Flatmate Horror Stories
Unless you’re still living with your mum (cause she still does your washing) or you’re loved-up and settled down in a blissful place for two, for the most of us, you’ll experience the life of a house share at least once in your life.
And, we’re pretty sure you’ve got some stories to tell. Whether it’s ones that you’ll end up telling at your BFF’s wedding cause you guys are now friends for life, OR you lived with someone you immediately stopped talking to after they moved out, you’ll have a fair share of LOLZ and gross snippets to talk about.
And whilst we’re not trying to put you off housesharing, we couldn’t help but share these flatmate horror stories that were kindly submitted to us.
Honestly though, who even are some of these people?
The one that we dread…
“One night I came downstairs to find a stranger sat in the dark at about 2am.. He was in his 50s, and had made himself a cup of tea and was just sitting in the living room with a bottle of vodka and a briefcase by his feet. My flatmate had left the front door unlocked, and it wasn’t the first time…”
The can’t-quite-believe-this-even-happened one…
“I lived with a dude who only showered before dates, which was every few weeks. He also slept on a mattress that he refused to put sheets on. We had to keep his door shut because him and the room smelt so so bad.”
The one that we’ve all experienced…
“One of my flatmates was pretty disgusting. They would keep dirty plates and cups in their room for days on end, and I would refuse to take them out and wash them, so it got to a point where literally every single mug, knife/fork and plate was in their room. I wanted a cup of tea, so I went into the room and picked up a mug and it was half full of tea. But not only that – actual mould had grown inside the cup. It wasn’t the only cup in that condition. After that, I went and bought myself a new mug and refused to use what were now their mugs. Ugh.”
The gross one…
“My flatmate threw up in a sink and then went home for a long weekend. They didn’t even think it was weird… Thankfully we had different bathrooms!!”
The one we know we shouldn’t but can’t stop laughing about…
“There was a time I text my flatmate when she was out, and I asked if I could use her eyeshadow palette. She told me to go into her makeup vanity and get it. It was one of those big silver cases that you see MUAs with. Anyway, I open it and as I was rummaging through hundreds of different products, I touched something squidgy. There was a slice of cheesecake in it. CHEESECAKE. It was just sitting on the little plastic circle base that you get with it. Covered in mould too! I couldn’t believe it.”
The one we’re glad we no longer live with…
“I lived with a girl at uni who would lock us out of our own kitchen for hours, to cook food that smelt absolutely like rotting ass. She would also hoover and have insanely loud Skype calls in the middle of the night. But the best bit, was when she openly said her cousin would be living with us because it was cheaper. Our house was cramped as it was!”
The who-even-are-these-people one…
“My flatmate only used the washing machine maybe twice a month, and in that whole time she lived with me, she didn’t ever put her clothes into drawers or wardrobes and instead left them on the floor. The whole room would stink, even spreading into the hallway of the flat, so anyone visiting could smell this damp stench. I actually put 4 air fresheners in the hallway outside her door and she never questioned it. Even though she was unbearably smelly, if you saw this girl, she was always immaculate with her hair and makeup!”
The eye roll one…
“One time, one of the guys had left the gas on all night. We shared a 4 story houses with five people, and I remember waking up and smelling it from the top floor so had to run through the house shouting for everyone to open the windows.”
But, don’t let you put this off. We’ve got some awesome properties to live in, with equally awesome people.
