Sharing a home with someone can be a great way to save money on rent and utilities, but it can also push you to the very edge of your limits.
The subreddit 'Choosing Beggars', a place where people shame those who are being way too picky when asking for things, has plenty of types of recurring characters. There's the shameless parent who uses their child's birthday as leverage for negotiation, the art "critic" who lowballs every piece they get their eyes on, and many, many more.
But among these infamous personas, roommates are arguably one of the most frustrating. Whether it's disagreements over household chores, personal space, or guest policies, they have the ability to quickly become a painful source of stress.
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Roomates Response To Me Asking About The Electricity Bill She Hasn't Paid In Months (That's In My Name, Leaving Me With The Debt)
Chances are that if we do not become kinder to one another, there will be many more similar screenshots. American adults are increasingly sharing a home with other adults with whom they are not romantically involved.
This arrangement, known as “doubling up” or shared living, gained notice in the wake of the Great Recession, and the prevalence of shared living has continued to grow since.
Roommate Doesn't Buy Own Groceries, Complains About What I Buy
Why do people even endure these leeches for so long? I'd pull out all of my feathers long before that 😅
Looking For A Roommate: I'm Quite Easy-Going
Facebook Cb Wants Roommate To Pay More Rent Because She Makes More
While the rise in shared living during and immediately after the recession was attributed in large part to a growing number of Millennials moving back in with their parents, the longer-term increase has been partially explained by a different phenomenon: parents moving in with their adult children.
In 2017, for example, nearly 79 million American adults (31.9% of the entire adult population) lived in a shared household. For comparison, in 1995, the earliest year with comparable data, the number stood at just 55 million (28.8%), and in 2004, at the peak of homeownership and before the onset of the home foreclosure crisis, 27.4% of adults shared a household.
The Gag Is...she Had Already Eaten All My Hash Browns The Night Before, This Text Was Just An Attempt To Cover Her Ass!
My Old Roommate Wanted Money To Buy Cat Food, But Not Actual Cat Food
Seeking Female Roommate: Rent Will Be On A Sliding Scale Depending On Your Looks
My Ex-Roommate, After 2 Months Of Leaving Piles Of Stuff At My Place, Finally Returns To Pick It Up
The nearly 79 million adults living in a shared household include about 25 million who own or rent the household. An additional 10 million are the spouse or unmarried partner of the head of the household.
Another 40 million, or 16% of all adults, are the “extra adult” in the shared household. This share of living in someone else's household is up from 14% in 1995.
Roommate Wanted Free Coffee
Had To Text My Roommates This Because Of What They Did. Came Home To My Cat Trapped In The Bathroom Yowling
Seems like they mighta "forgot" cat in bathrm on purpose. I wouldnt trust them then alone in apartment again with said cat to move out and not be spiteful .
College Girl Is Looking For A Roommate But Is Homophobic/Transphobic, Rude, Wants Silence Almost 24/7 And Overall Has Unrealistic Expectations. (I Wonder Who Her Roommate Ended Up Being... And If She’s Still Sane)
"As a young intellectual, I prefer to only tolerate the presence of people who mimic my values and opinions because I find those who challenge my ways of thinking terribly offensive."
In 2017, just 18% of extra adults lived in a household in which the head was unrelated (typically a housemate or roommate).
Interestingly, living with nonrelatives has become less prevalent since 1995, when 22% of extra adults were doing it.
Room Mate Refuses To Take Any Less Than 1 Hour + In The Shower With 5 Of Us Living Here
oh i would out-petty this crazy bîťch the MOMENT she said she doesn't care about her roommate's well-being
My Freeloading “Roommate” When I Asked That He Fill The Amount Of Gas Back Up In My Car That He Used To Go See His Boyfriend
No Loud Music, But My Music Will Be Loud
That’s what you see just before you are blindfolded and stuck in a basement.
Roommate Invited A Random Girl Who Doesn’t Pay Rent And Isn’t On The Lease To Live At Our House. He Demanded That She Would Have The Only Parking Spot In The Unit. After Telling Him I’d Share The Spot With Her He Responded With This:
With so many adults living together, Apartment Guide conducted a survey of over 1,000 Americans to learn what determines a good and bad match.
According to the findings, people who had more than one roomie were less satisfied with their living situations than those with just one. Also:
- People living with their friends, family (32%), and co-workers were the most likely to be happy with their roommates;
- People living with an acquaintance were the least satisfied with their living situation;
- Living with one other roommate who happens to be related to you is the most satisfying roommate situation.
He Used To Be My Best Friend. But We Had A Falling Out, And He's Recently Decided He Didn't Need To Pay Half Of Utilities Anymore
*Asks Roommate To Pay Utilities Bill That Is 9 Days Past Due*
World's Worst Roommate
Dirty dishes, sitting in the sink for days and slowly putting on mold... yeah, the bin it is.
Roommate Cancelled Netflix. Time To Move!
Followed the Reddit rabbit hole/paper trail and OP said that they're pretty sure the person is referring to THEMSELVES with the term "little one" and NOT their child... ew.
41% percent of people identified keeping shared spaces clean as the top source of tension between roommates.
The topic of cleanliness was highest among people living with friends (47%), followed by strangers (43%), acquaintances (42%), and family (32%).
Paying rent (9%), communication (7%), and violating boundaries (7%) were the next biggest issues between roommates.
Looking For A Girlfriend, Iq Under 130 Need Not Apply. Roommate Too
This Girl Took Her Roommate's Mercedes On An 86+ Hour Roadtrip
I Guess My Latino Culture Triggered My Roommate 😔
Gross. Disgusting human. Leave your ridiculousness behind and go take manners and etiquette classes.
Roommate Sent Me A Video Of Herself And Our Other Roommate Going Through My Room And Things While Sh**talking How It Looks (I’ve Been Staying With Family But Emphasized My Room Is Still A Private, Personal Space I Don’t Want Others In) — Love Them :)
Nearly 47% of people surveyed were friends with their roommates before moving in together, but only 32% were satisfied with their current living arrangements. So just because you get along with someone doesn't mean you'll be compatible.
I Want A Naked Female Roommate And A Room At Half The Market Rate For My City
Free Non Working Roommate. What A Deal
Cb Gets So Mad About Roommate Buying Store Brand Garbage Bags That She Felt The Need To Come To A Fb Group For Advice
We are literally talking about an item whose only use is to be thrown out. But it should have a brand label?
Looking For Roommate To Pay Rent And Not Be In Apartment
My Roommate Spent Her Paycheck Too Fast Again, So I Offered To Get Us Liquor. It Devolved Into This
My Search For A Roommate Has Been An Exhausting One 🙄
I think he should lead with the fact that he is in his 60's. He would sound less crazy then
This 34 Year Old Op Who Doesn’t Have A Car, Refuses To Take The Bus, And Thinks He Can Take His Roommate’s Car Whenever He Wants Because She Was Nice Enough To Let Him Borrow It Sometimes. I Hate People Like This
What we learn from this: Don't be nice and let borrow people your stuff, they'll be expecting you to continue providing them with it.
My Roommate Can’t Read
My Roommate Thinks I Should Pay For Things I Had No Idea They Were Buying
My Boyfriend (22m) And I (21m) Live With A 23f And 28m. I'm Sick Of Constantly Playing Mommy To Them
I generally just wash the flatware, silverware, and cups/mugs in the dishwasher. All cookware is washed by hand.
Last Year, Our Flatmate Moved Out And Sold Us Her Friends' Fridge That She'd Been Using. This Year, She Wants It Back, And She's "Not Asking, But Telling"
That's a new idea, selling stuff, then deciding on a whim I need the sold item back.
You Know, Just Be Attractive To Be This Guys Roommate
"Semi private detached bathroom" - is this code for "I have a camera/peephole installed into your bathroom" ?
My Landlord/ Roommate's Mood Swings, He Ate My Last Left Breads, Gave Me 20 Bucks And Apologized Next Day, Sent That Annoying Text Day After That
They’re Not For A Snake, They’re Her Dead Pet Rats That She Kept In Our Fridge. Pet Semetary Maybe??
As a Canadian whose children’s pet hamster died in the winter, I know what it’s like to have a dead pet in the freezer (waiting for spring burial)
My Girlfriend's Male Roommate Jokingly Acts Like My Girlfriend Is His "Mommy" Because She Always Helps Him With Tasks That Were Normally Taken Care Of By Someone Else Back Home
Roommate Wanted $0 - Craigslist Ad
Searching For Roommate With No Scented Soap, No Drinking, No Scary Movies, And No Men Allowed In The Apartment
Roommate Constantly Has Loud Stuff Playing On His TV, Regardless Of Whether Or Not He's In The Room. Last Night's Convo (Wide Photo)
Some creepy-a$$ people on here wanting VERY specific control over other people. Hopefully, they didn't get any roommates to impose their creepiness on. Especially the guys who wanted female roommates with extremely specific body types. Buffalo Bill vibes from those dudes
My roommate is my brother. But it's a good arrangement we each pay half the rent and bills and always pay on time, he never steals from me. Hes a bit messy but if I tell him to clean up something he'll do it.
Sometimes siblings truly make the best roommates. You already know if you'll get along way before you get a place together, you already know their bad habits, and you already how to talk out any issues.
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I'm old now but, back in the day, I lived very frugally ( poor) to not have a roommate.
I had a room mate in 2000 who rang all the numbers on the phone bill to check if they were numbers I'd called so he could make sure I paid for them
Had a roommate that would like, blow his nose in the shower? Like boogers all over the wall somehow and he'd just leave it there. Disgusting. I pointed it out told him to clean the shower and he told me not to talk to him like he's a child. Okay then maybe don't act like one? Dude also stunk up the apartment and used my brand new carpet cleaner I hadn't even used yet to clean up some barf in his floor, he prob got too drunk to try to aim for the trash, honestly no telling, and didn't empty it out. So it had been sitting in my machine up until I used it for the first time. No idea how long it was there.
I’m curious how she was supposed to help you if you wouldn’t help yourself? If you wouldn’t leave him, how was she supposed to get you away from him??
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I had a roommate in the military who set out to make my life hell the moment I moved in. She stole from me, threw parties until 3am on weeknights, and even tampered with my hygiene products. The only thing worse than having a roommate is having an assigned roommate.
Agree with that. I had a random assigned roommate first semester dorm. I don't think he showered the whole semester.
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I am eternally grateful that the only people I've ever had to live with were family, even if we were sometines at loggerheads. Omg. These are horror stories.
I'm currently dealing with a roommate from hell. Mfer got a 70k inheritance and decided to quit his job and live on that for a year. Now the money's all gone, refuses to get a new job, stays drunk somehow but stopped paying rent. He killed my kitten, stole my sons piggybank with all of his tooth fairy money he ever got and then some,, recently stole my car while driving drunk to go get more booze. Then the night after steals my husband's car at 1:30 in the morning for the same reason. We're getting evicted now since we can't kick him out (thank you California) and can't pay the rent on our own. And that's not even half of it. I could go on for days. I can't f*****g stand him and can't wait to never see his loser a*s again!
Call the police and report him for theft and animal abuse.
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I was in a dorm by myself freshman yr. First roommate had some sort of crisis. So, I was sleeping and all of a sudden someone comes in and tells me they are my new roommate. College never informed me. Email or regular mail. Ok...so I help her move ALL her stuff in. (She was being kicked out of her apartment by her roommates). The fridge/freezer I had in my room, I purchased (not rented). Told her she can use half of it until she gets her own. Next time I opened it, I saw it packed with all of her stuff. She took all of my diet cokes out! Ya...called my dad. A week later she was gone. Wake me up...ok. I'll help move, give you space. One rule: Don't touch my Diet Cokes.
My Junior year in college, I was in on-campus housing with other Sophomores, Juniors, a Senior, and the RA (I think there were 8 of us). The dorm was also gender-mixed, which was totally fine and we got along well. But on to the bad roommate. The girl who shared my room had to switch housing because of a disability, and the guy who came a week later was a 25 yo Freshman. 1st bad sign, he came back that night drunk, which he did quite a few times. 2nd, he was a loud snorer. The 3rd and worst was at our house rules meeting. He comes in late, I think after drinking again, and adamantly refuses to sign a housing agreement that wasn't typed up. But worst of all, even though the rest of us were a higher grade than him, we were also younger than him and he'd refer to us several times as children. I was visibly shaking after that meeting with the prospect of having to share a room with this guy and had to talk to the RA about it, plus visit the college therapist a couple times later on.
My current roommates are my former best friend C, his brother B and his gf G, and my partner T. Me, T and G do 99% of cleaning around the house we rent. B expects to be taken care of to the point where it's affecting his relationship with G. C is somewhat autistic and will only do things like emptying the dishwasher/trash when it's convenient for him. We also get onto C about not helping out enough and he does whatever we asked of him once and stops after that. Could be a lot worse but we're so ready to move out.
Stuff like this makes me so glad I got an apartment with my sister instead of a friend. We grew up together and prefer most everything the same way. Only thing we disagree on her her trashy self centered self obsessed bf. But we have a compromise on that. I keep my mouth shut and she keeps HIS mouth shut. So all in all, no real complaints.
I never had a roommate until my husband and I got serious my Senior year in college. Before that, I'd let people stay there when I did my internships across the country to have someone take care of my fish. Lol. Until my kids, my husband was the worst roomie...
I had a roommate that would blow his nose in the shower and just like. Leave it on the wall. Like idk there were boogers everywhere I don't understand
Some creepy-a$$ people on here wanting VERY specific control over other people. Hopefully, they didn't get any roommates to impose their creepiness on. Especially the guys who wanted female roommates with extremely specific body types. Buffalo Bill vibes from those dudes
My roommate is my brother. But it's a good arrangement we each pay half the rent and bills and always pay on time, he never steals from me. Hes a bit messy but if I tell him to clean up something he'll do it.
Sometimes siblings truly make the best roommates. You already know if you'll get along way before you get a place together, you already know their bad habits, and you already how to talk out any issues.
Load More Replies... I'm old now but, back in the day, I lived very frugally ( poor) to not have a roommate.
I had a room mate in 2000 who rang all the numbers on the phone bill to check if they were numbers I'd called so he could make sure I paid for them
Had a roommate that would like, blow his nose in the shower? Like boogers all over the wall somehow and he'd just leave it there. Disgusting. I pointed it out told him to clean the shower and he told me not to talk to him like he's a child. Okay then maybe don't act like one? Dude also stunk up the apartment and used my brand new carpet cleaner I hadn't even used yet to clean up some barf in his floor, he prob got too drunk to try to aim for the trash, honestly no telling, and didn't empty it out. So it had been sitting in my machine up until I used it for the first time. No idea how long it was there.
I’m curious how she was supposed to help you if you wouldn’t help yourself? If you wouldn’t leave him, how was she supposed to get you away from him??
Load More Replies... I had a roommate in the military who set out to make my life hell the moment I moved in. She stole from me, threw parties until 3am on weeknights, and even tampered with my hygiene products. The only thing worse than having a roommate is having an assigned roommate.
Agree with that. I had a random assigned roommate first semester dorm. I don't think he showered the whole semester.
Load More Replies... I am eternally grateful that the only people I've ever had to live with were family, even if we were sometines at loggerheads. Omg. These are horror stories.
I'm currently dealing with a roommate from hell. Mfer got a 70k inheritance and decided to quit his job and live on that for a year. Now the money's all gone, refuses to get a new job, stays drunk somehow but stopped paying rent. He killed my kitten, stole my sons piggybank with all of his tooth fairy money he ever got and then some,, recently stole my car while driving drunk to go get more booze. Then the night after steals my husband's car at 1:30 in the morning for the same reason. We're getting evicted now since we can't kick him out (thank you California) and can't pay the rent on our own. And that's not even half of it. I could go on for days. I can't f*****g stand him and can't wait to never see his loser a*s again!
Call the police and report him for theft and animal abuse.
Load More Replies... I was in a dorm by myself freshman yr. First roommate had some sort of crisis. So, I was sleeping and all of a sudden someone comes in and tells me they are my new roommate. College never informed me. Email or regular mail. Ok...so I help her move ALL her stuff in. (She was being kicked out of her apartment by her roommates). The fridge/freezer I had in my room, I purchased (not rented). Told her she can use half of it until she gets her own. Next time I opened it, I saw it packed with all of her stuff. She took all of my diet cokes out! Ya...called my dad. A week later she was gone. Wake me up...ok. I'll help move, give you space. One rule: Don't touch my Diet Cokes.
My Junior year in college, I was in on-campus housing with other Sophomores, Juniors, a Senior, and the RA (I think there were 8 of us). The dorm was also gender-mixed, which was totally fine and we got along well. But on to the bad roommate. The girl who shared my room had to switch housing because of a disability, and the guy who came a week later was a 25 yo Freshman. 1st bad sign, he came back that night drunk, which he did quite a few times. 2nd, he was a loud snorer. The 3rd and worst was at our house rules meeting. He comes in late, I think after drinking again, and adamantly refuses to sign a housing agreement that wasn't typed up. But worst of all, even though the rest of us were a higher grade than him, we were also younger than him and he'd refer to us several times as children. I was visibly shaking after that meeting with the prospect of having to share a room with this guy and had to talk to the RA about it, plus visit the college therapist a couple times later on.
My current roommates are my former best friend C, his brother B and his gf G, and my partner T. Me, T and G do 99% of cleaning around the house we rent. B expects to be taken care of to the point where it's affecting his relationship with G. C is somewhat autistic and will only do things like emptying the dishwasher/trash when it's convenient for him. We also get onto C about not helping out enough and he does whatever we asked of him once and stops after that. Could be a lot worse but we're so ready to move out.
Stuff like this makes me so glad I got an apartment with my sister instead of a friend. We grew up together and prefer most everything the same way. Only thing we disagree on her her trashy self centered self obsessed bf. But we have a compromise on that. I keep my mouth shut and she keeps HIS mouth shut. So all in all, no real complaints.
I never had a roommate until my husband and I got serious my Senior year in college. Before that, I'd let people stay there when I did my internships across the country to have someone take care of my fish. Lol. Until my kids, my husband was the worst roomie...
I had a roommate that would blow his nose in the shower and just like. Leave it on the wall. Like idk there were boogers everywhere I don't understand
