Roommates

<h2>Sharing a living space is never easy.</h2><p>When limited space is shared by people with separate lives and partners get involved, it can get pretty tricky. This petty revenge story is a nasty dunk on not pulling your own weight.</p><h2>Roommates stopped contributing, so we left them nothing</h2><p><a data-click-id="user" data-testid="post_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Not_A_Bimbo/">Not_A_Bimbo</a></p><blockquote> <p>I (Claire) lived with five other women. (I&#39;ll call them Abby, Brooke, Dani, Ella, and Fran.) When we signed the lease on the house, we agreed to a one-year deal (June 1-May 31).</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The house was off-campus and unfurnished, so we needed things to make it feel like home. Prior to moving in, we all sat down and decided what we needed for the house and who was going to bring what and also settled on a chore schedule.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We also decided that we&#39;d have a household supply fund set up so we could buy things we all would use like toilet paper, paper towels, dish detergent, and laundry detergent.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>As it turns out, Dani, Ella, Francesca and I brought most of the stuff we needed like a couch, small dining table, dishes, silverware, drinking glasses, cookware, food storage containers, etc.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Things went pretty well during fall semester. Shortly after that, however things started to decline.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Abby&#39;s boyfriend Andy basically moved in with us and the two of them started acting like they owned the place. Left a dirty dish in the sink? They&#39;d leave a passive-aggressive note about how rude it was to do that. Come home after the library closed at midnight? Abby and Andy went to bed at 10 and if you woke them up there was hell to pay.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Pretty soon, Brooke and her boyfriend Brad were acting in much the same way.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>By early February, it was clear to Dani, Ella, Fran, and me that we did not want to live with Abby and Brooke another year. The four of us found a different off-campus place and signed a lease. We let Abby and Brooke know and from then on, the two of them, plus their boyfriends, went from partial jerks to complete jerks.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>They&#39;d do things like stop the clothes washer mid-wash, take our clothes out, dump them on the floor, and start their own laundry. They&#39;d use up all the hot water by taking super long showers. They&#39;d write &quot;return to sender&quot; on our mail.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>They destroyed flowers our boyfriends sent or brought to us. They refused packages. They stopped contributing to the shared supply fund and stopped doing chores.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>About a week before Memorial Day, Ella got a call from the landlord on our new place saying the previous tenants had moved out and we could move in early if we&#39;d like, at no charge. Dani, Ella, Fran, and I discussed it and decided to get out of our current house ASAP but didn&#39;t tell Abby and Brooke of our plans.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Memorial Day weekend rolls around and Abby, Brooke, and their boyfriends head out of town to go camping while the rest of us put our plan into action.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>With the help of friends, Dani, Ella, Fran, and I got all of our stuff moved out. And when I say all, I mean <strong>all</strong>--living room furniture, dining room furniture, dishes, silverware, cookware, food storage containers, baking supplies, shower curtain, rugs, lamps, vacuum, broom, dustpan, etc.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We also decided that since neither Abby nor Brooke had contributed to the shared household supply fund since March, the toilet paper, paper towels, dish detergent, laundry detergent, and so forth was ours, so we took all of that too.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Abby, Brooke, and their boyfriends were shocked to return from their camping trip to an empty house. What made our petty revenge even sweeter was that on their way home from the camping trip, all four of them got food poisoning and were really, really sick.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The scathing texts we got about moving out unannounced AND taking all shared household goods--especially the toilet paper? Priceless. Dani, Ella, Fran, and I are great friends still get a good laugh about the situation about 12 years later. None of us have heard from Abby or Brooke since graduation.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Here is what readers thought:</h2><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Reyny/">Reyny</a></p><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I have lived with 6 people before and they are absolutely right about the sink. Noone should ever leave something in there. :D</p> </blockquote><p> </p><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/DynkoFromTheNorth/">DynkoFromTheNorth</a></p><blockquote> <p>I&#39;d consider this evil genius, if it weren&#39;t so justified. I applaud you either way!</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sweet__kitty/">Sweet__kitty</a></p><blockquote> <p>Sometimes people just don&#39;t know what they have until it&#39;s gone. It&#39;s a painful lesson we often have to live over and over again in different ways.</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Quirky_Movie/">Quirky_Movie</a></p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>A reminder to all the students reading this: your roommates cannot just move in their bf or gf. If they start staying most nights in a mutual lease situation, sit that person down and explain that they need to pay the share of the extra roommate or start splitting time elsewhere.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ionie88/">Ionie88</a></p><blockquote> <p>Isn&#39;t fucking with someone elses mail a massive offense? Not necessary federal, but something along those lines? ...or is it a federal offense to mess with the mail service or something...?</p> </blockquote><p> </p><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NotATroll1234/">NotATroll1234</a></p><blockquote> <p>Had a similar situation when one roommate turned into three, to the point that I needed to escape. The original roomie tried to demand I continue paying &quot;my half&quot; of the rent. You moved in two more people who aren&#39;t contributing at all financially. NOPE!</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/radjinwolf/">radjinwolf</a></p><blockquote> <p>I had an opposite situation. Signed a lease for an apartment with 2 friends, and a few months later, 1 of those friends started spending more and more time with his boss after work. Got to the point that he was sleeping over at his bosses place, and wouldn&rsquo;t come home for a week or more.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>This went on for months, until eventually he told us that he was just going to live with his boss, and refused to pay rent anymore.</p> </blockquote><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Vixenbisquit/">Vixenbisquit</a></p><blockquote> <p>It&rsquo;s the fact that TWO grown Men moved in without resources 🤢🤮 that made the revenge so much more &hellip; delicious job well done 👍🏽</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><p><a data-testid="comment_author_link" href="https://www.reddit.com/user/themissginger/">themissginger</a></p><blockquote> <p>This is fantiasic. I had to do this to a roommate in college as well. We didn&rsquo;t know one another and the complex set is up together. I had already been living in the apartment for 3 years so everything in there was mine other than what she needed for her bedroom.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Everything was cool at first and then she started smoking inside, bringing random dudes into the apartment and leave them there for me to walk-in on after work, was rude af and started talking trash about me on social media.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>While she was at work one day (I made sure she was going out clubbing afterwards which she did regularly) I called my help and gave them the green light to come over.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>We moved all of my stuff out that I had secretly been boxing up in my room for a couple of weeks and everything else that was mine as well. She came home to an empty apartment, not even a fork to eat with or a solo cup to drink with, I took it all.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>She was LIVID and I just laughed it off. I love being petty sometimes, it really pays off.</p> </blockquote><h2>Have you ever had a nightmare roommate situation or been accused of being the bad roommate before?</h2><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Women ditch 'nightmare' roommates, steal everything in the house on the way out.

Sharing a living space is never easy.When limited space is shared by people with separate lives and partners get involved, it can get pretty tricky. This petty revenge story is a nasty dunk on not pulling your own weight.Roommates stopped contributing, so we left them nothingNot_A_Bimbo I (Claire) lived with five other women. (I&#39;ll call them Abby, Brooke, Dani, Ella, and Fran.) When we signed the lease on the house, we agreed to a one-year deal (June 1-May 31).  The house was off-campus and unfurnished, so we needed things to make it feel like home. Prior to moving in, we all sat down and decided what we needed for the house and who was going to bring what and also settled on a chore schedule.  We also decided that we&#39;d have a household supply fund set up so we could buy things we all would use like toilet paper, paper towels, dish detergent, and laundry detergent.  As it turns out, Dani, Ella, Francesca and I brought most of the stuff we needed like a couch, small dining table, dishes, silverware, drinking glasses, cookware, food storage containers, etc.  Things went pretty well during fall semester. Shortly after that, however things started to decline.  Abby&#39;s boyfriend Andy basically moved in with us and the two of them started acting like they owned the place. Left a dirty dish in the sink? They&#39;d leave a passive-aggressive note about how rude it was to do that. Come home after the library closed at midnight? Abby and Andy went to bed at 10 and if you woke them up there was hell to pay.  Pretty soon, Brooke and her boyfriend Brad were acting in much the same way.  By early February, it was clear to Dani, Ella, Fran, and me that we did not want to live with Abby and Brooke another year. The four of us found a different off-campus place and signed a lease. We let Abby and Brooke know and from then on, the two of them, plus their boyfriends, went from partial jerks to complete jerks.  They&#39;d do things like stop the clothes washer mid-wash, take our clothes out, dump them on the floor, and start their own laundry. They&#39;d use up all the hot water by taking super long showers. They&#39;d write &quot;return to sender&quot; on our mail.  They destroyed flowers our boyfriends sent or brought to us. They refused packages. They stopped contributing to the shared supply fund and stopped doing chores.  About a week before Memorial Day, Ella got a call from the landlord on our new place saying the previous tenants had moved out and we could move in early if we&#39;d like, at no charge. Dani, Ella, Fran, and I discussed it and decided to get out of our current house ASAP but didn&#39;t tell Abby and Brooke of our plans.  Memorial Day weekend rolls around and Abby, Brooke, and their boyfriends head out of town to go camping while the rest of us put our plan into action.  With the help of friends, Dani, Ella, Fran, and I got all of our stuff moved out. And when I say all, I mean all--living room furniture, dining room furniture, dishes, silverware, cookware, food storage containers, baking supplies, shower curtain, rugs, lamps, vacuum, broom, dustpan, etc.  We also decided that since neither Abby nor Brooke had contributed to the shared household supply fund since March, the toilet paper, paper towels, dish detergent, laundry detergent, and so forth was ours, so we took all of that too.  Abby, Brooke, and their boyfriends were shocked to return from their camping trip to an empty house. What made our petty revenge even sweeter was that on their way home from the camping trip, all four of them got food poisoning and were really, really sick.  The scathing texts we got about moving out unannounced AND taking all shared household goods--especially the toilet paper? Priceless. Dani, Ella, Fran, and I are great friends still get a good laugh about the situation about 12 years later. None of us have heard from Abby or Brooke since graduation. Here is what readers thought:Reyny  I have lived with 6 people before and they are absolutely right about the sink. Noone should ever leave something in there. :D  DynkoFromTheNorth I&#39;d consider this evil genius, if it weren&#39;t so justified. I applaud you either way! Sweet__kitty Sometimes people just don&#39;t know what they have until it&#39;s gone. It&#39;s a painful lesson we often have to live over and over again in different ways. Quirky_Movie A reminder to all the students reading this: your roommates cannot just move in their bf or gf. If they start staying most nights in a mutual lease situation, sit that person down and explain that they need to pay the share of the extra roommate or start splitting time elsewhere.  Ionie88 Isn&#39;t fucking with someone elses mail a massive offense? Not necessary federal, but something along those lines? ...or is it a federal offense to mess with the mail service or something...?  NotATroll1234 Had a similar situation when one roommate turned into three, to the point that I needed to escape. The original roomie tried to demand I continue paying &quot;my half&quot; of the rent. You moved in two more people who aren&#39;t contributing at all financially. NOPE! radjinwolf I had an opposite situation. Signed a lease for an apartment with 2 friends, and a few months later, 1 of those friends started spending more and more time with his boss after work. Got to the point that he was sleeping over at his bosses place, and wouldn&rsquo;t come home for a week or more.  This went on for months, until eventually he told us that he was just going to live with his boss, and refused to pay rent anymore. Vixenbisquit It&rsquo;s the fact that TWO grown Men moved in without resources 🤢🤮 that made the revenge so much more &hellip; delicious job well done 👍🏽  themissginger This is fantiasic. I had to do this to a roommate in college as well. We didn&rsquo;t know one another and the complex set is up together. I had already been living in the apartment for 3 years so everything in there was mine other than what she needed for her bedroom.  Everything was cool at first and then she started smoking inside, bringing random dudes into the apartment and leave them there for me to walk-in on after work, was rude af and started talking trash about me on social media.  While she was at work one day (I made sure she was going out clubbing afterwards which she did regularly) I called my help and gave them the green light to come over.  We moved all of my stuff out that I had secretly been boxing up in my room for a couple of weeks and everything else that was mine as well. She came home to an empty apartment, not even a fork to eat with or a solo cup to drink with, I took it all.  She was LIVID and I just laughed it off. I love being petty sometimes, it really pays off. Have you ever had a nightmare roommate situation or been accused of being the bad roommate before?

Sharing a living space is never easy.  When limited space is shared by people with separate lives and partners get involved, it can get pretty tricky. This petty revenge story is a nasty dunk on not pulling your own weight.  Roommates...