Should I kick him out.

By on August 15th, 2010

So I’ve been having some problems with my friend/roommate. You can see my previous questions. Especially the last one.

This current problem, basically he’s 42 and lived at home up until three years ago, where his parents still cooked for him and did all the cleaning. When we moved in together he told me he was going to pay half of everything and clean every week. Neither of us are neat freaks, but we are not total slobs either.

For the first two weeks, his idea of cleaning was mopping the kitchen floor. Ok, that’s fine. But then, he stopped. I have an odd work schedule where I’m on for a few weeks without a break, working 14 hour days, and then I’m off for a week. Basically I don’t get weekends off. He works 40 hours a week and gets two days off a week.

He wakes up in the morning, goes online for two hours, gets ready for work, goes to work, comes home, and is online until 3am playing games. He doesn’t clean at all. I spend my entire off season break, which was a good few weeks long, cleaning the house and the yard (he won’t go out in the yard because he saw a spider out there). When I talked to him about this, he would tell me “Well tell me what to clean.” Like he couldn’t see what needed cleaning. I told him I wasn’t his mother.

I took the advice of some of the other posters and put a reminder up for him about what to clean. At the moment it’s very simple. We both shed a lot of hair which makes it hard to do a good cleaning in the bathroom, so I put a sign up on the door at his eye level reminding him to wipe the hair and dust off the sink and toilet before he leaves.

I drew a picture of the sink and the toilet and arrows pointing to exactly where he has to wipe it off.

That is his ONLY cleaning responsibility at the moment. However, today, when I went into the bathroom after he had left, there was hair all over the toilet seat.

Is it unreasonable for me to kick him out.