How do guests drive you mad....

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Now Xmas/NY is out the way, guests are returning home. It's so difficult having others in the house and in your space .
People live so differently !!!!!!
how have your guests drove you mad or what weird things have they done?

needing a laugh to breath through multiple things broken/wrecked before I deep clean HAHA
NC just incase!

One guest balanced their drink beside them on the sofa. There was a table beside them but nope, sit your cup on tea on the cushion so i can sweat about it being ruined.

Another brought down her duvet in the morning and nestled on the sofa for the day, barely leaving room for anyone else.

One stayed for 3 nights. I'm a single parent running round like a mad woman. My guest has a very helpful dp who she left at home. I realised she is used to being waited on. Duing her visit she literally never put the kettle on or carried a plate to the kitchen. No offers of help. My weekend was lost to playing hotel keeper.

I don't really enjoy having overnight guests!

WHAT?!!! How did you all know? Did she announce or was it obvious ! Omg laughing !!

Getting up at the crack of dawn and making just enough noise to wake everyone up incl animals so we all have to surface an hour before that which is necessary.
Kids are now pre/early teens. They have no ffing interest in opening their stockings at 7am!!!

One refused to eat anything I had cooked, refused all other alternative options offered with theatrical shudders.

Said she wanted pizza. But only Domino’s pizza. No other pizza would do.
We don’t have a Domino’s here and also no one delivers. We’re in the sticks.

Then she wanted to be driven to a supermarket, where she bought two giant bottles of Diet Coke and a few giant bags of Haribo. That was all she ate.

She’s well into her fifties but acts like a stroppy teen.

Placing glasses of red wine on the floor next to my brand new cream curtains.
Not getting up/ready/having breakfast until gone 11am.
Hogging the TV and watching miserable crap!
Complaining constantly before arriving that she doesn't get to spend enough time with the grandchildren or enjoy any Christmas activities with them. So, I specifically try to organise Christmas stuff to do together and within 5 minutes of said activity starting she announces she's going to Tesco to look at the pyjamas. FFS! Then gets all huffy and defensive when questioned about her decisions 🙄

Hmmm can I add MIL announcing she would do the starter (pate on toast, salad leaves with oil and vinegar) but then taking 25 minutes to “prepare” it (I ended up toasting bread and dressing salad, all she had to do was plate it) in time so we could eat it before the roast and trimmings were ready. Reader, the roast was ready 2 minutes after I had got the starter on the table. Was it sabotage? Yes absolutely, she’s a sneaky manipulative shit and I won’t be fooled a third time (yes third) when she offers to “help” in the kitchen.

Please don't trivialise OCD by claiming you are slightly 'ocd'. It's actually a very difficult condition to live with and isn't just wanting to have a tidy house.

Not taking shoes off inside.
Watching tv all day.
Pee on bathroom floor.

A pet peeve of mine is big burly blokes (NEVER women, I'm no lightweight myself and I don't have especially flimsy furniture) leaning back on chairs with all their weight so the backrest cracks and/or breaks, really forcefully sitting down heavily on stools, ripping tied to seat pads with their arses, that type of thing. Just not taking the care to move a bit gracefully or considerate, taking up lots of space iyswim. DFIL was very much like this in other people's houses, almost demonstratively, meanwhile very precious about his own furniture, carpets etc, especially when the children were young.

Wtf!!!!!!

Yes. Burn (her) it!

One house guest a total pleasure.
His brother absolutely horrendous. Moody, sullen, angry, ranting, bigotted, rude, obnoxious, never lifted a finger to help, made his bedroom smell with his dirty, stale clothes, 30 minute showers, constantly left lights on, tv on til 4am and left a mess everywhere he went. He went home yesterday and he will never step foot in my house again.

That sounds like my sofas....but not if we have guests!!

Big clumps of long hair left in the shower (shudder).
Dirty socks left in the hallway
Dirty sweat-damp running leggings left behind.

Leaving crumbs on the sofa even when given a plate, won't eat over the plate
Not helping themselves to tea, sitting there waiting to be served
Doing nothing to help
Having the phone on with constant beeping
Taking phone calls whilst mid conversation with people in front of them
Leaving the toilet in a state
Only talking about themselves

All of the above - my parents

Trying to discipline my cats and feeding them with human food at the same time 😡
TV constantly on
My mum behaving like she's a hostess, so looking through my stuff in the kitchen etc.

One guest didn’t lift a finger
spoke non stop NON STOP
and then didn’t leave for hours after she said she would and I was just like

urghhhh

Mother of God. Was she drunk?

Blood on the bedsheets - which weren't stripped

Snotters wiped on my walls by the bed (two adults staying - not children)

Deep baths every night (at 10pm) even though there is also a shower in the ensuite

Not opening the bathroom window so everything was covered in mould and needed to be binned.

Cooking smelly greasy food and not cleaning up afterwards.

Putting a handful of clothes in the washing machine and running a 3h cycle followed by the tumble drier... every day.

Constant preaching of how the food we are choosing to eat is killing us and how the white man is being punished in society.

3 weeks of hell. Never ever again.

Funny enough they moved onto another family member who has asked them to leave after a couple of days.

I genuinely loved our guests, they were dreamy compared to some on here, helpful, considerate, generous, grateful etc etc. But, when no guests are here I have 'my' chair. They adopted my chair as theirs within minutes of entering the house and then became very territorial about it. I have relished the last 24 hours back in 'my' chair!!!

Sorry this made me smile as every other month my friend and I take it in turns to stay for a few days at each others house. We live quite far away from each other. My lounge inevitably becomes our crochet space and I still find bits of yarn or fluff down sofas under things etc after she's gone. My dh just shuts himself away in his man room and listens to records 😂

How do people ask them to leave? How can you do it when it's close family? I feel like an anxious slave in my own house. It's day 15 and I've just finally shouted at them not to shout at my children (I know, ironic 🤦‍♀️)
Child was shouted at to let the dog in. Person was less than a step from the door and child (who had let the dog out) was much further away. They were so looking forward to this visit.

-breaking things. Leaving them in a precarious position, not telling us and never mentioning it

-going in the bathroom minutes before you know l need to use it before going to an appointment, despite being told the previous night the bathroom will be needed at that time

-getting irritable if any chores need to be done, bordering on a tantrum. It's great you're in holiday mode but lm not. Uniforms don't wash themselves and work only issue a limited number

-conversely you want all food and drink to be made me. Even if l am otherwise engaged in preparing for my own wedding did example and the house is full of easy treats / nibbles e.g. fruit salad, pain au chocolates, Buck's Fizz etc

-comments about butter, milk, juice etc. If you're that fussed about certain brands then bring your own. Don't send me a shopping list of stuff a few days before, l don't have the bandwidth to remember or buy it all. You may think lm lazy and selfish BUT l work 40 hours a week, study part time as well and lm heavily pregnant.

-wanting to go to bed at 8pm. Not a small child, they have just manoeuvred their body clock into a weird timetable of super early bedtime and rise. Then is irritable the rest of the world (especially my house) doesn't fall in with it

-wanting the TV constantly on (apart from when they go to bed at 8pm -we ignore this as it's our house and it's not on loud!)

-phone on loud and clicking with each key strike

-wanting the house hermetically sealed with no doors or windows opened ever. Reality house is old and needs to be ventilated. Plus we have cats, that constantly want to go in and out of rooms

-re-arranging things around the house. Promptly gets irritable when told the old way is preferred and things gets switched back

I currently wondering how long l can go without a house guest as on the whole they are SO ANNOYING! I don’t do this shit at other people’s houses?!?!

Slamming doors right next to my son's room at night. Dirty shoes in the house. Constant hogging of the TV. I'm so glad my visitors have gone!

How did l forget the door slamming?! Literally slamming each door they encounter off it’s hinges 🙈

I have a long list. I fear that if I start listing I won’t stop!