‘Very satisfying’: Woman is fed up when roommate leaves a recurring mess in her bathroom, so she cleans the space with bleach and indirectly ruins her roommate's clothes

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Lana DeGaetano • "Show me to me please."
Oct 8, 2024 11:00 AM EDT

Roommate feuds are a different breed of mental anguish. With workplace and family feuds, at least you can leave the environment and retreat back into your safe space at home. But, when you share a wall and a roof with the person causing you distress, that's when you have to take matters into your own hands and teach them a well-deserved lesson on roommate etiquette and manners.

Now, the woman in this story lives with her cousin, her cousin's husband, and their child. They have a two-bathroom set-up, which would work perfectly for privacy if the washing machine and dryer weren't in the woman's bathroom. This means that everyone constantly does their laundry in her space, but her cousin also uses her bathroom to do her hair and makeup. The woman expresses that her cousin constantly leaves stains from makeup and leftover hair all over the bathroom, and doesn't clean up spills when they occur.

The woman decides to clean her bathroom with bleach while her cousin is doing the laundry. She reminded her cousin three separate times that she was cleaning the bathroom with bleach. Yet, you guessed it—her cousin acts like she was never informed. Safe to say that the woman's cousin will keep the bathroom nice and tidy from now on. Scroll below to read the full story.

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    Mess up my bathroom? I don't think so.
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    So, I (23f) live with my cousin Rose (33f) her husband and kid. We share rent, wifi and electricity, the rest is separate. We have a 2 bed 2 bath apartment, they have a bathroom in their room but I don't, the
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    washing machine and dryer is in my bathroom and since they are three, Rose basically does laundry every day. Now, since we do everything separate that includes cleaning. Even
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    tho they frequently use my bathroom ive never asked Rose or her husband to clean it, untill recently at least. For the past weeks Rose has been leaving their laundry in my sink, if her husband is in their bathroom she does her
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    hair and makeup in mine leaving stains and hair all over the place and if she spills liquid detergent she just leaves it. I've asked her multiple times to clean up afterwards but she says
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    she'll do it later, but that never happens. If this were to happen only once in a while no big deal, but this has been going on for weeks. Here's where I got my petty revenge; taking advantage of two things:
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    1-when she's on her phone she doesn't listen 2-my boyfriend was coming over so I needed to clean. So, I told her while she was scrolling IG that I was going to clean my bathroom since my bf was
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    coming and to make sure she didn't put any of her clothes in the sink or on the counter because I was going to be using bleach. She said "uh huh" but it was obvious she wasn't listening. I repeated the same thing a bit louder
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    and asked her if she was listening and she said yes, so I proceeded to clean knowing exactly what would happen. A little while after I start Rose walks in to take her clothes out of the washing machine and just as I
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    predicted she sets them right on the counter. I told her that the counter was full of bleach and she freaked at me for not telling her. I told her that I did twice and she had said ok, besides, she literally saw that I was cleaning and could smell the
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    bleach. Even though she washed the clothes again some of them were damaged. Was this petty of me? Yes, it was. Has she ever left my bathroom a mess again? No. Very petty but very satisfying.
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    Mapilean • 4h ago • Petty, satisfying and effective!!!
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    • Alexis_... 4h ago. That must have lifted a stain from your conscience.
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    Rachel... 2h ago I had some Downy fabric softener that was clear and came in a transparent bottle. I noticed the level was dropping
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    faster than it should. I emptied it and replaced it with bleach, and my housemate ruined all of his work uniforms the next day.
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    Acanthisitta... 4h ago. Petty! I love it. You're so kind to warn her the third time. I would wear AirPods and pretend that I'm listening to music or on the phone and won't tell her that there's bleach on the counter.
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    LusciousLo... • 2h ago • That's great. I've done something similar when I lived in an apartment building, and someone kept taking people's clothes out of the washer and using their cycle to clean their own clothes. I
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    had forgotten to bring enough detergent, so I left to my apartment right next door, to get more and came back and my sopping wet clothes were on the floor and there was a bunch of dark clothes in
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    my washing machine already churning away. I went back to my apartment, got the bottle of bleach, and fixed the problem that we all had been having. I never
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    heard of them doing it again after that. I never found out who it was either. A whole tub of dark clothes with about half a bottle of bleach in it. I would have poured the whole bottle in if I had more.
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    Contrantier 2h ago. • It was even less than you being petty. It was just her being stupid. Why would she pretend she could not see you cleaning and smell the bleach? Why did she want to damage those clothes?
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