Moving in with another person can teach us a lot about ourselves. You might realize some of your own annoying traits, like blaring music late at night or always leaving the toilet seat up, and adjust your behavior to be courteous to your roommates. But you also might learn that you’re a lot more self-aware than the people you share an apartment with, and that if you ever want to have clean dishes or a sparkling bathroom, your best course of action is to just move out.
Down below, we’ve gathered some of the most infuriating, disgusting and shocking photos displaying how some roommates from hell choose to live. From hair decorating the bathroom walls to inventing new species of mold in the kitchen, I’ll warn you right now: these photos aren’t for the faint of heart (or weak of stomach).
Keep reading to also find an interview with Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Ashleigh Edelstein to hear her thoughts on living with a challenging roommate, and be sure to upvote the pics that make you feel grateful for your own roommates. Let us know in the comments if you have any personal roommate horror stories to share. Then, if you’d like to check out some previous Bored Panda articles highlighting just how horrific housemates can be, you can find those right here and here!
#1 Roommate Throws Away Dishes So He Won’t Have To Do Them (I Bought All Our Dishes And Silverware)
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#2 Our Roommate Moved Out Today…. All Of Those Stains Are Dog Urine
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#3 My Roommate’s Bathroom
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#4 My Flatmate Moved Out And I Found His Room Reeking Of Piss And The Carpet Stained. We Never Had Pets, It’s Human Piss
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#5 My Roommate Left The Sink On To Defrost Some Meat And Then Left To Go To Walmart. This Is My Room
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#6 Love Having Roommates
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#7 My Roommate Bites Her Butter And Then Drops It On The Pan When She Cooks
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#8 Roommate Left Our Shared Bathroom Like This After I Had Been Gone For A Few Weeks
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#9 My Roommate Used My Favorite Turtleneck As A BBQ Rag Last Night
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#10 My Brother’s Girlfriend Moved In With Us, And She Refuses To Use Cutting Boards. This Is What Our Kitchen Table Looks Like Now. They’re All Over It
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#11 Roommate’s Rice Cooker Has Turned Into Brain-Like Tissue. He Refuses To Clean It, And Leaves It On The Shared Kitchen Counter
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#12 Told My Roommate It Was His Turn To Buy Toilet Paper And He Bought Two Rolls Of The Thinnest 1-Ply
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#13 My Roommate Smashed My TV. I Already Called The Cops
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#14 My Acquaintance Got In An Argument With Her Roommate Over Who Left The Milk Out. While My Acquaintance Was At Work, The Roommate Did This
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#15 My Friend’s Roommate. She Waits For Her Mom To Come From An Hour And A Half Away To Clean Up Her Mess And Wash Her Dishes
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#16 How My Roommates Treated My Hand-Made Wooden Spoon My Father Made For Me
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#17 My Roommate Threw Out My Food To Make Room For Her Salad Mixes In The Fridge
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#18 Flatmate’s Milk That Aged Like Milk
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#19 I Moved Out A Month Earlier Than I Was Supposed To Because I Was Always The One Who Cleaned Up After My Girl Roommates. I Came Back To Pick Up Some Stuff To See This
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#20 I Thought I Was The Only One Using This Soap. Seriously, Who Does This
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#21 My Flatmate’s Cup. Which He Refuses To Clean. What You’re Seeing Is Layers Upon Layer Of Old Milky English Breakfast Tea. Months Worth
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#22 This Is How My Wife Leaves A Dish After Taking It Out If The Oven And Walks Away. We Have Children And A Dog
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#23 I Live With Two Grown Men. Just Tell Me Why
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#24 When Your Flatmate Likes To Eat Seeds And Cleans The Floor Without Vacuuming First
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#25 Came Back To My Place In The City I Work In After A Couple Of Months Away And Apparently My Roommate Turned The Electricity Off When He Left But Forgot To Clean The Fridge
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#26 Roommate Has Started A Collection
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#27 My Roommate Got A Food Saver. I Hate Him
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#28 My Roommate’s Very Organized Fridge
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#29 This Is My Ex-Roommate’s Air Fryer
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#30 My Wife Insists This Is Normal
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#31 I Hate My Flatmates (No That’s Not Rice)
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#32 My Roommate Has Been Using My Toothbrush
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#33 Came Back To My College Apartment This Morning With My Roommates Having Done This
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#34 My Roommate Used My Sewing Shears… Where Do I Dispose Of The Body?
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#35 A Burn Hole I Discovered Hidden Underneath My Roommate’s Bed After I Kicked Her Out. Pineapple For Scale
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#36 Roommate Broke The Toilet Seat. No Worries Though. He Replaced It
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#37 My Wife Looks At Me Like I’m Crazy When I Tell Her The Vacuum Has To Be Cleaned Regularly
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#38 My College Roommate Last Year. He Spilled Dip Spit On His Bed Multiple Times And Never Cleaned The Sheets
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#39 How My Roommate Left The Sink Before Leaving For 2.5 Weeks
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#40 I Love My Husband. I Love Cheese. Brian, What The Hell?
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#41 My Roommate Made Soup
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#42 My Fiance Refuses To Finish A Bottle Of Coke Before Opening Another
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#43 After 9 Hours At Work I Come Home To See My Roommate Had Smashed My 250-Dollar Monitor With My Air Duster
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#44 How My Sister Left Our Apartment Upon Move Out
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#45 I Cleaned The Whole Kitchen At 5PM Yesterday. I Stayed At My Partner’s Last Night And Came Home To This Mess From My Roommates
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#46 Wanted To Make Some Sushi Tonight. Roommate Left Me A Surprise In The Rice Cooker
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#47 Roommates Left This Where Our Dogs Hang Out Moving Out This Week
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#48 I’m The Designated Trash Guy Because If I Don’t Ever Take Out The Trash, My Roommates Just Do This
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#49 Flatmates Who Don’t Drain The Sink
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#50 Here Is My Roommate’s Way To Store His Keys
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