Possessive Flatmate
She was really protective about her stuff and used to label things.

Now, I can understand if it's something like your butter. I find it a bit weird, but I can just about understand that you really don't want people using it so you've politely labelled it.

However, we had one of those holder things for plastic bags, and she labelled her plastic bags. She had little paper nametags that she sellotaped onto them.

I could even have just about got my head around this if they were really good plastic bags (ones from Debenhams with nice handles, or something). They weren't. They were from Sainsburys.

She was also so protective that she'd put a lock on her room and would get her keys out and lock her room up. Even just to go downstairs to the kitchen.

Despite feeling this way about her own stuff/space, she would happily wander into my room at will. I'd often come home to find she'd gone in to open/close my window. She also used to move my food around in my cupboard and throw stuff away if she didn't like the look of it - this had nothing to do with being out of date, she just thought it looked like it might be 'bad'.

On one occasion I came home to find that she'd removed my bedsheets from my bed and washed them.

I asked her not to do this sort of thing, of course, but there was always a reason, to her mind, that was so compelling that she just HAD to do it, no matter that it was my stuff.

I ended up moving out after a massive argument. Her attitude was 'It's how I am - you have to deal with it'. My reply being that no - it's how YOU are, so YOU have to deal with it. I don't.

Be OCD, by all means, but do it with your OWN stuff. If you do it to other people's stuff - well, just try and imagine how much it would annoy YOU the other way round, and you might start to understand why people get annoyed.

Ah! I feel well vented after that...
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:57, 1 reply)

Carrier bag from Sainsbury's
Luxury!
(Biff..., Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:37, closed)