Living with another person under the same roof requires compromise. After all, everyone wants their home to be an oasis from the stresses of the outside world. Not to mention all the responsibilities you have to share to keep everything in order, such as bills, chores, and other maintenance tasks that demand mutual understanding and cooperation.
But apparently, that’s too much to ask from some people. There’s a subreddit called ‘Bad Roommates‘ and it’s full of tales about the gross, the annoying, and the psychotic. So we at Bored Panda decided to compile some of the most memorable ones to remind you just how important it is to find someone that you can get along with. Otherwise, you might end up in a situation that seriously tests your patience and sanity.
#1 Maybe I Should Try This

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#2 I Have A Dream

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#3 Family Member Has Cancer And No Immune System, And Is Largely Bed-Ridden. We Sanitized Her Whole House A Few Days Ago. Came To Pick Her Up And Found This. Told Her Roommate To Move The F Out, Immediately

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#4 Thought You Guys Might Enjoy This

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#5 And So It Continues

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#6 Saw This On Fb And Thought It Might Help Some People Here!

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#7 A Solution I Made In An Old Share House To Solve A Milk Thieving Problem

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#8 This Was The Only Way To Ward Off My Roommate From Sipping Out Of My Mouthwash Without Me Knowing… She Used 3/4 Of The Bottle, Does She Really Think I Am That Dumb That I Won’t Notice? Hope She Freaks Out

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#9 Saw This On Twitter.. Felt It Belonged Here

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#10 Roommate Decided It Was A Good Idea To Put An Incense Cone On The Lid Of My Telescope. Went Right Through And Landed On The Mirror

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#11 I Come Home To This Fairly Often

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#12 Asked My Former Flatmates Not To Use Metalware In My Nonstick Pot, Was Told I Was Being Unreasonable And That They Wouldn’t Scratch It. My Sister’s Identical Pot Of The Same Age Pictured For Comparison

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#13 Left My Apartment For About A Month Because Of Covid. Came Back To Find This, The Ac Set To 40 * F, The Sink Running,the Back Door Wide Open And The Roommate Moved Out

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#14 #tbt To My College Days

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#15 I Was Gone For 1 F**king Weekend!!!!

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#16 Top -> All Time Was Like A Checklist Of Memories I Suppressed

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#17 At One Point In Time There Were Close To 20 Cups On The Coffee Table In The Living Room

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#18 When Your Housemate Uses The Living Room As His Bedroom

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#19 My Roommate Occasionally Leaves Careless Messes In The Kitchen. I Started Labeling Them As His Art Projects

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#20 Woke Up To This Today

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#21 My Roommate Thinks These Spatulas Are Clean And Still Uses Them To Cook

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#22 Burn Hole I Discovered Hidden Underneath My Roommates Bed After I Kicked Her Out. Pineapple For Scale

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#23 Guess You Can’t Expect People To Know About Dryer Lint

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#24 Accidentally Locked My Roommate Out Of The Bathroom For 2 Minutes, I Promptly Unlocked Once She Notified Me, And Her Natural Reaction Was To Remove The Doorknobs From The Doors In Our House

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#25 Day 6 Of Living With A Roommate For The First Time. I’m Looking For A New Place

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#26 My Boyfriend (22m) And I (21m) Live With A 23f And 28m. I’m Sick Of Constantly Playing Mommy To Them

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#27 I Guess My Latino Culture Triggered My Roommate 😔

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#28 Roommate Used My Favorite Turtleneck As A BBQ Rag Last Night :-/

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#29 My Roommates Were So Bad That I Finally Said, “Screw It” And Got My Own Place. My Wallet Is Hurting But My Sanity Is Intact

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#30 It’s Sad That It Was Necessary To Write This. There Was A Time I Bought Pie, The Next Day, I Went To Get A Piece (Hadn’t Tried Any Yet), And There Was Only One, Small Sliver Left. There’s No One Else That Lives Here, He Ate The Whole Thing Himself. 😐 He Did The Same Thing To My Krispy Kreme, Rip

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#31 I’ve Asked Her To Stop Popping Her Pimples And Sticking The Pus On The Mirror Three Times Already…. This Is Just Embarrassing For Her Now

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#32 Why Is Replacing The Toilet Paper Roll So Hard?? The World May Never Know

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#33 Love Trying To Make Myself Breakfast Before Work In My Lovely Kitchen 😍

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#34 Went Home During Quarantine, Let My Roommate Use My Room For “Storage”, Came Back To This

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#35 Thought This Would Fit Well Here. Any Brooklyn Roommate Stories Like This?

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#36 Mfw One Of My 5 Roommates Gets A Dog, Without Asking Any Other Of The Roommates 3 Of Which Have Dog Allergies/Asthma, Or The Landlord And Is Forced To Give Up The Dog Or Face Eviction And Then Says He Hates Us For Taking Away His Dog

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#37 Pulled The Foil Off Of This To See What Was In It And It’s Empty!! And Still In The Fridge! What The F**k!?

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#38 The Living Room Was Like This For 4 Months. All From One Person

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#39 I Bought My Own Separate Coffee Maker Months Ago. I Think This Picture Is Pretty Self-Explanatory As To Why

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#40 Break My Stuff And Don’t Tell Me About It Why Don’t You!!!!! Leave Me To Search The House To Find It In The Recycling 😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠

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#41 He Broke The Plunger, Clogged The Toilet Again, Let It Sit For 3 Days And Then Left The State

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#42 Leaning Tower Of Garbage

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#43 Never Got To Use My Rice Cooker (-_-;)・・・

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#44 The Gag Is…she Had Already Eaten All My Hash Browns The Night Before, This Text Was Just An Attempt To Cover Her A*s!

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#45 Update On My Jobless Roommate Who Won’t Do His Dishes. My Latest Invention: The Bad Roommate Box :)

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#46 Found This On Craigslist. Kinda Want To Respond. At Least She’s Honest!!

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#47 Asked Roommate To Do His Dishes And He Said ”im Not Allowed To Clean”

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#48 Don’t Become Roommates With Your Friends

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#49 They’re Not For A Snake, They’re Her Dead Pet Rats That She Kept In Our Fridge. Pet Semetary Maybe??

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#50 When Your Roommate Pulls The “My Bad! I’ll Clean That Up As Soon As I Can.” For The 8th Time

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