My Roommate (at least today)

[Rebel]

No. I don't mean I hate him all the time. That's kinda the whole reason I wanted him to move in with me because he didn't grate my nerves like so many other candidates did. But today, I just want to punch him in the face.

Backstory: I work 7 days a week. Any time by myself at home is precious to me. My roommate is currently studying for finals.

Last night I was talking to my roommate about what I had planned for today. I was lucky, because I'm not scheduled to start work until 5pm, so I had plenty of time to do chores around the house that I'd been meaning to do for weeks. My biggest plan was to do all my laundry. The only thing is, when I do my laundry, I sort and fold it in the living room, which is not a very big room at all, but it has more floor space than my room.
Since I knew that's what I was going to do, I made sure my roommate was going to be out of the house the whole day. He promised he was going to be at the library studying all day, so there would be no problem.

I woke up this morning, and he was slumped on the couch watching tv. I waited around to see if he was going to leave, and even subtly (and some less than subtly) prodded him to see when he was going to go the the library like he'd promised.
Turns out, he decided to have a lazy day at home instead.
He tells me I can still do my laundry if I want. Umm, no. The room I was going to sort and fold is small, and you don't seem to be leaving it any time soon to make more room. That and the fact that I'm a girl and I don't really feel that comfortable sorting out underwear and bras in front of a guy I've only really known for a couple of months.

Long story short, all my plans for the day had to be postponed. My next bit of half day free-time isn't until Wednesday next week.

I'm a little bit pissed off.

[HYHYBT]

"Sort" and "laundry" don't fit together in my vocabulary

You might like this system, actually: I pick through my pile of clean stuff for what I need; then, when it gets short, put the pile of dirties through the wash (all together) and then add them back to the top of the cleans. Theoretically the clean pile is in the closet, but in practice, as I live alone, it's usually in the dryer.

[LewisLegion]

"Sort" and "laundry" don't fit together in my vocabulary

You might like this system, actually: I pick through my pile of clean stuff for what I need; then, when it gets short, put the pile of dirties through the wash (all together) and then add them back to the top of the cleans. Theoretically the clean pile is in the closet, but in practice, as I live alone, it's usually in the dryer.

This is exactly what I do! When I lived alone, my cleans were in the dryer. Now that I have two roomates, my cleans go in the laundry basket on top of the dog kennel, and the dirties go in the hamper right next to it. I run low on cleans, I just toss an armful of dirties into the wash and then add them on top of the laundry basket.

I haven't nearly the time or (more accurately) the motivation to sort, fold and put laundry away.

This system works really good when all you wear are jeans and tshirts, all your socks are white, and all your underwear is mix-and-match.

[Ginger Tea]

Oh the joys of living in a shared house
I've said in another thread "my shared house" I think was the title, that we have no communial space bar the kitchen and 7 people living in the house.
Originally we had no washing machine so I would fill my camping rucksack with 2 or 3 machines worth of clothes and go to the Laundrette once or twice a month.
We then got a washing machine about 3 years ago, I forget exactly and I thought "Great, that saves me £3 per machne and £2 for the dryer" how wrong was I? for the first 2 months every time I would get in from work the machine would be in use and I was forced to go back to the Laundrette.
I still occasionally go due to machine in use, that or I need it dry and am willing to cart washed but wet down or do the whole thing there as our radiators are on a timer save for winter, so they remain damp for what seems like ever.

One guy washes his stuff on the hottest longest setting, then leaves it in the machine for hours after. Someone else will empty the machine to wash theirs, empty when done and he will go back and put it back in on the 2+ hour setting.
washes it twice ?!? mind you this is the guy that takes a 3 hour bath, digs a hole in the garden (against the land lords wishes) then has another bath.
He's used other peoples powder from cupboards and the couple talked about swapping it for flour, although it would fuck his clothes up, no doubt it would do more damage to the machine, so they chose not to.

I was running low on clothes to wear, short of getting more £3 jeans (which I did when ever I needed a clean pair), so put the machine on after work, went down to check up on things and it was off at the mains, opened it thinking maybe someone had turned it off after the full cycle had finished. No, no they hadn't, it was probably turned off 5 minutes after I left it as I could smell watered down powder and turning it back on resumed its wash cycle.
It wasn't late so I would not be waking anyone up, hell, I've gone to work around 5am and the machine has been on since 4, so some people don't care if the machine might wake someone up at normal people sleeping times, so 8:30pm is no different

This was on the night of Children in Need, not that I knew at the time, till guy in attic asked if I was going to the local for fund raising stunts, he was getting his chest waxed and I said I'd go after my wash finished, I wasn't leaving it this time and would probably get my matted hair shaved. By the time it finally finished it was gone 10pm and I didn't feel like it in the end.

[Mytical]

Rebel, your roommate was a jerk. Somebody says they are going to do something, they should do it.