What are your guests doing that is doing your head in?

[rainywinterday]

For me, my mum is sat next to me and burping around every 5 seconds or doing some sort of mouth smacking noise. Pointless calling her out on it as she'll just say it's because she's got a cold (it's not). I want to gouge my ears out.....

What is everyone else putting up with in the name of family merriment?!?

Changing toilet roll direction

Have had PIL since Monday late afternoon.

They do absolutely nothing to help. Even after emptying the dishwasher (me) they will dump used mugs on the work surface next to it for the cleaning fairy to dispose of.

They haven’t left the house for 4 days now. Not even for a 5 min walk around the block. Wouldn’t think to get out of the house to give us some respite.

MIL keeps commenting you two ‘stop arguing’ - we aren’t arguing, my OH & I just have lots of banter between us. Not sure why she thinks she should interfere in our relationship, or think her subservience to her husband is the norm.

MIL wakes up around 10:30am everyday, hogs the family bathroom for hours on end (we do have a guest bathroom but she prefers not to use that one). Will come down at about 1pm (and expect breakfast). Then back up at 4pm to get changed for dinner.

Oh and MIL leaves her false teeth on the bathroom sink. We do have a guest bathroom but she chooses not to use that one, so instead no one can access their toothbrushes or toiletries to get ready.

They don’t buy any presents for anyone. Just hand out cash.

Constantly criticise people - they’re fat (massive fat shamers), have bad skin, look at the state...... Argh......

The sense of entitlement is astonishing. I am seriously about to loose my shit and we have 3 more days of this.

They are already hinting at a week in the summer or next Christmas. Over my dead body and OH owes me big time!

My dad was the perfect house guest!

Thankfully only for the day but my BIL turned up 3 hours late for dinner. We ate without him. Wanker.

@Beachcomber I think we must have the same 'D'B and SIL... except when mine eventually had to change a nappy they leave the dirty one open on top of my own son's clean clothes that I'm about to change him into I'm counting down the hours till they leave on Sunday.

SIL and BIL who gives us daily updates on the weather. They talk endlessly about the bargains at Lidl and we should go there, despite us telling them we don't have a Lidl near us. They leave their used cups all over the place. BIL leaves his glasses on the kitchen worktops overnight - god knows why he can't put them in their bedroom. BIL wees all over the floor around the toilet - he can't seem to get his aim right. He sneaks more wine when he thinks his wife is dozing in the chair, leaves used tissues full of green snot all over the house. I could go on about him but that's probably enough for now.

DIL dumps her kids on us as soon as she arrives telling us we need to spend time with our grandchildren- we love spending time with our DGs and would happily spend more time with them but not when it's an order from DIL who then spends the whole time ignoring them and saying how lovely it is to be able read her book while us and her DH run around doing everything
Argghhh families!!!

The chewing. I can’t take any more of the dentures moving, lip smacking chewing. I’d blame my 70 odd year old father but my 30 something year old brother is even worse

They've gone but they let their dog on my sofa secretly when they thought I'd gone to bed and despite me asking them not to. Grrr

My mum is going deaf, she is getting worse and is waiting for hearing aids, she left it so long to go to the doctors in the first place so she drove us insane. It sounds so out of order as it's not entirely her fault but it is so frustrating

I’m probably the annoying guest. English is my second language and I really struggle with a lot of accents so if we watch anything on TV I need subtitles.

No guests this year but we previously hosted my dsis and BIL and their (lovely) DD for about eight years on the trot over Xmas and OMG, the horror.

Mostly it was about how long they stayed, right till NYE. And they never offered to help, just sat and talked all day every day.

But the second worst was BIL, every morning when I came downstairs after a shower with wet hair.

“Oh my GOD, what’s happened is it raining outside??? LOL LOL LOL.”

EVERY BLOODY MORNING.

Staying an extra four days because they don’t feel up to the journey home and want to ‘leave it til after the weekend’. It’s a two hour train journey, no changes.

@SimonJT, I have subtitles on too. Not due to language barriers but because everything is so bloody mumbly these days

[curmudgeon emoticon]

Guests that are still here ... grrr!! Go home lol

My very much loved DD. Non stop eating and drinking whilst telling me she's so full up she feels ill...…..and back to the fridge she goes.

I'm knackered just watching her.

We’re stuck in the cycle of being the guests. Everyone is put out because I’m not off for 2 weeks and fitting me in is a big song and dance - I was happy left in peace. But everyday after work I’m round to someone’s home. They all ate lunch late and are having a lazy day. That’s nice but I’ve raced here from work so let’s get some food on the go. I come with flowers and presents and wine and painted on smile. It took 2 hours to get a cup of tea last night. I offered to make it but that was a great offence. I sent dh to make it, but he’s on holiday.

I swear I’m a good guest, I’m like my family, I am a willing participant but if one more person asks why I didn’t book holidays I’m heading to the woods.

And and and I suggested everyone come to ours where you can make yourself all the tea you want, the fridge is bursting and I don’t freak the fuck out when there’s no crackers for biscuits. But no, no it’s not the same when you’re in someone else’s house.

It comes to something when the lunchbreak at work is peace on earth.

I love my guests but they insist in coming into the kitchen when I am cooking and stirring stuff which irrationally annoys me.

Also, they both sing tunelessly along with any music that is on TV.

Nothing!

My guests have been polite, great company and fun. They brought kind presents, wine and flowers, made us laugh, joined in, were relaxed and generally added good things to the proceedings.

Just thought I’d add another POV!

The only perk of having a tiny house it’s impossible to host

@Waterandlemonjuice to be fair I can't complain really. We've had a lovely time, my guests are here till 1st jan and I'm always sad when its over

@glitterfisher 👍🏻

They're constantly nodding off! I feel like I'm in the house on my own .... although that may not be such a bad thing

My parents have left this morning after spending 3 nights here. If I'm honest, it was 1 night too many so am feeling huge relief that they have gone home and I can breathe and relax. After 24hrs' hosting, I always feel more like a skivvy than a host.

Yes my DD(God and everyone else please forgive me,I know she's my DD and I love her dearly)she can be very negative(I don't know why and it's the opposite of how I am)but she has pretty much constantly been snappy and negative towards me since we picked her up on Christmas Eve and she was desperate to be here for Christmas and I was so looking forward to spending it with her but today I've had to stop myself from crying in front of her.

She is a first time mum and her lovely DS is only 3 months so I do get it,the tiredness and feeling worn out and fed up(I was a single mum to 4DC before I met my DH)but me and her Dad have done so much,I looked after the baby all of the first night and then my DH(her Dad)looked after our Grandson all of the second night and me and her Dad took it in turns last night,but still she's been a negative nelly,I've also done the bathing,winding,nappy changes,they're laundry,her Dad's been cooking for her but still she finds stuff to moan about.

They go back home later today and I know we'll all miss them terribly but I'm looking forward to a few days peace.

I only had guests for boxing day but my god i was glad when they left.

My mum who does the over the top "we must have fun, look how amazing and wonderfully fun i am" show. Shes always demanding games and music and urgh, its so tripe as actually it comes across like she just wants to prove shes still young & fun and that I'm old before my time & boring and yes she has actually told me that before.

My uncle came & only stayed instead of heading to the pub as he wanted to watch football & realised we had amazon prime, but then kept dozing off (none of us watch football) and he was an hour late, had a cold & now i feel like death.

My nan came but a mixture of deafness & dementia means she is hard work in itself.

We didnt have guests xmas day for the first time in a few years and we realised how wonderful it was and intend to continue having no guests.