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These Posts Of Horrendous Roommates Should Prevent You From Ever Living With People Again
Living with another person under the same roof requires compromise. After all, everyone wants their home to be an oasis from the stresses of the outside world. Not to mention all the responsibilities you have to share to keep everything in order, such as bills, chores, and other maintenance tasks that demand mutual understanding and cooperation.
But apparently, that's too much to ask from some people. There's a subreddit called 'Bad Roommates' and it's full of tales about the gross, the annoying, and the psychotic. So we at Bored Panda decided to compile some of the most memorable ones to remind you just how important it is to find someone that you can get along with. Otherwise, you might end up in a situation that seriously tests your patience and sanity.
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#1
Maybe I Should Try This
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#2
I Have A Dream
#3
Family Member Has Cancer And No Immune System, And Is Largely Bed-Ridden. We Sanitized Her Whole House A Few Days Ago. Came To Pick Her Up And Found This. Told Her Roommate To Move The F Out, Immediately
#4
Thought You Guys Might Enjoy This
#5
And So It Continues
#6
Saw This On Fb And Thought It Might Help Some People Here!
#7
A Solution I Made In An Old Share House To Solve A Milk Thieving Problem
Krystal Brklje 1 year ago
Drought relief milk means that 10c from every milk sold goes to the drought stricken aussie farmers
#8
This Was The Only Way To Ward Off My Roommate From Sipping Out Of My Mouthwash Without Me Knowing... She Used 3/4 Of The Bottle, Does She Really Think I Am That Dumb That I Won’t Notice? Hope She Freaks Out
Saint Tim the Godless 1 year ago
The aggressor sets the rules of engagement. This is more than fair.
#9
Saw This On Twitter.. Felt It Belonged Here
#10
Roommate Decided It Was A Good Idea To Put An Incense Cone On The Lid Of My Telescope. Went Right Through And Landed On The Mirror
#11
I Come Home To This Fairly Often
#12
Asked My Former Flatmates Not To Use Metalware In My Nonstick Pot, Was Told I Was Being Unreasonable And That They Wouldn't Scratch It. My Sister's Identical Pot Of The Same Age Pictured For Comparison
#13
Left My Apartment For About A Month Because Of Covid. Came Back To Find This, The Ac Set To 40 * F, The Sink Running,the Back Door Wide Open And The Roommate Moved Out
#15
I Was Gone For 1 F**king Weekend!!!!
Sue Denham 1 year ago
I'd be inclined to go for another weekend . . . and when I say "weekend" I mean "forever".
#16
Top -> All Time Was Like A Checklist Of Memories I Suppressed
#17
At One Point In Time There Were Close To 20 Cups On The Coffee Table In The Living Room
#18
When Your Housemate Uses The Living Room As His Bedroom
#19
My Roommate Occasionally Leaves Careless Messes In The Kitchen. I Started Labeling Them As His Art Projects
#20
Woke Up To This Today
#21
My Roommate Thinks These Spatulas Are Clean And Still Uses Them To Cook
#22
Burn Hole I Discovered Hidden Underneath My Roommates Bed After I Kicked Her Out. Pineapple For Scale
#23
Guess You Can’t Expect People To Know About Dryer Lint
#24
Accidentally Locked My Roommate Out Of The Bathroom For 2 Minutes, I Promptly Unlocked Once She Notified Me, And Her Natural Reaction Was To Remove The Doorknobs From The Doors In Our House
#25
Day 6 Of Living With A Roommate For The First Time. I’m Looking For A New Place
#26
My Boyfriend (22m) And I (21m) Live With A 23f And 28m. I'm Sick Of Constantly Playing Mommy To Them
#27
I Guess My Latino Culture Triggered My Roommate 😔
The Chocolate Gecko 1 year ago
Congrats, gentrification can now be spread from person to person. "Embrace your new culture"? Jesus, dude
#28
Roommate Used My Favorite Turtleneck As A BBQ Rag Last Night :-/
#29
My Roommates Were So Bad That I Finally Said, “Screw It” And Got My Own Place. My Wallet Is Hurting But My Sanity Is Intact
#30
It's Sad That It Was Necessary To Write This. There Was A Time I Bought Pie, The Next Day, I Went To Get A Piece (Hadn't Tried Any Yet), And There Was Only One, Small Sliver Left. There's No One Else That Lives Here, He Ate The Whole Thing Himself. 😐 He Did The Same Thing To My Krispy Kreme, Rip
#31
I’ve Asked Her To Stop Popping Her Pimples And Sticking The Pus On The Mirror Three Times Already.... This Is Just Embarrassing For Her Now
#32
Why Is Replacing The Toilet Paper Roll So Hard?? The World May Never Know
Sue Denham 1 year ago
Each time you find this put it on the roller the "wrong" way round. Hopefully it will annoy them enough to do it the "right" way themselves.
#33
Love Trying To Make Myself Breakfast Before Work In My Lovely Kitchen 😍
#34
Went Home During Quarantine, Let My Roommate Use My Room For "Storage", Came Back To This
#35
Thought This Would Fit Well Here. Any Brooklyn Roommate Stories Like This?
#36
Mfw One Of My 5 Roommates Gets A Dog, Without Asking Any Other Of The Roommates 3 Of Which Have Dog Allergies/Asthma, Or The Landlord And Is Forced To Give Up The Dog Or Face Eviction And Then Says He Hates Us For Taking Away His Dog
Sue Denham 1 year ago
"No, we don't want you to give up your dog. We want you to be with him. Somewhere else."
#37
Pulled The Foil Off Of This To See What Was In It And It’s Empty!! And Still In The Fridge! What The F**k!?
#38
The Living Room Was Like This For 4 Months. All From One Person
#39
I Bought My Own Separate Coffee Maker Months Ago. I Think This Picture Is Pretty Self-Explanatory As To Why
#40
Break My Stuff And Don't Tell Me About It Why Don't You!!!!! Leave Me To Search The House To Find It In The Recycling 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
#41
He Broke The Plunger, Clogged The Toilet Again, Let It Sit For 3 Days And Then Left The State
Snazzy Smurf 1 year ago
If the toilet was out of order what was he using and where did he dispose of it?
#42
Leaning Tower Of Garbage
#43
Never Got To Use My Rice Cooker (-_-;)・・・
#44
The Gag Is...she Had Already Eaten All My Hash Browns The Night Before, This Text Was Just An Attempt To Cover Her A*s!
Sara Wilson 1 year ago
Well, OP waited a whole hour before responding, so is their fault! Should have responded sooner! (Oozing with sarcasm)
#45
Update On My Jobless Roommate Who Won’t Do His Dishes. My Latest Invention: The Bad Roommate Box :)
#46
Found This On Craigslist. Kinda Want To Respond. At Least She’s Honest!!
#47
Asked Roommate To Do His Dishes And He Said ”im Not Allowed To Clean"
#48
Don’t Become Roommates With Your Friends
#49
They’re Not For A Snake, They’re Her Dead Pet Rats That She Kept In Our Fridge. Pet Semetary Maybe??
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What do you think ?
cartoon ghosts 1 year ago
I feel like I'd be a s**t roommate cause I'm messy as f**k and super forgetful but at least I'd own up to it and try to fix whatever I messed up
Gabriela Cink 1 year ago (edited)
Omg, I rented house with 5 other friends. We had one meeting together to agree on rules and how to share cleaning of common space. And except few incidents we had 0 issues. And I brought basically all kitchen appliances and dishes. If someone needed something, he just asked. I'm glad i was this lucky. Where this people in this thread find this audacity to even think that other people should live with them in one space...
Otis B Driftwood 1 year ago
You ever let someone move in with you, and they are so aggressive and mean to you that you feel like an abused wife to someone you're not even dating? That was my situation. I learned later in life about what gaslighting was.
Veronica Jean 1 year ago
I was a bad roommate once. I didn't do my dishes right away. We didn't have a working dishwasher, So I would wait until I had enough to do a load, use the dishwasher as a drying rack. I was told it made me hard to live with. I was the only one with a job. I was the only one paying all of our bills. I was the only one who cleaned the communal spaces. I was the only one who dusted, the only one who cleaned the bathroom, or vacuumed. I was the only one who scooped the yard. I used to get up before work and clean the entire house of beer cans and mess her and my ex left from staying up all night. She removed all the smoke detectors and vaped inside until you couldn't see. She burned so many candles in her room that even though it was freshly painted it was black from soot. She never cleaned her room, not once in years. I'm pretty sure she was sleeping with my boyfriend. But I was definitely the toxic roommate. Just look at that full sink.
Gabriela Cink 1 year ago
Why did you pay all bills? You could live alone at that point.
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DJR 1 year ago
I'm afraid this will be my kids. No matter how many times I point out condiments spilled on the counter, food wrapper bits left on the floor, or dishes left all over the house, they seem physically incapable of seeing it. Because they have severe ADHD I can't even tell them all the things. I have to tell them one thing at a time, wait for their brains to return to earth to do the task, then tell them the next thing. Soon I will follow through on my threat to leave their messes on their pillows.
DesertMama 1 year ago
I waited tables and would often take my 1/2 price meal home at the end of the evening to eat the next day. My roommates family would come over, eat what they wanted of it and throw the rest away. I was considered selfish for not sharing with guests.
whiterabbit 1 year ago
And my boyfriend wonders why I refuse to move in with him after he buys a house and has his friend move in to help him with the mortgage. I live alone and will never have a roommate again unless it's only a significant other.
Andrea Kehe 1 year ago
I really feel sorry for the people her with these Roommates from Helll...so unbelievable
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I am a total clean freak, my son even calls me a "psycho with a dustmop". I am so thankful I've never had to have a roommate. My husband is very tidy as well. I went to visit my daughter when she & her boyfriend got their first place. OMFG, I couldn't believe it. They had only been there about a week and there were already stains on the (recently cleaned) carpet. The sink was overflowing with dishes, c**p on all of the counters & kitchen table, the stove was puke inducing and the refrigerator already had spills and gunk on the shelves. AFTER ONE WEEK. He worked and she was home all day. Yes, she had a baby to look after - that is absolutely no f*cking excuse to live like pigs. I was beyond disgusted so I offered to help her clean up, which meant I cleaned up. A few weeks later and it was exactly the same. From then on she had to come visit me. I just couldn't take it.
Caroline Driver 1 year ago
I always knew I never wanted to have room mates, and all of the above are confirmation that I was right. Friends of ours gave another mutual friend a room when he was kicked out, and they eventually had to ask him to leave, as he never paid them rent like he said he would and when he left, they found mouse droppings all around the room from all the food and packaging he had had in there.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 year ago
You know what I like about the discussion portion of the page? Unlike many of the comments on the posts, a lot of the entries are, at least, original.
Linds 1 year ago
I recently had a roommate who would use my stuff CONSTANTLY and didn't think I'd notice. For the most part I didn't care since I'd stay at my bf's for the majority of the week but I bought some Ben n Jerry's ice cream (rare treat for me) and I was looking forward to eating it when I got home from my bfs... yeah it wasn't there and I was PISSED. It was like 2am when I confronted her and asked if she ate the ice cream or not. She got the deer in the headlights "oh... I thought I bought it and it's the one I always buy" bullsh*t, never seen it in the freezer. She said she'd replace it but I told her to give me cash right then and there since I didn't trust her to replace it. Then she tried to frame herself as an amazing person to the landlords (who also lived in the house) and that she did it on accident but gave me money. They knew she was full of sh*t lol.
Cate 1 year ago
I loathe and despise communal living. I am not cut out for the invasion of privacy, the mess and the feeling that you can't relax in your own space. I shared for 2 years at uni and never again until I got married. I saved to ensure none of my children had to share after their first year of university and their mental health was much better than mine at the time because they could be as clean or untidy as they liked.
Rens 1 year ago
I had to live in a house of multiple occupancy HMO in the UK when I was in my 40s. The house was lovely the landlord was fair but the roommates were 20 somethings who knew nothing about personal space, good manners and cleaning up after themselves. When I complained to the landlord about there being no room for my things in the shared kitchen, he came by with stickers to allocate shelves in the fridge, drawers in deep freezer and kitchen cupboards with the room numbers. I've picked all the best ones for myself, moved everything off and off the shelves, the freezer drawers and cupboards that didn't belong to me and left them to sort out the rest. One girl had her boyfriend living with us even though it was no couples allowed so when I reported him to my landlord, he was banned from visiting. Said boyfriend also rigged the coin operated washer and dryer to run without paying... Dodgy wiring that was a fire hazard. Thank goodness I moved out shortly afterwards.
Ela 1 year ago
I let my SISTER move in after college. Now, we had experience living together, obviously. We had the usual sister issues but we got along okay. I knew she wasn't a slob. I only had a few house rules. She broke every one in the first two weeks. I was so bloody relieved when a guy she dated briefly in college showed up again. I knew she was in love before she did, and we have gotten along just fine since she got married and moved to another state. At this point, I figure if I ever pick up another SO, I want us to live in easy walking distance, even next door, but once the kids are launched I don't want to live with anybody ever again!
Will Cable 1 year ago
Worrying to think that some of these house mates are in jobs that require a high level of care.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I wasn't a messy roommate because I so hated being a roommate at all that I'd never eat at home. Probably would have saved money by living alone and cooking instead of getting takeout every night
cartoon ghosts 1 year ago
I feel like I'd be a s**t roommate cause I'm messy as f**k and super forgetful but at least I'd own up to it and try to fix whatever I messed up
Gabriela Cink 1 year ago (edited)
Omg, I rented house with 5 other friends. We had one meeting together to agree on rules and how to share cleaning of common space. And except few incidents we had 0 issues. And I brought basically all kitchen appliances and dishes. If someone needed something, he just asked. I'm glad i was this lucky. Where this people in this thread find this audacity to even think that other people should live with them in one space...
Otis B Driftwood 1 year ago
You ever let someone move in with you, and they are so aggressive and mean to you that you feel like an abused wife to someone you're not even dating? That was my situation. I learned later in life about what gaslighting was.
Veronica Jean 1 year ago
I was a bad roommate once. I didn't do my dishes right away. We didn't have a working dishwasher, So I would wait until I had enough to do a load, use the dishwasher as a drying rack. I was told it made me hard to live with. I was the only one with a job. I was the only one paying all of our bills. I was the only one who cleaned the communal spaces. I was the only one who dusted, the only one who cleaned the bathroom, or vacuumed. I was the only one who scooped the yard. I used to get up before work and clean the entire house of beer cans and mess her and my ex left from staying up all night. She removed all the smoke detectors and vaped inside until you couldn't see. She burned so many candles in her room that even though it was freshly painted it was black from soot. She never cleaned her room, not once in years. I'm pretty sure she was sleeping with my boyfriend. But I was definitely the toxic roommate. Just look at that full sink.
Gabriela Cink 1 year ago
Why did you pay all bills? You could live alone at that point.
Load More Replies... DJR 1 year ago
I'm afraid this will be my kids. No matter how many times I point out condiments spilled on the counter, food wrapper bits left on the floor, or dishes left all over the house, they seem physically incapable of seeing it. Because they have severe ADHD I can't even tell them all the things. I have to tell them one thing at a time, wait for their brains to return to earth to do the task, then tell them the next thing. Soon I will follow through on my threat to leave their messes on their pillows.
DesertMama 1 year ago
I waited tables and would often take my 1/2 price meal home at the end of the evening to eat the next day. My roommates family would come over, eat what they wanted of it and throw the rest away. I was considered selfish for not sharing with guests.
whiterabbit 1 year ago
And my boyfriend wonders why I refuse to move in with him after he buys a house and has his friend move in to help him with the mortgage. I live alone and will never have a roommate again unless it's only a significant other.
Andrea Kehe 1 year ago
I really feel sorry for the people her with these Roommates from Helll...so unbelievable
Celtic Pirate Queen 1 year ago
I am a total clean freak, my son even calls me a "psycho with a dustmop". I am so thankful I've never had to have a roommate. My husband is very tidy as well. I went to visit my daughter when she & her boyfriend got their first place. OMFG, I couldn't believe it. They had only been there about a week and there were already stains on the (recently cleaned) carpet. The sink was overflowing with dishes, c**p on all of the counters & kitchen table, the stove was puke inducing and the refrigerator already had spills and gunk on the shelves. AFTER ONE WEEK. He worked and she was home all day. Yes, she had a baby to look after - that is absolutely no f*cking excuse to live like pigs. I was beyond disgusted so I offered to help her clean up, which meant I cleaned up. A few weeks later and it was exactly the same. From then on she had to come visit me. I just couldn't take it.
Caroline Driver 1 year ago
I always knew I never wanted to have room mates, and all of the above are confirmation that I was right. Friends of ours gave another mutual friend a room when he was kicked out, and they eventually had to ask him to leave, as he never paid them rent like he said he would and when he left, they found mouse droppings all around the room from all the food and packaging he had had in there.
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 1 year ago
You know what I like about the discussion portion of the page? Unlike many of the comments on the posts, a lot of the entries are, at least, original.
Linds 1 year ago
I recently had a roommate who would use my stuff CONSTANTLY and didn't think I'd notice. For the most part I didn't care since I'd stay at my bf's for the majority of the week but I bought some Ben n Jerry's ice cream (rare treat for me) and I was looking forward to eating it when I got home from my bfs... yeah it wasn't there and I was PISSED. It was like 2am when I confronted her and asked if she ate the ice cream or not. She got the deer in the headlights "oh... I thought I bought it and it's the one I always buy" bullsh*t, never seen it in the freezer. She said she'd replace it but I told her to give me cash right then and there since I didn't trust her to replace it. Then she tried to frame herself as an amazing person to the landlords (who also lived in the house) and that she did it on accident but gave me money. They knew she was full of sh*t lol.
Cate 1 year ago
I loathe and despise communal living. I am not cut out for the invasion of privacy, the mess and the feeling that you can't relax in your own space. I shared for 2 years at uni and never again until I got married. I saved to ensure none of my children had to share after their first year of university and their mental health was much better than mine at the time because they could be as clean or untidy as they liked.
Rens 1 year ago
I had to live in a house of multiple occupancy HMO in the UK when I was in my 40s. The house was lovely the landlord was fair but the roommates were 20 somethings who knew nothing about personal space, good manners and cleaning up after themselves. When I complained to the landlord about there being no room for my things in the shared kitchen, he came by with stickers to allocate shelves in the fridge, drawers in deep freezer and kitchen cupboards with the room numbers. I've picked all the best ones for myself, moved everything off and off the shelves, the freezer drawers and cupboards that didn't belong to me and left them to sort out the rest. One girl had her boyfriend living with us even though it was no couples allowed so when I reported him to my landlord, he was banned from visiting. Said boyfriend also rigged the coin operated washer and dryer to run without paying... Dodgy wiring that was a fire hazard. Thank goodness I moved out shortly afterwards.
Ela 1 year ago
I let my SISTER move in after college. Now, we had experience living together, obviously. We had the usual sister issues but we got along okay. I knew she wasn't a slob. I only had a few house rules. She broke every one in the first two weeks. I was so bloody relieved when a guy she dated briefly in college showed up again. I knew she was in love before she did, and we have gotten along just fine since she got married and moved to another state. At this point, I figure if I ever pick up another SO, I want us to live in easy walking distance, even next door, but once the kids are launched I don't want to live with anybody ever again!
Will Cable 1 year ago
Worrying to think that some of these house mates are in jobs that require a high level of care.
Andy Frobig 1 year ago
I wasn't a messy roommate because I so hated being a roommate at all that I'd never eat at home. Probably would have saved money by living alone and cooking instead of getting takeout every night
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