pre-moan warning: this entry is mostly moaning about lodgers. It's just i needed to say it. I am actually really happy now he's finally gone.
My lodger has moved out. I don't know how i would have got through today without my parents. I don't care if that sounds as though I'm a needy little kid who can't handle anything on their own. Today, that's how i felt. My lodger has taken a very long time to move out (and even now there's a box of his stuff on the landing [i live in a flat]. I don't even want to keep the box in my flat. i put it outside. I've just spent the last half hour purging my computer of the crap he saw fit to download onto it, checking that my stuff's still there.
What's the worst thing you remember/are experiencing with lodgers/flatmates?
At different times in the last few months i've been dealing with:
Food on counters left for days / open windows / flies
Fire hazard as storage heater left on all summer, with clothes on top, and again open windows
Replacement/moving of my furniture in lounge in exchange for his
General treating place like it's his home rather than mine (including many many smelly thingys (those air freshener things) even right next to existing air fresheners in a strange kind of smell competition)
His relatives from germany visiting for two weeks, taking over entire lounge at night, and them bringing 10yr old kid for holiday too (i knew a relative would be there, i knew nothing of the kid)
His girlfriends' makeup and knickers in my bathroom
Just his conversation is enough for me not to be anywhere near him. Never before have i understood the importance of being understood.
I think it's actually the smells i hated the most. But on the plus side, he did clean. And pay the rent. Bu that's about it. And i used to spend my weekends wandering around. Any city, any friend, rather than go 'home'. Because it just hasn't been my home over the last few months, and i should have kicked him out the first month he was there.
Anyway, the future is bright.
lots of love,
Cat
My lodger has moved out. I don't know how i would have got through today without my parents. I don't care if that sounds as though I'm a needy little kid who can't handle anything on their own. Today, that's how i felt. My lodger has taken a very long time to move out (and even now there's a box of his stuff on the landing [i live in a flat]. I don't even want to keep the box in my flat. i put it outside. I've just spent the last half hour purging my computer of the crap he saw fit to download onto it, checking that my stuff's still there.
What's the worst thing you remember/are experiencing with lodgers/flatmates?
At different times in the last few months i've been dealing with:
Food on counters left for days / open windows / flies
Fire hazard as storage heater left on all summer, with clothes on top, and again open windows
Replacement/moving of my furniture in lounge in exchange for his
General treating place like it's his home rather than mine (including many many smelly thingys (those air freshener things) even right next to existing air fresheners in a strange kind of smell competition)
His relatives from germany visiting for two weeks, taking over entire lounge at night, and them bringing 10yr old kid for holiday too (i knew a relative would be there, i knew nothing of the kid)
His girlfriends' makeup and knickers in my bathroom
Just his conversation is enough for me not to be anywhere near him. Never before have i understood the importance of being understood.
I think it's actually the smells i hated the most. But on the plus side, he did clean. And pay the rent. Bu that's about it. And i used to spend my weekends wandering around. Any city, any friend, rather than go 'home'. Because it just hasn't been my home over the last few months, and i should have kicked him out the first month he was there.
Anyway, the future is bright.
lots of love,
Cat
creamygoodness:
Glad to hear you're rid of the bugger 
kreatinkaos:
He sounds like a very inconsiderate bum , I don't know how you could have tolerated him for so long 