How to get your roommate to do dishes?

[LBC99 10+ year member]

My best friend and I shared an apartment in college for a year. Well, the fool would always cook shit, but never clean up his dishes or pots. So this one night he made some soup. I kept telling him for about a week to clean it up. He used to go home alot on the weekends, so after he left I took that dirty soup pot and put it in his bedroom with the doors and windows closed. He came home to a nice surpise on Sunday night.

He kept his shit clean after that.

 

[soloXgt 10+ year member]

*****slap the muphukker

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

Nice way to piss off your roommate and make living together hell (putting them in his room). Great responses.
Why not just explain that the dishes won't get done until he takes his turn, and they continue to accumulate until he does?

So, if he does his dishes Wed, he's got Wed's dishes. If he waits until Thursday, he'll be doing 2 days' worth, or Friday, then the Friday guy gets a pass and the Wed guy will be doing 3 days' worth.

Or take all the dishes on Wed evening (or Thursday morning) and set them aside, in a bin or trash bag or something, and just let them sit, explain they're waiting for him to wash them.

Worst case, scenario, ask him to move out.

not gonna read the whole thread to see if someone else said it....but doesnt that apply to what the roommate is doing to the OP?

 

[jer_stud56 10+ year member]

Do like me. Live with 4 girls. The only thing I need to do is take out the trash, shovel, and in the summer/warm months - mow.

They cook clean and do dishes. Ah the life...

Ours also pile up. Our only practice that HAS worked is to wash them directly after eating and put them in the cupboards or AT LEAST rinse them off and put them in the dishwasher. When it's full, it is started. Other than that you don't really have an option. Just don't do anything you wouldn't want done to you. Cause it'll really piss him off just more.

Just tell him he needs to ONLY clean his own dishes and put them away. Should do that with everyone in your house. Clean up after yourself and all will be well as long as everyone does their part.

 

[traksta15 10+ year member]

Just keep pestering him about it, when he says "later", come back in 5 mins, etc etc etc

eventually he'll get tired of it and do it (hopefully)

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

So I just basically told him to do it or I'm gonna kick his ***. So he did them

Then him and his girlfriend made a big *** dinner, dirtied tons of pans and dishes and just left them out there this morning.

Putting all the dishes in his room is tempting, but a very dick move...

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

So I just basically told him to do it or I'm gonna kick his ***. So he did them
Then him and his girlfriend made a big *** dinner, dirtied tons of pans and dishes and just left them out there this morning.

Putting all the dishes in his room is tempting, but a very dick move...

its a very dick move that he didnt clean the dishes, after you just had this big ordeal about it //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[CrispedUp 10+ year member]

go to him and tell him that the next time he eats, he will be using that dirty plate.

 

[miker 5,000+ posts]

go to him and tell him that the next time he eats, he will be using that dirty plate.

That is a good idea. Just don't tell him... Let him figure it out.

 

[Slammed 5,000+ posts]

make his girl do the dishes

then do her in front of him

 

[AllStar1500bd 5,000+ posts]

So I put all the dishes on his bed and then e-mailed him the link to this thread...

 

[quakerroatmeal 10+ year member]

Haha, that's hilarious. He's in for the suprise.

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

what his name?

i would personally like to tell him...get off your lazy *** and wash your own **** dishes when you are through.

if i could wash my own dishes and do my laundry when i was a real young, im sure you could wash some dishes too.

 

[22mountaineer 10+ year member]

buy a dishwasher you can get one for 75 tops.. we got one for free, buy a newspaper and look

 

[IgnoreMe 5,000+ posts]

buy a dishwasher you can get one for 75 tops.. we got one for free, buy a newspaper and look

he would probably be too lazy to put them in the dishwasher //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif