Haha!
Unfortunately for me, I’ve roomed with the obsessive, psychopathic dictator!!! She told me what to wear, what to eat, where to go, who to not hang with etc. Even gave me a blood drawing scratch to my face once.
(Damn, I wonder who she’s terrorizing now?!)
Tsk Tsk…
Sounds like my first roommate. She wouldn’t even let me put my feminine hygiene products in the trash. I once came home from a long day of work and found a used one that I had put in the bathroom trash earlier that day laying on my bed. She was a nut…
Oh gosh, I’ll have to write a novel. lol Pretty much the only thing I was really allowed to do when I was there was stay in my room. I couldn’t cook in the kitchen or anything. She barely allowed me to use the microwave. She was a huge neat freak and thought I would tear the place apart, even though I rarely ever made a mess, and always cleaned up after myself when I did. I remember one time I had decided to cook some ramen noodles on the stove instead of the microwave and she got pissed off and threw it all on the floor.
I love these. I had a combination of the pyschopath and the neat freak but it came out as the “Pet Peeve Freak”. She was obsessed with the shower curtain being shut and she locked me out of the apartment the day I planned on moving out. She had taken my key without me knowing and so I had to have the police stand by while I broke in! I think you should also add the Party Animal to this list. They steal your food and keep their music up loud and bring random people around every weekend when they finally show up, oh and they are always broke (“Dude can you spot me $100 for rent this month”). Keep up the good work!!
I’d like to suggest one to add one to the mix, if I may: The cereal bandit. I once had a roommate who only stole one thing: Every box of Apple Jacks I ever bought!
My best friend always complains about her roommate stealing her milk. It’s like gold to her, so she started putting a little mark on the gallon jug whenever she drank from it.
If you make the Ghost/Slob live with the Cleaner/Psychopath, you find yourself in Hell. What ends up happening is the Cleaner/Psychopath begins to believe the Ghost/Slob is a Thief and becomes a bigger Psychopath. True story.
Too funny! I’ve had lots of bizarre roommates myself:
1) The “Dead Stare” Roommate – Never smiles or says anything to you. She’ll say hello to your friends though, but the second she sees you? Dead stare. (WTF did I do?!)
2) The Greek Life Roommate – this one will be nice to you until she passes her sorority recruitment
3) The Roommate with the Live-In Boyfriend – I don’t care if he’s AWOL from the military, GTFO out of my room!
4) The Cleaner/Psychopath – yeah, this one was a 2-in-1 deal (and luckily for me, it only lasted a semester)
5) The Paranoid Roommate – this one was convinced myself and our other roommates were racist towards her (the lock didn’t work one day and she was convinced “those white girls” changed the locks on her…luckily for me, again, this only lasted a semester)
6) The Ghost – plenty of these, including myself!
Out of the many roommates I had, I only truly liked 2 of them. I don’t miss college at all!
Haha, thanks! The best part about the Cleaner/Psychopath was that a year after I moved out, I found out that her current roommates were hiding her kitchen supplies in their bathtub because they drove her nuts too!
Mollie
I actually did have a racist roommate. My best friend was Indian (from India) and this roommate once said, within hearing of my friend, “Don’t be stupid like an Indian!” She also said my friend was “too black, but otherwise pretty”, and “all Indians are hairy like monkeys”
Three weeks before I filed for a change. Fortunately, I got the chance to move.
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There are plenty of these kinds of roommates everywhere. My best friend lived with one called the “psychopath.” I’m not sure what I would be.
Excellent, very well observed. I’ve had all of this lot at one stage or another during University. I was a lot younger at the time, but I was certainly in the “psychopath” bracket, along with a dollop of “slob”. All I wanted was one endless, chaotic party! And I was leaving with a OCD cleaner. Understandably there was a clash of personalities there.
You forgot one.. The deadbeat… It’s sort of the combination Psychopath, Slob, a bit of “Ghost” (with caveats) with a heavy dose of Alcoholic. This is the one that tells you they’re “laid back” and when you’re moved in, you find out laid back means lazy. They don’t share responsibilities cleaning and further don’t clean up after themselves/ A sure warning sign is when you find out that they have outstanding bills elsewhere and don’t pay their half of the utilities.
So freakin funny ! I was the ghost, & my roomie would complain about it cuz I think she was looking for a wingman to party with….she turned out to be the psychopath ;(
I have lived with all these roommate types all of except for the thief, which I am very proud of!…But I do admit that I have been the Ghost Roommate before-only because my roommate always brought her butt buddy over, and I wanted to be away from the both of them at all costs!….Success!
I know the psycho roommate all to well. I once lived with a girl who believed her boyfriend was an assassin ninja for the United States Army . . . no joke. If he gave her a stuffed animal she would check it for bugs (the spy kind not the insect). If we went out for dinner she would take obscure routes in case we “were being followed.” If he ever stood her up she assumed he was “on a mission.” In her defense, she did keep her room clean which I still can’t seem to manage. I guess that makes me the slob. Thanks for the laugh, and congrats on FP.
Lol I LOVE your comics! I once lived in a rooming house with like 5 guys on the same floor as me. One of them tried to come into my room and after I locked him out he stood outside wailing about the Olympian gods. Not sure how you’d wanna classify that one ….=P
Many years ago I lived in a house with 4 other lovely room mates haha. I have to say you hit the nail on the head with this one. The only one that we didn’t have was the ghost (sadly). The 4 were just as you described. Enough to give me flashbacks and a touch of the heebie jebbies *gulp*
Yes it is true.
The Thief was Nick (Nick by name nicked stuff by nature). The Cleaner was Andy, you couldn’t but a cup down for one minute before he tooke it away *sigh*). The Psychopath was Lisa (god help you if you got on the wrong side of her). The slob was Helen, she always got everyones back up especially Andy. So I suppose that would of made me the ghost?
LOVE IT! I have to say that I have lived with everyone of these people but you forgot my type of housemate. I’m the one who is weirdly happy, strangely normal, who never complains and who everyone thinks is really easy going. Underneath the surface though, I am a volcano just waiting for the lava of resentment to explode. :) great post!
Hahaha! Bless, it brought back so many memories, loved the drawings too and have to admit I might have been the ‘your clean is not clean enough’ type on accasions….
Haha, this is so accurate. I have roomed with The Ghost, The Cleaner, and The Psychopath before. Sometimes I really appreciated The Cleaner’s cleaning habits.
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This blogger has got it down to a tee. Amazing little illustrations too.
I have to say, I’m not going to miss living in what I like to call “the 1970s crack den” that is my student house! Fingers crossed I haven’t caught hepatitis or anything…
Sorry, this blog post was too fantastic – I had to reblog it! Shame that none of my housemates fall into the ‘cleaner’ category. Just a total blend of slob, ghost, psychopath and thief. But then again, it’s so hard to know what they’ve stolen as they’re hiding it all under the dirt and mess haha. Hurrah for graduation this summer, get me out of here! Major high five for hitting FP. Well-deserved.
Awesome post. I too have had all these types of roommates…some people even covering a few of these at the same time. Try a clean freak in his own room, but a slob in the kitchen.
This is right on! Now you need to take it to the next level and document what happens when you pit them against each other. On two occasions, I lived with The Cleaner and The Slob at the same time! (I coped by being The Ghost.)
These are all so true. I lived with a cleaner/psycho passive aggressive roommate last year who had severe daddy issues. She came off as crazy to other people in our master’s program–everything was drama. It got so bad that by the time my other roommate and I turned in the keys when we moved out, we both ran to the nearest Internet cafe to delete her off Facebook!
There is also the irresponsible roommate. My other roommate was sweet as can be, but just incredibly irresponsible. She left a plastic spatula sitting in a frying pan on our electric stove–and forgot to turn the stove off! She didn’t realize it until the smoke had already entered the hallway. There was a LOT of smoke damage. The hood over the stove had to be replaced, the walls in the kitchen and hallway repainted, the rugs in the hallway cleaned, and a cleaning lady came in to really get in all the nooks and crannies. Not to mention all the food we had to throw out in the cabinets that got contaminated by the smoke. We got a severe chewing out by our landlord (and yes we deserved it) but she was incredibly defensive about it. So yeah, I almost got nearly killed in a fire by a former roommate!
OMG ! I love this. Me and my college friends can relate to this. This reminds me of the good and bad roommates we had in college. However, I was the lucky one One of my roommates was the ghost type, but other than that, we all got along..
i’ve been the cleaner and the ghost. I continually encountered the “take the can opener when I move out” type. Every roommate I ever had, when they moved out, would steal my can opener. I’m not talking about electric can openers. I mean the regular hand kind that is like 4 bucks at Luckys, and they all stole one.
I admit to being a mixture of The Cleaner and The Ghost. I’m busy damn it, doing…stuff, all day long, every day, without leaving my room. But when I do emerge for the bathroom I should smell bleach at all times especially if I leave it that way. Germs are one thing I do not feel the need to share.
This is great! My last roommate was definitely The Cleaner. We used to joke about how she must have extra special vision to see the dust and dirt that was invisible to me. I’m lucky I liked her so much because otherwise I might have exploded. She likes to live in a house that does not look lived in, but I guess the upside was that it was always clean.
Whew! Funny. I hope I never have to have another roommate again. I had the ghost, the cleaner, and some crazy b*tches. It never ended well. I’ll take messy kids any day.
LOL!! This brought me back to college all over again. If you’ve never dealt with any of these, you’re lucky. For most people, the learn “the art of choosing a roommate” by Senior year. Word to the wise…Do yourself a favor and LIVE ALONE! :)
I will be moving into an apartment in August to start my Fall semester of college. I will have roommates for the first time and looking forward to commenting on this blog about the types of roommates I end up with. HA-HA. =P
I’ve had some fabulous housemates and landlords in the past, but I think I also dealt with 3 of your 5 in various scenarios. I’m a neat-a-holic, sorry.
Wow, I’d probably be the cleaner.. I just don’t like when things get to cluttered. Though then again, my things get way to cluttered easily and quickly.
nice! sad to say, i’ve had most of these. the worst though, was the ditsy roommate. she couldn’t remember to not use knives in teflon pans, she stole unopened bottles of booze from my room that were my graduation gifts, and when i moved out, she told me it was my fault that she owed me money. sheesh!!
Oh my goodness, I’ve been stuck with all but the ghost! The thief even had the audacity to steal and then sell my iPod… >_> I moved out shortly afterward.
Great post – hilarious!
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from the “freshly pressed” section. I didn’t get a chance to have a roommate. If you consider a sibling a roommate, then, yes! I probably did.
But it was quite interesting to know that there’s no perfect roommate. You are bound to meet someone like these people, whether you live with them or not. I mostly encounter… “the Cleaner”. They like everything spotless and squeaky clean! wow! I can’t live without dirt sometimes.. hahaha! :)) have a look.
Ahahahaha! This is genius! You are quite the observer eh? Congrats for being on Freshly pressed! Well deserved, I might add.
I’ve lived with the first four kinds. Am I supposed to be intimidated by the fifth? :D
There is also one more type of a roommate I can think of – a round-clock insomnia fighter – the lights are always up – throughout the night – he/she’d be reading, writing, taking care of the bills…. typing away on the laptop – driving you crazy and turning every one in the room into insomni-maniaks…lol
Hilarious! The worst thing is when they steal your chilli flakes – not cool.
I’ve lived with all five. Plus one who basically turned into a nagging mother and was always telling everyone what to do, and how to do it. She also put little signs up everywhere. (psychoooo..)
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Honestly, I dread this happening to me, despite not having to deal this roommates for at least another four years and a few thousand dollars.
That was awesome! You just cheered me up tremendously :) :D I have lived with 4 out of these 5 types of roommates… I think i actually liked the ‘Ghost’ cos with her, i pretty much had the room to myself :D
I lived with ‘The cleaner’ once. Once right after I scrubbed clean the kitchen counter top, she walked in a cleaned it again and gave me a look of – You left it dirty. I was like WTF! That was her transformation into ‘The Psychopath’. Thankfully after repeated complaints from all flat mates, she left. Another flat mate did ‘The Ghost’ for some days and when we were worried enough to go and lodge a missing persons complaint, this person turned up!
haha love it :-) esp the ‘ghost’ one, that’s like my roommate…well we call her the vampire ’cause the few times we do see her it’s always in the middle of the night :-O
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This is bang on the money, I know an example of each of these ha! I hate to admit it….but I think I may in fact be The Psychopath Room Mate :-/ …
I’m happy to have my own room. Instead, I have flatmates. Two, to be more specific. They’re not bad, no, they’re actually kind (sometimes, they make me coffee). Hey, can I add a new type to your collection? “The unclean”. My flatmates are this type.
I lived with “The Slob” and “The Cleaner” once… they were both lovely but oh the arguments they would have at times :P
The year before that, I was probably “The Ghost” but only because my roommates were big party-types and I wasn’t – I hid myself away out of fear lol.
I’m a Finn living in Denmark and sharing the apartment with my Danish landlord. I’d say I’m the Cleaner and she’s the Slob. Love those little cross-cultural things!
hahahahaha.. hilarious!!! personally i like the ghost, with the ghost you never have any problems and any arguments.. and having had the slob and the thief as room mates before i know how bad it is… :-) awesome post!!! :-D
Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure my old roomies consider me as The Ghost. I’m out the whole days for classes, out the whole evening playing computer games, and creeps back in to the room at 3am. Haha!
I have at times been a Ghost, a Cleaner, Eater of other people’s food and also somebody who’s been told off for leaving the place dirty. Oh, and because of all of the above I’m probably a Psychopath.
I’m fine with it. I just think I’m one of those people who isn’t meant to have roommates. Just a shame single-person accomodation is hard to find…
Thanks for the morning laugh! hahaha
I’ve lived with someone in my former days I referred to as “The Replacer” … the person who ate my stuff and then replaced it with “similiar” items but not the correct stuff. For instance, she’d use all my 2% milk and then buy me a can of evaporated milk to replace it because that was apparently all the corner store had in stock (lotta help that is when I want a bowl of cereal.) Or she’d eat my entire gallon tub of Double Fudge Crackle ice cream, and replace it with a single serving size of plain Vanilla ice cream because the original stuff I had was too expensive to replace.
(that was like 10 years ago and as you can see, i’m not quite over it. hahahahah)
The best kind of roommate is the one who moves out! Period.
:o)
Great post! I had several roomies that only shared “The Slob” as their common characteristic. They had many other traits that were not covered such as “The Prankster” and other abilities such as deciding to play a game of darts at 3 a.m.
Their annoying behavior and their lack of ability to make correct decisions drove me from the home. For example, we were managers at a business and they felt that having a stripper they knew dance in our house was a good idea. Even worse, they wanted to charge the employees to come to our house and take part in the show. I also knew it was time to find a different job.
Oh how this brought back memories! How about the promiscuous/sleazy roommate? I had one of those…my first in college…got locked out of my room several times while she had her latest encounter! After two other incompatible roommates I finally roomed with my sister when she joined me at the same college as a freshman. Some people thought it was strange but we had shared a room together since girlhood and it was just easier. Great post!!!!
I’m imagining me being the psychopath to people. I mean, I try to be nice, I’m just a bit weird. I’m a writer and I cosplay and the two generally mean that most of what I say makes no sense whatsoever to anybody else, and often scares them *manic grin* But as I spend most of my time reading books I don’t tend to get in the way much.
I hope I never get a crazy roommate…
I love this! When I graduated from college and started med school, I found myself once again with roommates…. for the last time! I actually did not like feeling poressured to socialize YET AGAIN when I come home from a long day’s work and having roommates just “cramped my style”. I’d love to suggest adding one to the mix as well: the party animal. Let’s be honest, we all have had those roommates who brought home different people everynight, and kept you up at night with their drunkenness! I do NOT miss it one bit. I’d rather get a pet :-).
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Ha! This is so great. And makes me even more appreciative that the only roommate I’ve ever had is my husband.
I also wanted to congratulate you on being Freshly Pressed! And tell you I thought of your blog yesterday as I had two lunches, one at 10:30 and one at 2:30. It might be the best. Blog name. EVER!
Haha! But you need to add the Insomniac. I had a roomie at university who exclusively watched Grey’s Anatomy at 2:35 AM –as loud as humanly possible. She would gasp and cry along with the plot line too… I had to get up a 4:30 AM for rowing practice!!
Oh what a lovely post! I was living on campus in Australia during my PG and we were six of us in a six bedroom apartment and I’ve had one roommate fitting into each type you described (including myself!) I had this roommate who was obsessed with cleaning, somewhat like Monica from friends! I’d like to add one more here, the geeky room- mate, lol who is awake at 5 am right until midnight so no matter what time you want to watch TV she is sure to get disturbed by the noise!! :D I love my roomies though!
Haha… I had a few roommates. The first I had luckily had his own room but he was such an “”dumbass”. Me and my friends picked on him usually! The other that I had were 2 guys and we got along “okay” but one of them was as “Ass-Hole”… more so bcuz he was senior.
So accurate! Passive aggressive roommates (blends in with psychopath) are the worst – leaving angry notes behind, smiling while angry, etc. Really enjoyed your cartoons! Thanks for the laughs!
hahaha…it’s so funny and true…since i’ve been staying away from my family and sharing flat ..i’ve come across so many species…i can very well relate to ur post
I’ve written about my bonding with my roomies here..you may like to read: http://whatlifesays.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/we-lived-happily/
Spot on with the roomie who always has the boyfriend over. All would have been harmonious and perfect with that chica if only her boyfriend wasn’t a total nutcase and at the house (didn’t have school, or job, or friends, or interests that I could discern…) ALL THE TIME. Eating my eggs and chocolate, borrowing my laptop, going through my trash (WTF)… ugh. Just thinking about that time of my life gets me all riled up.
Oh. Dear. Lord. Having two older sisters (one was a dedicated sadist, and probably still is, though I live 100 miles away and thankfully I don’t see her much) I have made up my mind I never, ever, ever want to live in the same house with women again. Granted, my husband is a filthy slob, with the exception of bodily hygiene, but he does not wear my underwear. He’s never gotten into my clothes or makeup, or absconded with my shoes. Even my son in his teenage years was better than living around other women, even though he has a bad habit of fudging the toilet bowl every time he does #2. Now his fiancee can deal with that!
My sadistic older sister would wear my underwear, knowing that once they were on her skank ass I would never wear them again. She ripped out my favorite pair of red Brittania jeans from the butt all the way to the waist (this was back in 1983- these dudes were tight on me and she outweighed me by about 20# back then.) She also liked to cram her 8EEE foot into my 7B shoes. She destroyed a pair of Frederick’s of Hollywood stillettos- blew out the sides of both of them- then returned them to the place in my closet where she found them. I could never have makeup that I didn’t lock in the car when I wasn’t using it either. And I had to lock up my feminine hygiene items as well or they would be gone.
Unless it’s a drag queen, I would much rather live with dudes. :)
This post has class. I lived with a ghost/psycho who turned into a cleaner when he was drunk. The only reason he was a ghost though is because he went out of town one weekend and ended up in jail for four months. Then after I moved out he went through the trash to find my personal information and turn the internet back on after I’d cancelled it. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal…
That guy was a real peach. And you’d think I’m making it up because of the political nature of my blog, but I swear I’m not: He was one of Obama’s main campaign staffers in Boston. Go figure…
I’m a Cleaner although I like to think of myself as being a mild version of the archetype. Second year of college, lived with a Slob. I wanted to be a nice roommate by doing his dishes once in a while. Eventually, he learned to rely on me to do ALL of them. In order to teach him a lesson, I stopped doing his dishes for TWO weeks. The apartment began to stank like hell after about 5 days. I managed to withstand it for 14 days. He won that battle. I ended up doing all the cleaning… 2 weeks worth! LOL. Oh, man. It sucked!!!
I’m a ghost-cleaner hybrid. I’m in and out a lot, so my roommates don’t usually see me. On second thought, maybe I’m not the cleaner, maybe my roommates are both super slobs and that makes me look like the cleaner.
This is hilarious! lol I hope I don’t have roomates like this when i go to college. Also I don’t want to spam but check out my blog fadumbuggie.wordpress.com.
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I think I live with a Ghost/Slob who has periods of ‘Cleaner’. Whereas I myself swing between Cleaner and Slob depending on the scenario – mostly Cleaner though, thankfully. Great post though, loved the illustrations and it all seems rather accurate!
Ha! You forgot the Clinger – now that we share an apartment we have to do EVERYTHING together!!!!!! “I made you dinner? Want to play Yahtzee with me and my cat? Why are you always with your friends? When will you be home?” ARGGGGGH!!!!!!
HA! Great post! This really took me back to my college days, where I lived with what appeared to be a completely normal Chris Farley look-a-like – until the sun set and I found out that he was a member of a vampire “club.” And, I have to admit, although this made me laugh a good bit, it did make me a bit nervous around having to zip up my next roomie in NYC – I’m moving in August!!
Hilarious. Although the only real “roommate” I’ve had was my brother.. and I can’t really place him in any of the above tpyes… I still enjoyed this post.
Hahah this is so fantastic because it’s normally true! Although I would identify with three, the Ghost Psychopath and the Cleaner once I live my room. Thanks for sharing it.
Definitely had a few of these — including the roommate who shopped through my room and took my nice underwear set. Feels like there are potentially a couple of more types missing. Not sure which one I would have been…”ghost” doesn’t seem to capture having spent a lot of time behind closed doors with my university boyfriend lol!
This is funny – to those who haven’t experienced such horror. I had a friend who constantly slept in the mo’freakin’ bathroom. Why? Alcohol, that’s why. He never cooked, never cleaned, never did anything but drink and sleep in the bathroom. I mean, what?
haha. So true. I lived with the psychopath and liar in college. One of my friend’s wanted me to move in with here, but she is the “cleaner” and I know we would probab;y end up not being friends. So thankful I have an awesome roommate right now!!!
The Geek – Always studying, u can’t have a proper conversation without referencing to bits of particle physics/ American History. The Gleaner – eats your food, drinks your beer + helps himself to your biscuits, chocolates, condoms, underwear, aftershave…everything. Never replaces anything. If it were possible/ if this guy were allowed to, he’d borrow your girlfriend infinitely.
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ugh i’ve had most of these roommates. i also once came home to my apartment and found 6 baby chickens running around my living room, as my roommate had decided to start an “urban farm.” fml. but thank you for making them all hilarious!
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Might I add a sixth one (although it spoils the magic of 5)—The Sob: They bug the hell out of you with their sob stories of the day; right from boyfriends to their sucky bosses to pretty much everything in their life—makes you regret getting home early to catch a nice TV show!
Me and my friend will become roommates in a year or so if everything goes as planned. I will probably be the slob while she will be the cleaner xD I bet we are going to fight all the time about cleaning.
This was really funny to read x) *thumbs up*
Love this! I’ve definitely been ‘The Ghost’ in both years of uni so far, but then again I was living with 2 couples who broke up in early October (which I call the Double Disaster). I like this blog :D very funny!
Every attempt at having a room mate has ended in disaster and fantasies of homicide for me. I’d rather live alone in a one room shack, that do it again. But then I got married so now I’m stuck with my room mate until death do us part.
I am definitely a ghost. Although tbh of the options, I think the ghost is the best one. I had an obsessive nutcase as a roommate that accused me of stealing her perfume and plugging it in to my plug in airfreshener once :/ even when I unplugged it and showed it to her she was still suspicious… freak. No wonder I didn’t spend much time there…
The cleaner the best .. Back in the years a roommate of mine – sleeping with his wild matress on a floor covered by a freaking smelly wall-to-wall carpet – dared to preach about us having to clean the sink over and over
After I read this post I made a realization. It’s time for me to live alone. Thanks for giving me the kick in the ass I needed! I’ll be on my own by July. Oh, Second Lunch creator, such wisdom!
I’ve had the Immature Brat and the Playa as housemates. The Immature Brat is convinced that the world conspires against her, and the Playa has a constant stream of partners you meet for the first time in a towel after your morning shower.
You forgot the Hippie housemate who holds meditation circles and won’t let you step on the cockroach because, ‘karma, dude’. Namaste.
Hahaha! I live with two other girls, my best friends. One is The Cleaner and The Thief, and the other is The Slob and The Ghost (her cat is now the family cat.. luckily no accidents in my wardrobe yet). I’m closest to the Psychopath… hmmm… home is chaos, but it’s a good chaos!
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As I will soon be living in a dorm (a rather tiny dorm) with someone I don’t know, these things actually scare me quite a lot.
What about the roommate who never takes a shower? Is it possible to have an inch of bodywash in a container and that can last you for three months? Is that some sort of super lather? I swear he thinks bathing is wasting money. His room smell like turds and cheese and b.o.. It isn’t my problem that he doesn’t take a shower, but he is one of those people who sticks his nose into everything to smell it or sticks his finger in everything to taste it.
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Haha!
Unfortunately for me, I’ve roomed with the obsessive, psychopathic dictator!!! She told me what to wear, what to eat, where to go, who to not hang with etc. Even gave me a blood drawing scratch to my face once.
(Damn, I wonder who she’s terrorizing now?!)
Tsk Tsk…
Haha
Svelte, you should have gone “psychoapth / ghost” on her
So, you do know that you’re expected to roll out part deux on this topic now eh?! Lol…no pressure!!!
Sounds like my first roommate. She wouldn’t even let me put my feminine hygiene products in the trash. I once came home from a long day of work and found a used one that I had put in the bathroom trash earlier that day laying on my bed. She was a nut…
That is insane!!!
I know, right? She was definitely the psychopath. lol
What did she expect you to do with it?
Wear it on my head, apparently. :P
I am 34 years out of college and have had my share of crazy roommates but that’s hysterical- I laughed my ass off reading that!
lol Glad to be of service. ;) There was also all sorts of other crazy from that roommate, but that incident took the cake. haha
Tell us about the other crazies too ..
Oh gosh, I’ll have to write a novel. lol Pretty much the only thing I was really allowed to do when I was there was stay in my room. I couldn’t cook in the kitchen or anything. She barely allowed me to use the microwave. She was a huge neat freak and thought I would tear the place apart, even though I rarely ever made a mess, and always cleaned up after myself when I did. I remember one time I had decided to cook some ramen noodles on the stove instead of the microwave and she got pissed off and threw it all on the floor.
Oh my god!! That’s horrible.
Ya, I got out of there as soon as I could. Also, staying at my bf’s house all the time helped me keep my sanity. LOL
That’s fucking nasty.
LOL thats just too scary to be true! :lol: I’m glad you survived safely.
L o n g e s t six weeks of my life!
haha..gosh..u got a mum in hostel as well”:)))))
I love these. I had a combination of the pyschopath and the neat freak but it came out as the “Pet Peeve Freak”. She was obsessed with the shower curtain being shut and she locked me out of the apartment the day I planned on moving out. She had taken my key without me knowing and so I had to have the police stand by while I broke in! I think you should also add the Party Animal to this list. They steal your food and keep their music up loud and bring random people around every weekend when they finally show up, oh and they are always broke (“Dude can you spot me $100 for rent this month”). Keep up the good work!!
The party animal was definitely on the list! …but I got side-tracked :( And jeez, what a crazy ex-roommie
HYSTERICAL!
I’d like to suggest one to add one to the mix, if I may: The cereal bandit. I once had a roommate who only stole one thing: Every box of Apple Jacks I ever bought!
;)
Not to make excuses for your roommate, BUT APPLE JACKS ARE DELICIOUS.
:)
Mikalee, when are you going to write in your own blog again? We miss you.
My best friend always complains about her roommate stealing her milk. It’s like gold to her, so she started putting a little mark on the gallon jug whenever she drank from it.
Hahaha This is hilarious! And so true!
‘Funny because it’s true’ is the best kind of humor
If your roommates are your kids, you get alittle bit of all of the above, and if you move, you have to take them with you.
Kids are the wildcard roommate, and they can change on a dime, haha
Look at you, all freshly pressed yet again! I guess Ernesto is taking a break. Congrats (though slightly envious over here. lol).
I consider myself lucky because my roommates from freshman year were just awesome (living in Spain helped too).
Thanks, Nicolle! I’ll send fresh pressed vibes your way!
I’ve also been really lucky with roommies, nothing like the horror stories I’m seeing in some of these other comments.
HILARIOUS! I had a good laugh! THX! I won’t tell you which one I am! ;)
ohhh, lemme guess…GHOST!
I love it! I have had ALL of these roommates! Thankfully, at separate times.
What a drag, If I had to have one, I’d take The Cleaner. Thanks for stoppin’ in!
Hilarious! The image for the Slob cracked me up.
If you make the Ghost/Slob live with the Cleaner/Psychopath, you find yourself in Hell. What ends up happening is the Cleaner/Psychopath begins to believe the Ghost/Slob is a Thief and becomes a bigger Psychopath. True story.
World War Roommates? I think someone has a story to tell.
Too funny! I’ve had lots of bizarre roommates myself:
1) The “Dead Stare” Roommate – Never smiles or says anything to you. She’ll say hello to your friends though, but the second she sees you? Dead stare. (WTF did I do?!)
2) The Greek Life Roommate – this one will be nice to you until she passes her sorority recruitment
3) The Roommate with the Live-In Boyfriend – I don’t care if he’s AWOL from the military, GTFO out of my room!
4) The Cleaner/Psychopath – yeah, this one was a 2-in-1 deal (and luckily for me, it only lasted a semester)
5) The Paranoid Roommate – this one was convinced myself and our other roommates were racist towards her (the lock didn’t work one day and she was convinced “those white girls” changed the locks on her…luckily for me, again, this only lasted a semester)
6) The Ghost – plenty of these, including myself!
Out of the many roommates I had, I only truly liked 2 of them. I don’t miss college at all!
Loved this post!
Loved this comment. I want to turn it into a giant blanket and wrap myself in it.
Haha, thanks! The best part about the Cleaner/Psychopath was that a year after I moved out, I found out that her current roommates were hiding her kitchen supplies in their bathtub because they drove her nuts too!
I actually did have a racist roommate. My best friend was Indian (from India) and this roommate once said, within hearing of my friend, “Don’t be stupid like an Indian!” She also said my friend was “too black, but otherwise pretty”, and “all Indians are hairy like monkeys”
Three weeks before I filed for a change. Fortunately, I got the chance to move.
Mollie,
That’s horrible! I can’t believe how people are sometimes. I’m glad you were able to move though. I would have chewed her out big time.
haaw..we indians r pretty,,:).nd nice f u to stand fr ur frnd..
hilarious! so funny!
Thanks so much!
Thank God my roommate is not one of these 5 above. Realy nice person. An art student.
You’re one of the lucky ones! I imagine art students to be very laid back.
So do I. So lucky for me. lol
Humorous!
Huzzah!
Wow I love this! Very unique and super cute cartoon characters :P
Katie
http://katieraspberry.wordpress.com/
Thanks, Katie! I find stick figures are great at conveying emotions. They’re like super emoticons.
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There are plenty of these kinds of roommates everywhere. My best friend lived with one called the “psychopath.” I’m not sure what I would be.
I thought they were kinda funny…
Me too
Excellent, very well observed. I’ve had all of this lot at one stage or another during University. I was a lot younger at the time, but I was certainly in the “psychopath” bracket, along with a dollop of “slob”. All I wanted was one endless, chaotic party! And I was leaving with a OCD cleaner. Understandably there was a clash of personalities there.
Yeah, I feel like psychopath either has dollops of either ‘slob’ or ‘the cleaner,’ both of which will forever be linked as mortal enemies.
Perfect! You’ve got it right! :D
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Well looky here…you’re freshly pressed again!!! (LOL. I’ve only just noticed!!!:/)
:D
Hehe. I love this. So true. Perfect list
Awesome! Glad you enjoy it!!!!
You forgot one.. The deadbeat… It’s sort of the combination Psychopath, Slob, a bit of “Ghost” (with caveats) with a heavy dose of Alcoholic. This is the one that tells you they’re “laid back” and when you’re moved in, you find out laid back means lazy. They don’t share responsibilities cleaning and further don’t clean up after themselves/ A sure warning sign is when you find out that they have outstanding bills elsewhere and don’t pay their half of the utilities.
ugh, deadbeats are the worst. I should have taken the list further to include combos of the 5 roommie types.
So freakin funny ! I was the ghost, & my roomie would complain about it cuz I think she was looking for a wingman to party with….she turned out to be the psychopath ;(
Rejoice, I have ghost tendencies as well! I’m just awesome at spending time by myself.
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Extremely true.
I’ve never had a roommate but have heard plenty of horror stories. This is hilarious!
Whaaaat!? So lucky.
lived with all but one is missing the friend … more like a sister than a roommate :-)
Some people get lucky and find awesome roommies!
hilarious! for once i am hoping none of my ex room mates remember me after reading this!!! atleast i have recalled a few of them!
haha, I wonder what my ex-roommie think of me. Probably all 5, haha.
You’re missing the great roommates! The “best friend” – where every night feels like an elementary school sleepover party!
Right? I have no idea why all the ones I made are so negative.
Because they’re funnier that way!
Very funny. Thanks you sharing your humor. Connie
http://7thandvine.wordpress.com/
i’m so glad i’ve never had a roommate..:), but you can make a new post with mother types starting with the third from here
I really should make another list of roomies! Maybe I just will!
Simple and perfect. Congratulations!!1
Simplicity can say so much. Thanks for stopping by!
Now I don’t care who you are, that’s some funny stuff. Even the comments!
Haha, glad you could relate!
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We’ve all been here… (some of us have BEEN these people)
Hey stop talking about me!! Beth!! Just kidding. Love your funny blog!! http://www.segmation.com
Those crazy cats! Thanks!
Hilarious!! Congrats on being FP!
Thanks! I feel so fresh! And pressed!
Too funny and true! Why can’t more people just take the middle road with cleanliness and sanity?
I don’t know, Dani, I don’t know…Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go throw things around my apartment while screaming uncontrollably.
I have lived with all these roommate types all of except for the thief, which I am very proud of!…But I do admit that I have been the Ghost Roommate before-only because my roommate always brought her butt buddy over, and I wanted to be away from the both of them at all costs!….Success!
I’m a Ghost! I had a roommate that was a ghostbuster, always trying to find me.
Hahahahaa!!! That was such a cute post! Of course, the truth too!! :)
So much funnier when it’s true. Glad you liked it!
Genius! I’ve lived with every one of these, mostly at uni, but the first guy is my brother.
haha, hopefully you have no trouble getting it all back?
I love love love your site. the comics are amazing!
Thanks, Dew! Keep loving ‘em because I’m gonna keep making them!
This is brilliant, god I love Freshly Pressed for bringing me to all these brilliant posts in the last few days!
Conor
http://getyerwitsoutforthelads.wordpress.com/
Agreed, I’ve found some real gems as well. Thanks swinging on by!
Oh dear! I think I’ve had (or been) a couple of these types!
(same here, haha)
Thanks for the laugh! My best roommate was probably a dog- humans seem to be more complicated!
No problemo! It’s what I’m here for. And, yes, dogs are the best roommies!
Hilarious… All of these apply to my current roommates. Unfortunately I can’t do anything about it as those roommates are the wife and kids….
Oh, I see what you did there, ZING!
I know the psycho roommate all to well. I once lived with a girl who believed her boyfriend was an assassin ninja for the United States Army . . . no joke. If he gave her a stuffed animal she would check it for bugs (the spy kind not the insect). If we went out for dinner she would take obscure routes in case we “were being followed.” If he ever stood her up she assumed he was “on a mission.” In her defense, she did keep her room clean which I still can’t seem to manage. I guess that makes me the slob. Thanks for the laugh, and congrats on FP.
uhhhhhh, I think you’ve taken the lead for craziest roommie yet. THAT’S CRAZY! Oh, and thanks for coming by!
Lol I LOVE your comics! I once lived in a rooming house with like 5 guys on the same floor as me. One of them tried to come into my room and after I locked him out he stood outside wailing about the Olympian gods. Not sure how you’d wanna classify that one ….=P
Super Psychopath would be my best guess. Thanks, Cafe!!!
My roomie was everything but clean. This made my day! Awesome
ahhh, that’s the worst. Glad you enjoyed the post!
Oh my…. lol ♥ this.
Many years ago I lived in a house with 4 other lovely room mates haha. I have to say you hit the nail on the head with this one. The only one that we didn’t have was the ghost (sadly). The 4 were just as you described. Enough to give me flashbacks and a touch of the heebie jebbies *gulp*
Congrats on Freshly Pressed..
What? 4 out of 5!? That’s crazy. Thanks for stoppin’ in!
Yes it is true.
The Thief was Nick (Nick by name nicked stuff by nature). The Cleaner was Andy, you couldn’t but a cup down for one minute before he tooke it away *sigh*). The Psychopath was Lisa (god help you if you got on the wrong side of her). The slob was Helen, she always got everyones back up especially Andy. So I suppose that would of made me the ghost?
where to add a roommate who licks her cheese?
bahahha *takes breath hahahaha
I have 2 roomies: one is a wonderful person; the other is a psychopathic, germa-phobic, obessive-compulsive, passive-aggressive creepy ghost….
Hilarious! Though I can’t figure out where I’d fit in! :P
I’ll go first! I’m a ghost with slob tendencies and periods of The Cleaner!
I think I keep switching between the Slob, the Psychopath (I can go super-crazy at times!) and the Cleaner (though that happens very rarely!).
LOVE IT! I have to say that I have lived with everyone of these people but you forgot my type of housemate. I’m the one who is weirdly happy, strangely normal, who never complains and who everyone thinks is really easy going. Underneath the surface though, I am a volcano just waiting for the lava of resentment to explode. :) great post!
So simple.. yet so brilliant! You rock!
So glad I don’t have a roommate.
On the other hand…I may have seen some spooky things from time to time. Maybe there’s a ghost?
I’ve lived in many different cities and had over 25 different roommates from different countries. I loved all of them a lot but… this is really funny
A couple of these are too true. Spend more, get your own place :P
What about the social roommate who thinks that just because you’re rooming you are suddenly Best Friends Forever…and won’t stop bothering you?
Yup, “the clinger” that one just barely missed the cut. Round 2?
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Which one is yours??
Thankfully I never lived with The Thief or the Psychopath. The others, yes, but they’re much less scary.
Delightfully quirky post.
:) Love the drawings
Hahaha! Bless, it brought back so many memories, loved the drawings too and have to admit I might have been the ‘your clean is not clean enough’ type on accasions….
Good stuff! Thank God, I have always had good roommates. Maybe that means I am one of the five?! :-\
How is it possible that ALL of these memes relate to my mother so perfectly?
Haha, this is so accurate. I have roomed with The Ghost, The Cleaner, and The Psychopath before. Sometimes I really appreciated The Cleaner’s cleaning habits.
This is great! Oh, the cleaner…
This is cute and hilarious!
I’ve had experiences with the “naked roommate.”
hahaha, that is honestly one I never thought of…
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I was the cleaner! ;)
I just discovered your blog! I absolutely love it! This blog speaks to my roommates and I, haha!
Great comic!
Since I’m currently looking for flatmates, I won’t say which one I am, just in case!! But you did leave out lovely normal person ;)
The Cleaner looks like Cheerleader from Teen Girl Squad!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs1.html
These are awesome! I’ve lived with all of these at one time or another. The Thief also ended up being The Psychopath. Go figure!
Ghosts make great roommates!
…and this is why I love my house on my own! For now lol
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This blogger has got it down to a tee. Amazing little illustrations too.
I have to say, I’m not going to miss living in what I like to call “the 1970s crack den” that is my student house! Fingers crossed I haven’t caught hepatitis or anything…
Sorry, this blog post was too fantastic – I had to reblog it! Shame that none of my housemates fall into the ‘cleaner’ category. Just a total blend of slob, ghost, psychopath and thief. But then again, it’s so hard to know what they’ve stolen as they’re hiding it all under the dirt and mess haha. Hurrah for graduation this summer, get me out of here! Major high five for hitting FP. Well-deserved.
Lol this is so funny!!!!
Too funny! I love this, it gave me a much-needed laugh :)
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Try living with 11 women…
I’ve had the pleasure of living with all of these, can’t stand ‘em. Wait, then which one am I?
Awesome post. I too have had all these types of roommates…some people even covering a few of these at the same time. Try a clean freak in his own room, but a slob in the kitchen.
This is right on! Now you need to take it to the next level and document what happens when you pit them against each other. On two occasions, I lived with The Cleaner and The Slob at the same time! (I coped by being The Ghost.)
These are all so true. I lived with a cleaner/psycho passive aggressive roommate last year who had severe daddy issues. She came off as crazy to other people in our master’s program–everything was drama. It got so bad that by the time my other roommate and I turned in the keys when we moved out, we both ran to the nearest Internet cafe to delete her off Facebook!
There is also the irresponsible roommate. My other roommate was sweet as can be, but just incredibly irresponsible. She left a plastic spatula sitting in a frying pan on our electric stove–and forgot to turn the stove off! She didn’t realize it until the smoke had already entered the hallway. There was a LOT of smoke damage. The hood over the stove had to be replaced, the walls in the kitchen and hallway repainted, the rugs in the hallway cleaned, and a cleaning lady came in to really get in all the nooks and crannies. Not to mention all the food we had to throw out in the cabinets that got contaminated by the smoke. We got a severe chewing out by our landlord (and yes we deserved it) but she was incredibly defensive about it. So yeah, I almost got nearly killed in a fire by a former roommate!
I’m not sure how to classify all of mine, but I lived with slob my freshman year of college. No fun.
LOVE THIS!! Thanks for sharing !
hilarious! love this.
OMG ! I love this. Me and my college friends can relate to this. This reminds me of the good and bad roommates we had in college. However, I was the lucky one One of my roommates was the ghost type, but other than that, we all got along..
This is brilliant! Pretty sure I’m a mix between the ghost and the slob :)
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I’m taking the week off…but I thought you all might like this! :-)
i’ve been the cleaner and the ghost. I continually encountered the “take the can opener when I move out” type. Every roommate I ever had, when they moved out, would steal my can opener. I’m not talking about electric can openers. I mean the regular hand kind that is like 4 bucks at Luckys, and they all stole one.
I have lived with two ghosts (thankfully, not at the same time) and a slob in the past. Luckily, I have avoided the others.
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I am The Cleaner.
May I add two more?
The Nosey: Reads mail left on the table, listens to private phone calls, etc.
The Inviter: Always has guests in the apartment.
I admit to being a mixture of The Cleaner and The Ghost. I’m busy damn it, doing…stuff, all day long, every day, without leaving my room. But when I do emerge for the bathroom I should smell bleach at all times especially if I leave it that way. Germs are one thing I do not feel the need to share.
This is great! My last roommate was definitely The Cleaner. We used to joke about how she must have extra special vision to see the dust and dirt that was invisible to me. I’m lucky I liked her so much because otherwise I might have exploded. She likes to live in a house that does not look lived in, but I guess the upside was that it was always clean.
Whew! Funny. I hope I never have to have another roommate again. I had the ghost, the cleaner, and some crazy b*tches. It never ended well. I’ll take messy kids any day.
Hilarious! xD
LOL!! This brought me back to college all over again. If you’ve never dealt with any of these, you’re lucky. For most people, the learn “the art of choosing a roommate” by Senior year. Word to the wise…Do yourself a favor and LIVE ALONE! :)
Haha, love it! I’m pretty sure I’ve experienced them all!
Nice artikel
Haha. Nice one! :)
I will be moving into an apartment in August to start my Fall semester of college. I will have roommates for the first time and looking forward to commenting on this blog about the types of roommates I end up with. HA-HA. =P
Fantastic post! Reminds me of my days back in Uni, and even now!
Yep. You got them down. Great post!
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This is hilarious!
I love it, so true.
LOL
I’ve had some fabulous housemates and landlords in the past, but I think I also dealt with 3 of your 5 in various scenarios. I’m a neat-a-holic, sorry.
funny. :)
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Awesome!
Larva
http://www.larvamedia.wordpress.com
Oh my God! I think I am one of those! Or not. Well, anyway this is really entertaining to see how our roommates being categorized as they are.
SO CUTE. Put these on T shirts and sell them at colleges – you will retire in a month. Love.
You ought to add the TV evangelist here as well… Congratulations on being Freshly Pressed! You made my day :)
Least harmful… the clean isn’t clean. No need to hire a cleaner!
Wow, I’d probably be the cleaner.. I just don’t like when things get to cluttered. Though then again, my things get way to cluttered easily and quickly.
nice! sad to say, i’ve had most of these. the worst though, was the ditsy roommate. she couldn’t remember to not use knives in teflon pans, she stole unopened bottles of booze from my room that were my graduation gifts, and when i moved out, she told me it was my fault that she owed me money. sheesh!!
Oh my goodness, I’ve been stuck with all but the ghost! The thief even had the audacity to steal and then sell my iPod… >_> I moved out shortly afterward.
Great post – hilarious!
I’m the cleaner. :D
Man, I’m so glad I don’t have to have roommates anymore.
I’ve lived with them all at one point or another.
I love this! :))
Haha. I’m a resident assistant at the college I go to…I want to show this to residents when they are arguing and ask them…which one are you?
Reblogged this on Write a blog on a log, Sam I am and commented:
I miss college…
I’ve lived with everyone but “the Cleaner”. :)
Reblogged this on lyricalmuse61 and commented:
Hilarious!
Hahahaha I have had all these room mates
Lol I totally have the cleaner! So annoying!
I read this because it got fresh pressed. Like most people commenting I will never visit your blog again. Enjoy your 15 minutes. Bye.
- The brutally honest roommate
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from the “freshly pressed” section. I didn’t get a chance to have a roommate. If you consider a sibling a roommate, then, yes! I probably did.
But it was quite interesting to know that there’s no perfect roommate. You are bound to meet someone like these people, whether you live with them or not. I mostly encounter… “the Cleaner”. They like everything spotless and squeaky clean! wow! I can’t live without dirt sometimes.. hahaha! :)) have a look.
Lol I totally have the ghost! Terrible!
Ahahahaha! This is genius! You are quite the observer eh? Congrats for being on Freshly pressed! Well deserved, I might add.
I’ve lived with the first four kinds. Am I supposed to be intimidated by the fifth? :D
Thanks for the laugh!
Nice..liked it!! :D
There is also one more type of a roommate I can think of – a round-clock insomnia fighter – the lights are always up – throughout the night – he/she’d be reading, writing, taking care of the bills…. typing away on the laptop – driving you crazy and turning every one in the room into insomni-maniaks…lol
“Clean all the things!” Oh my god, I can’t stop laughing. I’ve lived with every single one of these people. The Psychopath was the best though.
Hilarious! The worst thing is when they steal your chilli flakes – not cool.
I’ve lived with all five. Plus one who basically turned into a nagging mother and was always telling everyone what to do, and how to do it. She also put little signs up everywhere. (psychoooo..)
hahaha! This kind of reminds me of my roommates. I think I know which kind i am. hahaha nice post! :D
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Honestly, I dread this happening to me, despite not having to deal this roommates for at least another four years and a few thousand dollars.
love your concept, 5 roommates, art and psychological at the same time
That was awesome! You just cheered me up tremendously :) :D I have lived with 4 out of these 5 types of roommates… I think i actually liked the ‘Ghost’ cos with her, i pretty much had the room to myself :D
I lived with ‘The cleaner’ once. Once right after I scrubbed clean the kitchen counter top, she walked in a cleaned it again and gave me a look of – You left it dirty. I was like WTF! That was her transformation into ‘The Psychopath’. Thankfully after repeated complaints from all flat mates, she left. Another flat mate did ‘The Ghost’ for some days and when we were worried enough to go and lodge a missing persons complaint, this person turned up!
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Funny post, awesome roommates, thanks for sharing
ha ha right truly said like it very much
ha ha thank you for the post.
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Reblogged this on urbanafrican and commented:
Well…My sister is al of them combined, except the cleaner!
haha love it :-) esp the ‘ghost’ one, that’s like my roommate…well we call her the vampire ’cause the few times we do see her it’s always in the middle of the night :-O
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I’ve lived with the “cleaner” and I think she viewed me as the “slob”. Though it is curious that I have been accused of being the “cleaner” at times …
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Five Roommate Types.
I’d admit I’m not the best roommate on the planet. I’m a cereal thief. Hunger is my downfall.
Which one are you? :)
Downright funny! Hahaha! Good thing I never experienced those but I’m afraid someone might have suspected me as a Ghost…
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Hahaha even though I have never had a room-mate this seems LEGIT!
This is very funny yet true.
Reblogged this on EMBRACE THE SPACE and commented:
This is bang on the money, I know an example of each of these ha! I hate to admit it….but I think I may in fact be The Psychopath Room Mate :-/ …
I’m happy to have my own room. Instead, I have flatmates. Two, to be more specific. They’re not bad, no, they’re actually kind (sometimes, they make me coffee). Hey, can I add a new type to your collection? “The unclean”. My flatmates are this type.
Great! I loved the last one, so witty!
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Hahaha! I’ve only had military room mates (except for my wife – oddly they are all “The Cleaner”)
I lived with “The Slob” and “The Cleaner” once… they were both lovely but oh the arguments they would have at times :P
The year before that, I was probably “The Ghost” but only because my roommates were big party-types and I wasn’t – I hid myself away out of fear lol.
I love this! Great illustrations! :)
I’m a Finn living in Denmark and sharing the apartment with my Danish landlord. I’d say I’m the Cleaner and she’s the Slob. Love those little cross-cultural things!
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Awesome.
That was awesome. I will be moving to a hostel by this week.I am shit scared now. :P
hahahahaha.. hilarious!!! personally i like the ghost, with the ghost you never have any problems and any arguments.. and having had the slob and the thief as room mates before i know how bad it is… :-) awesome post!!! :-D
lol I love this post :-) I just followed you :-)
I’ve never had a roommate but have heard plenty of horror stories. This is hilarious!
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Nice cartoons, grats on Freshly Pressed!
Haha. Good one! I think at some point we had all encountered those types of person. Or maybe even became one of them :D
Now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure my old roomies consider me as The Ghost. I’m out the whole days for classes, out the whole evening playing computer games, and creeps back in to the room at 3am. Haha!
I’m the slob…………moved out on my own, stopped buying shoes and hired a cleaner. Not ideal, but the health service would for sure shut me down.
lol I love this post :-) I just followed you :-)
I have at times been a Ghost, a Cleaner, Eater of other people’s food and also somebody who’s been told off for leaving the place dirty. Oh, and because of all of the above I’m probably a Psychopath.
I’m fine with it. I just think I’m one of those people who isn’t meant to have roommates. Just a shame single-person accomodation is hard to find…
Thanks for the morning laugh! hahaha
I’ve lived with someone in my former days I referred to as “The Replacer” … the person who ate my stuff and then replaced it with “similiar” items but not the correct stuff. For instance, she’d use all my 2% milk and then buy me a can of evaporated milk to replace it because that was apparently all the corner store had in stock (lotta help that is when I want a bowl of cereal.) Or she’d eat my entire gallon tub of Double Fudge Crackle ice cream, and replace it with a single serving size of plain Vanilla ice cream because the original stuff I had was too expensive to replace.
(that was like 10 years ago and as you can see, i’m not quite over it. hahahahah)
The best kind of roommate is the one who moves out! Period.
:o)
Great post! I had several roomies that only shared “The Slob” as their common characteristic. They had many other traits that were not covered such as “The Prankster” and other abilities such as deciding to play a game of darts at 3 a.m.
Their annoying behavior and their lack of ability to make correct decisions drove me from the home. For example, we were managers at a business and they felt that having a stripper they knew dance in our house was a good idea. Even worse, they wanted to charge the employees to come to our house and take part in the show. I also knew it was time to find a different job.
So true!!! Well done blogmate!
Lol..NIce post..I remembered my golden days with my roommates
Very true!
I had the psychopath as a roomie. NOT FUN!
Oh how this brought back memories! How about the promiscuous/sleazy roommate? I had one of those…my first in college…got locked out of my room several times while she had her latest encounter! After two other incompatible roommates I finally roomed with my sister when she joined me at the same college as a freshman. Some people thought it was strange but we had shared a room together since girlhood and it was just easier. Great post!!!!
I’m imagining me being the psychopath to people. I mean, I try to be nice, I’m just a bit weird. I’m a writer and I cosplay and the two generally mean that most of what I say makes no sense whatsoever to anybody else, and often scares them *manic grin* But as I spend most of my time reading books I don’t tend to get in the way much.
I hope I never get a crazy roommate…
this is too good. what drawing tool do you use? i’ve wanted to make illustrations for my tips, but don’t want to purchase the wrong tools for it.
I love this! When I graduated from college and started med school, I found myself once again with roommates…. for the last time! I actually did not like feeling poressured to socialize YET AGAIN when I come home from a long day’s work and having roommates just “cramped my style”. I’d love to suggest adding one to the mix as well: the party animal. Let’s be honest, we all have had those roommates who brought home different people everynight, and kept you up at night with their drunkenness! I do NOT miss it one bit. I’d rather get a pet :-).
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These are great! I almost begrudgingly admit that I have uttered the words “Your clean isn’t clean enough.” …now I live alone. :D
Ha! This is so great. And makes me even more appreciative that the only roommate I’ve ever had is my husband.
I also wanted to congratulate you on being Freshly Pressed! And tell you I thought of your blog yesterday as I had two lunches, one at 10:30 and one at 2:30. It might be the best. Blog name. EVER!
jajajaja…muy divertido, esta genial!!!
So true!!!
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Haha! But you need to add the Insomniac. I had a roomie at university who exclusively watched Grey’s Anatomy at 2:35 AM –as loud as humanly possible. She would gasp and cry along with the plot line too… I had to get up a 4:30 AM for rowing practice!!
Hahaha… :)
Go go go! Freshly pressed again!! :) As usual, love your illustrations!
Oh what a lovely post! I was living on campus in Australia during my PG and we were six of us in a six bedroom apartment and I’ve had one roommate fitting into each type you described (including myself!) I had this roommate who was obsessed with cleaning, somewhat like Monica from friends! I’d like to add one more here, the geeky room- mate, lol who is awake at 5 am right until midnight so no matter what time you want to watch TV she is sure to get disturbed by the noise!! :D I love my roomies though!
I just read “five roomate types” and it made me laugh, thanks x
Personally, I think the thief is the worst :P haha
at least i was casper, the friendly ghost. :)
Haha… I had a few roommates. The first I had luckily had his own room but he was such an “”dumbass”. Me and my friends picked on him usually! The other that I had were 2 guys and we got along “okay” but one of them was as “Ass-Hole”… more so bcuz he was senior.
LOVED THE POST AND THE ILLUSTRATION… :-)
~Ali
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Haha! I’ve roomed with all of these at one point. I’ve been the ghost. :)
So accurate! Passive aggressive roommates (blends in with psychopath) are the worst – leaving angry notes behind, smiling while angry, etc. Really enjoyed your cartoons! Thanks for the laughs!
So if I read between the lines you’re hankering to become a hermit.
I renamed it 5 types of children and pasted it on my refridgerator. Thanks for the h umor
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hahaha…it’s so funny and true…since i’ve been staying away from my family and sharing flat ..i’ve come across so many species…i can very well relate to ur post
I’ve written about my bonding with my roomies here..you may like to read:
http://whatlifesays.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/we-lived-happily/
Spot on with the roomie who always has the boyfriend over. All would have been harmonious and perfect with that chica if only her boyfriend wasn’t a total nutcase and at the house (didn’t have school, or job, or friends, or interests that I could discern…) ALL THE TIME. Eating my eggs and chocolate, borrowing my laptop, going through my trash (WTF)… ugh. Just thinking about that time of my life gets me all riled up.
Absolutely hilarious! TRUE and hilarious. Reminds me of the various roommate types in undergrad. Memories!
Love it!! I think in my flat we cover just about all of those….
I ADORE THIS POST!! Its so freakin true too!!!
Oh. Dear. Lord. Having two older sisters (one was a dedicated sadist, and probably still is, though I live 100 miles away and thankfully I don’t see her much) I have made up my mind I never, ever, ever want to live in the same house with women again. Granted, my husband is a filthy slob, with the exception of bodily hygiene, but he does not wear my underwear. He’s never gotten into my clothes or makeup, or absconded with my shoes. Even my son in his teenage years was better than living around other women, even though he has a bad habit of fudging the toilet bowl every time he does #2. Now his fiancee can deal with that!
My sadistic older sister would wear my underwear, knowing that once they were on her skank ass I would never wear them again. She ripped out my favorite pair of red Brittania jeans from the butt all the way to the waist (this was back in 1983- these dudes were tight on me and she outweighed me by about 20# back then.) She also liked to cram her 8EEE foot into my 7B shoes. She destroyed a pair of Frederick’s of Hollywood stillettos- blew out the sides of both of them- then returned them to the place in my closet where she found them. I could never have makeup that I didn’t lock in the car when I wasn’t using it either. And I had to lock up my feminine hygiene items as well or they would be gone.
Unless it’s a drag queen, I would much rather live with dudes. :)
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Amazing research on the ‘species of roommates’…! ;)
unfortunately…i think i’ve experienced all of these aside from the ghost one. I kind of wish I had one of those for some personal breathing space!!!
haha pretty funny stuff! thanks for sharing :)
I am a ghost, and a nice one.
Does anyone have a room for me for less than 200 $?
This post has class. I lived with a ghost/psycho who turned into a cleaner when he was drunk. The only reason he was a ghost though is because he went out of town one weekend and ended up in jail for four months. Then after I moved out he went through the trash to find my personal information and turn the internet back on after I’d cancelled it. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal…
That guy was a real peach. And you’d think I’m making it up because of the political nature of my blog, but I swear I’m not: He was one of Obama’s main campaign staffers in Boston. Go figure…
I’m a Cleaner although I like to think of myself as being a mild version of the archetype. Second year of college, lived with a Slob. I wanted to be a nice roommate by doing his dishes once in a while. Eventually, he learned to rely on me to do ALL of them. In order to teach him a lesson, I stopped doing his dishes for TWO weeks. The apartment began to stank like hell after about 5 days. I managed to withstand it for 14 days. He won that battle. I ended up doing all the cleaning… 2 weeks worth! LOL. Oh, man. It sucked!!!
i have lived with each type. im also pretty sure i have BEEN each type to someone else. haha.
I’m a ghost-cleaner hybrid. I’m in and out a lot, so my roommates don’t usually see me. On second thought, maybe I’m not the cleaner, maybe my roommates are both super slobs and that makes me look like the cleaner.
*blushing* I was almost always the “Ghost Roommate”.
Too true. Although far too often I find myself in the cleaner’s shoes. Unintentionally but things just get too much!
Hahaha :P
You forgot the alcoholic and the party animal ;) haha
This is hilarious! lol I hope I don’t have roomates like this when i go to college. Also I don’t want to spam but check out my blog fadumbuggie.wordpress.com.
Pretty sure I had some of those people as roommates during college…
Great post! I really enjoyed reading this. I was definitely a cleaner.
I’m not a thief. I just like your stuff more than I like my stuff.
Very cool blog, and congrats on your freshly pressed!
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I think I live with a Ghost/Slob who has periods of ‘Cleaner’. Whereas I myself swing between Cleaner and Slob depending on the scenario – mostly Cleaner though, thankfully. Great post though, loved the illustrations and it all seems rather accurate!
I had a Sloth for a roomy…piles of pizza boxes strewn all over the room…I guess I have been any one of the above categories as well….
Wow what a cool blog! I have read any FP after a long time, and this one is SUPER-COOL! Love the animations, and the ideas! good work!
Hilarious! I’ve lived with all 5 at one time in my life!
HAHA! Nice :) I have a ghost roommate :P
Hahah! This is excellent!!!
-Tom
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Haha I love these! I am unashamedly the “Clean Roommate,” though I did try very hard not to terrorize my best friend/roommate. Fortunately, she wasn’t one of these types. She was pretty chill and clean enough, she just watched TV ALL the time, haha. My fiancĂ©, unfortunately, is historically a slob, but he swears that’ll change. We’ll see! haha
Ha! You forgot the Clinger – now that we share an apartment we have to do EVERYTHING together!!!!!! “I made you dinner? Want to play Yahtzee with me and my cat? Why are you always with your friends? When will you be home?” ARGGGGGH!!!!!!
Haha, so true, my dear, so true. Love this.
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Love it. My roommate is definitely a ghost.
Ahahaha this is brilliant!
HA! Great post! This really took me back to my college days, where I lived with what appeared to be a completely normal Chris Farley look-a-like – until the sun set and I found out that he was a member of a vampire “club.” And, I have to admit, although this made me laugh a good bit, it did make me a bit nervous around having to zip up my next roomie in NYC – I’m moving in August!!
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150% accurate!
I think this is why I still haven’t moved out of the house, I’m too scared of having roommates like these.
Nice & funny post. Congrats!
Freeekin Brilliant!
I had a room mate that was a combination of the five, like 5 room mates in one.lol
Thanks for sharing
-Ron
Nice post. Piggybacking off of Hyperbole and a Half is always a sure bet.
haha=)) so cool:))
Hilarious. Although the only real “roommate” I’ve had was my brother.. and I can’t really place him in any of the above tpyes… I still enjoyed this post.
Hahah this is so fantastic because it’s normally true! Although I would identify with three, the Ghost Psychopath and the Cleaner once I live my room. Thanks for sharing it.
I’ve been all of them!
This is so clever! I love your posts :).
My sister is about to move in with me. Now I’m reconsidering. Cute blog post!
I’ve never had a roommate! And now I’m really happy about that.
lol… What?? Hope u r not Forever alone sort of a thing ? ;)
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I would have to say I fall under the ‘never clean enough’ type…better than a straight jacket, right?
hahaha … I think I am the one who is called “the cleaner” lol
Definitely had a few of these — including the roommate who shopped through my room and took my nice underwear set. Feels like there are potentially a couple of more types missing. Not sure which one I would have been…”ghost” doesn’t seem to capture having spent a lot of time behind closed doors with my university boyfriend lol!
I bet anyone who has ever lived in a college dorm has seen at least one or possibly combinations of these types manifest right before their eyes
Love your drawings !
Hilarious!! And very accurate…I know people like this, lol!
I’m #3 and am always paired with #5.
TIMMER!!! Congrats on being freshly pressed. You totally deserve it.
Also, you missed the 6th Roommate type: Gets naked and rubs against you inappropriately. That would be me.
I’m literally the slob, I try to be clean it just never lasts…hopefully I don’t get the cleaner or the psychopath. Psychopaths=Scary stuff.
This is funny – to those who haven’t experienced such horror. I had a friend who constantly slept in the mo’freakin’ bathroom. Why? Alcohol, that’s why. He never cooked, never cleaned, never did anything but drink and sleep in the bathroom. I mean, what?
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A humorous depiction of room-mates I came across today…
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as i am entering into hostel life..quick peek into types of roomies.:)))
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Unfortunately I am all of these except the cleaner… and the thief of course.
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haha this is so funny!
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hahaha
These are the reason I’m nervous about uni in september!
haha. So true. I lived with the psychopath and liar in college. One of my friend’s wanted me to move in with here, but she is the “cleaner” and I know we would probab;y end up not being friends. So thankful I have an awesome roommate right now!!!
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The Geek – Always studying, u can’t have a proper conversation without referencing to bits of particle physics/ American History. The Gleaner – eats your food, drinks your beer + helps himself to your biscuits, chocolates, condoms, underwear, aftershave…everything. Never replaces anything. If it were possible/ if this guy were allowed to, he’d borrow your girlfriend infinitely.
These are funny. I live with a few of those people :) I’m fairly new to wordpress and along with browsing other blogs I am also promoting my own. I give Tarot readings from my page and would love to have you stop by, even if just to browse. Thanks. http://annlivingston.wordpress.com/
ugh i’ve had most of these roommates. i also once came home to my apartment and found 6 baby chickens running around my living room, as my roommate had decided to start an “urban farm.” fml. but thank you for making them all hilarious!
sounds like some roommates I’ve had…ahhh sweet college memories ha ha.
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hahaha…awesome, and true! love the ghost pic, nothing like slimer ectoplasm :o)
Finally! I was hoping someone would point out that reference!
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Because my life is currently lame and not blog-worthy, here’s a post from one of my favorite WordPress peeps.
Hahah…. I agree with u on that psychopath one :D.
Haha.. Could so relate to this! I had the thief! Ugh.. Had such a tough time dealing with her!
Might I add a sixth one (although it spoils the magic of 5)—The Sob: They bug the hell out of you with their sob stories of the day; right from boyfriends to their sucky bosses to pretty much everything in their life—makes you regret getting home early to catch a nice TV show!
Which is best? The Ghost/Recluse are pretty low maintenance, but you never know if a psychopath is lurking there! I love the artwork.
Me and my friend will become roommates in a year or so if everything goes as planned. I will probably be the slob while she will be the cleaner xD I bet we are going to fight all the time about cleaning.
This was really funny to read x) *thumbs up*
YES! YES! YES!
This hits the nail on the head PERFECTLY from my (short) time at university!
Hahah reminds me of school days ! I was definitely the “cleaner” :) brings back such funny and good memories ! :)
Love this! I’ve definitely been ‘The Ghost’ in both years of uni so far, but then again I was living with 2 couples who broke up in early October (which I call the Double Disaster). I like this blog :D very funny!
Every attempt at having a room mate has ended in disaster and fantasies of homicide for me. I’d rather live alone in a one room shack, that do it again. But then I got married so now I’m stuck with my room mate until death do us part.
I’ve roomed with the Ghost, the Psychopath, and the Slob. I was out before the end off Fall Semester.
Love the drawings!
omg… this is awesome. The psychopath kinda describes my last roommate… I will never have another roommate other than my boyfriend again. Ever…lol!
I lived with 2 of those. The slob and the ghost, who was one person
I am definitely a ghost. Although tbh of the options, I think the ghost is the best one. I had an obsessive nutcase as a roommate that accused me of stealing her perfume and plugging it in to my plug in airfreshener once :/ even when I unplugged it and showed it to her she was still suspicious… freak. No wonder I didn’t spend much time there…
The cleaner the best .. Back in the years a roommate of mine – sleeping with his wild matress on a floor covered by a freaking smelly wall-to-wall carpet – dared to preach about us having to clean the sink over and over
I think that it sooo funny! I’ve had the experience of living with the slob…it’s so gross his stuff was everywhere.
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lol
OMG, this is so freaking awesome.
Good stuff, but I reckon there’s one roomate type you missed: ‘The Passive-Aggressive Note Leaver’
i had a roomate once, he was a slob!
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That’s right : )
I am the last one.
Love it, I happen to be living with someone who cleans so much we all wonder whether she goes to lectures.
After I read this post I made a realization. It’s time for me to live alone. Thanks for giving me the kick in the ass I needed! I’ll be on my own by July. Oh, Second Lunch creator, such wisdom!
I’ve had the Immature Brat and the Playa as housemates. The Immature Brat is convinced that the world conspires against her, and the Playa has a constant stream of partners you meet for the first time in a towel after your morning shower.
You forgot the Hippie housemate who holds meditation circles and won’t let you step on the cockroach because, ‘karma, dude’. Namaste.
Hahaha! I live with two other girls, my best friends. One is The Cleaner and The Thief, and the other is The Slob and The Ghost (her cat is now the family cat.. luckily no accidents in my wardrobe yet). I’m closest to the Psychopath… hmmm… home is chaos, but it’s a good chaos!
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As I will soon be living in a dorm (a rather tiny dorm) with someone I don’t know, these things actually scare me quite a lot.
hahahaha…excellent…personally i sometimes wish i had an invisible bazooka for the slobs…background checks seem necessary in these situations
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LOL.
Haha…I love psychopaths, you can inspire many things from them
I’ve got The Cleaner and The Slob housemates and I can say that I’m The Ghost. Perfect! :)
What about the roommate who never takes a shower? Is it possible to have an inch of bodywash in a container and that can last you for three months? Is that some sort of super lather? I swear he thinks bathing is wasting money. His room smell like turds and cheese and b.o.. It isn’t my problem that he doesn’t take a shower, but he is one of those people who sticks his nose into everything to smell it or sticks his finger in everything to taste it.