Entitled neighbor keeps stealing tenant's laundry detergent, tenant gets even by replacing soap with blue dye: 'The next morning, I hear screaming coming from the laundry room'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Apr 28, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Good neighbors help each other out every so often. If your neighbor's vacuum cleaner stops working, it shouldn't be out of the ordinary for them to stop by and ask if they can borrow yours briefly. That's normal behavior. Ask and you shall receive, as they say. What's abnormal neighborly behavior is when one person continues to use another person's things without asking. And before anyone inquires as to whether or not it was an accident, these guys were given strict instructions not to touch what was clearly not theirs.

In this instance, the drama went down in an apartment building's communal laundry room. Now, laundry room decorum is something few people seem to understand these days. It's as if everyone is battling it out for a limited number of machines, and some people can get greedy and possessive. However, here, we have a neighbor who believed they could get away with using another tenant's detergent repeatedly.

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  • Now, a simple solution to this conflict would be for the author to not leave her detergent in her cubby in the laundry room, but petty revenge is always slightly more entertaining from an audience perspective. So after trying to nicely tell these neighbors to knock it off, the author decided to replace her detergent with blue dye. Let's just say that this neighbor's clothes were starting to resemble Cookie Monster after their next wash!

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    This happened a while ago, but, I just found this sub, so here goes. I used to live on the 3rd floor of an apartment that had its laundry in the basement. Which means 4
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    flights of stairs for me, no elevator, and I have a newborn so I'm washing quite a bit. So we have cubbies in the laundry room for our soap and stuff. I've lived
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    there a year and never had an issue leaving my soap down there. Apparently, some new people had moved in that were using my soap. When I realized it, I left a note asking that they stop. Nothing. They kept using. Okay. Now I'm ped.
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    I got 2 bottles of soap. A blue colored one. And clear colored one. Marked the bottles CLEARLY that they belonged to me (so they couldn't accidentally say they thought they were theirs) filled the blue soap with blue Rit dye. Filled the clear soap with unscented bleach. And waited....
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    Didn't take long. The next morning I hear screaming coming from the laundry room. 4 floors up I heard it. I waited a while and ventured downstairs. In the laundry room I found a bunch of
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    wet clothes in the garbage that were bleach stained. 4 days later I saw a young man get into a car with a blue stained t-shirt.
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    Touch my stuff. Front page! Oh la la! Aren't I fancy? Thanks guys!
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    To... I like it! Only can some people truly understand through being the victim of pettyrevenge.
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    I once had someone who would take our clothes out of the washer and leave them on a shelf instead of putting them in a dryer or letting us know our clothes
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    were done. And I never let them set more than five minutes. I had a timer on my phone. I figured out who did it by sneaking and watching through a window.
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    For a week or so, any time they did laundry, I would wait for them to leave, then open up the washer at the beginning of the cycle. Their clothes didn't get washed and then they had to wait for them to cycle through.
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    Edit: to clarify, it wasn't the fact that they took our clothes out and just left them out. They'd take our clothes out sometimes before the cycle was finished. Or if the clothes
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    were washed, they'd take them out, then start their own load and take up the dryers so even when I came back to switch the loads, there wouldn't be an available dryer
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    mtdiaboman I had the same thing happen, but it was a roommate (had just separated from my ex wife) in a multi tenant renting situation. Gallons of milk,
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    orange juice, packages of hamburgers and steak were missing. Left letters on the fridge and I spoke personally to all of them...nobody fessed up. Went on for weeks. Labeled everything I owned.
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