Housemate problems

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 03:11AM #1

We got a new housemate in before the Christmas. She was a cheapskate thief at first, like would take things without buying any for herself. Taking my things away solved that problem and she managed to buy her own box of tea instead of being cheap and expecting someone else to. She's still cheap though but I must thank her boyfriend some day for his Netflix.

The biggest issue is she keeps moving my things. I defrost a few slices of bread on the table and she throws it into the fruit basket.

I have a stove top kettle that she keeps moving. We have 4 hobs on the cooker and they're never all in use, mostly the ones at the front, so I leave the kettle on the back. She keeps moving the kettle to the counter top. It's not in her way. Fcuk, I'd be happy if she used all 4 rings on the cooker if she wants but she doesn't. She just moves it.

This evening she moved it closer to the sink and left it by the sink. I'm not sure what she wanted me to do with it, wash it maybe?

Last week she moved the kettle to the table. She was being a right bitch about last week's mood and I moved it back onto the empty cooker and only for her to move it onto the counter top as soon as I was out the door.

So I'm getting quite fed up with her and her passive aggressiveness.

What do I do with an idiot like this?

Cupcake_Crisis · 16-03-2017 03:14AM

Give her a smack of the kettle

endacl · 16-03-2017 03:18AM

The Raptor wrote: »

So I'm getting quite fed up with her and her passive aggressiveness.

What do I do with an idiot like this?

Stop being passive aggressive? Tell her she's pissing you off, and how.

That'd be step 1. Come back to us when you've done that. We'll give you step 2 then.

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 03:18AM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Give her a smack of the kettle

It's going to be hot the next time she moves it.

Barry Badrinath · 16-03-2017 03:21AM

Have sex with her and she will move out.

Cupcake_Crisis · 16-03-2017 03:23AM

The Raptor wrote: »

It's going to be hot the next time she moves it.

Find a way to electrify it so that the next time she picks it up she gets a very tiny, but very real, electric shock.

Spend weeks gradually increasing the intensity until eventually you just kill the bitch and blame it on a faulty kettle.

Danonino. · 16-03-2017 03:23AM

Life's too short to be worrying about kettles being moved.

Put it in the centre of the kitchen floor.

Wait for her to crack up about it and say you thought it was a game, that she needs to chill out it's only a kettle.

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 03:24AM

Cupcake_Crisis wrote: »

Find a way to electrify it so that the next time she picks it up she gets a very tiny, but very real, electric shock.

Ohh, yeah, that's good. I might just give her a whack of the wooden spoon as well.

longshanks · 16-03-2017 03:26AM

Ye deserve each other.

Cupcake_Crisis · 16-03-2017 03:26AM

The Raptor wrote: »

Ohh, yeah, that's good. I might just give her a whack of the wooden spoon as well.

And tell her she's been a very naughty girl!

JupiterKid · 16-03-2017 03:39AM

Thank God I'm not in my 20s any more and don't have to worry about housemates.:)

BsBox · 16-03-2017 03:41AM

The Raptor wrote: »

We have 4 hobs on the cooker and they're never all in use, mostly the ones at the front, so I leave the kettle on the back. She keeps moving the kettle to the counter top. It's not in her way.

Not really defending the kettle krook, but this would annoy me so much. If I'm cooking on the front two hobs with frying pans and pots, I don't want a kettle a few cm away where they'll be hitting off it and more than likely getting food and crap all over it.

RabbleRouser2k · 16-03-2017 03:44AM

JupiterKid wrote: »

Thank God I'm not in my 20s any more and don't have to worry about housemates.:)

Funny-I know too many in far beyond their twenties still renting-getting a house is FAR too expensive atm.

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 03:47AM

BsBox wrote: »

Not really defending the kettle krook, but this would annoy me so much. If I'm cooking on the front two hobs with frying pans and pots, I don't want a kettle a few cm away where they'll be hitting off it and more than likely getting food and crap all over it.

That's a reasonable enough explanation.

But to move it to the kitchen table. And she wasn't using the cooker when I moved it back and she took it off again.

Then this evening rather than move it to the kitchen counter, she moved it and left it beside the sink.

She wasn't like this when she first moved in. She's more settled and thinks she can move things around.

And what about moving my defrosting food to the fruit basket?

16-03-2017 03:48AM

This is basically housesharing. Everyone has problems and everyone bitches.

Canis Lupus · 16-03-2017 03:48AM

A stove top kettle? Are we back in the early 1900s or what?

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 03:50AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

A stove top kettle? Are we back in the early 1900s or what?

It makes better tea than an electric kettle.

JupiterKid · 16-03-2017 03:51AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

A stove top kettle? Are we back in the early 1900s or what?

I had a cooker top kettle when I lived in the States 20 years ago. Electric kettles aren't all that common over there and they do make a nice whistling sound when boiled.

BsBox · 16-03-2017 03:55AM

The Raptor wrote: »

And what about moving my defrosting food to the fruit basket?

To be honest, I think you just need to find someone you know in real life and vent at them. House sharing can sometimes make you want to claw your eyes out, but unless you're going to actually talk to the person, it's something you have to deal with. They're not just going to stop doing what they're doing if you don't communicate with them.

In my case, trying to articulate these things face to face and on the spot can be difficult, which is why Whatsapp/Viber/Whatever groups are great for people living together. You can take time to send a carefully constructed message that gets the point across without causing offense/anger, and even if there is some of those feelings as a result, the other person won't see you immediately so those feelings will have died down by the time ye're face to face again.

As for the defrosted food... let it go.

Toots · 16-03-2017 04:01AM

Put her hand in hot water while she's asleep every night so she wets the bed. Then start singing "pissy pants, pissy pants" very softly every time you're in the room with her. Complain loudly about a smell of piss whenever she's within earshot. When she eventually breaks down and confronts you, crying and wailing "Why are you doing this to me??" pick up the kettle, give her a pointed look, place the kettle on the stove, another pointed look, leave room. Problem solved.

hank scorpio89 · 16-03-2017 04:03AM

Take a s**te in the kettle and boil it trust me she wont go near it again.

Wanderer78 · 16-03-2017 04:03AM

Pet lion, he 'll keep the house in check while your not around

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 04:04AM

hank scorpio89 wrote: »

Take a s**te in the kettle and boil it trust me she wont go near it again.

No

Canis Lupus · 16-03-2017 04:06AM

The Raptor wrote: »

It makes better tea than an electric kettle.

lol

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 04:08AM

Canis Lupus wrote: »

lol

Come over to mine and I'll show you.

DivingDuck · 16-03-2017 04:15AM

The Raptor wrote: »

Come over to mine and I'll show you.

It's a trap, he just wants another viable suspect for the murder of the housmate—!

topmanamillion · 16-03-2017 04:32AM

Remove the kettle from the kitchen for a few days.
Then after she thinks you`ve just given up and gotten rid of the kettle start taking pictures of it in various places and put the pictures up near the stove like your kettle is gone on holiday. Put the pictures up over the stove where she`ll see them.

Monday could be a Picture of it in the car with a seat belt around it.
Tuesday - a picture of it stocking up in the shop with supplies.
Wednesday - a picture of it with a load of other kettles at picnic benches
Thursday - a picture of it on a bike
Friday - a hike up a mountain
Saturday - a snapchat pic of it out for a meal with the caption "I don't want this to end #memories"
(The previous 6 days should also have been spent looking for your housemates vibrator)
Sunday - a picture of your kettle beside her vibrator - This one goes under her door with a note on the back "I`m back from my holiday and I'm not taking any more of your sh1t, I like to stay at the back of the stove when I`m not being used, you see me and this Vibrator have something in common, we keep getting used for a c*nts enjoyment"

Canis Lupus · 16-03-2017 04:36AM

The Raptor wrote: »

Come over to mine and I'll show you.

I'm not falling for that again.

I'll be honest, if I was in a flat share and someone insisted on using a stove top kettle instead of an electric one I'd probably keep making it disappear into the rubbish.

But then I don't have to flatshare.... except with my missus.... grrrrr

The Raptor · 16-03-2017 08:25AM

I know it's a kettle and I should get over it but it's irritating as ****. I wouldn't mind if she was using the ring but she's not. Someone else mentioned that maybe she doesn't want pans hitting off, but she's not just moving it aside, she's moving it completely away. Not only that but I put it back last week and she removed it again as soon as I was gone from the kitchen. It's nasty behaviour. It's not the moving of the kettle, my food gets moved as well. I was making toast last week and she moved my butter and she was using a different counter. The butter wasn't in her way. I think she's trying to tell me that my things doesn't matter.

andekwarhola · 16-03-2017 08:47AM

OCD vs OCD: the sequel.

Just get your own place and then you can face all the tins in the press southward.

Hooked · 16-03-2017 08:51AM

Weld the kettle to the stove top...

Then sit back and bask in your glorious victory.

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