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to want to kill our lodger?

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PSCMUM · 27/09/2007 21:55

He is a pig. He leaves socks everywhere. He does not do his own washing up. WE have a cleaner who comes once a week, she cleans while we are out, he comes home before we do, and effectively trashes the place. Pots in the sink, washing on the kitchen floor, (yesterday it was on the dining table!), shoes everywhere, wet towels on the bathroom floor, I just found a glass of wine outside his room with MOULD in it. I came home from work today, walked into my bedroom, to find that he had been using the computer in here (totally fine) but had left his coffee cip and half a plate of steak and kidney pie in here!!! (not ok) am so furious. I had to relly talk myself into nt hurling into his bedroom.

He is so nice though, really nice with the children, really plays with them, chats to them, explains things to them. But I might still have to kill him.

Murder on the kitchen floor.

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PSCMUM · 27/09/2007 22:47

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TheArmadillo · 27/09/2007 22:47

just counted - I have lived with at least 13 other people (of the ones I can remember) not counting dp or family members

margoandjerry · 27/09/2007 22:51

I'll do it. Honestly. He needs a damn good slap round the chops and I'm just in the mood...

brandnewhelsy · 27/09/2007 22:56

Armadillo - try 35!
I'd be telling him he's in a family home, not a squat, and starting to get VERY arsey about muck. He needs rules and ultimata, not hints and bottled up anger. He won't be your friend for much longer if it carries on like this, anyway, will he?

LittleBella · 27/09/2007 22:57

LOL LOL LOL

OH dear

He sounds like my brother. Still living with my mother at the age of 31. Has run out of billets...

Get rid.

jeangenie · 27/09/2007 22:57

get rid of him, seriously, he sounds awful

LittleBella · 27/09/2007 22:57

I'd forgotten all about that Carole Bayer Wotsername song, it is FAB!

TheArmadillo · 27/09/2007 22:59

35

Woah. Respect

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NotAnOtter · 27/09/2007 23:07

god i love this thread

PSCMUM · 27/09/2007 23:45

he is here.

ok the final final post on his crimes against my sanity...

i was just in the shower. I told him I was having a shower. he turned the hot tap on in the downstairs bathroom becasue he wanted to have a 'quick shower' before bed.

i want to shower him to death.

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PSCMUM · 27/09/2007 23:46

forgot the actual point - this meant my shower went cold so I am now typing with one shaved leg and the conditioner still in my hair.

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Tortington · 28/09/2007 00:05

you need a set of rules

3 strikes and your out

don't like it?

then fuck off mate

tip: get lodger own set of plates and a 3 cups and three glasses - all the same colour - ALL a DIFFERENT colour to your plates

different colour bin liners - put own bin out on bin day.

wash own clothes

eat with family. adult 1 cooks adult 2 washes the dishes lodger washes the pans and cutlery.

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GoodGollyMissMolly · 28/09/2007 08:39

OMG this guy sound awful, well done to you for putting up with it.

Have you spoken to him yet?

flowerybeanbag · 28/09/2007 08:53

PSCMUM you are waaaaaaayyyyyy too nice! He has to go surely?! I am in several minds as to which of your stories about his behaviour are most , most and most !

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PSCMUM · 01/10/2007 18:55

ok UPDATE!

We've been away for the weekend with friends in Belgium. We left on Friday morning v early. I stayed up til 1am nitgh before tidying house, getting uniforms ready, PE kits etc, putting away shopping to esnure well stocked fridge for our return, all the gear ready for school and for dh and me for work, suits ready, shirts ironed etc etc (aware i am starting to sound fanatical here - but you know when you just go into 'get ready' over drive!) so that when we got back on Sunday night, which I knew would be around 9/10pm, everyone could just go straight to bed and no sorting out to do and no problems in the morning.

So, get back on SUnday night, no food in fridge, half full beer can on lounge floor, other half in puddle under sofa. Really vile aroma - beer / sweat. Nice. Washing up piled high with pans, pots, roasting tin, you name it, all washing powder gone, no bread left, no croissants, no coffee, NO MILK , and washing machine full of washing he must have put in on friday, and not taken out - so it was wet, but starting to smell a little of mould.

So, we put all the kids to bed, and I just thought, I have to say something to him,. so while darling dh trudged out in the rain to the 24 hours supermarket to get supplies, me and the King of Smelly Socks had this conversation:

Me - 'I think you are really inconsiderate sometimes, we have just been travelling for hours, you knew we would be back now, and I need to wash up (baby dd's) bottles etc, and I can't unless you do your washing up or I do it for you, which I Really dont' think is fair.'
Him - 'You really hate washing up don't you'

This is what I am up against.

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flowerybeanbag · 01/10/2007 18:56

chuck him out chuck him out chuck him out

The Time Has Come!

TheArmadillo · 01/10/2007 18:58

give him notice and start looking for someone else.

He ain't gonna get any better.

PSCMUM · 01/10/2007 18:59

It will be very similar to shotting a puppy. Admittedly a really fucking annoying puppy.

How do you find reliable nice people to lodge with tho? As you can see, I have NO success at this!

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Earlybird · 01/10/2007 19:01

Agree that you need to find someone else, as he seems incapable of consideration.

Until he goes, maybe you should charge him a 'housekeeping' or 'maid service' fee in addition to his rent? I'm not joking...