I don't recall there being a thread in which you can vent about your irritating or downright obnoxious housemates so I thought I'd create one.

So here goes with my vent. Last night the two girls I live with and I decided to go out for a few drinks. On the way there I get a call from another housemates girlfriend ("S") saying she would like to come which was fine as she was invited anyway. After a little which she came with her best mate and a good friend of mine called Adam. We were going to leave the bar to go on to the next place when one of my housemates D randomly decided that she didnt want Adam there saying "Not being funny but I dont want you to come with us, I am not skipping work tomorrow so I can have some random guy hang out with us, do you mind going away now please?" Adam, S and I were all shocked at how rude she was. They left straight away and this morning I had to ring up and apologise for how they were made to feel.
Then this morning D was bitching and moaning because a pan had been put in the sink without being scraped out. I put it in the sink last night full of water to soak, because she had left food in the pan on the side, festering away for over a week probably expecting someone to tidy up after her. I got so sick of the smell and how unhygienic it was I had to do something about it.
She also helps herself to anybodys food she feels like, so I decided to help myself to some of her margarine the other day (just a little for a slice of toast). When I get back later she has name tagged all her food! Apparently it is ok for her to steal our food but we cant have any of hers in return. Is it just me or is this girl a real cow?

GOD I'm dreading living with other people

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What a bitch!

Get her evicted! Or at least have a comeback everytime she feels the right to give out to you. And tell her to stay the fuck away from your food!

How does your other housemate feel about her?

I can't get her evicted we have 18 month contracts and the house belongs to another housemates Dad. They're all good mates with her as far as I know but not sure how G feels about her after how she treated his girlfriend and her best mate last night.

it's so annoying when other people touch your food.

i once had to eat out for nine months straight because i could not keep ANY groceries in the house without my roommate helping herself. and i don't mean just a little here and there, she would literally eat ALL my food.

this is the same girl who, two months after we moved in, moved in her jobless boyfriend and his two young kids.

i could go on forever about her. anyways, you should label all your food too.

i once lived with some tossers that annoyed me so much i stopped usingthe kitchen all together, i onlyused it for cat food. i'd have a good lunch at work and then on the way home i'd pick up something light for dinner so i'd not have to cook or clean or deal with them.

funny the one asked for the tv back i was using in my bedroom as mine was far to obig for my room but didn't mind using my dishes, pots and pans, microwave or patio furniture. such a wanker. he was messy as fuck and loud as fuck and had no respect for anyone but himself.

i absolutley hated living with others unless it was with a partner.

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Get creative with your food also.

Add super strength laxatives to your food and mark it yours.
Any time she eats it ....
Depending on how evil you want to be, swap laxatives for rat poison.

And yeah, she sounds like a bitch.
You can either move, play games with her or ignore her.
You know, little games like oversalting all her food, itching power in her underwear etc etc.

week before all our contracts were up, landlord comes to asses the house to make sure its left in order. He comes to inspect my double room and low and behold the mattress under the protecter sheet had a huge brown stain spewed all over it from a what looked like a while back. I was like well fuck me, if I didn't know any better, the fuckers across the hall swapped their alcohol binge puke stained mattress with my spanking new clean one so they wouldn't get the rap for it. Then I had to try and convince the landlord for ages that its not mine so he won't deduct "damages" from my deposit.

That wasn't that bad compared to other shit they did. My fella and I might be paying a fuck load for our own place now with little money left over but you can't put a price on not having to put up with other people's shit.

in my residence in college the guys in the suite across the halll had ongoing wars and one would make a jug of orange juice and someone would piss in it and they'd leave it in the fridge and go away for the weekend. when they'd get back, the jug would be empty or near empty. that's how they dealt with their food stealers.

i was smart, i had a bar fridge in my room. i didn't trust anyone!!!

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I basically liked the people I lived with, even though they'd steal food. However it was annoying if they had friends over, they'd smoke pot and get hungry and then everyone went and helped themselves. I mean, you could at least bother to meet me and shake my hand and present yourself before you open my new pack of gouda cheese...? Or at the very, very least leave a couple of slices so that I can have breakfast the next day.

We had one shelf each in the fridge, so the person in question could easily have told them to only take food from the shelf that belonged to them. Quite simple.

The only thing that has really pissed me off was when someone's guest, who hardly knows me, went into MY ROOM and took my expensive shampoo and clarins body scrub. I'd been looking for those items for a while when I suddenly discovered them in a different room
GOD, I was so mad.

idk about the rest of you, but stuff like that is more personal to me than food. not to mention more expensive. AND the person who took went into my private space to get them without asking.

Thats a bit much.

I mean, its ok if its toothpaste or some Herbal Essences you left by the shower, but a) you DO NOT go in people's rooms unless you know they will be ok with it and b) you DO NO use shit you know is expensive.

Like, a potato/an onion/some milk/bread etc. is all fine and butter is basically communial. But expensive/special/unopened stuff is off limits.

My housemate is still being an absolute twat and a half to me over facebook, even though I no longer live with him. THERE IS NO ESCAPE.

I am mostly a-okay with flatmates. I lived with four other people in my second year in a TINY house and yes, we had a few arguments over washing up in our thimble sized kitchen, but mostly we got along great.

Sometimes flatmates can be annoying though. I had a friend staying at mine RENT FREE for a month- and I gave him lifts everywhere, cooked for us all the time etc and most of it was fine. But right towards the end of his stay, I had burnt us something to watch in the evening and I realised I had left my laptop three floors up. So not unreasonably I was like "X, would you mind getting the laptop from upstairs so we can watch this" and he just went NO. And I was a bit like, okay, very funny, do you mind getting it, I am really tired and I burnt this for us to watch etc and he still was like, no I don't want to get it. Which I thought was a bit ungrateful since he had been my houseguest for a month and this was the ONE AND ONLY thing I had ever asked him to do.

So some people are selfish.

It's not even that they necessarily have to do anything really bad for you to get frustrated by living in close proximity to people who aren't your family. I can't wait to live on my own!

During exam times it's the worst, washing-up festering all around the kitchen. Most of us do clean, but 2-3 people don't do anything EVER which is frustrating for the rest (7 person house). One of my housemates nags loads which pisses me off, but I think she thinks she can get away with it because she's a few years older than me

However, they're mostly tolerable and don't intrude on my space or steal my stuff and the house isn't anywhere near as dirty as others I've seen, where I haven't wanted to touch worksurfaces or mouldy kitchen towels. The worst thing they've done is gang up on me about where we're living next year, because they want to pay £12 a week more to live in a much worse house than the one I was advocating, with a dodgy-seeming landlord to boot. Frustrating because I had to compromise this year by having a little attic room with a single bed. Pah.

It sounds a lot like how it was at uni but my housemate now is incredible! She'll hang out with anyone, we party together all the time. We share EVERYTHING from food to hair straighteners. We've practically morphed into each other. I love her to bits. Right now we're having a duvet day after having more than one too many resulting in a lot of fun. You just have to live with the right people. We cook and wash up when it needs to. There's no rota, we just do what needs doing. We met totally randomly on our nursing course and have been together for a year and a half - we're practically married xXx

I havent lived with others since mid 2004. When I get a new place its going to be on my own. I am not the kind of personality that can live with other people. I like my own space. and I like to know that there is no one at home to bitch at me for not doing this or for me to bitch to for not doing that.

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"I'm getting fucking tired of you fucks" - Trent Reznor - toronto 1994

I am the hate you try to hide and I control you - Mr Self-Destruct.

i had first year good
second year alright
third year bad
fourth year good

but i think i used most of my good stories the last time this came up.

the person who made the third year bad had basically had his mum do everything for him all his life, so never did ANYTHING. no cleaning, no washing up, no hoovering, no nothing. in fact he would hoard all the dirty stuff in his room until everything was in there. he also pissed in bottles and kept them in his room, but that's another story. his girlfriend would come round and do his cloths washing and be arsey with us for getting annoyed with him. the next year we didnt let him stay so they moved in together, 3 months later they split up and she walked out of HER lease and let him stay cos he was that difficult to live with, serves her right. anyways, rant over. basically, i've lived with about 30 different people, only 3 of which really annoyed me, and only about another 2 i disliked, so it isnt all bad.

ah, living with people is a bit weird isn't it?
Three of the girls i live with are pretty much my best friends, but upon living with them sometimes they drive me crazzy. Two of them are going out, and my bedroom is next to theirs. It's not as bad as you'd think sex-wise, but the arguing is pretty bad. And how awkward is it to text them at 4am asking them to keep it down? =/ argh. These two girls also do NO washing up. They leave all their stuff on the side, and eventually me or my other flatmate get annoyed and do it all, or on a couple of occasions (i.e. when their friends from home/mum came to stay) they have cleaned, and then approached me to ask seriously if i could not make a mess please.
ARGH! i am the only one who cleans! and i've bought pretty much 100% of the cleaning/housey stuff since september and readily share *all* my food.
to balance it out, i occasionally nick some of their milk for cereal.
CRAZY.

You're too nice, doing their dishes. Why don't you just stack it on the side of the counter? THat's what I'd do

And leave it there until THEY can't take it anymore.