How to get your roommate to do dishes?

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

Divide up the dishes between everyone. Keep your stuff in your room or hidden or whatever. When the lazy roommate runs out of stuff to eat off of then maybe he'll get the idea.

But the obligatory "leave the dirty dishes in his room" idea tends to get the point across as well.

Luckily my 2 roommates senior year weren't too bad about cleaning up after themselves, or at least keeping their mess in their room so I don't have to deal with it. And we had a dishwasher, so that helped as well. Though our apartment still got stinky after a weekend of drinking because of spilled beer all over the living room carpet. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[its_bacon12 10+ year member]

start using paper plates and plastic cutlery for yourself. worked for me. they ran out of dishes in like a day

 

[jco1385 5,000+ posts]

either he washes the dishes, or he finds his shit in the front yard, by the street.

that's exactly how i would put it to him. if you continue to wash his dishes, and let him lay up on you, you are his bitch //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[crunktimes.com 5,000+ posts]

Why not offer some lady friends to do them for you in exchange for doing something for them (smoke them out, get them drunk etc)

I ate takeout pretty much everyday but I am a slob as far as keeping my place up so I used to just have some female friends do it.

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

I have friends up at school who literally dont do dishes until they are all used. It is gross. You literally can't use the sink. And it smells gross.

That's what ours looks like every Tuesday, Wed, and Thursday until they get done on Friday.

Here's an idea:
Install a dishwasher

We are renters.

My room mate was like that my first year of college..
I tried alot of things...finally i just quit washing dishes and started using plastic everything that I kept in my room.

Plastic in not environmentally friendly.
Overall, great responses. I'll try some of these and see how it goes. Starting out small, I'll probably just ask him when he's watching TV to shut the shit off and do the dishes. Then I'll start putting them in his room... (jk jk)

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

some people are just raised with bad hygene. simple as that.
my parents stressed taking showers, brushing your teeth, cleaning up after yourself, washing dishes, etc.

and i turned out decent.

those lame cocksucking ***-wads who are lazy pricks and let shit pile up like that deserve a fast wet smack across their acne riddled sweaty face.

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[iamamp3pimp 5,000+ posts]

im serious, man up and stop cleaning for him

or, allow the power to get shut off for a day

 

[TerryMorgan 10+ year member]

Make a point, give him one more chance and let him know that you're serious. If that doesnt work, then Wednesday(at some pont while he or she is gone from the house/room) drop off every dish in the floor/on the bed
Piss him off and make a point

You've got a point. That would probably be a good idea, ask him nicely to please do it, and if he forgets again, dump them all in his room so he gets the idea and stops slacking off.

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

I'd teabag him every morning I woke up and found the dishes still dirty.
After a couple rounds of waking up to your sack in his face, he'll either get the idea, or give you a BJ.

WIN WIN!

This seems like the answer.

 

[MyFartsStink 10+ year member]

Why not offer some lady friends to do them for you in exchange for doing something for them (smoke them out, get them drunk etc)
I ate takeout pretty much everyday but I am a slob as far as keeping my place up so I used to just have some female friends do it.

most girls expect to be smoked out for free, or when you get them drunk, they pay you back by ******* your ****

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

get an airsoft gun and everytime he says i will and doesnt do it shoot him in the *** or sometin.

thats how i got my friend to go with me to stop and shop at 11:30 at night once.

 

[MyFartsStink 10+ year member]

get an airsoft gun and everytime he says i will and doesnt do it shoot him in the *** or sometin.
thats how i got my friend to go with me to stop and shop at 11:30 at night once.

not all people are *****es, some will beat the shit outa you if you do that. I would, then go back to sleep if I was your friend.

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

yes but i never shot him. just threatend him

threating usually works.

 

[BoomBoomBoy 10+ year member]

There are three of us living in a house with no dishwasher. We have set days to do the dishes on, Monday, Wed, and Fri. The roommate who routinely doesn't do dishes on his day is Wednesday. We've asked him many times, and he always says "I will", but never does, then they pile up.
Other than asking him and just letting the dishes pile up until he does them, what's the best way to get him to do dishes on his day?

Either shoot him in the back of the skull with a .50 cal., or tell him that you all made an agreement when living together and he's not living up to his end.

You and the other room mate should get your heads together and decide how much you're going to tack onto his portion of the rent if he doesn't get his shit together.

Afterall, you're not there to be his mommy.