Roommate Hats

Roommates are one of the biggest gift-exchange pairs there is: move-in, birthdays, Secret Santa, and the month before someone moves out. The genre they share is the passive-aggressive note, and BuzzFeed has an entire list of the 35 most passive aggressive roommate notes ever, including Only two people live in this apartment, so it must be a mystery pan, and one tenant who is contractually obligated to stay till April. Food labeling is the dominant conflict in the Reddit threads, hence the eggs. The audience is also older than the dorm stereotype: SpareRoom data say 54 percent of 1,257 US roommates surveyed in August 2025 spend 40 percent or more of take-home pay on rent, and over-45s are now almost a quarter of roommates, up from just over a tenth a decade ago. Roommate shirts and mugs on the market are all love and BEST roommate phrases, and searches found no roommate dad hats at all, so the funny note-writer register is open ground on apparel. These hats cover the ROOMMATE and ROOMIE badges plus bits about rent, snacks, a 4.2 star rating and a drummer seeking a place to live. Every line is the wearer's own confession. Every hat is custom embroidered on a dad hat.