How have you dealt with a roommate that smells so bad it makes you sick?
It’s always the day after they eat roasted garlic.
The stench is coming out of every pore and is making me nauseous.
How have you dealt with a roommate that smells so bad it makes you sick?
It’s always the day after they eat roasted garlic.
The stench is coming out of every pore and is making me nauseous.
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Time to have that awkward chat…
Last night I had to sleep on the couch because my roommate took a giant steaming shit in my bedroom that completely toxified half the apartment.
My roommate is a cat
You might be a super sniffer cuz idk if I’ve ever smelled garlic on someone other than their breath lol. My dad is like that. He can smell something bad from a room away.
“Dude, that garlic makes you stink”. Don’t need to make it a big sit-down discussion, just say it in passing. He might not know it.
Have lived with two bad roommates, in two separate locations. The first one was an absolute slob who would piss all over the floor in front of the toilet, leave pots full of half eaten food on the stove til they got moldy, and leave full cups of milk in his room until they turned solid. I did what I could to clean up after him but after so long it became too much for one person. He always had a funky smell (he rarely showered and I never saw him put on deodorant ever) and would never brush his hair which was long. One time it was so tangled and matted that the haircut place he went to just cut it short instead. The other one didn’t smell personally but his room sure did. He’d hang a trash bag on the door (he didnt have a can) and instead of putting the trash in the bag he’d throw it at the bag and just leave it to pile up in front of it. We also caught him keeping big gallon sized jugs of piss in the corner several times because he wouldn’t stop playing his PS5 long enough to walk two steps to the bathroom which was literally next to his room. He had a fucking fit every time we told him to clean, and it would stay clean for maybe half of a week before we caught him doing that again. He was also massively inconsiderate and would scream as loud as he could at his games in the middle of the night and wouldn’t abide by the quiet hours in our lease. Thankfully he finally moved out but he left his room in such a terrible state and I’m pretty sure that unless I can find a way to repaint it that we won’t get our deposit back thanks to him. There are fucking shoe prints on the ceiling and a massive dirty splotch on the wall where he’d lay in bed against it while playing games all day and night when he wasn’t at work.
I lived with a girl who never flushed and didn’t properly dispose of her feminine products and her room reeked I could smell it from the hall way. I mentioned it to her and she said that I needed to get my nose checked bc it didn’t smell bad to her 💀
Co worker stinks like cigarettes and bad BO
We placed an air freshner behind the drivers seat where he sits. And i wrote a letter to HR about personal hygiene. Its so bad we dont even want to eat breakfast until he gets out at site.
I did. He was an alcoholic that was a picky eater and only ate cheese based foods. Quesadillas, pizza, uh… cheese on French fries. And IPA beer. That was his diet. Anyway, the smell coming off his feet was UN-FUCKING-REAL. Didn’t smell like any normal bad foot smell, this was different. It was sour. It smelled like a dog’s mouth after it barfs. For real, I got a wiff of a dog’s mouth after it barfed and it gave me a ptsd flashback of my friends feet. It came from his feet, but it absolutely saturated the house. One time, he was alseep on the couch and I opened the door to my room and walked out into the hall and i almost puked from the smell, and im not that queasy about smells, I used to be a houskeeper and I’ve cleaned puke, shit, and piss. This dudes feet was too much though. He knew it too, it was like his shame. We called him ol stink foot. It wasn’t always at a 10, but when it was, it was intolerable.
This Romanian chick started working at the place he worked at and he started dating her. That was enough to get him to finally take care of it because I don’t think she even knew. They got married within 6 months. She’s a horrendous bitch but she’s married to old stink foot so whatever I guess lol. For the record, I love this guy, he’s one of the nicest guys ever and we’re still friends. Haven’t smelled that nasty smell in a while but he still eats cheese and drinks beer so who knows.
My roommate smells like metal and car oil. I physically cannot stand the smell. He’s a mechanic so he can’t help it but I just CANNOT.
I had an room mate from India before. I know the feeling. He asked me once if I would like to try some authentic Indian food. I already knew the smell but was very curious. My stomach did not appreciate it as much as my manners did…
My first roommate in college reeked, I would spray her closet with body spray when she was gone lol. Moved out after one semester, I cannot handle stinky people
YES!!! She/they/vegan, it don’t matter, this motherfucker does. Not. Shower! Their dog smells better than them, and I’ve let their dog sleep on my bed multiple times. Like, I can’t even go and use the bathroom after them, because they leave the toilet smelling like dead coochie in there. Like, I’m sorry for venting on this, but I don’t know or understand how they can’t smell themselves, because my nose can, and god! And the gag is, they have a whole girlfriend who I’m starting to realize hasn’t been coming over to spend a night in their room lately. I know why, and it’s… ugh, I’m having to use disinfectant wipes to wipe down the toilet and the door handles, because I just, no, my body knows what’s not right, and my nose can smell their pass-by air, and their pass-by air stinks.
My old roommate stank up the entire living area with her or her gf’s vagina one night. It was horrible. BF and I were playing Persona 5 in the living room, and my roommate was in her room on the opposite wall with her gf. The walls were super thin, so we could hear they were having sex, so we just turned the game volume up. But shortly, the smell of horrible, bacterial vaginosis infected vagina started pouring through the freaking vent. It was putrid and infested the entire living room/kitchen. I don’t know how they kept at it with that disgusting smell, but they did. We had to give up and hide out in my room.
I’m living in a low income place right now with a couple other guys. One of these dudes is 68 vs my 38 and he is hands down the biggest slob I’ve ever met. He destroys the bathroom to the point I won’t use the one he uses. He leaves all his pots and dishes on the stove, all filled with old food. He uses a new spoon for each of his hundred fucking coffees a day. He doesn’t work because he was fired for not showing up. That was 8 months ago. He hasn’t been looking for work and instead bums change at the grocery store. He’s, of course, eight months behind on rent but it’s a difficult situation… way too much so to go into on a comment.
He’s violent too. No matter how carefully you ask him to please clean up after himself when he uses the washroom or cooks food he gets extremely defensive and start freaking out. Like, yelling and screaming, slamming doors, then mumbling angrily ti himself for several hours.
We’ll get the land lord in who’ll give him a talking to but it always drops off within a few days. He steals our food – milk, coffee, sugar, canned food, UGH.
he’s got a bit of a disability but he is far far smarter than he tells people he is. I’ve lived with him for months and I know that he knows better but chooses to neglect his share of the work.
Honestly, I could go on and on. He’s a good guy but he’s willfully ignorant of the fact that he’s doing absolutely nothing around here.
I feel very uncomfortable asking a man 30 years older than me to please wipe the toilet seat. Especially when’s his reactions are so chaotic. I’m a tiny dude I don’t want to get on this guys bad side.
Anyway – to answer your question, yes.
one day I smelt this horrible smell of rot when I was looking in the cupboard and thought “oh shit, what’s this?” Closed the door – it was him standing there beside me
My brother in law moved in to avoid homelessness and help my handicapped husband. He doesn’t shower unless I scream about the stench. He doesn’t wash his clothes very often and I have volunteered to do it for him but he doesn’t want that. The other day I got into the car and it smelled like his gross smell because he had driven the car the night before. Honestly, I am losing my mind over it.
My 12 months old roommate does, but I change his diaper and clean him up and problem solved!
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And yes, I know my child is not just a roommate, but I couldn’t resist making this funny comment!
Try a pot of coffee, or maybe warming some aromatic herbs like rosemary and black pepper on a warm pan. Ozium is a good neutralizing spray. If you can engineer a ventilation system that pulls fresh air in on your side of the place, that would be best. It’s too bad that good old-fashioned shaming-by-example no longer works. It used to be if you kept your side of the curb clean, the neighbors would at least want to keep up out of respect. Oh well.