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A lot of time mooching is just laziness and thougtlessness and immaturity. Mooches will do it until you call them on it; then they either leave to mooch elsewhere (no loss) or straighten out, not without some bitching. But that's their problem.
Back in college, several of us shared an apartment, and for a while we shared groceries. But one guy would eat much more than his share -- of the good stuff, anyway. He'd sit down with a pound block of swiss cheese and eat it all while watching a half-hour sitcom.
So we stopped sharing groceries. But he'd _still_ eat other people's groceries, including mine. When I confronted him with it, here was his logic:
1)I don't remember buying it
2)But I _could_ have bought it
3)So I ate it (helpless shrug and goofy grin)
So I went out and bought a pack of those little round white Avery labels and stuck one on every piece of food I owed, with my name on it -- every egg, every tomato, every pack of cheese, every fruit, every can. Two hours later, he appeared in my doorway, complaining, pissed at hell. But it all boiled down to this -- he was pissed because I wouldn't let him pretend he wasn't mooching anymore.
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