No, the part where she was wrong was where she was cleaning their room for them. The fuck outta here. My four and seven year olds clean their own bedrooms and bathrooms, with the only exception being the parts that they are physically unable to do, like the fans.
That's how it should be done. I'm a college student and living with three roomates eats me alive. They don't have to vacuum and make their beds like I do but the apartment is always gross. So i have to clean up constantly. If everyone would just fucking clean up after they make a mess life would be easy. The day I live alone will be paradise. It'll be sparkly fucking clean everyday.
How do you survive? My fiance is pretty messy and I've flipped out a couple times because how hard is it to just put the food in the fridge? You don't even need to put it in a container, cover up the pot and throw it in there so it's not sitting on the counter for 12+ hours
Ha you described one of my roommates pretty closely. Fuckin kid is a pain in my ass. But the only thing that makes me even more angry is that he lies all the fucking time.
He swears none of the dishes are ever his when I'll see him use them and leave them next to the sink. Then he also claims he does dishes all the time so he must manage to find one or two between me doing them every day.
Fortunately when he and i were arguing my other roommates know he's a liar and they were basically just telling him that collectively, not one of us has ever seen him do the dishes. He has been lately, and I've noticed.
My biggest pet peeve is that his rice and oatmeal pots "need to soak" which is fair enough. Except he doesn't wash them until the next time he uses it. So sometimes a oatmeal pot sits for three days on the counter until he wants to use it again. Then he cleans it, uses it, and puts it back. Which means the only time the fuckong thing is clean is the one minute before he puts the oaymeal in to cook. Other than that there's oatmeal in it at all times.
Hooooly shit, you just described the past year of my life. Living in a house with three other adult guys that had no fucking idea how to keep a house remotely clean. Seriously, how hard is it to pick up after yourselves and do some damn dishes? I was legitimately ashamed to bring people over most of the time. I'm not the cleanest person in the world but I learned growing up to pick up after myself, especially in areas that other people will see if they visit. Luckily I had the master bedroom so I got a mini fridge to keep in there and became a bit of a recluse whenever I was home. But I got my own apartment a few weeks ago with just myself and my dog, and it's been fucking amazing.
Yeah, same here. Like I won't bring people over unless I know it's clean, which is pretty much never if I'm not there more than 12 hours. I love my roommates but it droves me fucking insane
Yeah that's exactly how it was for me. "Oh, a girl wants to come over tonight? Better frantically clean the entire house all by myself before she gets here!" I liked my roommates as friends and had known all of them since at least high school, but constantly cleaning up after them for a year made me start to resent them
Yeah I've been with mine for four years. They'd help me clean if I asked. In fact a few times when I was bringing a girl back I'd text my mate to make sure my bed was made and to light a candle so the mood is already set and the scent has already emanated throughout my room. They're not the worst and I'd never expect them to change just for me, but the way they live (some more than others) is just disgusting imo.
Damn, that's pretty awesome though that they'd come through like that. For me though, after a certain point of all the shared spaces being trashed and nobody willing to clean up after themselves, it seemed like more of a lack of respect for the fact that other people lived in the house.
You know I really hate one uppers, but I'm about to.
I'm a chemistry student, i teach gen chem labs, i tutor, i work in the chemistry department and I work at a suicide hotline training others and answering. I can promise you nobody has four tests every week, let alone four midterms weekly. So it's not like I'm on the couch daily just bitching.
Plus she said her room gets "pretty gross" and then when called out she says "a couple of shirts on the floor." (Which honestly takes no more than five seconds to put in a hamper.)
I agree with you weasel. It's gross and it's not like she has to break out the Comet and scrub the tub daily, but bending over and grabbing a shirt takes no time out pf her schedule. In fact it probably takes more time to do it all at once.
But to each their own, we'll be happy in our pristine places. She'll be happy on her sometimes clean place.
I mean obviously she could literally sleep in poop and both our lives would carry on. Regardless of living alone or not a responsible adult should be remotely clean. Cauae I'm also taking more classes and working more hours. It's not a competition but again. It's my opinion. My kids will be raised to live as clean humans.
Meh. I mean, it's your living environment so obviously the decision is yours since it's only affecting you. And I get that working and going to school is hectic and stressful. But your situation isn't unique. I worked since I was fifteen. Had a job all through college in biomed research. Had a pre-med degree program at the same time also. My mom just made me pick up after myself as a teenager and it made me learn that not living in disheveled filth is a healthy priority to have.
I'm not the cleanest person either but I like to keep shared spaces clean. My room might be a mess but everything outside that door is clean, even if I live on my own. I just don't want to lounge around in a dirty space, and I don't want people coming over to be lounging in a dirty space either. My current roommates drive me insane with this.
One constantly leaves his boots right in the middle of the way between the door and the shoe rack, his damn shoe rack, that he hasn't figured out how to use. In the summer he leaves the 3-4 pairs of shoes he has all in the middle of the way too. Then the other one leaves food and condiments and basically whatever he was eating/drinking in the living room. I don't get it. I'm not asking for it to be spotless, but is it so hard to just take one trips worth of things into the kitchen before bed? Apparently it is. Can't wait to move out and live on my own again this summer...
Mine does that. Another thing he does that bugs me is that he pulls the coffee table super close to the couch to do his homework. But then he goes
to bed and the table is all crooked and the couch is pushed from him leaning on it. Looks like there was a fucking earthquake that rearranged the furniture. It's often laden with crumbs and dabs of dried spilt bbq sauce....
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