Guests and disturbing them

shellyleppard · 2025-08-29T05:44:23+00:00

Just a curious one. If you have guests using the sofa bed what time do you get up yourself?? I need to go downstairs and sort out the cat box 🤢 and get on with my day but worried about disturbing them 😞😍

Homeandfireworks · 30/08/2025 17:27

ImFineItsAllFine · 29/08/2025 07:37

🤣 Are you my MIL by any chance??

Show quote history

My ex mil used to shout cooo eeeeee as she unlocked the front door and legged it upstairs at 7 am …. We took her front door key away! 🤣

T1Dmama · 30/08/2025 12:16

Whenthetimeisright · 29/08/2025 07:04

Gosh that's really creepy to think other people have the ability to actually check your sleeping habits.
I don't use WhatsApp and I had no idea it gave others such access to your personal life.

Edited

Show quote history

It merely says ‘active 5 minutes ago’ or active 12 hours ago…. You can also turn it off so people can’t see

Namechangedforspooky · 29/08/2025 20:37

I’ve not RTFT but a litter robot is a gamechanger! Gets emptied once a week and uses about 1 bag of litter a month for 2 cats so will pay for itself in about 12 months!

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 20:32

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 16:32

in bed by 10? Unless you are a primary school child, I don't know anyone who is in bed by 10pm 😂 What a waste of a life to go to bed so early. No time to do anything or have a social life. Sounds so inefficient.

See, goes both ways 😉

Show quote history

Touché

tommyhoundmum · 29/08/2025 19:04

shellyleppard · 29/08/2025 07:15

@Moonnstars its my son and his gf. He normally shares with his younger brother so i said they could sleep downy. I'll get up soon I'm getting bored 🤣🤣

You could get a screen for the future. I wake soon after 4 and couldn't lie there until 0830. Like you, I'd creep around sorting/feeding the cats at 0530.

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 16:51

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 16:49

I'm an early to bed, early to rise.
It works for me.
This would be explained to anyone coming to stay, and we'd agree ahead what to do if guests had different bedtime habits. No need for drama.

Show quote history

my point was that there's no need to pretend to be superior because you go to bed early 😂

But when I have guests, they are free to go to bed early or stay in bed late, or both if they want. No one is coming to wake them up because they've decided one mustn't sleep in the morning.

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 16:49

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 16:32

in bed by 10? Unless you are a primary school child, I don't know anyone who is in bed by 10pm 😂 What a waste of a life to go to bed so early. No time to do anything or have a social life. Sounds so inefficient.

See, goes both ways 😉

Show quote history

I'm an early to bed, early to rise.
It works for me.
This would be explained to anyone coming to stay, and we'd agree ahead what to do if guests had different bedtime habits. No need for drama.

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 16:47

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 16:29

and you think if you don't get up at 6am, 7am at the weekend, you don't have a job and pay tax? huh?!

Show quote history

Nope, I clearly didn't say that. HTH

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 16:32

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 13:01

Nobody needs waking up it's totally chill. Everyone is happy.

We're all awake when there are things to be done so in bed by 10, not sitting on our phones until 2am.

If I was retired maybe I'd shift my mindset and stay in bed a bit longer but as it stands I make the most of the weekends

Show quote history

in bed by 10? Unless you are a primary school child, I don't know anyone who is in bed by 10pm 😂 What a waste of a life to go to bed so early. No time to do anything or have a social life. Sounds so inefficient.

See, goes both ways 😉

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 16:29

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 14:24

Well, getting up early may be work related, and most folk pay tax so.....🤣

Show quote history

and you think if you don't get up at 6am, 7am at the weekend, you don't have a job and pay tax? huh?!

BauhausOfEliott · 29/08/2025 15:25

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 13:01

Nobody needs waking up it's totally chill. Everyone is happy.

We're all awake when there are things to be done so in bed by 10, not sitting on our phones until 2am.

If I was retired maybe I'd shift my mindset and stay in bed a bit longer but as it stands I make the most of the weekends

Show quote history

Why do you imagine people are 'sitting on their phones' if they stay up later than you? Or that other people don't have 'things to be done' after 10pm?

If all your family are morning people, great! Enjoy. But there's nothing wrong with being night time people either and it doesn't mean people are less productive or lead less exciting lives than you if they're not in bed by 10 and up at 7.

TitaniasAss · 29/08/2025 15:23

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 12:48

Do you not work? Imagine not starting your day until 9am 🙄

So glad everyone I know is up by 6am in the week and 7am at the weekend because we all have lives to lead and taxes to pay

Show quote history

Just when you think you've seen every kind of ridiculous comment on here over the years ... 😂

BauhausOfEliott · 29/08/2025 15:16

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 12:48

Do you not work? Imagine not starting your day until 9am 🙄

So glad everyone I know is up by 6am in the week and 7am at the weekend because we all have lives to lead and taxes to pay

Show quote history

Sorry, but... why you think someone has to be up by 6am to work and pay taxes? And why does getting up at 7am mean you have more of a life to lead than anyone else?

I work from home most days. I don't have any kids. My working hours are flexible, so I can start any time up until 10am. Even if I start work at 9am, the earliest I have to be up is 8.30am to have a shower, get dressed, make a cup of tea and crack on. I still manage to do my full time job and pay the same tax as everyone else on my salary does.

At weekends I'm rarely up and about before before 9am, and usually it's later than that. I'm not a morning person. That doesn't mean I don't have a life to lead. It simply means I lead my life to a different schedule to yours. I'm a night owl. Midnight is the earliest I go to bed and often it's later than that.

Absolutely fine if you like to get up early and I have no opinion on whether it's OK to impose the same schedule on your guests; it's not a situation that's ever arisen for me because none of the friends I ever stay with are early risers at weekends. But it's really odd to assume that getting up at 6-7am is somehow morally superior or says anything about your ability to work and pay tax. Surely must grasp that everyone's jobs and lives are different?

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 14:24

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 14:12

Paying tax has absolutely no relevance whatsoever with getting up at 6am in the morning, and 7am at the weekend like that poster claimed, so I stand by my sarcastic reply.

Show quote history

Well, getting up early may be work related, and most folk pay tax so.....🤣

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 14:12

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 14:08

She didn't say she was paying tax at 6am. 🤔

Show quote history

Paying tax has absolutely no relevance whatsoever with getting up at 6am in the morning, and 7am at the weekend like that poster claimed, so I stand by my sarcastic reply.

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 14:08

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 14:03

why do you need to get up at 6am to pay your tax? Which country do you live in? 😂😂

Show quote history

She didn't say she was paying tax at 6am. 🤔

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 14:07

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 14:02

I don't tend to invite work colleagues to sleep over at my house, so if I have guests in the house either I would leave quietly to the office, or go quietly in my study and let them sleep until at least 9 am if they want to 😂

And if I am not on a call when I hear them move, I go downstairs and say hello.

Like a normal human being.

Show quote history

Normal is a wide range, my normal might not be your normal, but neither of us are wrong, just different - the point is that it's probably best to at least discuss these things beforehand.

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 14:03

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 12:48

Do you not work? Imagine not starting your day until 9am 🙄

So glad everyone I know is up by 6am in the week and 7am at the weekend because we all have lives to lead and taxes to pay

Show quote history

why do you need to get up at 6am to pay your tax? Which country do you live in? 😂😂

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 14:02

Ally886 · 29/08/2025 12:48

Do you not work? Imagine not starting your day until 9am 🙄

So glad everyone I know is up by 6am in the week and 7am at the weekend because we all have lives to lead and taxes to pay

Show quote history

I don't tend to invite work colleagues to sleep over at my house, so if I have guests in the house either I would leave quietly to the office, or go quietly in my study and let them sleep until at least 9 am if they want to 😂

And if I am not on a call when I hear them move, I go downstairs and say hello.

Like a normal human being.

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 13:52

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

My comments have all been more relevant than your two digs at me.
Very good. 😴

FanofLeaves · 29/08/2025 13:50

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

Whatareyoutalkingaboutnow · 29/08/2025 13:50

If I was on someone's sofa bed, I'd be awake by 7am anyway.

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 13:49

FanofLeaves · 29/08/2025 12:49

7am at the weekend! What joy to be had in your house 🤣 sounds like being in barracks.

Edited

Show quote history

You understand that we're not all the same, right?

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 13:47

BauhausOfEliott · 29/08/2025 12:19

You're being really weird now.

Show quote history

I've come back to see something of mine deleted....no idea what though, because I didn't break any rules!

GleisZwei · 29/08/2025 13:45

NeatKoala · 29/08/2025 11:55

there's always one 😂

Show quote history

I think you'll find there's many.