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To never want to flatshare again?

62 replies

poshsinglemum · 08/12/2010 17:08

Anyone with flatmate horror stories most welcome.

At uni I flatshared for years. had to put up with;
Post it notes left on hoovers and fridge doors
Socks in my saucepans with water and eggs still in them
My cheese/pizza nibbled
Arguments over men/football/housework
Loud sex in next room
Female flatmtes getting competetive
Male flatmates getting am orous

IMO peopel are far too territorial to flatshare for long. Can be a laugh tho. Couldn't go back to it. More stories please!

OP posts:
Ephiny · 09/12/2010 15:48

"Another flatmate in winter used to turn the heating up to crazy high levels in the living room, and then open the window hmm"

Yes mine did this too - I think they thought if they opened a window it wouldn't make the place stink of smoke (it didn't work). Also they didn't care about the waste as they had no intention of making any contribution to the bills Hmm

I'm getting angry again just thinking about it Angry

AbsofLatkes · 09/12/2010 15:56

Or DP's annoying flatmate (otherwise lovely), who last winter, when it was -ve temperatures wanted to smoke inside, as she didn't want to get cold. So, she opened the giant sliding door leading out onto the garden to let the smoke out, and then left the stupid thing open, while we all sat inside freezing to death. Why didn't she just go outside, or just not smoke? Barking.

loveulotslikejellytots · 09/12/2010 15:58

Not a flat mate, but when my Mum and Dad took in a friend of mine when we were 15... living nightmare! We got on fine to start with (and get on really well now), but found out quite quickly that we were polar opposites.

We had to share a room, but also my double bed. Mum and Dad had only just bought it for me when she moved in so weren't going to get rid of it. I would work all weekend (3 weekend jobs, plus babysitting!!) to afford nice things, such as expensive make up, which she would use, leave on the floor, take with her when she went out etc. and when asked to replace it, would replace it with the cheapest brand she could find. She broke my GHD's, again that I had worked all summer for!

We we're tight for space in our room, so I suggested we have a sort out of stuff. Which she did. While I was away for a week. And by sort out, I mean, threw anything away that wasn't hers or that she couldn't use! I came back to half a wardrobe missing and 15 years worth of keepsakes and trinkets gone! Some were recovered from the bin!

She would leave glasses on the window sill, to go mouldy and stink. She would bring food up and eat in our room, then put the plates under the bed! Which I only realised when the smell got that bad.

She insisted on having an electric blanket all year round!

She had awful clip in hair extensions, that would moult (sp) all over the floor. So if you came in our room after a shower you would get fake hair stuck to your feet regardless of how hard I hoovered the carpet!

I could go on but I think I need a drink to calm me down!

expatinscotland · 09/12/2010 16:06

I had a flatmate who mostly stayed with her boyfriend. Good.

One night she stayed at ours and the phone rang about 2AM.

She went into the living room to take the call, believing it was her boyfriend just getting off work.

About 10 minutes later I heard her shouting and crying down the phone, 'Who is this? You're not Keith!' and then banging down the phone.

Turns out it was a prank caller (this was about 1990) who'd breathed, 'What are you doing, sexy?' and sounded enough like her boyfriend that she gave him an earful.

Come to find out, they were into S&M so this chap must have thought he hit the jackpot!

He rang incessantly for about a month until I changed the number.

kenobi · 09/12/2010 16:13

In second year at uni me and my mate moved in with 2 girls we didn't know. All went well until girl 1 moved her boyfriend in. He was unemployed and despite living with his parents 3 miles away, was at ours all the time. He used to come in, take his clothes off and dress in her pink fluffy dressing gown and slippers to get comfy, then watch snooker All. The. Time, and refused to change the channel. God, we resented that. He also contributed nothing to the rent or running of the house, nor did girl 1 pay any extra.
The bathroom was through the kitchen and the only thing separating the two was a thin plastic pull-across screen. We could hear him doing poos every evening while we cooked 2ft away.
We used to get pissed every Wed night without fail and wake and girl 1 up. He would stomp downstairs and shout at us about how selfish we were as they needed their sleep. Weeelll, we probably were selfish, we were 2nd year students. We used to sit on the sofa giggling with a rug over our heads while he shouted, saying 'we're not here!' which infuriated him.
One day he got fed up with girl 1 and ran into the street STILL in dressing gown and 'ran away' while girl 1 and his parents followed in there cars shouting 'coome hooooome!!!'
Girl 2 used to go out every Wed too. She was an adorable Geordie lass who, without fail, would either a) pull a rugby lad b) make a fried egg sandwich then fall asleep in it. I lost count of the amount of times she got up next morning to make a cuppa with an egg sandwich stuck to her face.
Boyfriend said she was a disgusting slut.
We loved her.

squirrel42 · 09/12/2010 16:19

I lived in a shared house with random people, and the worst was Crazy French Girl. She was probably late 20's, and used to talk about how she'd been raised by abusive Catholic parents and sent to a horrible school where nuns did horrible things to her. This was casual chit-chat the first or second time I met her, while I was doing the washing up!

But the real craziness was when she accused one of the guys in the house of bringing prostitutes around. Erm, no - he did sometimes have his girlfriend over, but it was always the same girl and they used to have a meal and such, chat with others in the house, just normal girlfriend-boyfriend behaviour! When the landlord looked into her complaint and didn't kick the guy out, she then accused the landlord of running a brothel... thankfully she left shortly after that.

lololizzy · 09/12/2010 18:11

arrgh forgot the scary stuff as well as the funny. The IT-er who was DJ/drug dealer by night..the house and grounds were big however not equipped for the FIVE HUNDRED ravers he once invited back on a Saturday night. When i had work the next day. These ravers stole a lot of my belongings (when he was questioned about said belongings, his reaction that i was anal as didn't believe in free love and sharing...items were 'borrowed' not stolen, he explained. Needless to say, never saw again, inc my boyfriend's jacket that i had been borrowing. I was then told to not be so 'materialistic'.
The worst thing was when i found he'd hidden some of 'supplies' ( and i do mean, Class A, not the more relaxed kind of gear) amongst my knickknacks. As the police were regular visitors, this was worrying indeed. However he was finally chucked out when threatened the landlord with a sword he had hanging on his wall

porkchops · 09/12/2010 18:13

Shouldn't the op have posted in the paid media requests section? Sounds like research to me Hmm

lololizzy · 09/12/2010 19:19

Girlfriend of drug dealer who liked to 'have fun' with vegetables then put back in fridge. Other housemate helped himself and was later told the truth..only vegetarian i know , who can no longer face veggies...
She also had a pet ferret..quite adorable except when it escaped for two months. Would wake in night to find toes being viciously nibbled.
The no longer vegetable eating housemate dropped sunflower seeds down the kitchen sink and they sprouted up greenery through the plug hole..this was left like this!!
ahh miss it all now.
Perhaps not!!

AbsofCroissant · 10/12/2010 09:32

porkchops - OP is a regular - been around for ages. If it's a research request, she's put in a lot of effort. Well done!

Just thought of another one - exBF had this very nice, very quiet flatmate who would just potter around and not bother anyone. Ex moved out of the flat into another one, and a few weeks later found out that the quiet flatmate had totally lost it, and had had to be sectioned after he ended up running around the flat with a samurai sword saying he was going to kill exBF.

TrillianAstra · 10/12/2010 09:39
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FindingAManger · 10/12/2010 10:08

my motto was always "make friends of your flatmates not flatmates of your friends". Ah it was the best of times & the worst of times. I flat shared from age 17 to 37 & had some amazing fun with loads of different people.

Gotta say men are very very rarely clean and tidy creatures. Whilst women can be messy they will invariably get stuck in once a week & clean the place up.

Worst flatmate was from when I was just turned 21 - he moved in, went out clubbing, came home drunk at about 3am, lit candle in bedroom & burnt house down. I passed out from smoke inhalation in the hallway & naked man another flatmate had brought home stood on me as he was fleeing house & dragged me out of the building Shock - thanks dude, I never knew your name! Whole neighbourhood turned up - it was the event of the decade & the 70 year old next door draped us in duvets/blankets & fed us white port and rum Grin

Best flatmate a lady I met when I was 22 - we are still best of friends today 23 years later.

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