74 Enraging Photos That Show What Awful Roommates People Have To Deal With ~ VOUX MAG

74 Enraging Photos That Show What Awful Roommates People Have To Deal With Eligijus SinkunasSeptember 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM 0 It's pretty common at one point or another for people to live with a roommate or two.

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Eligijus SinkunasSeptember 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM

It's pretty common at one point or another for people to live with a roommate or two. It saves money, allows students and young professionals to live in considerably better neighborhoods and sometimes it's just nice to have people around. However, the devil is in the details, and, as it sometimes turns out, also shares a kitchen with you.

We've gathered pictures from people documenting the worst, most unhinged and entitled things their roommates have ever done. So prepare to feel mildly infuriated, maybe grossed out and secondhand embarrassment as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to share your own stories in the comments down below.

#1 My Roommate Ate All Of The Peanut Butter Cups Off Of The Cupcakes That Were Made

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#2 My Gay Roommate Got Sick Of People Drinking His Milk

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#3 Roommate Borrowed My Book, Gave It Back Folded Like Origami

The least you could do is unfold it.

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On paper, it makes so much sense to split things and share. After all, if you're renting a flat, you're paying for all the facilities for a month, yet it's not like you're in, say, the kitchen 12 hours a day.

This sometimes is the case. But for many, it is also living with the hell of being exposed to the chaos of immensely irresponsible or immature housemates. The reason why this is happening so often is that it is all about a mix of incompatible lifestyles, lack of responsibility, and the plain fact that living together is not as straightforward as it appears.

#4 My Roommate Leaves Her Cat's Litter Box Scoop In Our Kitchen Sink

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#5 Imagine Working A 10hr Shift, Going Home Excited To Cook Dinner, Just To Find Your Roommate Has Done Nothing The Entire Day

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#6 Apparently My Housemate Mowed The Lawn In An Attempt To Make Up For Not Cleaning Up After Himself, Gave Up After Five Minutes

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One giant factor is maturity level. Not everyone is prepared for the duty of living among others. A few come with teenage behaviors, thinking dishes will somehow clean themselves, food will restock itself, and noise will be everyone's problem except theirs. When these behaviors collide with housemates trying to work, study, or just live in peace, resentment builds rapidly. What another person perceives as "normal" behavior is experienced by still another as sabotage.

#7 Woke Up To The Sound Of The Fire Alarm Going Off At 3am Because My Roommate Got Drunk, Put An Entire Pack Of Bacon On The Stove, And Then Fell Asleep

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#8 Psychotic Roommate Trashed My Room

One morning I was leaving for work and took the trash with me to toss in our dumpster at work. Later that morning, I received a text from my roommate asking if I took the trash, to which I replied yes, and she asked if I could take the trash in the garage next time. I didn't see the 2 bags she placed in the garage, so I explained that then asked her not to put trash in the garage anymore to avoid pests/nasty odors. She proceeded to freak out, call me selfish, and say she didn't want to be friends anymore. She was unemployed/home all the time and I came home to this disaster the next day. She conveniently moved out before I could confront her in person. I filed a police report and had my boyfriend (now husband) change the locks. I've never experienced something so nutty in my life!

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#9 The Way My Roommate Can Never Finish A Water

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Communication, or lack of it, is one of the reasons. The majority of roommates do not communicate boundaries overtly because they do not want to fight. Instead of talking to the dirty dish pile, the unpaid bills, or the 2 a.m. karaoke party, people let the irritation build. The inconsiderate roommate never gets criticized, and the considerate roommate endures quietly. This produces little annoyances that turn into a nagging headache over time.

#10 So My Roommate Used My Tin Foil

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#11 Roommate Put The Microwave Safe Bowl In The Oven Thinking It Works The Same Way

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#12 "I Was Preheating The Pan" Damn Roommates

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And then, of course, there is priority. Certain roommates just don't care as much about good times and convenience as they do about respect for a common area. They'll have parties without asking, eat other people's food, or play their music loudly when someone is trying to sleep. To them, these things are no big deal in their own heads, but to the person being subjected to them, they amount to a complete lack of manners. When two ways of life aren't compatible, conflict is unavoidable.

#13 Roomate Moved Out While I Was At Work. Took His Trashcan, But Didn't Take Out The Trash

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#14 Why Empty The Garbage? Someone Else Will.... Right?

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#15 My Roommates Bananas Are So Old They're Melting

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Financial stress only makes it worse. Necessarily, people wind up rooming with roommates, not because they want to. That is, you might find yourself having to share a lease with someone you barely know, or worse, someone you already suspect doesn't pay his bills. The pressure to divide up rent and bills keeps people in situations they would otherwise quit. For some, a bad roommate situation is not an escape option until the lease expires, and therefore they have to endure.

#16 I Mean, Fair

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#17 My Roommate Didn't Close The Dust Chamber When He Vacuumed His Room And I Just Vacuumed The Whole Apartment

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#18 How My Roommates Leave The Stove

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Personality clashes are also going on. Two extremely rational individuals can also drive one another crazy if they are too different in their habits. A neat individual and a slob will constantly battle. A quiet-loving introvert will tire of an extrovert who turns the apartment into a revolving door of friends. These are not necessarily indications of immaturity, but they do make cohabitation resemble a constant negotiation.

#19 I Struggle To Keep My Room Clean And Always Tought I Was Bad, Until I Started To Live With This Guy

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#20 This Is How Our Roommates Told Us They Got A Dog

Not even an hour later, a full grown lab is in the apartment.

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#21 My Roommate Trashed My House To Get To Her Food

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And then there's the plain fact that careless people generally have no idea how their actions influence others. They may genuinely think that leaving dirty socks on the couch or converting the living room into a warehouse is no big deal. The point is that in a shared space, "no big deal" is everybody's problem. The ignorance converts idiosyncratic personal behavior into public matters.

#22 Annoying Roomates

This last month of the lease has been extremely hostile I posted before but one my roomates keeps writing on all the objects in the house to try and get her point across she even wrote on my brita I bought 'please refill after use'.

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#23 Was Wondering Why The Soda Was Flat The Morning After I Bought It, Turns Out My Roommate Doesn't Know How To Close Bottles

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#24 How My Ex Roommate Left Her Bathroom After Moving Out

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Eventually, everyone suffers with careless or irresponsible roommates because living together makes every shortcoming glaringly apparent. Habits that may go unnoticed in solitude become painfully apparent when space, time, and resources are shared. The experience is infuriating, but it also accounts for why tales of terrible roommates are so prevalent—and why they resonate so deeply online. They caution us that while roommates are going to be best friends forever, they can also be the final daily test of patience.

#25 Do I Just Throw Out The Whole Roommate?

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#26 My Roommate Used My New, Expensive Vacuum To Suck Up What I'm Assuming Is His Dinner, And Then Didn't Even Clean It After

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#27 My Drunk Roommate Left Food Cooking In Oven Overnight

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#28 Asked My Roommate To Take Care Of My Plant For Two Weeks And I Come Back To This

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#29 How My Roommate Chooses To Eat His Bananas

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#30 One Of My Roomate's Solution To Moldy Rice He Left In The Rice Cooker A Week Ago

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#31 First Dirt In The Sink, Then Tampons In The Toilet... Now Dye Everywhere, Even On My Toothbrush And Retainer Case And The Floor

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#32 My Roommate Keeps Leaving Toenails On The Side Of The Bathtub

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#33 My Roommate Can't Read

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#34 My Roommate Is A Monster

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#35 I Wanted To Put My Clothes In The Closet. Now My Floor Is Full Of Roommates Bottles

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#36 My Roommate Thought It Was Funny To Leave The Toothpaste Like This

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#37 Ex Roommates Snake That Went Missing Earlier This Year (January) Was Finally Found By Landlord

Before I moved out, I noticed her snake escaped from the tank. I scoped the entire apartment and texted my now ex roommate about it, as she was out of town. She ignored my text, made little effort to look for him when she got back. I get snakes are very easy and don't require much attention but she was still very neglectful. Always had a Dirty tank and dry water dish. I was nervous he got into my moving boxes but I still hadn't found him after move in and unpacked. I still live in same building different unit. So does she but with a new roommate. landlord called me the other day about the snake, how she couldn't get a hold of the roommate and she has no interest in leaving it outside bc the cats outside started to attack it, including her own. Landlord had no intentions on giving it back to my ex roommate. I called a friend to rescue the wittle baby. I'm surprised it survived this long. Just a silly little story to share, but as how he escaped an apartment unit on the second floor & ended up on ground level? I don't know lol. Any explanations how that can happen? Landlord thinks she purposely put him outside.

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#38 My New Roommates Were Having Trouble With The Dryer. I Think I May Have Found The Reason Why

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#39 My Roommate Drinks The Brine Leaving The Rest To Dry Out

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#40 Less Than 2 Days After Moving In, One Of My Roommates Scratched My New, Nonstick Pan With Metal Utensils

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#41 Roommate Refuses To Take Any Less Than 1 Hour + In The Shower With 5 Of Us Living Here

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#42 Roommate Learned A Valuable Lesson Today

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#43 Roommate Dumps Food On My Belongings

I live in graduate student housing at a university. I was paired randomly with three roommates. One of which has been stealing our food and the rest of us have all addressed it with her. We've let her know that we're happy to share but please ask. It however keeps happening and I said if this continues I would report to housing. I never did and it was fine for a few weeks. Just a few days ago I start seeing my make up and skincare in our common sink area just on the floor and ramen in my sink. Today I found it over my shoes. I've checked with my roommates and the other two have said it's not them and they weren't home during the time it happened either. The one in question hasn't said anything.

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#44 My Roommate Puts Buttered Bread In The Toaster

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#45 My Roommate And I Got Into An Argument When I Said We Shouldn't Dine-In At A Restaurant With These In The Car On An 80 Degree Day

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#46 My Roommate Has Hit New Peaks Of Laziness

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#47 My Roommate Puts The Empty Milk Containers Back Into The Fridge

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#48 Day 1. My Roommate Hasn't Cleaned This Stain, Even Tho I See Him In The Kitchen All The Time. Let's Count How Many Days It Will Be Until He Cleans It

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#49 Roommates Cleaned Their Cat Litterbox In My Shower

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#50 My Roommate Refuses To Do Dishes So Now There's An Entire Eco System In One Of His Bowls

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#51 Who In Their Right Mind Would Ever Use... An Ironing Board?

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#52 Found Out Why There's A Bad Smell Coming From My Roomates Room

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#53 Roommate Threw Away A Tub Of My Ice Cream Because There Was "Mold On It". This Was The Picture He Sends Me

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#54 My Roommate Says This Is The Only Way To Clean A Greasy Pan…

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#55 It Was My Roommate's Turn To Buy Toilet Paper

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#56 People With Roommates Will Understand

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#57 My Roommate Spent Her Paycheck Too Fast Again, So I Offered To Get Us Liquor. It Devolved Into This

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#58 My Roommates Response To Me Asking Him To Flush The Toilet Or Use His Own Bathroom

For those who can't read his handwriting (I've had a lot of practice) this reads "You can get over the toilet not being flushed if I have to see the mess in the sink every day. I have developed ADHD and short term memory loss. I can't help it." The "mess in the sink" is dishes from when me and my girlfriend cook, which is almost every day. We never leave it overflowing with dishes. He also doesn't cook and instead spends his boyfriends money on door dash every day from a place we live less than two miles away from. This is the second time I've had to say something about the toilet. He has his own bathroom in his bedroom. His computer desk in our public space is also growing mold and he has so much trash everywhere that he started throwing his trash on my girlfriends desk. He self diagnosed ADHD and STML.

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#59 My Roommate Always Forgets To Flush The Toilet; This Was My Solution

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#60 Roommate Set Room On Fire At 2 Am

Fire alarms went off for 20 minutes. Thought nothing of it since they have done it before for 12 hours due to water damage but this time there was no rain. Hopped up once I smelled smoke. Roommate lives downstairs directly under my room.. wasn't a crazy fire but gd was it smoky once I opened the door. LA fire department had to bring a giant fan and air it out. It's a silly situation but could've ended badly since we all ignored it for half a hour.. kinda scary they're lighting anything on fire in this clutter lmao.

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#61 One Of My Roommates Ruined The Wok My Mom Bought For Me

Moved to a new place a year ago. When I settled, my parents visited me and since I had nothing mine yet, my mom went to the supermarket and bought me a wok. It's not very expensive, but it was a gift. I came back two days ago after being away for a couple of months. Today, I wanted to cook something and that is how I found my wok. Nobody told me anything, nor apologised. Nothing. How do you even ruin it that bad in just two months? And as a side note, they never clean after themself when they're done cooking, there's food on the bench. I'm tired.

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#62 My Roommate And I Own Only Two Pots. When He Cooks With Them, He Stores Any Leftovers From His Cooking In The Fridge In The Pots, Instead Of Putting Them In Containers

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#63 My Roommate Doesn't Put His Leftovers In Containers

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#64 Facebook Cb Wants Roommate To Pay More Rent Because She Makes More

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#65 Roommate Left 3 Jellybeans In The Costco Jar In The Pantry

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#66 This Man Had The Audacity To Tell Me I Have A "Karen Attitude" And That's Why He Won't Clean His Own Mess Up

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#67 Fake Eviction Notice!

My roommate (M29) and I (F20) got into an argument because he wanted to unplug the fridge with all of my groceries still inside without giving me any details and didn't even tell our other roommate (F21) that he was going to do so and she was out of town. I explained that he doesn't own the property and can't just make executive decisions. Ironically he sent me an eviction notice! So I contacted my landlord who laughed and explained that he never planned to evict me at all! So he lied, and never apologized for the incident. And has yet to admit that he was wrong. Also refused to acknowledge that the fridge isn't broken and is working fine so there's absolutely no reason to unplug it!! Because of all this, I've decided to terminate my lease early and move out, I asked my roommate (the liar) for my security deposit back that was used for him to start an account with an energy provider.. AND HE REFUSED!! He claims that "that's not how it works" and he has no "responsibility" to return my deposit back. I tried to explain that since I'm moving out and no longer using energy services here, my deposit is rightfully mine and whomever will move in to take my spot can pay the security deposit. Yet he still refused! He proceeded to call our landlord and whine and cry about it like a baby, and continue to LIE! He told our landlord that I was asking him to return my security deposit for the apartment. It's all been absolutely ridiculous. Keep in mind, he's 29 YEARS OLD!! he's been beyond manipulative and continues to lie through his teeth. He has been a miserable person to live with and a really good example of what the constant "woe is me" mindset gets you.

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#68 My Roommates Had A Tantrum

I'm a freshman in college living in the dorms. I share a room with my roommate, and have two suitemates, where we share a connected bathroom. A few days ago, the suitemates came home drunk and threw food at our bathroom door. Not sure why, it might have been an accident, but we asked them to clean it up and wash our towels that got food on them. They got mad and threw the towels back at us, and so my roommate dumped the rest of her ramen on the floor. We went back to our room at for the next 45 minutes that threw food, products, and whatnot at our bathroom door. We ended up calling for help and some CAs came and then they ended up calling the University police. They didn't fully clean the bathroom after, and it was so gross (only on our side). So we filed a report for misconduct and my parents emailed a bunch of people trying to get them consequences for what they did. They continued to terrorize us by yelling nasty things at us, and by slamming their door as hard as they could. Now that they have been talked to by the school, they are trying to get in contact with us to "fix things". Mind you, there is nothing to fix. The way they treated us speaks volumes.