Roommate Great, Her Hair Not So Much...

j.d.lions
Sat, 29 Sep 2018 20:49:58 +0000

I’m now a sophomore in college and have previously had two roommates from my freshman year, both ending with me presumably the ■■■■■. They were both, especially the first, really messy and nasty and remained so even after mentioning that I had a problem with he mess because i’m what some would consider a “neat freak”. They both ended in a disaster and I no longer speak to either of them.

Fast forward to the present:

So, I have this new roommate and she’s great. She’s nice, clean and a freshman so she’s slightly adjusting to living in a dorm. But, I have a major issue with her hair. I know the normal human sheds 50-100 strands a day, so I do my best to clean up. However, its bothersome to me because her hair strands end up on my side of the room on my carpet and it’s not just a few of them, they come in hoards. It seems like 50% of what hair she sheds ends up on my side of the room, and not that many on hers. I like to somewhat spread out on my carpet so I don’t like rolling around on her hair strands. I feel like she might be brushing or combing her hair while walking around, or she secretly does that on my side of the room because I see no way for her hair strands to be all over my carpet and space of the room, instead of on hers. I don’t want to make a big fuss about it like I have with my former two roommates, but I feel restricted in my own space and its irritating because even when I vacuum the floor, I still manage to find a good 12 strands still hanging around. She’s a foreign student so I in no way want to make her feel uncomfortable in a space that’s her new home until the year is over. But I’ve been just ignoring and cleaning them up for the last 3 weeks and i’m getting irritated. She also doesn’t clean up her hair in the shower, so before I use the shower, I end up having to clean up her balls of hair from the shower walls and floor.

Do I just keep silently cleaning up her hair? Or do I tell her about it? But, my dilemma is what is she gonna do about her hair naturally shedding? I feel like I shouldn’t just “deal with it” and never talk about it, because its my side of the room that plays home for hr hair. What should I say/do?