2nd year of university we had a particular bad house. We let the kitchen get into such states that whenever we did clean, it took four of us over three hours. After a while we got a housemates girlfriend roped in too, as she was nearly living there. I recall oven trays and frying pans with inches of hardened grease on them. One of our more legendary housemates sometimes just used to reheat the pan and reuse that grease.
We also developed a really bad problem of never getting up on time to put our rubbish out for collection so we started throwing the bags into the empty shed in our garden. By February it had filled up and we just left it too its rotting. Come the end of the year we thought we had better empty it out or we might lose our deposits(we lost them anyway). Ill never forget that putrid vile stench when we opened the door. There were alot of maggots and also a rat that looked very well fed.
A year or so after this the house featured on a program showcasing the worst student houses in the UK. I can really see it. Despite our filthiness the place had a big damp problem making one guy really sick. No heating despite repeated attempts to get the boiler fixed and the backdoor was wedged into place. If you pushed it fell out.

The only place Ive ever lived more filthy than that was the All Nations Backpackers in Melbourne. The bedbugs were that big we gave em names.
(reesy22, Fri 26 Mar 2010, 13:33, Reply)