How can I get my 2 roomates to stop eating all of my food? Ideas? :)
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Hide it in your room
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bring home carry-out meals for one.
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poison them.
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Buy a mini refridgerator and put it in your room, keep the room locked. -
tell them not to! if that doesn't work, eat their food! If they haven't got any.. eat out! hope this helps!
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If it's a money issue, then mention how much you've been spending on food lately and ask if they will contribute to your grocery bill. If not, then ask them nicely not to eat your food, since you can't afford to feed everyone, only yourself. Grossly overestimate the costs of what you've bought so they won't want to pay that.
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Tell them you have been diagnosed with Aids.
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When you go shopping, keep the receipt. If they eat something of yours, write them a note, saying, "you owe me $X for bread or milk. Please see attached receipt."
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buy a metal safe with a key and keep smaller items locked up! :D
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tell them to stop. if that does not work then split the food
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Whip up a batch of exlax brownies. Put them on the counter with a note. Dont eat. If and when they do, It will teach them a lesson.
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tell them that they have to pay for half of the food
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Sit down and have ground rules. You could suggest they all pay a certain amount each week for food. Then share all food equally - but only buy according to your budget. It is important in all shared households to have some kind of ground rules - you need to get along together if you are sharing a home, and having bad feeling is not good. If you prefer to have separate food allowances, then again, make that clear - but you could have a shared budget for certain items - like salt, sugar, washing up liquid, and but keep your individual food items separate. Or.. find alternate roommates
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um... never had a roommate but i'll suggest that you hide your food or lock it in a mini fridge.
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Walk around coughing, sneezing and scratching your crotch like you have a virus or cold or std and hack and sneeze directly onto the food before putting it in the fridge. Guarantee they won't touch it then.
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Those small bar fridges are inexpensive. Maybe you could get one and put it in your room.
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Move to Canada
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Threaten to put Viagra in your food if they don't. and then do when they don't.
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Buy a small 15 cu-ft refrigerator from SEARS, go to the SEARS hardware department to buy a hasp, and a lock. If you don't have a drill, you may need to buy one of those from SEARS too. Or rent one from home depot/lowes.
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Get some laxative chewing gum and re package it in a Wrigleys packet it works every time.
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lick your food before putting it away. my friend used to lick the doughnuts whenever he didnt want his sister to have any :)
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umm a disgusting but working idea,,put ur spit one everything urs..hahaha
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wut i actually mean is lick everything urs..i guess that makes it seem a bit better then wut i said before..hehe
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Spike some tempting food with something that will give them the runs big time. Once they shit their brains out, they'll learn their lesson
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My husband had a mate at work who had this problem with a bar of chocolate he had in the work fridge. He changed it for ex-lax chocolate, obviously putting it into the normal chocolate wrapper. It does seem unkind but they are being unkind by keep eating your food and there's nothing worse getting home and thinking "oh yes I will eat that for my dinner" then finding it gone. I used to say to my children just make sure you tell me if you use something up so that I know and can replace it.
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Lay down the law, lay down the law, and then lay down the law again. If your roommates continue to disrespect their boundaries, then this could very well be the start of a bigger problem. If they don't listen and you aren't in a position to do too much about it, then I would suggest getting a small lock box that will fit in the fridge. Then you can keep your food under lock and key. Good luck!
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Poison. Though I suppose that would stop them from doing just about everything all together. Including being alive.
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Dont bring food to room and eat outside.
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People only tread on people who allow them to.
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put a lock on your fridge
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Have a good heart to heart talk with them. If they continue to eat your food then get your own place, good luck:)
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Do naughty things TO and IN your food. That will solve your problem
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Put weird labels on your food.
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Don't bring food to the sight of your roomates and eat alone if that's what you want.
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My roommates were doing that, and I got so mad I started spitting in my all food. VERY effective. especially when they are eating and I say "Oh, you shouldn't eat that, I spit in that yesterday" If that doesn't work, start making big snorting sounds and spit some loogies haha.
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