Roommate is so irritating again

He already basically trashed the living room. It’s only a slight exaggeration. He keeps bags of food in the living room, boxes of Ensure drink, a foot bather, an exercise peddler, laundry detergent, and just bottles of miscellaneous crap like vinegar or water bottles. I don’t think any of that stuff belongs in a living room.

I followed someone’s advice on here and tried not to be too strict and as a result the living room has gone to hell. Yet, I feel like I’m somehow in the wrong for wanting a normal apartment. And the most irritating thing he does is he makes random changes out of the blue. I tried to organize the kitchen too but he wrecks it. For example, I put a plastic silverware holder tray in a drawer. It holds knives, spoons and forks. For three years it was organized with the forks first, then the spoons and lastly the knives, been that way for the six years I’ve lived here. Then I go in one day and he switched the spoons with the knives. It may seem like a small deal but it’s symbolic of the larger problem.

I mean what’s the use of having a nice ordered kitchen when one guy is going to randomly make stupid changes? I have a nice metal, ornate bowl for fruit on the kitchen table and another nice bowl for onions because I get a lot of them. Been the same for four years, it’s just the way it is. One week about two months ago I ran out of fruit and the fruit bowl was empty for like three days. So he puts a bunch of vegetables in it.

Why does this irritate me so much? Because you have to have some sense of order, you can’t just stack sh*t anywhere especially if it’s been a certain way for four or five years. And then the onions ran low once and he put a bunch of crap in there like flour tortillas and chips and vegetables and kept it that way for a month. Would this bother any of you guys? it bugs the hell out of me.

I would literally use colored tape to designate your safe areas where he can’t or can put his things.

Have you seen The Odd Couple? You two seem a bit like those guys in the way you live.

Yes it is about picking your battles though. Compromise on both sides and expect each other to stick to those mutual agreements.

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This sucks. You need rules and you shouldn’t have to be the one to enforce them. Personally when I rent, I treat my bedroom casually. I don’t damage the carpet or anything but I am generally a little messy. Common areas though, they need to be left exactly as they were when you entered them, and should always be posed like you’re about to take a better homes and garden photo. It’s not hard to respect common space! If he has a problem with it he can spend all his time in his bedroom.

I hope you have good luck straightening things out, I don’t envy you.

-I had a mom who always straightened the stack of magazines on the coffee table and if it was done after you, she would let you know. Changed behavior via a thousand nags… it worked lol.

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