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Housemates

  • 29-11-2007 05:34PM
    #1
    prendy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering do many people house share and if so what infuriates you the most about people you've lived with?

    for me its dirty dishes left in the sitting room and hair clogging the shower.


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  • #2
    kodute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭kodute


    The housemate that takes 1 cup, bowl, fork, spoon, plate etc and leaves them in their cupboard.
    WTF is up with that?


  • #3
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    I have the near perfect flatmate.

    A friend I have known since I was 4 (that's 24 years). He works as a chef, so I hardly ever see the guy now. By the time he gets home, I'm in bed, and by the time he gets up, I'm already in work.

    So, it's like we have the apartment to ourselves all the time.

    We are both clean, and share the chores. If something needs doing, it's done. We don't mind if the other eats any food in the press "if it's in the press, it's for both of us". If there is something that we'd particularly like the other not to eat/drink, we can just say, and it's never a problem. If the dishwasher is full, whoever gets there first will empty it etc etc

    He works most Saturdays, so I can just laze around til the evening time, not bothering anyone.

    It's great.

    :)


  • #4
    SlinkyToo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 226 ✭✭SlinkyToo


    You are a lucky guy, I bet you cant wait for civil ceremonies ;)


  • #5
    Quality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,900 ✭✭✭Quality


    My housemate is my husband we are living together 9 years and he still ****es in the toilet and leaves the toilet bowl dirty, Drives me mad!!

    I still ring him, pull him up on it everytime he does it but I might as well be talking to the wall!!!!

    INFURIATING!!!


  • #6
    _blank_
    Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_


    SlinkyToo wrote: »
    You are a lucky guy, I bet you cant wait for civil ceremonies ;)
    :)

    He also doesn't mind when I bring ladies back...as long as I share them with him. :eek:


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  • #7
    PeakOutput
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,638 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    i live with 7 people 4 girls and 3 other guys

    the irrationality of women is wat gets me the most.

    for example we have a small freezer between 8 people but the girls still insist on putting everything into it in the boxes it comes in even if its wrapped in plastic due to the fact they dont want the "meat juice" dripping on it........

    firstly its the freezer there is no "juice"

    secondly the meat is all in the bottom drawer juice wont ever drip up unless gravity takes a day off

    and finally its all vacum packed meat


    ARRRRGGGGHHHHH it kills me when i dont have room for something and im staring at their boxes


    also when you tell the girls to clean up they say"but we clean up after ourselves" what they actually mean is "we washed and dried our dishes, we didnt wipe the counter put stuff in the bin clean the pots that the lads cooked their food with or put out the bins"


    uggh its been a particularly bad week too


  • #8
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    My housemate rarely leaves her room, but from the state she leaves the kitchen in, you'd swear she lived in there. The worst thing is that the draining board is always filthy after she puts her 'clean' dishes there. She doesn't own a teatowel so I decided to put all mine in my room to see her response....yup, half clean dishes piled up on the draining board. She also doesn't own any cleaning products, or even a j-cloth, which is probably why she has neglected to clean up after herself EVER! (Well, she has done it twice in 3 months. I just leave her mess and mention it when we run out of clean utensils and plates.) Oh, and when the bin is full she'll still put her half full carton on top and leave it, so when I go to empty it I get covered in milk. Speaking of bin bags, she was too cheap to go halves on them with me. Fair enough, I don't mind, they're cheap anyway. Once though, I was heading home for the weekend (4 days actually), and I forgot to put in a new bag. When I got back I put it in. Within 10 minutes the bin was full. She has just piled all her rubbish and uneaten food in her room and waited til I got back.

    I'm beyond caring at this stage. I barely see her because she is always in her room, and when I do it's only because she wants something from me. It's nice really, I get full use of the tv, and I'm happy in the knowledge that she is a slob and I am better than her!! ;)

    At least I have my own bathroom....and I have no desire to see hers!


  • #9
    Rob_l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    I live with a guy I know through my brother he kicked the door in, in his last place of residance so I moved into a place with him we get on great


  • #10
    windsurfer99ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 184 ✭✭windsurfer99ie


    Once, when I was washing the kitchen floor I said "careful that's still wet", to which she replied "that's Ok" and walked straight across in her outdoor shoes ... not bothering to clean her muddy footprints on exit.

    Or the others (male and female) who regularly left unwashed dishes up in the sink - so you can't do your own washing up without doing theirs as well.

    But I especially miss the sexpot who used to strut around in her bikini and heels at 9 in the morning, or sleep with her boyfriend with the bedroom door open - somehow I never complained about her allegy to housework !


  • #11
    humbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,238 ✭✭✭humbert


    kodute wrote: »
    The housemate that takes 1 cup, bowl, fork, spoon, plate etc and leaves them in their cupboard.
    WTF is up with that?

    Does it mean you don't wash your dishes after you use them by any chance?


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  • #12
    smcelhinney
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    Met the best housemate ever last week... ME!

    Lived with several people over the years, and finally have the opportunity to live on my own for a while. And revelling in it.. Coming home in the evening, kicking off the shoes, telly on. Clean as you go, and then big tidy on the weekends.

    Happy days. I recommend it to EVERYONE who can afford it.


  • #13
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    windsurfer99ie wrote: »
    Once, when I was washing the kitchen floor I said "careful that's still wet", to which she replied "that's Ok" and walked straight across in her outdoor shoes ... not bothering to clean her muddy footprints on exit.

    I used to think, fine, I wont clean the floor so if she's just gonna dirty in in 3.2 seconds.....unfortunately I can't live in filth as long as she can, so I always end up doing it.
    windsurfer99ie wrote: »
    Or the others (male and female) who regularly left unwashed dishes up in the sink - so you can't do your own washing up without doing theirs as well.

    Simple: Pile them all up next to the sink. The pile will get bigger and bigger and eventually they'll have to wash them. It'll probably mean you'll run out of dishes, but that's ok. Just do what I thought I'd never do.....take one of everything and hide it! It had to be done when I ended up eating a chicken breast and mash with a spatula from a Pyrex dish! I did clean up after my housemate once, when she left the dishes there for 3 weeks, but I'll never do it again.


  • #14
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    kodute wrote: »
    The housemate that takes 1 cup, bowl, fork, spoon, plate etc and leaves them in their cupboard.
    WTF is up with that?

    maybe a housemate who's sick of housemates who use all the cutlery and don't wash it?


  • #15
    Rob_l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    I used to think, fine, I wont clean the floor so if she's just gonna dirty in in 3.2 seconds.....unfortunately I can't live in filth as long as she can, so I always end up doing it.


    I always end up losing this game too I cant stand to sit around in dirt so when ever I ahve time to spare I end up cleaning up because I cant bare to sit around in a dirty mess :(


  • #16
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    I live with 3 other girls and its actually pretty good. We all share the cleaning but if there's one thing that annoys me, its smoking. All 3 smoke and I dont. They fill the house with anti tobacco candles but that doesnt stop the clothes drying in the next room from stinking of it, or me for that matter.


  • #17
    Toto Wolfcastle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,005 ✭✭✭✭Toto Wolfcastle


    Rob_l wrote: »
    I always end up losing this game too I cant stand to sit around in dirt so when ever I have time to spare I end up cleaning up because I cant bare to sit around in a dirty mess :(

    It's so frustrating, isn't it? Because they get away with it then! Actually, the kitchen is a state at the moment, so as soon as my housemate comes back into reality (from her online Harry Potter role play game) I'm going to mention the fact that she is a disgusting slob, and then remind her that it was her turn to do the 'big clean up' (which takes 5 minutes) two week ago. (I'll do it nicely!)


  • #18
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    we were just talking about this in work today

    the dirty dishes in the sitting room

    Leaving the Iron and Iron Board up in the sitting (i left it up once to see how long it would be there for, after 7 days, i couldnt stand it anymore)

    not replacing the toilet roll when its finished, instead leaving the cardboard bit on the holder and putting the new roll on the side of the bath

    leaving lights on all over the house (she doesnt pay the lecky bill)

    putting dirty cutlery in the sink instead of the dishwasher, which is right beside the sink


  • #19
    Rob_l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    janeybabe26 wrote: »
    It's so frustrating, isn't it? Because they get away with it then! Actually, the kitchen is a state at the moment, so as soon as my housemate comes back into reality (from her online Harry Potter role play game) I'm going to mention the fact that she is a disgusting slob, and then remind her that it was her turn to do the 'big clean up' (which takes 5 minutes) two week ago. (I'll do it nicely!)


    They do get away with it the feckers, I give out but it still gets left becasue eventually I will give in and clean it some saturday when im off work and am unable to relax because of the dirt:(

    I blame it on mammy for bringing me up in a clean home


  • #20
    echosound
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 773 ✭✭✭echosound


    Thankfully the only person I share a house with now is my husband, but over the years I have shared houses with strange people. One house I lived in, I was the only girl, and got sick of cleaning the downstairs loo of drunken miss-aimed drips so left the fellas to their own devices and used the upstairs one myself instead. After a month of this, I took a look in the downstairs loo to see if anyone had taken the initiative, and discovered - I kid you not - a pisspuddle that was so big I could have swam laps in it, which was encroaching out into the utility room. Uuuuurgh.Was all authentic pub-bog style too, fagbutts floating in it, clumps of hair, mashed up toilet paper, etcetera. Loooovely.


    The best one I ever heard though was when friends of mine eventually chucked out their resident oddball, and upon cleaning out his vacated room, found a saucepan hidden in a cupboard, full of hairy months-old puke.


  • #21
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    My landlord is a messy fcuker.


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  • #22
    ojewriej
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    There is a book out now, i think published just this week called "Notes left for flatmates" or something to this effect. Basically this journalist was collecting notes written by one flatmate to another and put them in all together. Just had a flick through it, some of it was pretty funny stuff like:

    "The dishes which were in the sink for the last week are now in your bed"

    or

    " I lick my cheese before i put in in the fridge"

    and

    "I really really really needed this ham. GO SHOPPING!!!!!!"

    As for myself i live with the strangers for nearly ten years now, moved out of the parents hous when i was 17, so i have some good stories over the years. Was robed by the flatmate, had to physically kick another one out of the house, lost some friends but also made much more, once even got punched in the face, by the fella i was trying to defend. But most of it was good i have to say.

    Now a live with my girlfriend and her workmate, they are both lovely girls, we are on similar level of messines, and generally all try to contribute. And that works, we get along great, ddn;t have one fght in 2 years living together..


  • #23
    skywalker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,707 ✭✭✭skywalker


    PeakOutput wrote: »
    ARRRRGGGGHHHHH it kills me when i dont have room for something and im staring at their boxes

    :eek:


  • #24
    marcsignal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    I was living in a 2 bed apt about 10 years ago, and a Russian neighbour from the apt next door asked if he could sign on from my address. I agreed, he moved a few shirts, and bits and pieces to the wardrobe in the spare room, left a toothbrush and razor in the bathroom, took his key, and never disturbed me, except once a week, to give me my cut of his social welfare payment. :D

    Best housemate I've ever had ;)


  • #25
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Recent thread on same:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055168500


  • #26
    sheepshagger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 284 ✭✭sheepshagger


    Worst flatmate I had was just nefore I bought my own gaff.

    She used to put her washing in the machine, then fock off for the day (or the weekend). . meaning someone had to pull it out when they wanted to use the machine:confused:. .worst bit though was when she used to leave blood stained Panty Shields in her knickers (when she put them in the wash!). . I used to find them when I took her washing out :eek:. . I kid you not. . the girl was over 30!

    Personally after house sharing for 12 years I think guys are a lot cleaner than girls.

    Now renting the spare room of the gaff to a mate - no problems whatsoever. . . after sharing for so long dont think I could be arsed sharing with anyone I didnt know ever again.


  • #27
    rain on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭rain on


    irishbird wrote:
    not replacing the toilet roll when its finished, instead leaving the cardboard bit on the holder and putting the new roll on the side of the bath
    I did this earlier. it was because i was so drunk i coulnd;t see straignt though. sorry.


    i rent a room off a 55year old accountant/golf enthusiast and she's the best housemate i;ve ever had. laid back about everything, and we watch The Clinic together every Sunday night and go 'ah jaysus would you look at that', and apart from that we don't see each other very much.


  • #28
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    my flatmate is great.

    she cooks, cleans, shops and never complains.

    thats cos she's YORE MA!


  • #29
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    ojewriej wrote: »
    There is a book out now, i think published just this week called "Notes left for flatmates" or something to this effect. Basically this journalist was collecting notes written by one flatmate to another and put them in all together. Just had a flick through it, some of it was pretty funny stuff like:

    "The dishes which were in the sink for the last week are now in your bed"

    or

    " I lick my cheese before i put in in the fridge"

    i think the book is called "i lick my cheese"


  • #30
    ojewriej
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,468 ✭✭✭ojewriej


    Commander Vimes wrote: »
    i think the book is called "i lick my cheese"

    That's right.

    It's actually good christmas present for people you don;t now what to get, or kris kindle.


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  • #31
    Firetrap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,441 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    I've no particular problems with my housemates, though I'm glad the girl whose room adjoins mine is single at the moment. When she had a boyfriend, they'd be going at it in her room and I could hear more than I wanted to through the walls. I'd feel like shouting at them to get on with it and finish the job so I could go to sleep :mad:


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