thieving flatmates

Lokolo

This is devastating, everyone has been thinking I'm female!!!!

ONW - you're male right?

spandangled

You either have to make a scene loudly, or make it silently...

Someone kept stealing my cereal, so I put Daz in it.
Amazingly she even ate several spoonfulls before bursting into my room asking what the hell I was playing at.

Two of my housemates were fighting, one unplugged the other's laptop, so he in turn took the tv card out of the digibox. Cue both of them moaning to me about each other. My solution was to take the tv which was mine, upstairs into my room, lock it and go home for the weekend.

They never did it again.

There are times when you don't mind sharing, and there are times when you do, the best thing to do is to tell her to ask. If she doesn't ask, then substitue your mayonnaise for lemon cream cleaner :rolleyes:

456789

Lokolo wrote: »

This is devastating, everyone has been thinking I'm female!!!!

I haven't

I never had the problem of people taking my stuff but pretty much all the time through uni everyone I lived with was adverse to tidying up/emptying the bin which is very annoying

I also used to lock my drawer in the kitchen as you never know who people might invite around and what could happen...

A fridge of your own sounds like a good idea - you should also start thinking about next year - do you have some friends on your course who you could share with instead?

TDQO

justruth wrote: »

Argh I think I may have to move into halls, this is everything I dread! (plus all the mess and all the noise)

trust me, halls = most fun year of your life.

I would never go back into halls but for your first year halls is the best thing, you meet so many people and have crazy parties and yeh it does get annoying with the noise and stuff but it's completely worth it. You miss out on some of the "uni experience" if you go straight into private housing.

I have a new bit of advice.... (I'm just full of it today!) and that's to asit down and talk about this stuff on the first day you move into shared accomodation. When I moved into halls and then my next house one of the first things we did was sit down and get the ground rules clear between all of us.

GrammarGirl

I think using someone else's plates/pans/utensils is the worst thing about housesharing... last year I lived in a house of 6 and two of my housemates were terrible, terrible people. I have a Whittards crockery set (lovely present from my mum in my first year of uni) which I had preserved throughout 3 years of uni. In quick succession, these two smashed 4 (read it, FOUR!!!!) bowls and 2 side plates.


They replaced them with 99p Morrisons bowls. I'm sorry, but this still makes me so angry!! I took the bowls, smashed them up and dumped the pieces in their bedrooms. The revenge was short lived but satisfying.

TDQO

In my flat we just put all of our crockery/pan/plates etc into one set of cupboards and used everyones. Then we had a rota (there were 7 of us so worked perfectly) for cleaning/washing up. Worked great for nearly the whole year.

top_drawer_2

spandangled wrote: »

If she doesn't ask, then substitue your mayonnaise for lemon cream cleaner :rolleyes:

pmsl :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

456789 wrote: »

A fridge of your own sounds like a good idea - you should also start thinking about next year - do you have some friends on your course who you could share with instead?

I don't really fancy having a fridge in my room, I will see how it goes .... I'm actually a 3rd year at uni and this house is private and I live with people who work, the idea was I could rent and have better accomodation if I took it as permanent. I'm planning on getting a job here once I finish my degree as going back to live with my parents is too dire a prospect.

I am registered on spareroom but all my houseshares seem to go the same way and I'm getting sick of having to keep moving.

And to top off the horrors of housesharing.... last night I came home late (midnight) and was putting my cutlery and plates away (another foreign concept to my housmates) and one of my flatmates (the one who went ballistic about me moving some plates that werent her's - other thread) come storming downstairs demanding to know who is banging around ..... Ironic really as I can honestly say i've never met anyone so noisy in my life, and god help us if she feeling moody, stroppy etc as the whole street knows about it!!

Jen

GlasweJen

Oh I found a way to stop people nicking my food. I prepped my lunch in front of the one stealing once, spat in the tuna mayo and returned it to the fridge licking my cheese when i was in there, none of my food went missing ever again.

justruth

Ha awesome!

mellymeep

Thankfully we have quite a good understanding about food in this house, sometimes it gets a bit one sided with me buying most of the stuff, but generally we take it in turns to replenish milk/bread/cheese. Apart from one psycho housemate who hides all her food and goes mad if anything is touched.

The only thing that gets me is the tidying situation, that is pretty much one sided and it gets to the point where we've used every utensil/plate/pan in the house and they still ignore the pile of washing up!