Entries Tagged as 'cleaning'

the patron(izing) saint of roommates

September 1st, 2009 · 90 Comments

carmen in washington, d.c. says she and her roommates suffered for months at the hands of this “crazy, obsessive-compulsive who made our lives miserable.” by the end of the fall semester, carmen says, the house was a near-war zone, and the girl finally moved out. “around the time she was packing up her things, we [...]

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Tags: a little patronizing · cleaning · holiday spirit · mean girls · roommates · thanks (but not really) · university

(you know the book)

August 6th, 2009 · 187 Comments

our submitter from honolulu lives with two roommates…in a house that belongs to one of those roommate’s parents. (mayday! mayday!)
one day, apparently, mother dearest decided to come over for an unannounced visit. surprise!

(click to enlarge)
related: i can has guilt trip?

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Tags: Hawaii · cleaning · guilt trip · jesus · moms & dads

make an effing wish

June 25th, 2009 · 93 Comments

rachel spotted this on a frat house fridge in champaign, illinois, adding: “said fridge was indeed revolting.”

meanwhile, helen swiped this from an equally revolting frat house in vancouver. adds helen: “the reason why it is so ripped up is because a frat boy saw me steal the note and we fought for it for a [...]

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Tags: canada · cleaning · fratboys · fridge · roommates · university · vancouver

filthy, and very nasty

April 21st, 2009 · 170 Comments

writes tim in berkeley: “although this note is over 17 years old, i think it’s still worth submitting, at the very least as an example of notes from a bygone era. i received this note from the apartment manager when i was a senior at rice university, living  in an off-campus apartment. admittedly, i wasn’t [...]

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Tags: cleaning · houston · landlord · texas · that shit is disgusting · university

the easter bunny is such a passive-aggressive little fucker

April 9th, 2009 · 94 Comments

(thanks to graham in cambridge, mass.)
related: i can has guilt trip?
extra credit: pope’s easter message mostly passive-aggressive guilt trip

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Tags: cleaning · fridge · holiday spirit · roommates

your new best friend

April 8th, 2009 · 374 Comments

this is why the “seething and waiting” strategy will never get through to a messy roommate. (they are oblivious to your blind rage!)
to wit: laura lives in a four-person suite at boston college, where she says one of her suitemates, christin, is “a notorious neat freak.” what that meant was that christin and her roommate, [...]

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Tags: TLDR · bathroom · boston · cleaning · martyr complex · roommates · that shit is disgusting · that's disrespectful · university

roomba’s revenge

February 27th, 2009 · 58 Comments

if you share a bathroom facility with either  a) evil robots or b) electronic music enthusiasts, then this sign — from an office in paris — might work.

(but prepare for the inevitable: “one more time?”)
related: over and over – the warning (passive-aggressive remix)
extra credit: daft hands [youtube]

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Tags: bathroom · cleaning · office · paris

untitled (broken glass)

February 6th, 2009 · 98 Comments

when you live with six art students (like kate in london),  you might find that life imitates art more often than you’d like.

related: oxford drama

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · art · cleaning · london · university

this message brought to you by the PAN PAC

November 4th, 2008 · 102 Comments

it’s the question of the day: have you voted yet?
if NO, please consider the following (from campaign field offices in “fake virginia” and philadelphia) before heading to the polls.

if YES —  why not celebrate your participation in the democratic process in the most american way possible: buyin’ stuff!
related: herbie goes to washington

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Tags: bathroom · cleaning · pleasantries as afterthought · politics · smiley · your mother doesn't...

i am seriously like gonna hyperventilate and die, and it will be your fault

October 21st, 2008 · 162 Comments

earlier this year, emma in california was sharing a kitchen with three other girls. one day, out of the blue, one of her roommates posted this note. (warning: prepare to reexamine any preconceptions you may have about mormons, straight-edgers, and college-aged women in general.)

by the next morning, emma says, the note was promptly defaced, but [...]

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Tags: cleaning · god · mean girls · roommates · saga · sex sex sex · signed with love · thanks (but not really) · university · you know who you are

a “discussion” on shoes

October 2nd, 2008 · 108 Comments

my favorite part of this two-page glory? the flash of insight on page 2: “i realize that last sentence is phrased as a question, but really it is more of a statement.”

related: care, it makes a difference

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · cleaning · confusion??? · exclamation-point happy! · grow up · highlighter · martyr complex · roommates · shoes · spelling and grammar police

get the hell out (and good luck next year!)

June 12th, 2008 · 116 Comments

writes an anonymous submitter in peterborough, ontario: “this past year my roommates and i had a stranger rent the extra room in our house, and he turned out to be a socially oblivious slob we spent the entire year picking up after.” as frustrating as the situation was, his roommate andrew can’t seem to fully [...]

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Tags: canada · cleaning · ontario · roommates · thanks (but not really)

the art of the passive-aggressive note

May 23rd, 2008 · 81 Comments

sure, it’d be easier and quicker to just clean it up. but the modern passive-aggressive (like katey in berkeley’s ex-roommmate) can’t pass up the opportunity to make a point.

a common variation on the van der rohe approach, as documented below by sam in dallas, is the so-called “reverse magritte.”

meanwhile, post-modern passive-aggressives (like this new [...]

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Tags: actions speak louder · art · berkeley · cleaning · houston · new york · oakland · obnoxious definition · office · roommates · san francisco · wtf?

“swiffer gives cleaning a whole new meaning”

May 21st, 2008 · 111 Comments

writes bibs in tacoma, washington: “my sophomore year in college, i was placed in a campus house with six other girls i didn’t know. to say the least, we did not really get along, but we made a chore chart so we would all at least have a semi-clean house to live in.” at [...]

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Tags: cleaning · excessive underlining · fuck fuckity fuck fuck · inappropriate word EMPHASIS · not cool · roommates · spelling and grammar police · tacoma · university · visual aids

landmine in my bloodline

February 8th, 2008 · 109 Comments

nothing could have prepared lauren in oakland for the passive-aggressive avalanche that awaited her the other day at her new apartment. she calls the experience of finding the notes totally surreal. “it keeps playing back in slow motion in my mind, from the second i saw the first one hanging over the threshold to my [...]

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Tags: blitzkrieg approach · cleaning · ellipses-crazed · oakland · roommates · spelling and grammar police

crying over sour milk

January 29th, 2008 · 127 Comments

ashley in chicago says her roommates are the king and queen of passive-aggressive notes. (”if they ever found this site, they’d think it was a self help group,” she says.) the latest example:

ashley’s still fuming over this one. “i mean, come on just throw it away yourself! you’re probably exerting more energy writing the email [...]

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Tags: chicago · cleaning · fridge · roommates · would you mind?

office anthropomorphism

December 29th, 2007 · 65 Comments

many offices, it seems, are a regular disneyland of what only appear to inanimate objects. the evidence? from frank in san francisco, a talking sponge:

from amy in annapolis, a talking toilet:

from ben in san antonio, a talking door:

and then there’s my favorite – from an anonymous submitter in washington, d.c. – a talking (and walking) [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · annapolis · cleaning · clip art catastrophe · confusion??? · d.c. · irregular capitalization · maryland · microwave · opening/closing · san antonio · san francisco · texas · toilet

living with an adolescent (abridged)

November 14th, 2007 · 216 Comments

carlina in texas is close with her parents, but she’s been having a bit of a rough time lately. apparently carlina’s mother has grown tired of her daughter’s apathy/hostility/general malaise, and slipped this classic mom note under her door.

if that note didn’t remind you of your own mom, perhaps you can relate to this one [...]

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Tags: cleaning · family · guilt trip · moms & dads · signed with love · texas

who are you calling ocd?

November 8th, 2007 · 149 Comments

this just in: starving unborn children aren’t the only casualties of office fridge lunch thievery. as one anonymous new yorker reports, now the sick and the infirm are being picked off, too!

(thank you kindly? best wishes? hungry on the 12th floor, you kill me.)

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Tags: cleaning · exclamation-point happy! · food · guilt trip · ital overkill · new york · office fridge · questionable logic · rhetorical question · sarcasm · thanks but no thanks

your to lazy

October 15th, 2007 · 178 Comments

those troublemakers requesting more crazy apartment notes can thank our anonymous submitter, a GM at a property management firm in springfield, missouri for today’s masterpiece. “one of our resident managers delivered this letter to 115 units at her property, then e-mailed me a copy because she was REALLY proud of it,” our submitter writes. “i [...]

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Tags: TLDR · cleaning · dogs · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · irregular capitalization · itemized list · landlord · missouri · more like crazy · music · noise · not-so-veiled threats · parking · rhetorical question · smoking · spelling and grammar police · vandalism