37 things you'll only know if you're the last housemate to move out Who we are Contact Advertise Tips UK Write Tips News Trash Agenda Trends Opinion Guides UK Belfast Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Brookes Cambridge Cardiff Coventry Durham Edinburgh Exeter Glasgow King's Lancaster Leeds Lincoln Liverpool London Manchester Newcastle Nottingham Oxford Sheffield Soton St Andrews Sussex University of East Anglia Warwick York 37 things you’ll only know if you’re the last housemate to move out Getting ghosted on the group chat when you ask for help 2 months ago Bella Fatherley Guides UK Once uni comes to an end and summer rolls in, you might – like me – prefer to stay in your student house for as long as possible and make the most of the rent whilst simultaneously avoiding moving back in with your parents. You might have hoped your housemates would stick around but one things leads to another and you find yourself in the unlucky position of being the last one in the house to move out. At times, it can be difficult and frustrating depending on how considerate your other housemates have been. These are the all the things you can look forward to doing as the last person to move out of your student house: 1 Getting ghosted on the group chat when you ask for help I know you’ve seen it x 2 Trying and failing to get money from your housemates for cleaning products Hopefully the parents will cover it. 2 Dealing with the mountain of rubbish left behind Praying I’m not going to run out of bin bags. 3 Having to throw all the mouldy food out Three week old ham is not a vibe. 4 Then finding even more food behind the fridge So. Many. Crumbs. 5 Sorting out the recycling from the general waste Most tedious job EVER. 6 Dusting everywhere and finding endless amount of spiders Why so many cobwebs? 7 Having to face these spiders alone Someone please send help. 8 Cleaning EVERYTHING There is too much. 10 And being left with bits everyone wanted to avoid like the toilet I wish I had gone home earlier now. 11 Making sure there are no skid marks in any of those toilets Oddly necessary. 12 Which means finding yourself cleaning the toilet with Coca-Cola and scrubbing the loo with a lemon coz TikTok told you to *holds breath* 13 Trying to clean the floors without a working hoover Henry just isn’t cutting it. 14 Trying to clean the floors yet they’ re still sticky afterwards Should’ve invested in a mop. 15 Throwing away the empty gin bottles you wanted to keep for aesthetic purposes Let’s be real they did make the kitchen. 16 Having to throw away your housemate’ s odd socks because they were left in the washing machine Easily done tbf. 17 Returning other housemates’ keys to your landlord Could you not have posted it? 18 Making sure you’ ve cancelled all of the utilities What an absolute faff. 19 Returning the WiFi box back in the post Can’t I just throw it away? 20 Taking home the Christmas decs because no one wants them Hope my parents don’t mind a pink tree x 21 Making sure all the broken lightbulbs are fixed Probs all of them tbh. 22 Spending the day looking at tutorials on how to fix a lightbulb Will be getting DIY YouTube recommendations for life now x 23 Doing a last minute shop in Tesco to get said lightbulb I’m not even sure if it’s going to fit. 24 Making sure none of the taps are leaking My favourite pastime. 25 Unblocking all the shower drains that are full of everyone’ s hair from the past year Eww. Ew. Ewwww. 26 Running into Wilko looking for paint samples for the walls It’ll still be open on a Sunday night right? 27 Somehow finding yourself gardening even though you only have a patio Is that a bush or just weeds? 28 Having to take pictures of everywhere to make sure you get your deposit back My phone storage is now full. 29 Being the one to communicate with your landlord Martin and I are now besties. 30 Stressing about getting deductions from your deposits because of stains on the carpet I have no clue how to clean carpets sorry x 31 Strategically moving all the furniture to make sure you’ ve hidden all of said stains Hopefully they’ll only notice once we have our deposits back. 32 Having to be sincere to your landlord as they do the inspection Maybe a bribe will work better? 33 The responsibility of getting everyone’ s deposits back I take no responsibility. 34 Making sure all the windows and doors are locked before you leave Icing on the cake would be getting burgled. 35 Checking that the cat you partially adopted from next door isn’ t locked in when you leave Sorry little guy you have to go home now. 36 Making sure you’ ve not forgotten anything in the house I will have definitely left something 37 Saying goodbye to your house alone Won’t miss you x Reccomended articles by this author • This is why we all fall out with our second year flatmates, according to a therapist • These are the most middle class societies you can join at UK unis right now •Everything recent uni grads wish they had known before starting final year Bella Fatherley Guides UK RECOMMENDED READ So here’ s how to get into HUNDREDS of museums art galleries and exhibitions for free All you need is a fiver Art Fund Sponsored BRANDS ‘If I’m not winning, no one should’: Sminty Drop on her shock early exit from Drag Race UK Harrison Brocklehurst Trash UK ‘They had to get rid of me to give somebody else some airtime’ Kwasi Kwarteng only lasted 38 days, but these memes will live on forever Izzy Schifano Agenda UK ‘I’ve had some cheese in my fridge that’s lasted longer than him as chancellor’ This is where the real life family from Netflix’s The Watcher are now Georgia Mooney Trash UK They suggested Netflix include a scene where the house burns to the ground MAFS UK was the wildest show of the year and these 22 memes from the final prove it Harrison Brocklehurst Trash UK Kwame’s bench will haunt us all forever This is what everyone is dressing up as for Halloween, according to Google Georgia Mooney Trends UK Going as anyone from the cast of Euphoria is so pick me x George has been ‘ruled out’ of the Married at First Sight UK reunion by Channel 4 Harrison Brocklehurst Trash UK The rest of the cast will reunite on Monday and Tuesday next week Guys Francis Bourgeois has his own show coming out next week Hayley Soen Trash UK Chloe Burrows from Love Island features too! 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