Comments on: Why the “seething and waiting” strategy will never get through to a messy roommate: they are oblivious to your blind rage!

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By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:03:54 +0000

I’m that way, too. I don’t want someone else to clean/organise for me, because I automatically know they’ll do it wrong.

By: TrofDieroit

TrofDieroit — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:29:53 +0000

Thank you for great post!

By: rocketgrl

rocketgrl — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:48:46 +0000

karaboo, I had the exact same roommates and I totally agree! The first had her cat box in the public bathroom we shared and literally NEVER cleaned it–she was the only one with the cat, and the only time it ever got cleaned was when I was so sick of gagging that I did it myself. Both her and the OTHER passive-aggressive roommate I had after her would bitch and bitch to their (i.e. OUR shared) friends everytime I so much as mentioned “helping out” with the cleaning! I tried bringing it up gently with smiles, I tried notes, I tried suggesting cleaning schedules to no avail. Face it–slobs bitch no matter HOW you put it or ask them for help. That’s just how the world works.

Laura, face it–you’re a slob AND an inconsiderate bitch. If this “Amanda” girl bothers you so much with her “obsessive neat freakishness”, GET NEW ROOMMATES. Slobby, inconsiderate ones like you. I’d love to see THAT house after a month…

By: rocketgrl

rocketgrl — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:36:13 +0000

“Neat freak”??! For cleaning every TWO WEEKS?? In a bathroom shared by 4 women?! Yeeeeaaaahhhh…that bitch.

Talk about a will of stone. No wonder the poor girl snapped! Yeah, it sucks when you’re so inconsiderate that you think that the bathroom just MAGICALLY cleans itself up after you no matter how much of a slob you are… What a ridiculous sn$#%^-face, posting this on here. You’re the disgusting POS that couldn’t figure out on your own that SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO CLEAN YOUR BATHROOM (instead of just relying on roommates or family members to do it!) I-di-ot!

You wanna’ know what a ‘neat freak’ is, Laura? My best friend’s mom cleans the bathroom EVERY DAY, and only 2 people live in her house. THAT’S being a neat freak! 2 weeks in a housefull of 4 women is someone who doesn’t much give a s#*$.

By: sounds like you two deserve each other

sounds like you two deserve each other — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:21:10 +0000

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By: karaboo

karaboo — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:14:55 +0000

Maybe Laura is afraid to confront Amanda. Unitl last week I lived with an “Laura”. She was a dirty pig and never cleaned the bathroom or her cat’s litterbox. Doesn’t everyone enjoy the smell of cat urine on a hot summer day? These Laura type roommates say ” Why didn’t you say something? We could have worked it out.” Maybe we learned our lesson last time we were even tempted to disagree with you and you ripped us a new one via a facebook post or yelled at us telling us how stupid we were. I call it manipulation- Laura likely makes little comments everytime she sees Amanda cleaning the bathroom “Oh haha you are on a cleaning frenzy once again.” or my favorite “I’d help you but I just don’t have the head space to clean.” but if Amanda were to ask Laura to help she would likely get angery for even suggesting she clean up.

By: Canthz_B

Canthz_B — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:02:11 +0000

I’ll show you.

Come over here and look into this mirror…

By: flying fish

flying fish — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:59:37 +0000

what is an ass pickle?

By: Xenobiologista

Xenobiologista — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:26:58 +0000

Are you stupid or something? How hard is it to walk up to someone and ask them “Hey, could you clean the bathroom? It’s pretty dirty and I’ve been doing all the cleaning so far this year.”

I’m messier than my housemates but I don’t get offended if they ask me to wash my dishes or whatnot, and I do as requested. Sometimes it’s good to have a reminder. Better than living with someone who’s seething at you for not being telepathic.

“Unclean fight…” Wanker.

By: Xenobiologista

Xenobiologista — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:23:31 +0000

I spent my senior year of college with 3 girls I didn’t know well because I figured I should have at least ONE year in my American education rooming with Americans. Big mistake.

My roommate was a huge neat freak. Of the other two suitemates, one was average-to-slightly messy like me, and her roommate, on the other hand, was the kind of person who strews all her stuff on the floor. I wish the two of us average people had roomed together and left the neat freak and the dust bunny to drive each other nuts.

By: can you hear me now, biotch?

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By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:50:12 +0000

Having been in said room, Laura and Kelsey are typical college girls and the other two are ready to be 50′s housewives; yes, cleaning a shower every other week seems infrequent to many people who have husbands and wives or who wouldn’t consider themselves neat freaks, but honestly, at college, you would be considered a neat freak. I know that in the real world I would be considered slightly messy, but I’m actually very clean by university standards.
It’s their own fault for setting a precedent by cleaning the bathroom every time they wanted it clean, rather than even hinting at the other two or casually saying, “hey, would you mind cleaning the bathroom this weekend? It’s starting to get a little gross.” It’s really very simple, and they were obviously aware that everyone had different comfort levels. I’ve both been told to clean pans in a very specific way and also had to constantly ride a roommate for leaving dishes hiding in corners of the room- but it never was really a problem because we told each other.
Lack of communication -> Amanda was being passive aggressive.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 13 May 2009 09:36:38 +0000

I share an apartment with one other girl and we clean our bathroom once a week and neither of us are neat freaks at all. Our shower is looking pretty grotty after a week so I have no idea how 4 girls would go 2 weeks without cleaning the bathroom. That’d be friggin disgusting.