Here's the Thing About Roommates

 You will probably end up having roommates at some point in your life. It's a great opportunity to learn how to communicate with the people you live with. Unfortunately for me, I am a people pleaser. In all of the apartments I have lived in, at one point, I have felt like I am the mom, taking care of everything, and no one else pitches in. In this apartment, I specifically have a hard time with the trash. I have asked for help before, asking them to take it out if it's sitting out or taking it out when it's full and not list piling trash on top. They've gotten better, but I still take it out half of the time...

Now if that was like the only chore I was doing around the apartment I wouldn't complain, however, I am the only one who wipes and cleans off the counters, mops the floor, vaccuums the living room, sweeps the kitchen, cleans up messes they make on the counter, and cleans the stove. Oh, and the bathroom. I am the only one who scrubs the toilet, cleans the mirror, and wipes out the sink. 

I know the reason is because there isn't a chore system but common sense, seeing something that needs to be done and doing it really isn't that hard. If you're reading this and thinking, 'huh... I don't remember the last time I had to clean a bathroom or kitchen," who probably know who does, go say thank you too them. Go clean something. Make an effort to notice when something needs to get done and do it.

And that all is just the cleaning aspect!

One roommate doesn't start the dishwasher after she loads it with dirty dishes. 

- super inconvenient when I go to unload their dishes to do mine and see that they are still dirty. Like how do you load it and no start it. 

Someone throws away pieces of plastic in the sink.

- this one is just gross to think about. I don't want to be fishing trash out of the sink!

I'm the only one that supplies necessities for the apartment (toilet paper, hand soap, dish soap, trash bags, dishwasher pods, etc) and they are at paying me back when I ask.

Someone eats my brownies if I leave them out on the counter. 

- I finally threw it in the group chat that whoever was doing it needed to stop. It honestly makes me feel insane when I come back and the pan has less in it, but like in a way I would NEVER cut into brownies.

Im the only one that uses the group chat and its always to ask them to pay me back for something or communicate something I shouldn't have too.

I'm tired od being peoples moms.