Houseshares. Crazy things you have done when you reach the end of your tether.

[IWantAllTheDogsInTheWorld]

I've just been messaging my lovely DIL and we were chatting about the things we have done when we have finally lost patience with people we house share with.

When I was in my early twenties I shared with two male friends who never lifted a finger to clean anything and one day, after walking into the kitchen for the umpteenth time and finding not one clean piece of cutlery or plate and every surface of the kitchen covered in gross dirty crockery and pans (I had been "on strike" for days and not cleaned up after them) I proceeded to throw the lot out of the kitchen window onto the courtyard below for them to find when they got home. So satisfying at the time but now I'm a little bit mortified that I did it, wouldn't dream of doing that now (I've matured!)

DDIL had a similar story about a house share she left. What's the worst, passive aggressive thing you ever did to get the message across to you fellow house sharers?

Oh god... I'm not proud but one woman I shared with really rubbed me up the wrong way.

After one of her particularly noisy clattering home drunk episodes... The next time she took a shower I kept turning the cold tap on and off

I shared with a lovely woman but she refused to buy toilet roll. I bought it for six months solidly and in the end stopped and kept it in my room. She just couldnt understand why I didnt buy it anymore!

@Ipreferwinter

Oh god... I'm not proud but one woman I shared with really rubbed me up the wrong way.

After one of her particularly noisy clattering home drunk episodes... The next time she took a shower I kept turning the cold tap on and off

That made me LOL 😂

So satisfying at the time I bet...

Not houseshare per se but I threw all the washing up into the back garden after my ex partner had left it festering for weeks. Like you,I'd got fed up and gone on strike.

Put all the dirty dishes in the offenders bed when we lived in Uni halls.

I don't feel guilty though because he did much worse and pissed in someone's Ribena!

Not to my housemates but years ago a group of us got turfed out of a terraced house in London so the landlord could make more money renting it out to professionals instead of scruffy students.

We had optimistically planted hundreds of daffodils in the back garden when we moved in in September. We got booted out in February, but a month or so later we sneaked back (with the help of a neighbour) and harvested them all at 2am. I don't know if the young professionals even noticed, but it still makes me laugh.

I’ve put washing on someone’s bed before now.
Also I was the only person in a house who knew was a fuse box was and tripped these switch when they were playing loud trance at 2am once told them it must have been the noise that fucked the electrics. They never did I again. I wonder if they realised…

@wheresmymojo

Put all the dirty dishes in the offenders bed when we lived in Uni halls.

I don't feel guilty though because he did much worse and pissed in someone's Ribena!

Yes, apparently my son did something similar last year in his house share, I wasn't aware, my DDIL has just told me, I'm now wondering if it's a common response and there are student beds up and down the land covered in dirty dumped crockery 😆

This will out me to the other person I shared with, as I told her about it after the fact.

One of our housemates worked at a night club. She would come home at 2-3am drunk and drag herself past my bedroom (converted dining room) door, jangling the chimes I had (for some stupid reason!) hanging from my door frame. Then sit in the kitchen next to my paper thin wall chatting loudly to whatever bloke she’d brought home, in lewd detail about what they were going to do upstairs, also leaving discarded food and fag ash all over the table. She also never did any washing up and bought shit cheap food but then ate everyone else’s.

In the end I got so fed up of being woken up and listening to yet another random man moan about why she’d “let xx sleep with her without a condom so why couldn’t he” that I used her toothbrush to clean the toilet.

It didn’t stop her from waking me up. But I felt a damn sight better about it when she did

I lived in a houseshare at uni & one girl had her older boyfriend move in. He was quite intimidating & controlling & he started to dictate what we should & shouldn't be doing. Eg all washing up must be done within 30 mins of eating, washing machine had to be empty straight away (ok for him who didn't do anything apart from game), I was the only one who stood up to him & he did not like me at all. One day he put all the washing up in a box & preceded to come into my room & deliver it & tell me to wash up. I was livid because half of it wasn't even mine & how dare someone who doesn't contribute rent or bills tell me what to do in house I'm paying for. I told him to fuck off or Id report him to the landlord. I should have done this in the first place.

A few months later flatmate discovered he'd been cheating & finally kicked him out. I'd not spoken to him for months & on the morning he was leaving I very kindly asked if he needed help with his bags 😆 No regrets!

Spat in someone’s milk after they called me a fucking bitch for refusing to immediately come back from town to let them into the house after they’d locked themselves out.
Cleaned the toilet with one guy’s toothbrush (OK, that was my ex-husband!) but I’d just found out he’d cheated on me.

One of my friends was confused the uni cleaners were decanting some of her posh shampoos etc, so she pissed in them.

convinced

@mullmara

One of my friends was confused the uni cleaners were decanting some of her posh shampoos etc, so she pissed in them.

Am I very wrong to wonder if urine is good for hair and she may have encouraged further theft? 😆

I think she once forgot & used it on her hair 🤣

@mullmara

I think she once forgot & used it on her hair 🤣

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Am I the only person that thinks some of these are awful things to do?!

I used to have a dodgy toaster that would trip the electrics when switched on. I also had a housemate who had a tendency to play very loud, shouty, shooting interactive video games online till 3 in the morning with no regard for others trying to sleep. I used to wait till I could hear his online “team” closing in on a target them plug in the toaster plunging the house into blissful silence.

@myfuckingfreezer

Am I the only person that thinks some of these are awful things to do?!

Well that's kind of the point, no?

@myfuckingfreezer

Am I the only person that thinks some of these are awful things to do?!

Well if you’re going to be an awful housemate then you’ll have to expect some awful things to happen to you

A friend's housemate had absolutely filthy domestic habits, stole food, dodged bills and was also a roaring hypochondriac. A disclosure tablet found its way into a drink. Much satisfaction when he emerged from his stinking pit panic stricken having 'pee'd about a pint of blood'.

@Whatwouldnanado

A friend's housemate had absolutely filthy domestic habits, stole food, dodged bills and was also a roaring hypochondriac. A disclosure tablet found its way into a drink. Much satisfaction when he emerged from his stinking pit panic stricken having 'pee'd about a pint of blood'.

I didn't know disclosure tablets could go right through your system like that (filing away this info for future, ahem, reference 😉).