<p>My roommate rarely does laundry, and this is especially a problem with his nasty bed sheets. I keep a fan on my clean-smelling bed to cover up his musty old sweaty sheets. If I leave my fan off, I come back to a room that smells like dirty socks.</p>
<p>Next, my roommate is a terrible combination of a non-social recluse and someone who is willing to tag along with me too often. He does absolutely nothing, makes no effort to find friends, and is ALWAYS around. He’s socially awkward and unattractive, so he seriously limits the potential for the group I’m in to grow. He won’t even call the IT department to register his PS3 for internet, so he just plays single player on a PS2 game all day! He spent hours yesterday (and the day before, and the day before, etc) designing his character on an old game he has beat several times and only plays with cheat codes anyway.</p>
<p>He surprisingly thinks it’s okay to snooze his alarm 6 times when I don’t have to be up for another hour or two. (That means I’m waking up every 5 minutes for 30 minutes before going back to sleep for my remaining hour and a half. I started just getting up on his first alarm and making enough noise to ensure he does not get back to sleep until he gets up. Then I go back to bed.)</p>
<p>He leaves hairs in the sink, which I repeatedly have to splash water on to rinse down the drain and get out of my sight.</p>
<p>Uh… And one positive thing is… He’s an honest person who doesn’t mess with my stuff. I don’t ever worry that I’m going to come back to find something of mine missing.</p>
<p>Gotakun, that sounds really nasty and stinky, literally.</p>
<p>I don’t know, since you didn’t specify, but did you seriously chew him out and tell him to wash the hell out of his sheets and laundry because you don’t appreciate it smelling like garbage-truck crunk in your room? And did you tell him to get his hair out of the sink? I would threaten to crap on his bed if he leaves hair in the sink one more time.</p>
<p>But from the sound of him, he might think that’s funny or OK.</p>
<p>Do note the contrast between him being non-social and yet willing to follow you around for stuff. Perhaps that indicates you have at least someleverage in getting him to listen to you.</p>
<p>My roommate is a dog, and she keeps her bed cleaner than your roommate o_O
To help with the smell, get a spray bottle of febreze and spray it all over his bed. You should do it while he’s sitting on the bed to really make your point.</p>
<p>If you try to keep going back to sleep you may eventually learn to sleep through your roommates alarm. My roommate and I were eventually trained well enough that we heard each others alarm but did not fully wake until our own went off, because we both had the tendency to occasionally become a serial snoozer. Otherwise it is totally acceptable to say something, it is really rude to do that. My roommate and I excused it on the occasion that it happened because for us it was unusual and usually the person was so asleep they didn’t realize they were doing it, but every day would be a problem.</p>
<p>If it were me, in the interest of being diplomatic, I would probably say, “so hey, I kind of think the room is starting to smell, how about we go down to the laundry room together and clean this place up?” Or something like that which gets him to wash his stuff without singling him out as a stinker-- which may become necessary eventually, but maybe he’ll get the hint. If he wants to follow you around and tag along everywhere you go, maybe you can get him to tag along to the laundry room. :P</p>
<p>My roommate last year was the same way about laundry, so I empathize. She didn’t wash her sheets ONCE the whole semester we lived together, only did laundry once a month or so (and when she did, she’d just dump her clean clothes on her closet floor and then proceed to bury them with dirty ones, including VERY dirty underwear, and dig them out as needed regardless of what had been resting on top of them), used tons of dishes that she only washed maybe two or three times in one semester… And she rarely showered, to boot. Our room smelled horrible, and she would bring up the smell like, “I wonder why it smells in here?” and look pointedly at me, the one who showered on a regular basis, did laundry weekly, brushed her teeth (yeah, she didn’t do that either), etc. She finally bought all these air fresheners which just mixed with the smell of her filth. It was awful. To add insult to injury, when I first met her she said she was a very clean person and I was worried that she might think I was a slob. If only I had known…</p>
<p>Which is to say: I sympathize on that front. She moved in with a friend at mid-semester and I have never been happier to see anyone go in my life. I heard her new roommate hated her too, after she realized what she was like to live with.</p>
<p>Try talking to him. At the very least that usually got my roommate to clean up for the day, although the following day it would be right back to old habits. Definitely try some Febreze, try inviting him along to do laundry with you (since he’s the tag-along type), etc. The smell does get somewhat better as it gets colder because he won’t be sweating as much. It’s gross, I know. I’m sorry. It sucks.</p>
<p>Lol @ stock. I haven’t done anything yet, but I foresee an intervention coming soon.</p>
<p>@rhythm: For sure. I could be as mean and demanding as I wanted to, but I don’t want to have to worry that he might be spitting in my mouthwash or masturbating in my bed as a way to secretly get back at me.</p>
<p>@twitter: Lol… It might get to that point… I’ve avoided things like that so far because he seems like the sensitive type.</p>
<p>@Ema: How’s MAH GIRL!!! He refuses to do his laundry because there are no coin-operated machines… So he just takes his stuff home with him every couple weeks. Of course, he kindly leaves his sheets in the room while he’s away.</p>
<p>@silver: Thanks ;). Your story cracked me up :p. I’m glad this is a problem for girls too, because my primary concern is hoping to have people, specifically girls, over to hang out. At least for me, when I have to go to a room/house that stinks, I can’t wait to leave :S.</p>
<p>PS: This was supposed to be less of an advice thread and more of a complaint one :).</p>
<p>I’d love to complain, but I have a single! :P</p>
<p>Though, if it makes you feel any better. my ac unit was installed wrong and I was woken up at 4am this morning when water was pouring onto my floor all over my power strip.</p>
<p>@Ema: Wow! Sounds like something out of Final Destination just waiting to happen :X.</p>
<p>@rhythm: I bring it up because he seems like the type to just silently brew in his anger and get revenge in very inconspicuous, non-confrontational ways. I thought you meant like I could boss him around and he would listen. :P</p>
<p>Michigan. I paid approx $2000 extra for it (I think), lived in a dorm only open to females that most people don’t want to live in, and got very lucky.</p>
<p>I don’t know why people don’t want to live here, it is ten times better than the coed dorms and it isn’t as though guys aren’t allowed to come here or like the dorms are the best place to meet men anyway.</p>
<p>^ Oh wow. At my school they’re only about 600 more for the year. My school actually has an entire dorm of singles (well, there are a few doubles here and there, but something like 500 singles). A lot of freshmen actually end up getting “stuck” with singles that they don’t want because there isn’t enough upperclassman interest to fill all of them.</p>
<p>We have singles interspersed throughout all the dorms, I believe, and I think there are a fair number of them, but the demand still far exceeds the availability. By the time I got to register for housing this year almost all of everything on campus was taken.</p>
<p>My roommate is extremely nice and laid back, but also very loud. When he wakes up to go to class on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8am, he blasts his music so loud to where I am waken up every time. And, I don’t have classes until 12:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays so we all know I sleep in until at least 11am! Smh…</p>
<p>^I don’t know what the hell is wrong with people. On what planet does it make sense to think that playing music in the early morning while your roommate is sleeping is a good thing to do? For someone who is generally nice and laid back like you said, I don’t get it.</p>
<p>Haha me neither! But I have noticed he is naturally loud anyways… I never realized someone could be so incredibly loud by simply opening a door! I’m not bothered too much at the moment because I get more than enough sleep(haven’t built up a social life much here yet) but I hope he changes his loud-ways, because I know as mid-terms and finals approach, I am going to need my sleep!</p>
<p>wow I wish my roommate freshmen year was on the level that you guys place your roommates on. Wouldn’t lock the door, kept drugs and pipes in the room, slammed doors, played music while sleeping, if I had music, she would put hers on…louder, got naked while I was in the room, complete pig, snored, would try to hang out with me all the time, one beer quir, puked in the room, her parents were over seriously almost every weekend to bring her luandary and groceries, absolutely abnoxious. Luckily she moved in with her bf second semester. </p>
<p>Lived in the sorority house soph year, no roommate. Living off campus this year with a perfect roommate. </p>
<p>You guys are giving me nighmares about my future room mate, isn’t it true that if you’re specific about the type of person you want to bunk with (a person who doesn’t listen to music AT ALL :P), the college will try its best to match you with that person???</p>
He refuses to do his laundry because there are no coin-operated machines… So he just takes his stuff home with him every couple weeks. Of course, he kindly leaves his sheets in the room while he’s away.</p>