Ugh, I've about had it with this situation.
Ok, here's the cliff notes.
I have a 3 bedroom townhouse with 2 roomates. Before either of them moved in, I explained to each of them that I have two rules they may find odd, but they're important to me.
Rule 1 - Take of your shoes when you come in, ditto for your guests. Reasoning is, I don't want mud and dirt tracked through the house. Or dog s***. No big deal.
Rule 2 - Every week, we all have to pitch in and do chores. Sweep, mop, vaccuum, dust the furniture, etc. Standard stuff. Reasoning is - No one likes a dirty house, so we should all clean it.
For the most part, Rule #1 is always followed. My only beef is that roomate #1 doesn't take off his shoes when he comes in, he wears them to the room and takes them off there. Not the end of the world, but because of it, he tracks in dirt, bubble gum, you name it, on the path to his room. Annoying on occasion, but no big deal.
Now for rule #2. I originally asked Roomate #1 (R1, from now on) when he thought chores should be "due" by. He told me Sunday night, so I made it Sunday night by midnight.
3/4 times, he would have them done by that time, and the other time, he'd make up some lame excuse why it wasn't done.
Recently, it got to the point where 3/4 times he DOESN'T have things done by Sunday night. So usually he'd get them done Monday or Tues, and sometimes they'd be half assed to boot.
Anytime he was late with chores, I'd politely mention it to him "Hey, don't forget to do your chores, man" (this would be on a Monday). He'd almost always give me an attitude back, then tell me he'd have it done at a certain time, which of course, he normally wouldn't.
So about 2 weeks ago I said
"Hey, R1, looks like Sunday nights are bad for you to have chores done, how about we make it Monday for you instead. R2 and I will stick to our regular Sunday schedule.".
R1: Nah, that's not necessary, (blah) (blah) (blah) , I'm gonna try to do them Sunday anyway.
So 2 weeks go by, and he does his stuff on Monday night.
This morning (Tues), I check to see if he did his chores last night, and he hadn't. And I know he's going somewhere tonight, so I doubt they'd even get done tonight even if I mentioned it to him. So he's already a day late on an already lenient schedule. And it probably won't be done for another day knowing him.
Me and R2 always have our stuff done in time. Hell, R2 usually has his stuff done before I do. What the hell do I say/do so that R1 gets his s*** done once a week, instead of every week and a half?
Ok, here's the cliff notes.
I have a 3 bedroom townhouse with 2 roomates. Before either of them moved in, I explained to each of them that I have two rules they may find odd, but they're important to me.
Rule 1 - Take of your shoes when you come in, ditto for your guests. Reasoning is, I don't want mud and dirt tracked through the house. Or dog s***. No big deal.
Rule 2 - Every week, we all have to pitch in and do chores. Sweep, mop, vaccuum, dust the furniture, etc. Standard stuff. Reasoning is - No one likes a dirty house, so we should all clean it.
For the most part, Rule #1 is always followed. My only beef is that roomate #1 doesn't take off his shoes when he comes in, he wears them to the room and takes them off there. Not the end of the world, but because of it, he tracks in dirt, bubble gum, you name it, on the path to his room. Annoying on occasion, but no big deal.
Now for rule #2. I originally asked Roomate #1 (R1, from now on) when he thought chores should be "due" by. He told me Sunday night, so I made it Sunday night by midnight.
3/4 times, he would have them done by that time, and the other time, he'd make up some lame excuse why it wasn't done.
Recently, it got to the point where 3/4 times he DOESN'T have things done by Sunday night. So usually he'd get them done Monday or Tues, and sometimes they'd be half assed to boot.
Anytime he was late with chores, I'd politely mention it to him "Hey, don't forget to do your chores, man" (this would be on a Monday). He'd almost always give me an attitude back, then tell me he'd have it done at a certain time, which of course, he normally wouldn't.
So about 2 weeks ago I said
"Hey, R1, looks like Sunday nights are bad for you to have chores done, how about we make it Monday for you instead. R2 and I will stick to our regular Sunday schedule.".
R1: Nah, that's not necessary, (blah) (blah) (blah) , I'm gonna try to do them Sunday anyway.
So 2 weeks go by, and he does his stuff on Monday night.
This morning (Tues), I check to see if he did his chores last night, and he hadn't. And I know he's going somewhere tonight, so I doubt they'd even get done tonight even if I mentioned it to him. So he's already a day late on an already lenient schedule. And it probably won't be done for another day knowing him.
Me and R2 always have our stuff done in time. Hell, R2 usually has his stuff done before I do. What the hell do I say/do so that R1 gets his s*** done once a week, instead of every week and a half?
