed up in 3 points - tidy up the gaff because I'm not just there to keep it tidy; Recycle for f*ck sake, it isn't hard and it's a good thing; Don't leave the kitchen in a heap, it's bad enough because it's small.

Doop

*Doop crawls down stairs with raging hangover*

Housemate: DID YOU LEAVE THAT CUP BESIDE THE SINK??????

Doop: im moving

Cinful

Like two bugs in a rug!

randylonghorn

Shouldn't that be two dotes in a boat in your case?

x PyRo

easyeason3 wrote: »

- Listening to MeatLoaf at ridiculous volumes.

At least said person had good taste. :pac:

Black Swan

randylonghorn wrote: »

Shouldn't that be two dotes in a boat in your case?

Naaaaaaa, two birds on a yard.

allanb49

We get on fine most of the time cause i'm not there for about 14 hours of the day, But here's some of the niggling bits. :pac:

- Not doing dishes piling up till theres no plates/cutlery/cups/glasses (i wash up after myself and my gf so does she)
- Getting pissy when we ask one to tidy up a little
- Not tidying up, i have to step over all there empty coke bottles/pizza boxes/plates/shoes/wires
- Taking chairs out of the kitchen and using them as makeshift tables and then piling up sh1te on them
- Playing video games till 2am keeping us awake and getting offended when i ask them to turn down the volume
- Constant moaning about it being too humid
- Waking up at 12pm coming down, complaining it's too bright and going to bed 2 hours later for a nap cause of a headache from the sun coming in the window
- Sighing everytime someone asks him to do something *think Kevin and Perry type teenager and he's 24*
- Being an Irish version Billy Corgan

It's all small stuff but when they spend 15 hours on a couch it's hard not to ignore

petes

Live with a mate. No problems at all. Normally do a shop every week or so. If there is food in the fridge eat it regardless of whose it is. Piss doesn't get taken though.

Azureus

Live with the bf and its all plain sailing for 2 years now

Only had one argument re: housey stuff (along the lines of clean up after yourself u lazy ****!) and in fairness to him, i was pms-ing :P

We are both mega laid back andnjust tap away at stuff, communal funds help as well

That said, he has started snoring and I havent had a good nights sleep in a week!Thank god for the sparebedroom,or I may actually kill him.

i.need.a.job

check my thread flatmates smelly socks ha ...

FunkZ

Dravokivich wrote: »

got the 1 flatmate...

works out fine between us. Doesn't eat as much meat as me.. so doesn't eat into my food... Doesn't drink as regularly as I do... so doesn't... drink into my drink...

we go halves an ditergents and washing stuff and what not...

Fúckers got a killer poker face though... he's got this stunned "I've no idea what the hell I'm doing here" look... and it works...

Man that is funny ****, broke my bollocks laughing!

My housemates are deadly, moved in a month ago and we've been working, playing guitar, smoking, drinking, going out, eating and playing X Box since!

Hank_Jones

I live in house with two men and a woman. One of them is as thick as a plank and I have to explain everything to him and look out for him.
Almost like a father/son relationship, only he is no spawn of mine.
The other guy is older and is always drinking and smoking, spends a lot of time in his chair just drinking and he has to be tempted with a drink for us to shift him out of it.
The woman is quite helpful around the house, she offers us tea and sandwiches and that, but can sometimes be a bit pushy about offering.
There's only so much tea a person can drink.

token56

Live with two girls, one I knew fairly well before moving, the other I didn't really, but its turned out great, no real problems to speak of. If possible I will always try to live with at least one person I know before moving in.

yuloni

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