Roommate troubles... Who's in the wrong here?

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I live with 3 girls, one of whom I'm sharing a room with.

The other two girls have a problem with us leaving our stuff around the apartment. We have a fairly large apartment. We might leave our backpacks on the couch (there are two couches). I sometimes leave my laptop on the corner of the dining table overnight. We have a bunch of pillows for our couches, but me and my roommate don't put them back into their "proper" place I guess...so the pillows will be randomly strewn all over the couch.

well, one of the other girls snapped at my roommate about all this crap...so it looks like me and my roommate are gonna move out cause I can't afford this room by myself.

Personally, I don't think leaving backpacks out on the couches, or my laptop on the dining table, or miscellaneous things on the coffee table is a problem at all. But apparently, my other two roommates think it is. Our apartment is clean as hell compared to other college apartments.

Who is being unreasonable here?
 
I live with 3 girls, one of whom I'm sharing a room with.

The other two girls have a problem with us leaving our stuff around the apartment. We have a fairly large apartment. We might leave our backpacks on the couch (there are two couches). I sometimes leave my laptop on the corner of the dining table overnight. We have a bunch of pillows for our couches, but me and my roommate don't put them back into their "proper" place I guess...so the pillows will be randomly strewn all over the couch.

well, one of the other girls snapped at my roommate about all this crap...so it looks like me and my roommate are gonna move out cause I can't afford this room by myself.

Personally, I don't think leaving backpacks out on the couches, or my laptop on the dining table, or miscellaneous things on the coffee table is a problem at all. But apparently, my other two roommates think it is. Our apartment is clean as hell compared to other college apartments.

Who is being unreasonable here?
You're being unreasonable.. Take your personable things and put them in your got damn room.. The couch is for people not your backpack, if the coffee table isn't being used, NOTHING should be left on there other than coasters and decorations, the dining room table for for dinning not a place to store you laptop "over-night" which I'm sure it's probably there more often than that..

Sorry to come at you like this, but i've had a roommate from hell, still a good friend of mine, but dude was inconsiderate as hell.. Although our apt was huge, sure it was still cleaner than most college students, but he did the same exact thing you did amplified x20.. 
 
Shoot just put the bags on by the door neatly

Far as pillows I mean they gona get ****** up anyway but iknow they don't want the couch lookin like crap
Long as the place is clean they shoudnt trip

Maybe still say sorry just because
 
You're in the wrong.
Leaving your laptop where people eat/drink?
Leaving your backpack where people sit?
Cmon man.

You aint havin roommate troubles. Your roommates are havin roommate troubles.
 
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You are. Respect shared space.

Pretty much this.


I live with 3 girls, one of whom I'm sharing a room with.

The other two girls have a problem with us leaving our stuff around the apartment. We have a fairly large apartment. We might leave our backpacks on the couch (there are two couches). I sometimes leave my laptop on the corner of the dining table overnight. We have a bunch of pillows for our couches, but me and my roommate don't put them back into their "proper" place I guess...so the pillows will be randomly strewn all over the couch.

well, one of the other girls snapped at my roommate about all this crap...so it looks like me and my roommate are gonna move out cause I can't afford this room by myself.

Personally, I don't think leaving backpacks out on the couches, or my laptop on the dining table, or miscellaneous things on the coffee table is a problem at all. But apparently, my other two roommates think it is. Our apartment is clean as hell compared to other college apartments.

Who is being unreasonable here?

These are the problems. If you share space, you have to compromise. Although YOU might not have a problem with leaving your stuff around, others do. You have to constantly keep in mind that you aren't living alone. Want to have a disorganized place? Fine, as long as you live alone. It doesn't see to bother you and your roommate because you two seem to be alike in terms of leaving things around. As far as leaving your laptop on the table..let's say you leave it there and someone accidentally knocks it down or spills something on it or whatever the case may be, you will be looking to make someone responsible for it, when in fact it maybe shouldn't have been there in the first place. You saying the apartment is clean in comparison to the other apartments is subjective to us here, especially without visual representation. My younger brother's idea of "clean" is not my version of clean, so that statement isn't really saying much since it varies. From what I read, I think there is way more to this than what you are telling us. From what you described, this can be resolved, but since it's gone to the level of people having to move out, there has to be more issues than just this.
 
It's not that hard to clean up after yourself bruh. I'd get mad at you too if you left your stuff everywhere. The pillow thing isn't a big deal, but the backpack and laptop thing would get really annoying after awhile.
 
That's on you OP. You need to understand you live with other people and need to respect common areas. That's not a hard concept to grasp. You room or personal space you can trash at your liesure.
 
I'm pretty sure OP is a female or atleast gay (not that it's a bad thing) but no way 3 girls let a straight guy live with them.

I'm calling pics or ducktales.
 
Don't mean to derail your thread but I'm in a sticky situation with my housemate, ddidn't comply with school policies, and now I find out at 3 if I'm suspended
 
Don't mean to derail your thread but I'm in a sticky situation with my housemate, ddidn't comply with school policies, and now I find out at 3 if I'm suspended
 
I dont think a book bag here and there is a big deal, but they do
So if you want to live there then respect that.

And if its just something as simple as a laptop and book bag Im sure you can adjust to changing.
 
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