I think my roommates steals my toilet paper?

I recently just got some new roommates. I rent a basement but there's no bathroom so I share one just right above my room. It's only me and one other girl that use it. I buy Charmin toilet paper which is expensive as fuck (at least for how poor I am), and she will help stock toilet paper rolls too, but she only has the really shitty 1 ply kind that's really thin and horribly textured. Might sound like I'm complaining but I really don't care and am just glad she helps supply.

HOWEVER, everytime a roll runs out of paper, and I restock it with my nicer kind, I swear I never see it again and am met with her same shitty brand. But it's weird, because some extra rolls (mine and hers) sit on top of the toilet anyways, so I don't know why she'd switch or steal the brands like that. I've also seen, that it seems like she randomly switches between rolls before they even run out. So I don't get it.

I know for 100% fact today I switched an empty roll with one of my nicer ones, and then like I said, the next time I saw it again it was the shitty brand. Why?? I just don't get why she'd steal them if we share the bathroom anyways, but people are weird so I wouldn't be that surprised. I mean I might have to call her out but it sucks cause I don't even care that much but I'm not going to not say anything

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  • SwickDinging

    I have lived in a lot of house share situations when I was younger. Mine were pretty dicey and usually involved drug addicts, because I couldn't afford anything decent, so I may be overcautious, but these are the things I learned -

    1. Have a proper key lock on your door
    2. Keep everything that you possibly can in your room:

    Toilet paper, towels, toothbrush, food, tea bags, phone charger, shoes. Everything.

    When you go to the bathroom in the morning, grab your toilet paper, towel, and washbag, which should be stocked with soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, shampoo etc. Once you've finished in the bathroom, you take it all back out with you again. Get yourself a little space heater to dry your bath towel if it's cold in your room. Everytime you go to the toilet you take the toilet paper with you, and then you take it back out again.

    Food items that need to be stored in the fridge are obviously going to have to stay in the shared kitchen, unless you can afford a minifridge. That's ok though. Hopefully your housemate will leave your fridge food alone, and if not then it might be worth looking at changing your eating habits a bit. I used to buy those little cartons of long life milk so I could keep them in my room, along with a box of cereal. That way even if your kitchen has been ransacked/raided, at least you can still have some breakfast before you head off for the day.

    Even if your roomate seems really nice, they could still be hoarding your toilet paper. People steal things. People ruin things. People invite others into your home who could steal or ruin things. People leave things unlocked and fuck things up. You can't control these other people. Keep as much as you can in your own control by locking stuff up in your room.

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    • RoseIsabella

      I'm with you 100%!

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    leave some bait paper there with itchin powder on it

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    • RoseIsabella

      I like this one, and or OP could squirt some pepper juice on the toilet paper. I have maybe only had two official roommates when I lived in the dorms in college.

      After I got kicked out of the dorm, and got my first apartment I did have one friend that had a key, but he was my best friend, and I could completely trust him.

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  • litelander8

    Oh, she’s stealing it. I would just carry a wad in your pocket when you’ve gotta go. That’s fucking rude. Leave all that fancy TP in your room dude. Fuck that.

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    • Lol. Finally someone who isn't acting like I'm a dick or overreacting

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  • bigbudchonga

    Maybe she genuinely thinks hers is better, so she swaps your ones over for her ones

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  • chuy

    this is hilarious, stop buying the expensive brand and buy the same as her see what happens then...

    she probably get on IIN, And ask something like "my roommate stopped buying the nice TP"

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    • lolasprat

      Nice one!... Couldn't stop laughing

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      • chuy

        😂😂😂😂😂😂

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  • RoseIsabella

    If I were in your shoes I'd just stop leaving the toilet paper in the bathroom. I would bring the roll with me when I got to the bathroom, and put it back in my room when I'm done if were in your place. I'm not ashamed, or embarrassed to say that I don't much care for sharing my personal living space with other people, especially petty, little, selfish-ass people! Honestly, I think your cheap-ass roommate should buck up, and start buying Charmin toilet paper instead of always buying the cheap stuff.

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  • Wryladradofft

    Take some of her shitty toilet paper and tie it into a noose, then nail it to her door along with a threatening note

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    • Boojum

      No need for a note.

      If she's guilty, she'll get the message; if she's innocent, OP has plausible deniability.

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  • raisinbran

    I wouldn’t conclude she’s stealing. That’s pretty rude, actually, if you bring it up to her. What if she needed a whole roll for her nasty ass, or some other disaster, and wasn’t really paying attention to the brand?

    Also some people hate pulling paper from the holder so you end up with multiple used rolls laying around.

    Just bring your toilet paper with you when you go, if it bothers you that much.

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    • I don't think it's rude to assume she's stealing because this isn't fuelled by any false dramatic idealisation, it just literally seems like that's what she's doing because of the physical evidence lol. And It's not like I'd rudely go up to her and embarrassingly point it out either, because I know it's a vulnerable thing to call someone out for and like I said I don't even really care I just don't get it.

      Also, Even if you had explosive diarrhea there's no possible way you'd need an entire roll that hasn't been used once prior especially if it's not cheap toilet paper because it's a lot thicker. I mean you wouldn't even need half, there's no way, that's a lot of toilet paper. Not only that, but the rolls were swapped like an hour after I changed them. So even if miraculously someone managed to use an ENTIRE roll, in the span of an hour? That's I'd say Impossible unless they're straight up just wasting it or throwing it away or something.

      Lastly, this doesn't bother me, it just confuses me.

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      • RoseIsabella

        Maybe she's stealing the good Charmin, and selling it to some other college student at a profit?

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        • chuy

          or drugs

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          • RoseIsabella

            Trading Charmin toilet paper for drugs?

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  • You should say you think someone else is doing it and see how she reacts and you can get away with saying anything because you're saying it about someone else and she might feel guilty or nervous because she knows it's her

    You could end it by saying you'll keep your toilet paper in your room

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  • jodi1955

    it is better that he steals it instead of borrowing it and then returning it when done

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  • Tommythecaty

    Maybe she just has a poopy butt

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  • ThatOneGuyYouNeverWantToMeet

    Send them this.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOB6VZ7vbd0

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  • Boojum

    "I mean I might have to call her out but it sucks cause I don't even care that much but I'm not going to not say anything"

    I had to laugh at this.

    My wife does this thing where she complains about something I've done, I explain why I've done it and the options to change it, and then she says, "Oh, it doesn't really matter." To which my standard reply is, "If it doesn't fucking matter, why the hell did you feel the need to mention it in the first place?"

    It's clear that this is bugging you, but you feel that it's such a petty thing that it _shouldn't_ bug you, so you feel conflicted. This random internet person hereby judges that you have the right to be annoyed about this. Feel any better now?

    I have no idea what's going on in your shared house, but I do know that roommates can be a huge pain in the ass. (See what I did there?) I also know that some people are obviously weird at first glance, while other people _seem_ perfectly normal and reasonable on the surface, but if you spend some time living in close proximity to them, you come to realise that you'll never be able to comprehend or fully plumb the depths of their covert weirdness.

    Who knows why she does weird things with the TP? Maybe it's the result of growing up in a weird family with a complicated set of weird rules relating to toilet paper. Maybe she has a toilet paper fetish and she's taking your nice, soft TP to her room, and doing things with it that then mean it's not in a fit state to be used for its intended purpose. Maybe some traumatic event when she was a child means she has a phobia about there being too much or too little paper on the roll of TP in the holder, so she switches them around to get the "right" quantity before she sits down.

    Like I said, people are weird. Trying to understand what's going on in their squirrelly little brains can lead to you catching a bad case of the weirds yourself.

    It seems to me there are two options: First, you can talk to the girl about this. Maybe ask if she's noticed what's going on, and ask if she thinks someone else in the house is using your shared bathroom (I assume your other roommates can get access to it, even though there's an agreement they won't use it). Alternatively, you could just make it a habit to carry your own paper with you when you head for the bathroom.

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    • SwickDinging

      Oooh, I do this! I love a little passive aggressive comment, followed by me saying to just forget about it, when we all know full well that I will remember it until my deathbed. I'm not sure why I do it. Maybe it's just something that happens to women we get married.

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    • Well I think there's a misconception because I'm not itching that someone will validate me so I can feel ok to be annoyed. I didn't say it doesn't matter, it is annoying because it doesn't make sense to me, but when I say that I'm "not going to not say anything" it's because yeah if someones stealing I'm not going to let it keep happening even if it's something small and insignificant to me because it's stealing and the person probably thinks I don't notice and will keep doing so for that reason.

      Also, like I've been saying to other people, I'm genuinely not very annoyed by this but yeah like I said it's irritating because I don't understand. I mean I literally don't think I could care less about someone using my toilet paper, but to swipe it is weird to me and doesn't make sense. I mean IDK, I'm probably just going to see if it happens again and if so I'll probably just stop restocking with mine. And yeah maybe she does have TP issues who knows

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  • olderdude-xx

    I suggest you install a 2nd toilet paper holder. Then you each can use your own.

    They are only a couple $ for the cheap ones.

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    • Boojum

      TP holders with a lock are probably a lot more expensive than that.

      😁

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  • lolasprat

    Maybe she feels ashamed if carrying the shitty type around.
    So she steals yours so that when she needs a toilet paper or someone asks for toilet paper,she won't feel ashamed of giving it to them.

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    • well that's weird as fuck if that were the case

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