Roomies

[Mr. Rager!]

I have a roomie that I absolutely like. He's seriously like my big brother..

But then I also have the roomie that hit my car, ran and then snapped at me about it. $300-400 worth a damage should have her feeling a little bit from it.

There's one thing that I keep in my room, but I do not use it a lot and that's my tylenol. I bought it about a month ago, it had 50 pills in there, I'm down to 16. I only take tylenol when I can't sleep off a headache, which isn't very often. I know she's polished off half my bottle by herself without even telling me. This is annoys me greatly. It's not expensive, it's just that she's helping herself to it.

I've also noticed that my conditioner levels have been dropping a lot faster than my shampoo levels. Once again, she's helping herself to my conditioner.

I'm not buying this stuff for community use. I'm buying it for only me to use and just me. Not her, me. I've told her to stay out of my stuff, she doesn't listen.

I'm seriously thinking about buying a wireless web cam and watching her go through my room, which I know she's been doing.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

Oh, and my other roomie ate a bunch of my food... while he replaced it, I just didn't have food for a couple of days. :(

[BookstoreEscapee]

Can you put a lock on your door?

Of course, you'd have to go back to the dorm days* of bringing all your shower stuff to the bathroom** every day but at least it won't disappear on you...

*assuming you've ever lived in a dorm...

**I am assuming you share a bathroom if she is using your shower supplies.

[JessEm]

Can you put a lock on your door?

Or failing that, can you put a lock on the place where you keep your stuff?

I've got sort of the same problem, in that one of my roomies is using my shower-scrubber and toothbrush without asking me. I have solved the problem, at least in the short term, by putting them both in a canvas container sort of thing that ties shut. She could go in and get them if she really wanted to, but she'd really have to intend to dig through my stuff. Maybe if you did something like that, she'd leave your stuff alone?

[BookstoreEscapee]

OK, shower-scrubber...eh...depending on the person maybe I could handle that...but your toothbrush?!?! ew

[Hello Kitty]

I found out I am not suited to having roomies. My good friend needed a place to stay (he calls day before he needs to move out!!!) so my boyfriend and I offer. He doesn't say how long he needs to stay (it turned into a 7 month long stay:(). He doesn't pay rent or food. He DRINKS ALL MY GRAPEFRUIT JUICE. :cry: He eats my leftovers! He calls for rides (no car). It got really bad, every tiny little thing irritated the crap out of me. I later saw an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where her dorm mate got on her nerves - it was exactly how I had felt!

[JessEm]

OK, shower-scrubber...eh...depending on the person maybe I could handle that...but your toothbrush?!?! ew

I know. I probably could have dealt with the shower scrubber too, until someone tactless mentioned it was like we'd had sex through the shower scrubber. Now I've got a serious need for :brainbleach: to get rid of those images.

He doesn't say how long he needs to stay (it turned into a 7 month long stay:(). He doesn't pay rent or food. He DRINKS ALL MY GRAPEFRUIT JUICE. :

:eek: That's not a roomie, that's a squatter! I hope you kicked him out eventually!

[Mr. Rager!]

I have a lock on my door, but I keep my door open so my room doesn't freeze. The house could be 68 and my room will drop down to 62-64. Plus, downstairs in my other roomies room, there's a spare key to my room just in case and she knows about it.

[blas]

I'd confront them about it. In the meantime, I'd take all of your toiletries out of the bathroom and keep them in your room...in your closet or somewhere. Yes, I know, seems childish, but what they are doing is childish.

[Mr. Rager!]

I'm not going to move everything to my room. I'm not going to lock things up. I do keep track of everything that there is. I'm going to do what worked a few months ago when this happened. Meet them for some gathering like we do about once a week. Then when the check comes leave them with the bill and remind them of what they're doing.

That usually solves the probably for a few months.

[TNT]

Just some of the many reasons I will never have a roomie.

[iradney]

I lived in a commune for a couple years. The original people that were living there were AWESOME! Respected boundaries etc etc. No thefts, nothing.
Then they all moved out in drips and drabs. The new people decided that my groceries needed eating. They also decided that I didn't really need sleep, or certain possessions anymore. I moved out.

Then, TTO and I shared a house with some of his mates. The majority of the stuff in the kitchen was mine. There were maybe 2 pots and 10 cups that weren't mine.
The one housemate and his gf had no qualms about using ALL FOUR plates on the stove at supper time (one pot for peas, one pot for corn, one pot for rice, one pot for meat). They also had no problem with leaving the food on the stove till it burnt to the bottom of the pot. And then they'd leave the dirty, burnt food IN the pot for the domestic, who only came once a week.
Yeah, we had ants coz of these idiots. And maggots in the drain *ew*! I was SO GLAD to move out of that place!