My room mates are driving me crazy

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I haven't been on a while because life got hectic and my internet got shut off. Anyways. I now have room mates. Good friends of mine. Really, they are.

But they do so much that annoys me. Like today I spent a good hour and a half making curtains for my room. I went to install the rod and.... they've lost my drill bits. They moved my drill to the place they think it needs to go, and now it's unusable because there are no bits to it. So guess what, I tried manually installing it. Too bad the walls are strong, old plaster and the window frames hardwood. I can life a couch straight over my head and I still can't get the screws in. Now my bedroom has no curtains, at all. Everyone can see it.

Or the knives. My friends keep throwing things away. I am sure it is them. They throw away dishes, plates, knives (we had none, out of my previous 16.) I bought some more but no one will fess up to having tossed them. They were old, yes. The wood handles had stains, yes. They looked ugly, yes... but I could prepare a pineapple is thirty seconds flat.

My one room mate is tiny, I could pick her up and throw her out the door right now. She doesn't have a key (she lost hers, go figure) and I could leave her out there. I am f*****g sick of them moving my stuff and making it so I can't use anything. It'll be a miracle if we ever find my wisks.

How do you deal with annoying-as-s--- room mates who put your stuff in the places it doesn't go? I am thinking about making labels and making sure they know where I want everything. I own 90% of it anyways. I own almost all the furniture, I own all the dishware, cookware and utensils. I own most the tech in the house and maintain it. I should have some say where s--- goes.

just be glad you didn't have to live in an open-bay-barracks full of yahoos.

Small world. I am missing my drill chuck from hanging curtain rods for someone.

I wouldn't let it eat at you. Don't get angry but talk to your roommates and tell them you don't mind them using your stuff, but you are worried about things coming up missing. Last time I lived with same sex people they'd eat all my food and not replace it. People will use you if you let them. You can use a marker to write you initials or use a specific color of paint on unseen surfaces to prove what is yours if an argument arises later.

Reading your posts makes me realize how lucky I am to be living alone.

strong assertive energy and let them know how you feel. You might not want to do what I would do, but that type of behaviour is enough to stop considering them as friends. friends should try to limit the amount of grief they impose on their friends, that's the concept of:

caring.

People who will mess with your stuff are rude uncaring selfish pigs who don't give a toss about you.

Perhaps you should get a REALLY big knife and scare the hell out of them.