Careless roommate leaves moldy food and moldy rice cooker in the kitchen for weeks, scolds her roommate for throwing her moldly things away after she already left for Christmas break: 'She complained I was disrespecting her space'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Dec 14, 2024 3:00 PM EST

When you live with other people, you often have to ask yourself, "How much responsibility should I take for their mess?" Some people think that they should only clean up after themselves and that doing any dishes more than what they dirty is an affront to their personal liberty. In my opinion, most households only function if everyone does a little bit for everyone else. If someone is slacking on dishes one week, their roommates can help them out at that moment, knowing that they'll compensate by helping them if they're ever having a similar bad week. It only really starts to become a problem when everyone slacks simultaneously or if one person slacks so much and refuses to clean up after themselves, even after being repeatedly asked to do so. This situation is the latter. After weeks of asking her roommate to clean up after her gross rice cooker, this University freshman decided to throw away all of her moldy food that's been infesting the fridge. 

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    AITA For throwing out my flatmate's rice cooker and clearing out her part of the fridge after she left the country to go home for Christmas?
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    Me and my flat mates are all uni freshers: me (18), Madison (18), Simon (20), Robert (22), and Liam (19) (all fake names btw). One day, Madison pmed me saying she didn't like how I talked to her in the flat group chat. I'm a very
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    jokey person so though I might of gone too far with my sarcasm, so I apologised straight away. She then didn't reply to my message and didn't come back to the flat for weeks. I got worried as her life 360 was off too.
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    Simon messaged the group chat: Simon: "Yo guys, whose cooker is that? (picture of a mini rice cooker). Madison: "Mine, lol."
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    Simon: "Inside is only just mould hahah okay." Liam: "Crazy stuff." Madison: "Oh what."
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    I gagged when I saw the picture as I remember sitting in the kitchen with her as she cooked that rice. Last month. I took another picture of the rice to send to chat - adding that her avocadoes also went mould and that I few them out. She didn't reply. The next day I reminded
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    her to throw the rice away, it was making the kitchen stink. She responded: "Has anyone seen my . I pmed her twice pot?" reminding her - no reply. I finally caught her at 4 am in the kitchen with her friends. I apologised again to her in person and reminded her to throw away her rice. She told me it was ok and
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    said she would. (she didn't - it was there for another few days) | triple-bagged the rice cooker and left it by the bin, sharing a picture in the chat: "Madison, please throw your rice away
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    Me: "Madison, I told you multiple times to please throw that away. It's a health hazard." Madison: "Bruh, just put it where the vacuum is." Me: "No-it'll heat up and grow more mould."
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    Madison: "Nah, there's a lid." Me: "It'll attract bugs and rats." Liam: "I threw that sh in the bin fr. Was nasty."
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    When she left for Christmas, she didn't clean her fridge section. I threw away food that was going to expire over the holiday, open sauce packets leaking on the shelf, curdled milk, cookies, eggs, and vegetables pooling water. My flatmates said her side of the SHARED fridge was filthy for weeks. I messaged the chat with what I'd done.
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    Madison: "K." I sent her a video of me clean-up. She complained I was disrespecting her space, claiming the sauces were still fine to eat and expensive. She accused me of nagging and said I shouldn't touch her side of the fridge area
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    since I don't use it (I share a mini fridge with Robert). She also said the sauces were expensive. I kinda feel bad for clearing her stuff out, especially as she was having personal problems in her life and was trying to heal. And I did call her a bad word on the group chat after her "K"
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    responses But it was going to expire over the holidays, and as I'm staying in the flat during Christmas, I don't really want to smell that... So, am I the a**hole?
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    Powerful-Solid-8752 • 17h ago NTA that sounds nasty af. Don't feel bad for not wanting to live in mouldy rotten filth. She cannot do much about it beyond complain, so just use it as a lesson to get better roommates in future.
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    animalcrossinglofi OP • 17h ago • Mm - looking at homes at the moment with a great group of friend's for next year! As the flat set up was run by my uni - I didn't have much of a say in who I lived with unfortunately
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    PhilosophicalWarPig • 16h ago Part ipant [3] Hey, if you're looking for an upgrade on your current bunch of roommates, consider the nearest zoo :) Honestly, just leaving moldy food for weeks on end... yuck. Glad you are getting out of there!
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    Suspiciouscupcake23 • 13h ago Nah I had a roommate do this. Old spaghetti in MY pot. Asked her to eat it or thow it out so I could use my pot. She left it on the counter for THREE DAYS. I thought it was just dirty. Nope. Spaghetti all still inside. Figured it out when MAGGOTS started crawling out the sides. Duct taped it closed and trashed it. She tried to debate me when I said she owed me a new pot but nope. I put my foot down on that one.
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    rossimac007 • 17h ago Top 10% Commenter Disgusting for even letting that food sit there for that long. This sounds like a bunch of children that are used to their mom cleaning up after them. Honestly the first time you saw mold should have been when the rice was thrown away. AH? No idea. But this is embarrassing for everyone who lives in that flat
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    animalcrossinglofi OP • 17h ago • I like keeping the kitchen space clean and made a cleaning router each week so we take turns cleaning. Vacuum, mod, spray down the counter and the cabinets. I had actually cleaned one week for her as she said she was too busy that week, which I understood, uni is a lot. But later she told me she went out clubbing. Never again. The rest of us do our part - but the smell only appeared a week ago. I had cleaned the inside of the bin, the
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    stove, the counter top and took out the trash multiple times try to find the smell. It was driving me MAD. It was only when my flatmate pointed out the rice cooker was when I clocked it and told her multiple times to chuck it out. All of this has unfolded the past week and the rice cooker was thrown out last Monday. I clean out her fridge yesterday and sprayed it down. The smell is gone now.
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    SpaceAceCase • 17h ago Part ipant [1] Top 1% Commenter The idea that 5 people live in this house and everyone let the rice cooker sit there is mind boggling.
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    CoCoaStitchesArt ⚫ • 17h ago • I believe they didn't realize because its not theirs and they don't use it. Pretty easy to not notice an appliance if its not yours
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    Apart-Ad-6518 • 17h ago • Edited 17h ago ⚫ Commander in Cheeks [288] ΝΤΑ Top 1% Commenter Leaving moldy food for what, weeks?. Gross. Disgusting. I saw others saying you should've just thrown the rice & cleaned the pan. No way. When she left for Christmas, she didn't clean her fridge section. I threw away food that was going to expire over the holiday, open sauce packets leaking on the shelf, curdled milk, cookies, eggs, and vegetables pooling water. My flatmates said her side of the SHARED frid
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    So you also cleaned up after her lazy, health hazard inducing She complained I was disrespecting her space So let her go live in a dumpster. Sounds like she'll be right at home.
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    SpaceCookies72 17h ago • Edited 13h ago • Top 1% Commenter Not to mention, she was disrespecting everyone's space by leaving mouldy and rotten food in it. Pot, kettle.
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    Any_Use_4900 • 17h ago Part ipant [3] NTA on the rice cooker and food; her fault for leaving it like that. Maaaybe you didn't need to throw away sauces, especially if they're vinegar heavy and not likely to mold.... but with her disregard for everything else, I'd have probably lost my patience and thrown it all away all at once too.
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    animalcrossinglofi OP • 17h ago If it was sealed I would have left it - lots of her other thing where fine and I left it as is. But is was spilling out onto the fridge shelf and making it smell. The packet was also non resealable unfortunately,( (foil sachets packs)
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    twinsoccerx2 • 16h ago • NTA. I lived in a cottage in college with 2 other girls. The fridge smelled awful. We couldn't figure out where the smell was coming from. And my pregnant roommate couldn't stomach it but didn't want me touching her stuff. This was May when we were moving out. I basically wasn't home and neither was the other roommate. The smell was from a container of takeout when she told her family she was pregnant. That was in February. Heaven forbid you leave crumbs on the counter r
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    Flippinsushi • 15h ago NTA. I cleaned up the kitchen after a disgusting roommate and subsequently got kicked out of my entire friend group because I was "passive aggressively cleaning," so maybe I'm not a great judge here. I couldn't take trying to cook around the pile of weak+ old ground beef on the counter, so I get where you're coming from. I think at least some of us feel like when it becomes hazardous, it's okay to manipulate a roommate's stuff in order to clean and clear out. Sorry OP if y
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    animalcrossinglofi OP • 15h ago • Nah dw - my friend group all support me!!! I do fell bad for throwing out her rice cooker but they all told me if she cared enough about it she would of come home straight away after seeing all the mould in there. It was a mini rice cooker - kind like a kiddy one - so none of the big brand expensive rice cookers. That would of been a different story really - I would of reported that to our building.
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    Fatty_Bombur ⚫ 16h ago Part ipant [1] Top 1% Commenter She's probably never actually cleaned up after herself in her entire life.
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