Her Roommate Keeps Eating Her Food, Ruining Her Pans, And Stealing Utensils While Refusing To Replace Any Of Them, So She Is Considering Removing All Of The Kitchen Items, Boxing Them Up, And Physically Restricting Her Roommate From Mooching Off Her Anymore

This 20-year-old woman currently lives with two male roommates. One is her boyfriend, who is 21, and the other roommate is her friend from high school, who is 20.
Now, she claims that absolutely everything inside their kitchen was purchased by either herself or her boyfriend– including all of the basic kitchen supplies like appliances, cookware, silverware, and dishes. They also purchased all of the food, spices, and cleaning supplies.
So, essentially the only thing that her other roommate has bought is ingredients for his specific meals– because apparently, he is on a restricted diet and meal preps.
And as you can imagine, this system has become a massive issue in their household. Her roommate constantly uses all of the seasonings, foil, parchment paper, and other items that she purchases. Then, he never bothers to replace them.
“There were also a few times where we had very large sizes of stuff that my boyfriend and I purchased because we mainly buy in bulk from Sam’s Club. And he frequently uses our stuff to the point where it is empty, then doesn’t replace it,” she added.
Since then, she claims that she and her boyfriend have repeatedly asked her roommate to replace any stuff he uses. However, he either fails to replace it at all or buys cheaper, smaller versions of the items.
Her roommate also reportedly stated that he “did not see the issue” with using their stuff since it was kept in the kitchen.
Obviously, though, that’s just not how living with roommates works. So, her boyfriend also specifically asked their roommate to at least help contribute to their grocery purchases.
Still, her roommate apparently refused to do that, too– claiming that it was just “too expensive” for him to buy.

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What she just cannot understand, though, is if the products are so expensive, then why does her roommate think it is okay to use them all and never replenish or repay her for them?
“Not to mention, he questioned me the other day as to why something I bought for a meal I cooked was not in the fridge anymore because he wanted to use it and was planning to use it for his food,” she revealed.
“Like dude, what the heck? I bought that for myself, not you.”
At this point, she and her boyfriend are also very close to needing to purchase all new pans because of her roommate. She claims that he will cook meat in them but leave them to sit while covered in grease.
Plus, rather than cleaning the pans themselves, her roommate will just cover the mess with a new piece of parchment paper and repeat this process until everything is rusted.
So, on top of the food, she is beyond frustrated about the pans, too. After all, they were brand new when she and her boyfriend moved in, and they actually barely used them.
When she confronted her roommate about the pan issue, though, he reportedly continued to deflect the blame.
In fact, he apparently tried to say that he did not even use the pans while literally removing food from one.
He also claimed that her pans were already damaged when they moved in because “they were cheap anyway.” Yikes!
Finally, her roommate has even caused half of their silverware to go missing because he will take forks and knives with him to eat lunch at work and never brings them back.
“We even confronted him about it after his girlfriend brought some of the silverware back from his apartment, to which he said it was not from him,” she vented.
So now, with all of these issues, she is considering finally putting her foot down. More specifically, she wants to take everything out of the kitchen and box it up– which would ultimately prevent her roommate from using any of her or her boyfriend’s stuff.
But, before she goes through with it, she is not sure if that is the right way to teach her roommate a lesson or if it will just make her a real jerk.
How would you feel if your roommate kept stealing your food, ruining your cookware, and stealing your utensils? Why do you think her roommate refuses to take responsibility for his actions? Does she have a right to box up all of the kitchen items to restrict him from using them? How would you deal with this frustrating situation?
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