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While cheesy sitcoms may have convinced you that living with roommates is the best, truth is, there's much more to it. When you are sharing your space with someone else, everyday life is full of conflicts, compromises, and setting boundaries. There are, however, things you can do to make it easier for everyone involved.

My Wife Hung A Nice Picture And A Small Shelf While I Was On Duty. Now My Eye Is Twitching

Final score:

328points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

OCD going wild right now

134points

Clear Communication from the get-go. Even though this is one of the most important tips for any relationship, it's vital for all roommates. You'll be spending a lot of time with each other, and you'll need to respect each other's needs and preferences. Ask yourself what you know about yourself already and what you expect from the person that's living with you. Maybe you like to blast music while you study, maybe you need some peace and quiet before you go to sleep, it doesn't matter, just figure it out and communicate these needs and expectations as soon as possible.

Why I Keep A Secret Tube Of Toothpaste From My Wife And Children

Final score:

307points

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Tamicka 5 years ago

My sister does the same so I also have to keep a secret one (otherwise she'll just use mine)

50points

Solve problems immediately. The best way to go about it is to tackle them while they're still small. Is your roommate borrowing your stuff without asking? Or maybe they're constantly leaving a mess behind them? Address issues as soon as you notice them and it will be easier to talk about them in a calm and friendly manner.

I Lost A Loved One Today. I'm Not Sure Which One Yet, But Whoever Cuts Cheese Cake Like This Is Dead To Me

Final score:

301points

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Jasmine Sunflower Laake 5 years ago (edited)

*sees way to cut it into two perfect triangles*

15points

Be respectful when you're thinking about inviting people over. Even if you're an extroverted socialite who thrives among other people, your roommate prefers spending time alone. Bringing a group of friends to your home may be disrupting, considering it's their home as well. Talk to your roommate again, inform them about your socialization needs and make sure you don't overstep any boundaries.

My Housemate Still Hasn’t Got Rid Of His Pumpkin From Halloween

Final score:

299points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

this is nasty

201points

It's okay if you and your roommate aren't best friends. Try to be pleasant and friendly to your roommate, but respect each other's personal space. There's no need to force a close relationship, doing so might cause strain and discomfort for the both of you. Go on with your life and if you connect, you connect, and if you don't, at least you get along.

Damn 3-Year-Olds

Final score:

296points

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Laana 5 years ago

Crime!!

77points

My Wife Never Finishes A Bottle Of Shampoo Or Body Wash Before Buying A New Kind And Leaving The Old Ones

Final score:

281points

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Nikki D 5 years ago

Hey, the bathtub is absolutely sparkling so stop complaining!

182points

My Roommate's Toothbrush

Final score:

278points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

does he wake up mad/upset every morning?

106points

What Kind Of Person Leaves This In The Freezer

Final score:

277points

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ADHORTATOR 5 years ago

...a sadist

141points

#10

"Flatmate Made Pasta, Then Left For A Vacation." (I Sort Of Want To Cuddle It)

Final score:

272points

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Tessa 5 years ago

My flatmate was doing the same, with everything she cooked. We started putting it into her room while she was away. Sometimes even put lid of so her whole room smells like the spoiled food she left in kitchen for us, to suffer...

20points

#11

I'm Starting A Fight With My Wife

Final score:

258points

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Daria B 5 years ago

Who cares? Pets can't read. ♥

107points

#12

My Roommate And I Own Only Two Pots. When He Cooks, He Stores The Leftovers In The Fridge In The Pots, Instead Of Putting Them In Containers

Final score:

253points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

I hate this with a passion.

177points

#13

My Side Of The Room vs. My Roommate's Side

Final score:

243points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

having a nasty roommate is just the worst.

109points

#14

My Wife Never Fully Screws The Lids Back Onto Anything

Final score:

238points

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Nikki D 5 years ago

I would have to have a totally separate fridge with all separate things. This is not OK!

93points

#15

My Flatmate Isn’t The Biggest Fan Of Hygiene. This Festive Potato Managed To Grow In His Cupboard

Final score:

238points

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Koalamonster 5 years ago

Oh dear god the smell of a rotting potato...

108points

#16

Holiday With New Boyfriend - He Opens Bread Like This

Final score:

230points

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Clare McDuff 5 years ago

That was fun while it lasted.

28points

#17

My Wife Is A Monster

Final score:

226points

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gonzo 5 years ago

Kitkat#4 must be terrified

165points

#18

The Way My Housemate Tidied These Shoes

Final score:

226points

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HOUSE 5 years ago

They are clearly joking OCD people

65points

#19

My Wife Likes To Put Her Food And Drinks On Electronics

Final score:

212points

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ZombieGirl5591 5 years ago

lol thats actually soooo germ ridden...but I'm guilty of doing that sometimes lol

98points

#20

My Roommate Leaves Her Cat's Litter Box Scoop In Our Kitchen Sink

Final score:

206points

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Steve 5 years ago

Leave it in her bed for her to find, next time.

20points

#21

My Wife Leaves Hair Stuck To The Shower Wall

Final score:

205points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

thumbs down

154points

How My Boyfriend Stores His Cords

Final score:

196points

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rai mei 5 years ago

spaghetti wires 😒

54points

#23

My Wife Thinks It Is OK To Mix M&M's With Skittles

Final score:

195points

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Erzuq 5 years ago

No. It's NOT OKAY

165points

#24

I Thought I Was The Only One Whose Flatmates Were Growing Potato Monsters. This One Was Growing For A Year And I Discovered It The Weekend I Moved In

Final score:

193points

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ZeitCycloneTangram 5 years ago

QUICK! GET RID OF IT BEFORE IT LEARNS HUMAN SPEECH!

17points

#25

My Girlfriend’s Kitchen, Everyone

Final score:

188points

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Erzuq 5 years ago

What a waste

42points

#26

My Wife’s Nightstand

Final score:

186points

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Zoe's Mom 5 years ago

How hard is it to toss these in the recycle bin..I don't get it.

120points

#27

My Wife Bought Toilet Paper For The First Time. One Ply. I Live With A Monster

Final score:

181points

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nanashi 5 years ago

I don't understand why 1ply ever existed at all

189points

#28

My Roommates Seem To Forget This Exists

Final score:

179points

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Nikki D 5 years ago

Not only is this terribly lazy, it is unbelievably dangerous. Can't believe there wasn't a fire.

194points

#29

I Live With A Monster. This Happens Every Single Time I Get Back Home After Being Away With Work For 2 Weeks

Final score:

167points

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Char Char 5 years ago

Even a 2 year old does better than that.

8points

My Boyfriend Doesn't Throw Away Empty Toilet Paper Rolls

Instead, the top of the toilet becomes his garbage display area. I take out the garbage regularly, but I wanted to see how long this would go on for - it's been 2 weeks.

areyouasmoker Report

Final score:

164points

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GoodWolf 5 years ago

Twelve rolls in two weeks. Wow!

107points

#31

My Wife Is A Monster

Final score:

157points

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Alan Wilkening 5 years ago (edited)

She obviously wants to get straight to the toy at the bottom of the cereal package.

71points

#32

My Roommate Puts The Empty Milk Containers Back Into The Fridge

Final score:

156points

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Kai 5 years ago

Well, at least it is on one single spot, mine will left them around the house.

39points

#33

The Way My Wife Leaves The Egg Shells In The Carton Instead Of Throwing Them Into The Trash

Final score:

154points

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Anne 5 years ago

I do that (while cooking. When I'm done, I put them in the trash and the remaining eggs back in the fridge)

81points

#34

So My Roommate Used My Tin Foil

Final score:

153points

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Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

I do this by mistake sometimes. Hard to control.

31points

#35

When My Roommates Take Out The Trash, They Don’t Put A New Lining, And Throw Trash In The Can Anyway

Final score:

152points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

throw the whole thing away

114points

#36

I've Been Stuck In My Room Sick For 4 Days Trying To Not Give My Roommate And His Girlfriend What I Have. They've Just Been Letting The Dishes Build Up This Whole Time

Final score:

149points

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Mama Panda 5 years ago

I used to have a roommate like this. Every damn night I would clean the kitchen spotless and he and his friends would come in drunk and make messy food late at night and leave the mess!! So, I finally decided to take all of the dirty dishes and put them in his bed in the morning after he left and would remake his bed like nothing happened. A few times of this and he finally stopped! We still laugh about it now haha

128points

My Wife Always Opens The Microwave Before It Ends And Leaves It Like This, So I Always Have To Cancel Before Setting My Heating Time

Final score:

145points

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Erzuq 5 years ago

I hate the beebing sound our microwawe makes when the time is up, that's why i always stop it on the last second and then cancel the time

82points

#38

How My Parents Store Their DVDs

Final score:

141points

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Foxxy 5 years ago

That’s what my daughter does and she gets told every damn time not too.

24points

#39

My Girlfriend Opens New Water Bottles Without Finishing The Others First. Send Help, Please

Final score:

133points

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Tessa 5 years ago

At least its glass.

64points

#40

I Live With Monsters

Final score:

126points

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Luis Milian 5 years ago

my girl does this, we get our separate to avoid conflict

47points

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Tahani 5 years ago

A lot of these people are more health hazards above anything else... Have they never been taught basic hygiene???

58points

Neal Evans 5 years ago

Spot on. Most of these people are nothing short of pigs

-1point

Cat on a bike 5 years ago

Thank God I live alone.

41points

Ueda 5 years ago

Thank God I don't live with someone like that. ;)

19points

Holosexual 5 years ago

I used to live alone. My sister is one of these monsters and she's moving in with me :( wish me luck

2points

Noel Benavente 5 years ago

keep it like that

-1point

Zoe's Mom 5 years ago

Reading these makes me realize, once again, while I love living single.

36points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

I really don't get why people put up with some of these nasty habits of wasting and creating unhealthy situations. Speak to your roommate, friend , husband or wife and tell them to change their ways.

7points

Michelle Watler 5 years ago

whole bunch of lazy pigs....

5points

Hans 5 years ago

Wow, these are outraging. So little considerate, so little environmental-conscious, so selfish, so egoistic...in a partnersip you ought to tolerate the smaller and larger idiosyncracies, but many of the examples here display something deeper: a questionable overall attitude towards things.

5points

Stephanie 5 years ago

I don't understand how the messy ones could live in that kind of filth regardless of who did it. That's nasty yo.

4points

David Glover 5 years ago

So apparently I am married to a Monster because she does about 3/4 of the things on here.

4points

Fairsher 5 years ago

Thank you, I am now pissed off!!

3points

$copper-fractions avatar$

Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

I seriously can't get my head around why anyone would be like this. Yet there are thousands of these people. It would be interesting to find out what, psychologically, leads to this. I know sometimes people with depression get like this but in other cases, the mind boggles as to what it is.

2points

Ohio Hands 5 years ago

Most of these are just pure, f****n laziness.

2points

Susan Gardner 5 years ago

I would never put up with most of these 'habits' and I would certainly know about them way before I made any kind of commitment, so it would not be difficult to say bye-bye lol

2points

Melanie Peapell 5 years ago

These gave me goosebumps and I'm a messy person!!

2points

Elisabeth Bergbom 5 years ago

I only have one thing to say: face your problems instead of Facebooking them

2points

Barbara Berg 5 years ago (edited)

This was so hard to look at...disgusting!!

1point

Todd Moore 5 years ago

Just a long list of people that should grow the f*k up.

1point

KC Barman 5 years ago

I’ve had more than my fair share of nasty roommates, but this story was by far the worst.. We had two bathrooms in the apartment; one was mine, one was hers. For the first several months she would always use my shower because she said hers was “too gross”. After over six months, I decided enough was enough (I have very short hair and OCD, she had a freaking lion’s mane and was hippie dirty) so I went to bleach her shower so she would stop using mine. I pull back the curtain and was absolutely shocked at what I found.. there were bags of garbage piled 5’ high in her tub!!! Literally dozens of full garbage bags!!! Needless to say, we had quite the “talk” when she got home and was never allowed to use my bathroom again.

1point

Mary McConnell 5 years ago

Hubby does several of these. I keep telling myself that after he's "gone" I will miss all this. But.... will I?

1point

Bengu Taskesen 5 years ago

It's amazing that people choose such irresponsible and thoughtless spouses.

1point

Karin Morris 5 years ago

Do you know what's wrong with every single one of these people? Pure Laziness.

0points

Waqitos 5 years ago

Bottom line: Some people are f*****g disgusting.

0points

Keya Sommerville 5 years ago

About 38 of these are my boyfriends habits...no exxageration. I am so over it n him!!

0points

Ayasophya Alturas 5 years ago

thank god my room mates are mice

0points

Krysta Pandoo 5 years ago

So many people are horrific roommates.

0points

Ana M 5 years ago

I'm a clean freak then. I like the bathroom and the kitchen spotless.

0points

Melissa Napolitano 5 years ago

Holy c**p, who raised these people?! Monsters raising monsters... must break the cycle!

0points

Anna Repp 5 years ago

I'm so happy I don;t live with roommates anymore! And that I'm divorced! But I have a teen daughter, so I can totally relate to most of these.

0points

Kathe Whitnell 5 years ago

This is why I don’t have roommates!

0points

JC Müñoz McQueen 5 years ago

That’s why I live alone. If I get married This issue would be on the prenups!

0points

Mark CM 5 years ago

The daily bit of proof that 80% of the world's population are useless retards.

0points

Shane Chang 5 years ago

This post made me even grumpier (RIP Tard) than I already was.

0points

dankay01 5 years ago

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0points

Nadine 5 years ago

Very environmentally unfriendly slobs.

0points

Marigold 5 years ago

I am not sure about this. You call these people monsters and then you show messy rooms of people struggling with depression. Where is consistency?

0points

Ohio Hands 5 years ago

Did someone say these people are depressed or are you assuming that ANY super messy person is depressed? Believe it or not some people are just lazy and disgusting...

0points

Sanchez Vasile 5 years ago

Don't worry, I didn't mind. You are going to Hell anyway.

0points

Elisabeth Bergbom 5 years ago

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0points

rai mei 5 years ago

flat/roommate VS wife

0points

Sansa Blacktyde 5 years ago

Two takeaways from this. 1) there are some seriously f*****g gross people about. 2) too many people are ignorant about OCD. It is not about needing things tidy/neat/clean. It is a serious mental health condition that traps sufferers into ritualised behaviours in an attempt to escape obsessive/distressing thoughts. It can be so bad it can drive people to suicide. Please stop trivialising this serious illness!

-1point

Vicky Stardust 5 years ago

It is just shocking that some women do the things above. How can a woman be so messy and ignorant?

-1point

Ohio Hands 5 years ago

Are women held to a different cleanliness standard than men? Your comment is weirdly sexist.

2points

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Tahani 5 years ago

A lot of these people are more health hazards above anything else... Have they never been taught basic hygiene???

58points

Neal Evans 5 years ago

Spot on. Most of these people are nothing short of pigs

-1point

Cat on a bike 5 years ago

Thank God I live alone.

41points

Ueda 5 years ago

Thank God I don't live with someone like that. ;)

19points

Holosexual 5 years ago

I used to live alone. My sister is one of these monsters and she's moving in with me :( wish me luck

2points

Noel Benavente 5 years ago

keep it like that

-1point

Zoe's Mom 5 years ago

Reading these makes me realize, once again, while I love living single.

36points

Wil Vanderheijden 5 years ago

I really don't get why people put up with some of these nasty habits of wasting and creating unhealthy situations. Speak to your roommate, friend , husband or wife and tell them to change their ways.

7points

Michelle Watler 5 years ago

whole bunch of lazy pigs....

5points

Hans 5 years ago

5points

Stephanie 5 years ago

I don't understand how the messy ones could live in that kind of filth regardless of who did it. That's nasty yo.

4points

David Glover 5 years ago

So apparently I am married to a Monster because she does about 3/4 of the things on here.

4points

Fairsher 5 years ago

Thank you, I am now pissed off!!

3points

$copper-fractions avatar$

Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

2points

Ohio Hands 5 years ago

Most of these are just pure, f****n laziness.

2points

Susan Gardner 5 years ago

I would never put up with most of these 'habits' and I would certainly know about them way before I made any kind of commitment, so it would not be difficult to say bye-bye lol

2points

Melanie Peapell 5 years ago

These gave me goosebumps and I'm a messy person!!

2points

Elisabeth Bergbom 5 years ago

I only have one thing to say: face your problems instead of Facebooking them

2points

Barbara Berg 5 years ago (edited)

This was so hard to look at...disgusting!!

1point

Todd Moore 5 years ago

Just a long list of people that should grow the f*k up.

1point

KC Barman 5 years ago

1point

Mary McConnell 5 years ago

Hubby does several of these. I keep telling myself that after he's "gone" I will miss all this. But.... will I?

1point

Bengu Taskesen 5 years ago

It's amazing that people choose such irresponsible and thoughtless spouses.

1point

Karin Morris 5 years ago

Do you know what's wrong with every single one of these people? Pure Laziness.

0points

Waqitos 5 years ago

Bottom line: Some people are f*****g disgusting.

0points

Keya Sommerville 5 years ago

About 38 of these are my boyfriends habits...no exxageration. I am so over it n him!!

0points

Ayasophya Alturas 5 years ago

thank god my room mates are mice

0points

Krysta Pandoo 5 years ago

So many people are horrific roommates.

0points

Ana M 5 years ago

I'm a clean freak then. I like the bathroom and the kitchen spotless.

0points

Melissa Napolitano 5 years ago

Holy c**p, who raised these people?! Monsters raising monsters... must break the cycle!

0points

Anna Repp 5 years ago

I'm so happy I don;t live with roommates anymore! And that I'm divorced! But I have a teen daughter, so I can totally relate to most of these.

0points

Kathe Whitnell 5 years ago

This is why I don’t have roommates!

0points

JC Müñoz McQueen 5 years ago

That’s why I live alone. If I get married This issue would be on the prenups!

0points

Mark CM 5 years ago

The daily bit of proof that 80% of the world's population are useless retards.

0points

Shane Chang 5 years ago

This post made me even grumpier (RIP Tard) than I already was.

0points

dankay01 5 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

0points

Nadine 5 years ago

Very environmentally unfriendly slobs.

0points

Marigold 5 years ago

I am not sure about this. You call these people monsters and then you show messy rooms of people struggling with depression. Where is consistency?

0points

Ohio Hands 5 years ago

Did someone say these people are depressed or are you assuming that ANY super messy person is depressed? Believe it or not some people are just lazy and disgusting...

0points