Brilliant!
Image via PixabayIf you've ever shared a house with others, you'll know the struggle.
There's always one housemate who doesn't pull their weight, one who cleans everything within an inch of its life and the one who has never even laid eyes on the hoover before.
But how do you make sure everyone chips in with the housework?
One student in the UK came up with an inventive way of reminding her housemates about the chores.
Ruth is a student at Lancaster University and lives in a house with 10 other people. Yikes.
After taking the bin out for the fourth time that week, she sent a link into the WhatsApp group asking her housemates to complete a survey.
She told them it was something that was "close and dear" to her heart.
However, when they clicked on the link, it was a passive aggressive survey with questions like "Are you aware that bins, when full, require emptying?"
Image via Twitter/@indiafknellis
Image via Twitter/@indiafknellis
Image via Twitter/@indiafknellisHer housemate, India, shared the survey on Twitter saying: "If anyone wanted an insight into living with students, my housemate has just sent this survey to the house chat for us to fill in."
if anyone wanted an insight into living with students, my housemate has just sent this survey to the house chat for us to fill in pic.twitter.com/oMaDJp9bEn
— ind i a (@indiafknellis) March 8, 2019
India told Metro how the whole passive aggressive survey came about:
"There’s 11 of us in the house, and only a few of us really pull our weight, which is what led Ruth to make the survey because it’s so annoying feeling like the only ones who do any work".
"The tipping point was that Ruth had taken the bins out about four times in a row, I was in the kitchen with her and she was adamant she wouldn’t take the bins out again but then couldn’t bear to look at the overflowing bins so ended up taking them out".
"It was raining so she came back in soaked through with soggy slippers and that’s when she made the survey".
But have they changed their ways?
Not really, according to India:
"Everyone in the house thought it was HILARIOUS although it hasn’t made any difference at all because the bin is still overflowing and nobody is rushing to empty it".
