'Being college students has nothing to do with cleaning up after yourself: Stern housemate teaches unkempt and entitled roommates a lesson; justice prevails in a series of satisfying screenshots

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Nov 18, 2023 9:00 PM EST

Nobody likes a dirty roommate. If you somehow end up in a situation where you're stuck cleaning up after your roommate's messes, it's hard not to feel like the maid of the house… or worse, the "mommy". But if you've ever been in a communal living situation, typically there are a few stages of rage associated with a roomie who has different cleanliness levels than you.

In Stage 1, you're non-combative and understanding, hoping that your coolness will provoke a change of behavior. Next, as you ascend to Stage 2 because your roommates continue to leave the kitchen a mess, leaving trash on the ground and ashing their smokes in your favorite cereal bowl, the anger starts to set in. We are no longer being 'cool' and 'understanding'. Perhaps in Stage 2 a bit of pettiness starts to rear its ugly head. By the time a clean roommate has reached Stage 3, they're likely scrubbing mold off of their cookware and dusting footprints off of their white linen sofa– at this point, there's no roommate symbiosis anymore. 

This is all out war. 

Well, in our next story, one woman (24F) was pushed way beyond Stage 3 because of a pair of childish college girls (20F), likely surpassing the roommate cleanliness threshold and bursting into Stage 100 on the rage-scale. Scroll for the full story and juicy screenshots of a career woman taught a couple of disgustingly unkempt college girls who's their mommy and who certainly is NOT. 

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    r/r/badroommates. Posted by u/Far_Perspective_9817 5 days ago My roommates ignore me when I confront them about their FILTH
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    So I (24f) am currently in a lease with two other girls and they are a sophomores and junior in college. So maybe like 19 and 20. I knew in advanced that it would be difficult living with college age girls, especially after living alone. But I need to vent lol pics included
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    I was desperately looking for housing as my last lease was ending back in June (lux studio apt by myself that I couldn't afford anymore), and I was contacted by someone on Facebook who was looking for someone to take her place in a lease. I quickly agreed after a quick run through of details and getting to see the apt via video. I was placed in a group chat with my now roommates and we chat a little. They told me they didn't know each other,
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    but after living with them the last 3 months, I don't believe that anymore. Everything was cool, they shared a group notes with me with all the things they wanted to buy for the house. I moved in June 1st and they moved in around late August when their semester started. While I was living there alone, I went ahead and bought the things off of their wishlist and other things needed for the house. I told them they could send me money for the microwave but everything
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    else not to worry about it and just focus on buying what they need for their rooms. I also brought a couch, rug and egg chair with me from my previous apt and they agreed to have the furniture in the living. I offered to sell the couch if they wanted a new couch but they opted to keep it because they weren't having luck finding one on Facebook Marketplace. So when they moved in, they were cool kinda. One of them took one of my bowls and used it as an ashtray the day they moved in. And they quick
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    show me that they are unkempt and inconsiderate of my presence and comfortability in the house. One of them was in the bathroom from 8am to like 11am and I had to be somewhere by 10:30 so I texted and said "can i use the bathroom to pee and brush my teeth quick?". She never replied and I had to leave with a yuck mouth and full bladder. By this time, I figured there'd be a gap in communication because why would you not respond?
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    Then they started bringing this guy around, and I put together that they knew each other and have a mutual friend. The guy started hanging around A LOT and started sleeping on my couch in the living room and leaving messes around. I asked them about him and they said they should've talked to me about it but something was happening with his "other place" but he wouldn't be living with us. He's still around to this day, everyone is just sneaky about it. I think he's responsible for the literal sho
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    Anyway, so over the past three months, I have been cleaning after them because I dont want to live in the conditions they're comfortable in. I let time pass to allow them to clean after themselves but they just dont do it. I ask them to clean, they'll do a bare minimum wipe down of the counters that are always coated with oil. When I finally give in and clean, they literally up same day. I scrubbed the shower and someone left a clump of in the corner SAME DAY, as pictured above. And I confronted
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    never responded, the other says she's busy rn and will reply after this weekend. I essentially offered to be the maid if we can renegotiate the rent split, because I dont see them changing their nasty ways. I'm tired of them, and I just want them to clean up after themselves and show consideration to me as a tenant. I know im older than them and try to respect their college age lifestyle and not complain about all the guests over all the time or noise levels, I just want them to show J considera
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    If they keep ignoring me, i'd like to tell them to keep themselves and their friends off of my furniture and to stop using the things I bought. Obviously thats petty and a bit impractical, but I WILL keep thinking up petty ways to make them as uncomfortable as they're making me. They're not gonna mooch off of me, host their friends using my furniture AND make me clean after them. I'll be moving out at the end of the lease, we'll just all deal with till then since they can't communicate like adul
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    TLDR: my (24f) college age roommates are dirty af, wont clean and have even secretly moved someone in to ADD to the mess that I ultimately have to clean because it gets so gross it makes me uncomf. When I text them about it, one of them rarely responds and the other one puts the conversation off. Im ready to start being petty since they reject my attempts to communicate like an adult.
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    39 Roomies Hey, I noticed the garbage wasn't taken to the curb last night. I was wondering what has been going on with the garbage maintenance? If you guys have a system that I just haven't been in alignment with, Imk. I know I took the garbage out and to the curb last week. I also wanted to ask the same regarding the maintenance of the common areas. I took the time to clean this weekend and things were pretty gross but I really don't mind cleaning to ensure a clean environment for everyone. But
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    r/r/badroommates. Posted by u/Far_Perspective_9817 20 hours ago UPDATE: Roommate finally responds to me confronting their filth
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    Roomies i know this is a late response and im sorry about that but ive just been busy lately. i think we can set up a schedule for trash and cleaning up between the three of us. i personally would have taken the trash out and cleaned the kitchen. but ive been getting home late most of the days and havent even had the time to cook. now im finally able to be at home more and take care of stuff around the house. what i have noticed is that you have been moving stuff around the house and i dont know
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    44 Roomies in the house and outside for weeks, I dont really wanna be associated with that and be responsible for doing it for everyone when we could have all been taken once every three weeks by rotating. I'm going to ask the landlord if I can get my own outdoor trash can to maintain to avoid fines, like Sal warned us would happen if we dont get together. Everything was shareable and I had no issue buying things for the house for them to be used by everyone. But you guys honestly have not been
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    O Roomies 8 For reference You guys couldn't even buy a ring camera without asking me to put up for it, when i bought multiple things on my own already. So respectfully, everything was shareable until you guys showed that you wont help maintain. It's very entitled to expect someone to share their things when this is how you guys iMessage 8 Roomies behave. You guys literally have people that are not on the lease living in the house and contributing to the mess and utilities and dont even find it a
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    Roomies Nobody though maybe to clean the toilet when it looked like that? Pick up their ? Wipe the oil off the stove so we dont have a grease fire? Take the trash out? Clear the kitchen counters so the next person can cook in a clean kitchen? Im not boutta be made to be the "petty" "childish" one here, children make messes and wait for them to get cleaned. Regardless, I appreciate your response even though it was prompted by the changes in the house. I doubt I'll receive a response from Nia and
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    This is an update to my previous post regarding me(24F) confronting my roommates about their lack of cleanliness in common areas. Please refer to that post for my original text and pictures of the filth I speak of. I texted the group chat last Wednesday and got a response today due to me moving some my personal belongings out of the common areas. This is one of their responses to me after realizing that things have been removed this morning. If you refer to the previous post, particularly the pi
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    44 Roomies Nia Roomie I don't think it's fair to get on Laura about communication skills. We have only received passive aggressive texts and you never speak to us which created a sorta hostile environment. I think the reason why the communication is bad is because it's only through text. We live in the same house, no need to send texts, you can always knock on our door and talk to us if something has bothered you or want us to clean something up! I apologize for not responding but it's more bc o
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    Roomies in my room especially when they weren't contributing to our utilities that much. im not waiting for you to clean up my messes so theres no need for you to call me a child. and i have never seen that bowl before so why would i even use that bowl when i have like three ashtrays. i dont want us to live in a hostile environment where we are arguing over common spaces. i would like to actually get along and even get to know each other but it seemed clear from the jump that you didnt want that
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    44 A 8 Roomies resolving the matter. Since nobody did, that's what I chose to do. Its crazy i was expected to communicate my decision when you guys couldn't communicate your decision to not clean and take out the trash. Like did we forget the maggot situation, ofc because neither of you had to clean it. I would have never mentioned children if you didn't mention petty, childish, and weird. Laura I can respect you busting your in school and I commend you, but you live in a shared space. Blasting
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    8 Roomies didn't pry as im fine with just being roommates. The week we all shared locations, that stemmed from Nia being in the bathroom for hours and not answering texts from others trying to use it, so Nia this ignoring texts thing is not an isolated situation, there was nothing passive aggressive about me trying to get in the bathroom that day. I can definitely take accountability for being stand off ish but you guys did not make greatfirst impressions either and things have only gotten worse
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    N-ST 14 hr. ago Given the condition of the house from the pictures you provided and referencing a maggot situation, I'm not sure how anyone who is levelheaded would think the way they are handling this is rational. Roommate does not equal mother. You don't need to knock on their door and remind them to do chores. She's putting the responsibilty on you. She should just be responsible individually. It seems clear to me that she doesn't truly want to accept ownership, but would rather chalk it up t
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    twiggydan 13 hr. ago Classic gaslighting 23 Reply Share Myolor 18 hr. ago ... Picaboo13 4 hr. ago I don't even understand how busting your ass at finals means you leave multiple empty cig boxes and trash on a counter because "im to tired".....what
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