How Do You Deal With A Messy Roommate?

Whether you are sharing a college dorm or you're all grown up and sharing a full-sized house or apartment, a messy roommate can be a kink in your living arrangements. This is especially true if you are a neat freak. More than likely, though, your roommate is one of your friends and you want to avoid hurt feelings.

This is possible as long as you use some tact and some simple ideas. Be direct. Your roommate may not realize that you have a problem with his messy ways.

Sit him down with some food and cold drinks for a comfortable setting. Then, try to use humor to lighten the situation. Tell him that his stuff is starting to have a life of its own and you saw a pile of garbage walking around last night, for example.

Make a game plan. Decide with your roommate to take turns washing the dishes (all of them), vacuuming, picking up garbage and taking out the garbage. Make sure this schedule works for your roommate.

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College can be a fun time to experience lots of things and meet a lot of new people, especially if you're living in the student dorms. But if you get stuck living with a roommate whose cleaning habits aren't quite up to par with your own, things can get, well, messy. Here are some tips for dealing with a messy college roommate.

Understand each other's preferences. Getting to know your new roommate's living habits early will help prevent his way of living from becoming a problem later if it's contradictory to yours. Find out if he does laundry every week, if he prefers to eat in the dining hall or make food in the room and if he takes showers at night or in the morning.

This will give you a better idea of whether or not dirty dishes and laundry piling up will be an issue. Divide and conquer. Just because the two of you are living in the same room together doesn't mean that you don't each still have the right to claim part of it as your own.

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