Shouldn't you clean your room?

AbysmalNature · Post by **AbysmalNature** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 3:30 pm

While I am typing this out on my roommates computer, I was looking around at my room, I share it of course, but I noticed that a large portion of what was moving around was mine. Bits of sand paper, from my last art project, toilet paper, a pair of leather boots, couple of cardboard boxes, some bottles of mineral water, my leather jacket, lots of books lying around, some window cleaner, some left over chewing gum, one or two left over Lord of the rings mugs, and some Heavy Metal magazines, some self tanning lotion, some laundry detergent, my dragon sculpture, some of my journals followed by a large assortment of papers which I really should organize and pack away but am simply to lazy to. Some paints, and mortar, along with a old solar oven I made last semester.

The kitchen of course is much worse, days old dishes lie in the sink, little bits of grease lying on the oven from the hamburgers my roommates fix up, open bags of Dorritoes, two of them, and a overflowing garbage bin, which nobody bothers to attend because I guess each of us is just hoping the other will clean it up. There used to be roaches, where they went I don't know, maybe when the spiders decided to colonize the dorm, the roaches all left, It was a pity I think the roaches actually helped keep some of the mess down. No beer bottles although that does happen, does it ever get clean, every time a girl comes over I usually have the impulse to clean some of it up, my roommates for some reason don't. In any case any horror stories about your room, shouldn't you clean your room.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 3:31 pm

I was gonna share mine, but you got me beat!

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:00 pm

well, in my room you can't see the walls, ceiling or floor, i'll let you guys imagine what i have in all those places.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:01 pm

Originally posted by Aragorn Returns
well, in my room you can't see the walls, ceiling or floor, i'll let you guys imagine what i have in all those places.

Air?

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:03 pm

well you can see through air, can't you now.

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:41 pm

Originally posted by Aragorn Returns
well you can see through air, can't you now.

Not if your in Pittsburgh.

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:43 pm

check the profile, i'm not in pittsburgh. (of course the air isn't much better here)

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:51 pm

Originally posted by Aragorn Returns
check the profile, i'm not in pittsburgh. (of course the air isn't much better here)

Never said you were. It was merely an attempt at humour, of which you seemed to miss.

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 5:53 pm

sorry, we don't have a thing you canadians like to call "clean air" down here. heck, the beach is closed more often than open because it's a health risk to swim in.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 6:20 pm

Originally posted by AbysmalNature
In any case any horror stories about your room, shouldn't you clean your room.

From my experience in life..31 years believe it or not...I have found it's easier to just move once 85% of the space is taken up.

A quick quiz.

(1)Do you need a baseball bat to move around?
(2)Has a member of your family went miss going to the bathroom?
(3)Does your dog or cat fight not to come inside?

If you answered yes to any of these question, pack a clean pair of underwear (If you can possible find any) and wait for everyone to go to sleep. Push the car out of the driveway and 1 block down the road. Crank the car and drive at 140 MPH to another town (Make sure it's at least 150 miles away from the last place)

Now this is only a temporay solution, the wife and kids, with dog and cat in tow, will track you down. Still you will have a home for a while with only 24% of the space taken.

Repeat as often as needed.

HighLordDave · Post by **HighLordDave** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 6:50 pm

I had a roommate in college who would buy new dishes before he'd wash the ones he had. Nice as hell guy and mechanical genius, but a world-class slob.

At one point we had 21 standing violations of the campus housing code including possession of industrial-strength chemicals, firearms, drilling holes through the wall, unauthorised electrical fixtures, extra phone lines, a new shower with sliding door (instead of the tub that everyone else had), contraband antennas/satellite dishes affixed to the building, our own computer network, pirated cable, shelving and other storage connected directly to the building's support beams, and an uncaged animal (a cat).

Our RA never came into our room during the 3 years I lived in the campus apartments. Not once. If she had business with any of us, she would stand at the door and not look in, and she never inspected our room when somebody moved in or out. The catch was that whenever she needed something fixed in the building, she would call us before she'd call univeristy housing or buildings & grounds, and we'd fix it for her.

Here's the entirety of my wisdom learned about the human condition in college:

Girls was dishes after they use them. Guys wash dishes before they use them.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 6:53 pm

@AN OMG

How can you live like that?!?

In my house at uni we have a rota for cleaning etc., but I routinely get (quietly) annoyed with my housemates for not doing it properly (like I'm putting away the "clean" stuff from the draining board and have to wash half of it again), or for leaving pans unwashed for several days - when you only have 3 saucepans and a frying pan between 4 of you, it gets annoying having to wash up someone else's mess every time you want to cook something

So I get irritated by my housemates being inconsiderate about cleaning communal areas, especially the kitchen. (Oh, for a place of my own...

)

On the other hand, my bedroom is nearly always a complete tip. Several weeks' newspapers neatly piled somewhere have usually spread out over the floor, and there's a large pile of 2l diet coke bottles where the bin used to be. But then, it's my room and nobody else has to live in it

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 6:57 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave
Here's the entirety of my wisdom learned about the human condition in college:

Girls was dishes after they use them. Guys wash dishes before they use them.

ROFL!!!

True! So true!!

I've seen a couple of student flats exactly like that. The general consensus was when the ****roaches refused to live there they'd clean it. Or move out.

Georgi · Post by **Georgi** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 7:09 pm

Originally posted by HighLordDave
Here's the entirety of my wisdom learned about the human condition in college:

Girls was dishes after they use them. Guys wash dishes before they use them.

So not true. Last year I was living with a guy and two other girls, and out of the three of them, the guy had by far the firmest grip of the basic rules of hygiene

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 7:09 pm

Originally posted by Georgi
@AN OMG How can you live like that?!?

It's a male talent.

Tamerlane · Post by **Tamerlane** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 7:49 pm

Originally posted by Georgi
So not true. Last year I was living with a guy and two other girls, and out of the three of them, the guy had by far the firmest grip of the basic rules of hygiene

lol, this reminds me of when we went on our schoolies leavers week. You guys call it Spring Break or something. You could imagine a few of the situations, we were at a resort.

I used to stand at the door barring the way for my drunken friends. "What the hell do you guys have there" I used to ask, and they would reply that they stole the girls boat fuel. We had a challenge to race them the next day.

. There was no way they were going to drag that large canister over the carpet.

So you see even guys can be clean.

As for my room, well I only sleep in it. No point in cleaning it.

Obsidian · Post by **Obsidian** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 8:00 pm

I dont know about you guys, but I do a lot more in my room than sleep in it

... So I try to keep relatively clean and clear.

About the dishes thing, *shudder* scary story about what happens when any sort of sauce or grease FREEZES onto the cooking gear. Do you have ANY idea how hard that is to get off? Ever since then, I've gotten into the habit of washing it immediately.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 10:45 pm

as I sit here and look back at the 2 foot wide path I have shoveled from my door to my computer, I can honestly say, hey, it's been a lot worse.

Aragorn Returns · Post by **Aragorn Returns** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 11:17 pm

my room is simply a storage place and a place for me to sleep, my computer isn't even in my room.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Mon Apr 15, 2002 11:40 pm

Originally posted by Obsidian
I dont know about you guys, but I do a lot more in my room than sleep in it ... So I try to keep relatively clean and clear.

Ok I will be the one to ask. What do you do besides sleep in your room?