Should I charge my roommates...

[brtspears2]

Should I charge my roommates for eating 6 bowls of Bowl Noodle Brand Ramen, and drinking most of my water in my water cooler while I was away from my apartment for a week?

Sure, It sounds jacked for me to charge:

0.55 cents x 6 = $3.30 Ramen
7.50 cents x 0.5 = $3.75 Water (half of a 5 gallon)
$7.05 total

but this is my stuff, and when I bought this stuff, they were insulting me over how "korean ramen" tastes terrible and a water cooler is a waste of money. Yes I got roommate problems, no I'm not going to try to work it out, its worthless if you read my other posts.

 

[snooker]

$7.05 is a little money for some, but to others that is a meal or 2.

I would charge or make the roommate rebuy the stuff for you now (Since it appears that is what you did for your roommate) since you are back and wanting it.

IMO

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

My policy was always to let my roommates use my food/detergent/whatever, but I made the stipulation that when I was going to use some of whatever myself, there'd better be enough left over for me. With only a few exceptions, things were always replaced in a timely fashion.

 

[eakers]

i think before you go that extreme try talking to them about how you are upset they ate your food and drank your water.

 

[Shelly21]

I personally didn't like Korean brand that much.... too spicy for me. I had good luck with Taiwanese & Japanese type.... Chinese is almost non existence.

Looks like it was a waste of money... you're wasting it on your roomates.... when that jug is empty, fill it with tap water and pee a bit into it, it'd look like you purchase a new cooler... see if they would still drink from it. For better effect, take it to your car and bring it back in.

 

[Red Dawn]

Spike some of the food with LSD.

 

[pulse8]

Move out.

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Spike some of the food with LSD.

yeah then try to kick them out for using drugs.

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Spike some of the food with LSD.

Wasting perfectly good dose of LSD? A drop of Visine have a better effect.

 

[brtspears2]

Originally posted by: eakers
i think before you go that extreme try talking to them about how you are upset they ate your food and drank your water.

Umm, been there, done that. They've also used up my box of washing powder and dryer sheets. Not that i'm butthurt over 7 bux, its just that they never replace anything! I stopped eating snack foods because of this. (which is probally good anyways).

 

[brtspears2]

Originally posted by: pulse8
Move out.

I would have moved out 2 months ago if it wasn't for these damn lease papers.

 

[slag]

If I see another racist comment like you will be posting elsewhere.

 

[Hammer]

aww crap, you made his list now.

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Spike some of the food with LSD.

yeah then try to kick them out for using drugs.

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: slag
racist comment

That wasn't nice... No Chinese food for you slag!

 

[brtspears2]

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
My policy was always to let my roommates use my food/detergent/whatever, but I made the stipulation that when I was going to use some of whatever myself, there'd better be enough left over for me. With only a few exceptions, things were always replaced in a timely fashion.

I wished it work this way. I tried for about 5 weeks, but after my box of washing powder wasn't replaced, my box of dryer sheets wasn't replaced, my collection of frozen food wasn't replaced, then 50lb sack of rice was geting raided without a fair compensation for usage of my rice, my bread and other supplies in the fridge never replaced, they drank my booze and haven't replaced.

I try my best not to offend anyone. But I'm offended that items of mine are taken and not replaced in a timely manner. If they didn't start before, why should they start now?

 

[stev0]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Spike some of the food with LSD.

i wanna do that to my roomie and his gogourt (sp)... muahahahahahaa!

charge them punks, they said they didn't like that ramen anyway.

 

[rahvin]

Originally posted by: brtspears2

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw
My policy was always to let my roommates use my food/detergent/whatever, but I made the stipulation that when I was going to use some of whatever myself, there'd better be enough left over for me. With only a few exceptions, things were always replaced in a timely fashion.

I wished it work this way. I tried for about 5 weeks, but after my box of washing powder wasn't replaced, my box of dryer sheets wasn't replaced, my collection of frozen food wasn't replaced, then 50lb sack of rice was geting raided without a fair compensation for usage of my rice, my bread and other supplies in the fridge never replaced, they drank my booze and haven't replaced.

I try my best not to offend anyone. But I'm offended that items of mine are taken and not replaced in a timely manner. If they didn't start before, why should they start now?

Stop being nice. Stop being afraid fo confrontation. Tell them to stop eating your food. If they keep it up make a pan of ex lax brownies at a friends house and leave it in the dorm room with a note saying don't eat. Keep doing stuff like that (spike laundry detergent with powdered acid) until they are afraid to touch anything of yours.

 

[Aquaman]

Just get him to replace it like someone else said. No biggie.

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[flavio]

Get them kicked out of school!

 

[Spooner]

Ask NightFlyerGTI...... he's the resident roommate expert

 

[CKDragon]

The big thing was what rahvin said about not being afraid of confrontation. Just tell them, you don't have to be a pr!ck but you don't have to be worried about a backlash, either.

CK

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
I wished it work this way. I tried for about 5 weeks, but after my box of washing powder wasn't replaced, my box of dryer sheets wasn't replaced, my collection of frozen food wasn't replaced, then 50lb sack of rice was geting raided without a fair compensation for usage of my rice, my bread and other supplies in the fridge never replaced, they drank my booze and haven't replaced.

I try my best not to offend anyone. But I'm offended that items of mine are taken and not replaced in a timely manner. If they didn't start before, why should they start now?

Unfortunately, this also means that there's very little likelihood that if you start billing your roommates, you'll be able to collect anything from them.

You didn't mention if you were living in a dorm or an off-campus apartment. If the former, you might be able to talk to your RA, either for ideas on how to handle the situation, or perhaps even to directly mediate it. If you're off on your own, you may just need to keep your consumable posessions under lock and key.

Ultimately, if your roommates refuse to respect your things or your opinions, you may want to just go ahead and deal with the consequences of lease-breaking. The additional expenses you incur sound like they'll break even with having to buy extra stuff for your mooching roommates.

 

[gtsukada]

just make them buy some food for you

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Don't charge your roommate, but I'd atleast raise the issue in conversation if I were you.

nik

 

[ElFenix]

korean ramen rocks! what are those guys thinking?