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I live in student accommodation at the LSE. I share a flat so to speak with 5 other people, 2 female, 3 male, and they are really quite disgusting.

There has been some dirty dishes, glasses, mugs and bowls in the kitchen that had not been washed up for weeks, maybe even a couple of months. I just grew sick and tired of seeing it, it is frankly disgusting that they cannot clear up after themselves. I have my own cutlery, plates and bowls (thankfully) which I use and wash up myself and they do not do theirs.

Well today I decided to do theirs, to get rid of it, to try and make the kitchen look cleanish. Also because with washing up that old, could be a ton of bacteria and mold etc. So I did it. The stuff was impossible to get clean, I tried to get things as clean as possible and I had to empty the sink halfway through due to the water being filthy and gross. Now I have done it, the stuff is fairly clean, so... I ask...

Should I leave a nasty note on the kitchen door moaning at them?

What are your stories of disgusting flatmates etc?

Haha, I have the opposite problem. A couple of mine are obsessive neat freaks. One of my flatmates (the one I never see even though I live with her because she doesn't like our flat and I can't say I blame her) left a plate out of food out for a day and one of the other flatmates chucked it - plate and all - in the bin. I fished out out. Up to my elbows in cold currey. Yuck.

Haha, I have the opposite problem. A couple of mine are obsessive neat freaks. One of my flatmates (the one I never see even though I live with her because she doesn't like our flat and I can't say I blame her) left a plate out of food out for a day and one of the other flatmates chucked it - plate and all - in the bin. I fished out out. Up to my elbows in cold currey. Yuck.

Neat freaks, i wish my flatmates were, disgusting as they are. Should i leave an angry note?

Neat freaks, i wish my flatmates were, disgusting as they are. Should i leave an angry note?

Yes.

IShould I leave a nasty note on the kitchen door moaning at them?
no, because i lived with a dude who did that a couple of times last year and the other 6 of us all thought he was a total dick for doing it. the simple answer is tell them you did their washing up, and if they aren't grateful don't ever do it again. if they are grateful, then try to convince them how much better it is like this and how its easy to keep clean/tidy(ish) if people just do their washing up as and when they use cutlery/cooking equipment. just don't do their washing up again.
if you really want to leave a note, don't make it a nasty one.


my student house in cardiff is pretty damn untidy... we have two stoners and a slob living there, so things tend to stay in the sink for a while, even if we don't want them to. but thankfully, cos there's only four of us we all get together and clean the place up properly every couple of weeks, and we make sure we each do our own washing up every couple of days. it helps we all share cutlery/cooking stuff because there's a sense of shared responsibility. though it helps we're all 2nd years and we all been through the whole 'biohazard kitchen' thing ;)

Neat freaks, i wish my flatmates were, disgusting as they are. Should i leave an angry note?
Yes.

How about: never cleaning the bathroom and always pissing all over the toiletseat, leaving the bath and shower dirty, not to mention that the oven looks like a pizza blew up in it, or talking at full volume over the phone after midnight? And that is just the tip of the friggin' iceberg. :mad:

edit: Leave a note? You better! And don't be afraid to use a few explicits! Good luck! :)

I remember tiring of washing up for everyone else.

So I used to wash "around" it. I washed what I messed up.

One morning, a fellow flatmate was fishing through the dirty dishes in the sink, looking for something to rinse off to use as a cereal bowl.

I said, "Make sure you wash it real good, because I was whacking off in the sink last night".

I remember tiring of washing up for everyone else.

So I used to wash "around" it. I washed what I messed up.

One morning, a fellow flatmate was fishing through the dirty dishes in the sink, looking for something to rinse off to use as a cereal bowl.

I said, "Make sure you wash it real good, because I was whacking off in the sink last night".
:eek:
All hail WL!
Waaaaay better than a note.

i wouldnt bother with a note.

you are living with pigs, they will only get righteously indignant over the whole thing.

you cant change that many people all you can do is find a better place to live.

i wouldnt bother with a note.

you are living with pigs, they will only get righteously indignant over the whole thing.

you cant change that many people all you can do is find a better place to live.
To be honest, that is what I did.
I just moved out.

i wouldnt bother with a note.

you are living with pigs, they will only get righteously indignant over the whole thing.

you cant change that many people all you can do is find a better place to live.

It wont be too bad, only here for another few weeks, exams finish next week, then no more them!! Next year i will be commuting to university from home. Fun Fun. Anyway... they are pigs, i may leave either a angry note or a nice polite one.

I had a similar problem a few years ago. I simply left a note that it was unhealthy and I would throw any unwashed dishes in the garbage in 48 hours, due to the hazard. I did so. It took a second round, but the problem was eventually resolved.

I had a similar problem a few years ago. I simply left a note that it was unhealthy and I would throw any unwashed dishes in the garbage in 48 hours, due to the hazard. I did so. It took a second round, but the problem was eventually resolved.
Ahh, you see i don't think i mentioned that this is not the first time i have done this. Previously i left a note, it worked for a month or so and then it started again. Then i just moaned at them a whole lot and it got down.

This time nothing happened so i am deciding whether to moan or leave a note or both :)

If you like them, then just have a chat about it. However, the fact that you're about to leave (and live with others next year?) means that there's little point. Having a moan may only tarnish friendships. After all, what do you care come July?

If you like them, then just have a chat about it. However, the fact that you're about to leave (and live with others next year?) means that there's little point. Having a moan may only tarnish friendships. After all, what do you care come July?

Ah you see, two are here for just the year, both from America. The others i am not living with as i do not really like any of them. One of them always manages to soak the floor of the shower despite the curtain, it amazes me that he can do that, oh and he smokes in the toilet and leaves his ash everywhere, including the sink. All i say is yuck.

I say: While at Uni, if it comes to it you're only living with them till your contract expires. A few of my floormates at college are pretty damn terrible; one only washes his rugby kit every four games, and it's so bad you can smell it from the corridor when his door's shut. If it's caked in mud he'll brush it off onto the corridor floor and sweep it into a corner. Rahs should be exterminated. But I keep thinking it's only a year, only a year, and it's only a few weeks left of it. Can't be arsed kicking up a fuss about it and having to deal with petty snide comments for the rest of our time together.

We just have plans to hit him with an exploding bag of flour when he steps out of the corridor shower before he goes home.

Ah you see, two are here for just the year, both from America. The others i am not living with as i do not really like any of them. One of them always manages to soak the floor of the shower despite the curtain, it amazes me that he can do that, oh and he smokes in the toilet and leaves his ash everywhere, including the sink. All i say is yuck.
In which case: fuck 'em. Not literally, of course (unless you enjoy angry sex). If they're not going to be around then moan all you like, just beware of revenge...

I had a roommate that was a glass fiend. We had 42 glasses and a sundry amount of mugs in the house. One morning, all hung-over (partied after a 88 hour work week), I walked down to the kitchen to get me some orange juice.

Look in the cupboards. Nothing. Sink? Nothing. Dish washer. Nothing. Kitchen table? Nothing. Living room? Nothing.

My roommate had gone on some trip for the weekend (how, since he was unemployed, I don't know!). So I looked in his bedroom and the computer room. EVERY.SINGLE.DRINKING.VESSEL was there. Most 1/10th -1/2 full of various liquids.

I found an empty one and took it back.

Then, I went do his bedroom and wrote a note. I stuck it in the glass on top of his alarm clock/radio. It said:
LET MY PEOPLE GO!!

...

The Tuesday after the note, all the glasses save that ONE were clean and back in the kitchen, and the incident never repeated itself. :)

I have lived with many tinks. Once we rented a flat where the lease started at the start of the summer, so not all of us(me included) were living there over the summer (since we'd gone home). However the people that were there could not figure out which day was the rubbish collection day - their solution? put all the full bin bags into the various cupboards around the flat. When I got round to moving in there was a beetle infestation because of this.
What else, one guy was sick in the living room and hovered it up. People wouldn't clean the grill after using it (I never ever fathomed why people do this), and thus we had many (small) kitchen fires due to all the collective pig fat catching fire.
I thought living with women would be better but no, they clog up every avaliable plug-hole with hair...

*sighs*
oh to be young again

The part I really didn't enjoy about living with young women was the overflowing trash can in the bathroom - overflowing with used feminine products.

What the Hell does this have to do with anything! Complain about your roomates? Please! This is Cruel world domination! Really evil stuff you know, so don't bug me about your stupid roomates!

People wouldn't clean the grill after using it (I never ever fathomed why people do this),

The same happens in my flat. Luckily I never use it, but still - it's fucking disgusting to look at. I cleaned it once at the beginning of the year because it was annoying me so much. Hasn't been cleaned since. I have no idea why they continue using it, it is completely filthy.


Recently though someone smashed a glass. And didn't tell us, which isn't the worse thing in world. But she didn't tidy it up properly. I keep finding small pieces of glass embedded in my foot :(

What the Hell does this have to do with anything! Complain about your roomates? Please! This is Cruel world domination! Really evil stuff you know, so don't bug me about your stupid roomates!

Since when has general been about global domination? :rolleyes:

I had a roommate that was pocketing all the money I was giving him for bills and telling the other one that I never paid him. What was worse was I would always clean up the ones bigass messes in the kitchen to the point that I would eventually not cook because it wasn't worth it-thing is, I wouldn't do it when they where around. I don't like doing housework while people are over or watching, it seems rude. I did it when no one was around. So the roommate, the one who was pocketing the money, would take credit for it so I had to deal with the other roommate passive-agressively giving me crap about being a total freeloader.

The money-pocketing-credit-taking roommate was also racking up $400 phone bills calling phone sex lines.

Notes are annoying. Discussions are straight, as long as you don't start angry. If you start by chewing them out they'll be defensive and you're out numbered.

I live in student accommodation at the LSE. I share a flat so to speak with 5 other people, 2 female, 3 male, and they are really quite disgusting.

There has been some dirty dishes, glasses, mugs and bowls in the kitchen that had not been washed up for weeks, maybe even a couple of months. I just grew sick and tired of seeing it, it is frankly disgusting that they cannot clear up after themselves. I have my own cutlery, plates and bowls (thankfully) which I use and wash up myself and they do not do theirs.

Well today I decided to do theirs, to get rid of it, to try and make the kitchen look cleanish. Also because with washing up that old, could be a ton of bacteria and mold etc. So I did it. The stuff was impossible to get clean, I tried to get things as clean as possible and I had to empty the sink halfway through due to the water being filthy and gross. Now I have done it, the stuff is fairly clean, so... I ask...

Should I leave a nasty note on the kitchen door moaning at them?

What are your stories of disgusting flatmates etc?

1) For the most part, when I had roommates, 1 of them was always an obsessive neat freak that would even clean my room if I left the door open.

2) as I got older, I could afford a maid a couple of times a week

3) As I got older again, I have moved to a 3rd world country where I have 24/7 cook/cleaning/drive service.

Being a lazy SOB isnt so bad if you plan right.

1) For the most part, when I had roommates, 1 of them was always an obsessive neat freak that would even clean my room if I left the door open.

2) as I got older, I could afford a maid a couple of times a week

3) As I got older again, I have moved to a 3rd world country where I have 24/7 cook/cleaning/drive service.

Being a lazy SOB isnt so bad if you plan right.

Nice :p

I haven't left a note yey, i may have a word with them. But to be honest, i hardly see them, this accommodation is not very open so a note would work better. Plus, i'm nearly always on my computer :D

Ahh, you see i don't think i mentioned that this is not the first time i have done this. Previously i left a note, it worked for a month or so and then it started again. Then i just moaned at them a whole lot and it got down.

This time nothing happened so i am deciding whether to moan or leave a note or both :)

In my case it was also a recurring problem. Notes left had no effect. Tossing their crap in the trash can did.

Should I leave a nasty note on the kitchen door moaning at them?

A note to begin with. I found loading all the filthy crap into a box and dumping it in my flatmate's bedroom made quite an impression.

A note to begin with. I found loading all the filthy crap into a box and dumping it in my flatmate's bedroom made quite an impression.

Oooh i hadnt thought of that, i might do that :p

No note, but talk to them about it.

What also works is not live past eachother. Eat together and let everyone cook for everyone else. Let someone do the dishes afterwards, cause if no one does there will be no plates/cutlery/pans for tomorrow's dinner. Make deals about who will clean the kitchen and when.....

Yay communism

What the Hell does this have to do with anything! Complain about your roomates? Please! This is Cruel world domination! Really evil stuff you know, so don't bug me about your stupid roomates!

You are obviously not ready. Victory must begin at home.

No note, but talk to them about it.

What also works is not live past eachother. Eat together and let everyone cook for everyone else. Let someone do the dishes afterwards, cause if no one does there will be no plates/cutlery/pans for tomorrow's dinner. Make deals about who will clean the kitchen and when.....

Yay communism

Nope. Sorry. I hate communism, but also, they love curry and spicy food, i hate curry and spicy food, its not going to work im afraid.

And yes, world domination starts at home. (playing a computer game :p )

Nope. Sorry. I hate communism, but also, they love curry and spicy food, i hate curry and spicy food, its not going to work im afraid.

And yes, world domination starts at home. (playing a computer game :p )
:rolleyes:

Compromise! As you've just experienced, you can't live alone there. There's always gonna be 5 others around. Adapt. You'll have to. That or be the annoying whining germophobic egomaniac of the flat (not that you are)