You see this? This right here?
This is our kitchen sink. And those are dishes. Lots and lots of dishes. It is FULL of unwashed dishes. And you know what? That's not even all that bad compared to how terrible it HAS been before.
There are four people living here: me, Boything, Housemate, and his wife. Boything and I are the only two people who do dishes and we don't even really use that many. But somehow, Wife and Housemate manage to produce at least five or six new dirty pots and plates every time they cook and they NEVER, EVER CLEAN UP AFTER THEMSELVES. THey don't even scrape their plates in the bin, so it attracts bugs and sometimes even gets moldy. One time I was washing the sinkful of dishes and some plates at the bottom were SO FILTHY that they were all moldy
and even had maggots living in the putrefied gunk.It is disgusting. I hate it. Nothing works to get them to clean up after themselves. Housemate isn't too bad and will occasionally clean his stuff up, but his wife produces a good 75% of all the dirty shit in that kitchen (most of the dirty dishes you can't even see because they're just piled on the table behind me and have been there for WEEKS) and never ever washes up. Because of my job situation and Boything's injury, money is tight so we can't pay much for rent and it's pretty sporadic when I can manage THAT, so we don't have any power to tell them to clean up after themselves. Housemate is just letting us live here because we have nowhere else to go. Boything has tried telling them they need to clean up because it's a health hazard, but they don't clean up. We even tried just NOT cleaning up after them to see how they'd like living in filth--what happened was that a month and a half went by when nobody was doing dishes and the kitchen was invested with maggots and the dishes were moldy and nasty. Boything and I try to keep on top of things but we just can't. Literally every time we manage to get the sink cleared out and the dishes clean, later that day Housemate and Wife managed to dirty three pots, four pans, eight plates, three bowls, and half the silverware. I have no idea how they even MAKE that many dirty dishes. I cook for myself and Boything and manage to make less than four or five dirty dishes at worst. Housemate's wife cooks for herself only and dirties half of our stuff.
I'm so sick of living like this. It's gross. It's disgusting. I hate it. I feel like I'm being taken advantage of. But there's nothing I can do about it and it makes me want to scream. I'm not even a neat freak or a tidy person. But this is too much even for me.
