Whenever you live with someone you’re bound to get on each other’s nerves a bit, but sometimes a particular housemate can be the absolute worst to live with.
So, we recently asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their worst housemate experiences, and here are some of the best/worst responses:
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“I had the most passive-aggressive flatmate.”
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“I had a housemate who was such a prima donna about everything.”
3.
“My housemate takes a two+ hour bath every night so the bathroom is out of bounds around the time I’d like to get ready to go to bed.”
4.
“I got on with my housemate so well, but the naked sleepwalking situation got too much.”
5.
“My antisocial housemate in my last year at university was so petty.”
6.
“She lived in the downstairs bedrooc vm which the front door directly opened into so only she had the key.”
7.
“He told my dog to ‘fuck off’ when she ran to the door to greet him. Mega asshole.”
8.
“We had a walk-in shower in our apartment.”
9.
“I lived briefly with this couple, they were older than me.”
10.
“She just completely ignored my existence, we might pass each other by in the hall and she wouldn’t even say hi.”
11.
“My first and only flatmate was a trainee hairdresser.”
12.
“He picked the cheapest room in the flatshare, then moved all his stuff (including a full-size drum kit) into our living room.”
13.
“I can’t stand people who stockpile communal dishes because they don’t want to wash them.”
14.
“My boyfriend at the time and I went on vacation and trusted our roommate to help with maintaining the house when we were gone since he said he would.”
15.
“My roommate used to tip the toaster to the side and make cheese on toast.”
16.
“My former roommate used to leave dishes piled up in the sink for weeks on end.”
17.
“I had one roommate that would slam the kitchen fire door at night or at like five in the morning.”
18.
“I had a roommate in college that was so gross and inconsiderate.”
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“I had a roommate that worked nights (including weekends) while I worked daytime hours.”
20.
“I once lived with someone who would help herself to my lettuce.”
21.
“She would wake up in the middle of the night and make real popcorn.”
22.
“I had a housemate who was studying law when I was studying for a Fine Arts degree. I trusted him to sign the lease with me because he was a good decade older than me.”
23.
“I lived with someone who would empty the kitchen bin, but then just leave the full, tied-up bin bag on the kitchen floor and leave for work.
24.
“In college, I would have a roommate who would cook in the dorm once a month. He would spend hours in the kitchen cooking and dirty up lots of dishes.”
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“One of my former housemates during Covid was an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist.”
What are your nightmare housemate stories? Let us know in the comments below!
