Messy roomates

[MrFun]

Re: Messy roomates

Originally posted by JimmyCracksCorn
Anyone ever had any? I don't mean just kind of messy roomates, I mean more like complete slobs.

There are five people in my house, 4 are clean, 1 is not. The kitchen especially... we have a dishwasher, yet he refuses to use it and puts his dirty dishes in the sink for someone else to wash/put in the dishwasher. We put signs up all over the kitchen telling him (although not by name) to put dirty dishes in the dishwasher, or if the dishwasher is full of clean stuff, to empty it out. But, then we'll just find more dirty stuff the next day. Its like he expects his mom to appear out of nowhere and clean it up for him... but it usually ends up being one of us. We'll even put the dirty dishes all over the stairs leading to his bedroom, but its like he doesn't even see them.

This is only the half of it though, basically he cleans up nothing after himself.

Does this story sound familiar? Anyone else have any messy roomate stories, and what did you do to solve it? This one has got us all stumped...

Kick him out, and get a better roommate.


I am grateful that when I was in undergraduate school, I never had a roommate to share my dorm with.

And up to this point, I still never have any problems because I have never had a roommate.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
me and another guy in the house are the messy roomates

well, and there is probably another guy who is messy, but he doesn't use the kitchen and rarely uses the living room

but I am not that bad (I think)

I am always a bit late on cleaning my dishes (once a week usually, I don't eat at home that often)

but I usually clean others too, so I don't see how I am that bad

jon Miler

Haha, exactly what my roomate is thinking right now.

[Jon Shafer]

All my roommmates but one have been messy.

[MrFun]

Just kick the bastard out and then you have nothing to whine about.

[chequita guevara]

You can do things the easy way, the very easy way, the moderate hard way, or the annoying way.

The very easy way: kick his ass out

The easy way: trade chores, and make sure they're equivalents.

The moderately hard way: train him to do the dishes

The annoying way: just be his mommy and do the dishes for him.


BTW, have you considered calling his mother?

[Shi Huangdi]

Perfect Way: Become a messy slob yourself, get red banners, organize with all messy people, stage resolution, overthrow tyranny of the neat freaks.

*is happy he has a single room*

[Tingkai]

The messiest roommates that I've had were all women, but they were all good looking so I didn't care.

[Arrian]

I was pretty messy myself... and at one point so were the guys living with me (in the upstairs of our fraternity house).

It got bad.

One major problem was that the house had been accumulating dishware for years and had enough that you could eat for weeks or even months without having to wash a dish to find a clean one to eat off of. One of the primary reasons for washing a dish is that you need to use it. Removing that motivation left only the "avoiding filth" reason, which we mostly ignored.

I'm much better now, particularly because I've got a good "I cook, she cleans" division of labor with my girlfriend.

-Arrian

[Pekka]

Jimmy, Just apply appropriate pressure to his neck and leave him there. Problem solved.

[Jac de Molay]

Cleanliness is overrated anyway..:rolleye: You clean...gets messy..clean...get messy again. It's like a wheel of suffering

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Yeah, we actually just scheduled a house meeting for friday. The last time it got really bad we scheduled a house meeting and he cleaned it all up before the meeting, so we just postponed the next one indefinately so we could just use them as threats. Maybe it will actually work again...

It shouldn't have come to this though, we were making progress. We put up voluntary checklists around the kitchen so if you emptied the trash or the dishes, you put a check in your column so it would be glaringly obvious who was contributing to the workload. It worked in that he emptied the garbage once (100% increase from before) but not in the longterm. Oh well.


Edit: by the way, this is a 4 bedroom townhouse from this huge cheap housing conglomerate in Canada.

[Gatekeeper]

Communal living is so GLORIOUS!

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Gatekeeper
Communal living is so GLORIOUS!

cheap too

[Main_Brain]

I should do my Dishes too ..
*sigh*

2tired.
Tomorrow perhaps.