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Weird things people have done in your house

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Serendipetty · 14/12/2025 19:45

I had a lodger a couple of years ago. He is still a neighbour of mine and now and again he looks after my dog for me. He's happy to do this as he misses the dog.

Anyway recently we were having a conversation and I mentioned that I was moving house. I currently live in a small, old house with one bathroom. I mentioned that I would be happier in the new place as it was larger, had two bathrooms etc.

He said that often, while living with me, if I was in the bathroom using the bath or in a long time for whatever reason, he'd have to go down into the basement bedroom, take his underwear off, poo in it and then throw it away.

I was speechless. Honestly, if you're caught short and desperate I am sure there are better ways to deal?

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tobee · 14/12/2025 19:47

I think you win the thread 🏆🏅

Onlyhereforthebatshitneighbours · 14/12/2025 19:47

I didnt need to know this

BradPittsLeftArmpit · 14/12/2025 19:48

Omg, that makes my ex lodger look like a complete saint 🤣

thistimelastweek · 14/12/2025 19:49

Saw the thread title and was thinking of the visitor who installed a streaming service on our telly. Without asking

But reading further, clearly your level of weird behaviour is another dimension.

HamSand · 14/12/2025 19:50

I don’t think anyone could top that OP

DonaldJohnTrump · 14/12/2025 19:53

Weeelll, let's be trueful here.
Who hasn't done this?
I don't even bother going down to the basement!
Yer know, you've seen them pictures of me, looks like I'm sleeping - I'm not! I'm just focused, concentrating, if you will, on the 'job' on hand.
And as they say at the Wimbledondon tennis game - "New underpants, please"

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Serendipetty · 14/12/2025 20:13

thistimelastweek · 14/12/2025 19:49

Saw the thread title and was thinking of the visitor who installed a streaming service on our telly. Without asking

But reading further, clearly your level of weird behaviour is another dimension.

Not MY level may I add! 😂
He told me so casually! Like he was telling me he'd just made a cup of tea or something.
Surely someone else has had a weird happening in their house!

I should have clarified, I am not a poo troll!

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Serendipetty · 14/12/2025 20:14

BradPittsLeftArmpit · 14/12/2025 19:48

Omg, that makes my ex lodger look like a complete saint 🤣

I have had two lodgers while living here and several in an old place too. Some were awful and behaved unacceptably but this one was just downright weird.

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BradPittsLeftArmpit · 14/12/2025 20:40

Serendipetty · 14/12/2025 20:14

I have had two lodgers while living here and several in an old place too. Some were awful and behaved unacceptably but this one was just downright weird.

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Mine just used to move my stuff around "because it looks better there" and replace stuff because "he thought it needed replacing" 😖 Nowt so weird as folk 🤣

CalmShaker · 14/12/2025 21:11

OP when you move house, don't tell him your new address. He sounds a right nut case

blankcanvas3 · 14/12/2025 21:21

I don’t think anybody is going to be able to beat yours so we won’t bother 😂

reallyneedareset · 14/12/2025 21:37

After a friend of mine visited I found her chewing gum stuffed down the cushion on my sofa. That friendship I made sure cooled quickly. Couldn’t believe the disrespect.

I had a really bitchy health visitor when my son was born, she always talked down to me and made me feel like shit. One visit she got up to leave and kind of swiped her cardigan across the leather sofa as she got up. After she left I realised she’d bled over the seat 🤢

What is it with people wanting to wreck my sofas?

RetainersinSpainnotontheplane · 14/12/2025 21:37

Oh god I did that. Well sort of.

Years ago we were having a new bathroom put in. Only bathroom in the house. They were doing the toilet that day. Just put baby DS down for a nap and I realised I had to go like urgently. No options available to me. I didn’t drive. I couldn’t walk anywhere and there was no other adult in the house apart from the workmen.

Reader I’m ashamed to say I used one of DS’s nappies and relieved myself in my own bedroom. Bundled it all up in a nappy bag. It was the perfect crime. No one suspected a thing. The shame still burns brightly.

pastabest · 14/12/2025 22:31

RetainersinSpainnotontheplane · 14/12/2025 21:37

Oh god I did that. Well sort of.

Years ago we were having a new bathroom put in. Only bathroom in the house. They were doing the toilet that day. Just put baby DS down for a nap and I realised I had to go like urgently. No options available to me. I didn’t drive. I couldn’t walk anywhere and there was no other adult in the house apart from the workmen.

Reader I’m ashamed to say I used one of DS’s nappies and relieved myself in my own bedroom. Bundled it all up in a nappy bag. It was the perfect crime. No one suspected a thing. The shame still burns brightly.

Yeah after a long drive I was holding on for a public toilet I knew of about 15 mins from home. Rural area so no other options. Pulled into the village only to find the loos locked up and shut. Unable to hold on any longer I shoved 2 of 3mo DCs nappies into my knickers and let go.

Then spotted the bemused workmen sat in their van in the same car park un the space opposite me. To this day I tell myself they couldn't possibly have worked out what I was doing.

Rocknrollstar · 14/12/2025 22:36

As an adult, a pen friend from overseas came to stay. I left her in the house and went to work. When I got home she had gone out but had left every cupboard door in the kitchen open, so she’d obviously been through them. She never told me she had been shopping but when we tidied up her room we found loads of receipts and career bags and, worst of all, empty drug bottles. Heaven knows what she was taking.

Livpool · 14/12/2025 22:38

WTAF OP - you win the thread, what a fucking weirdo

MelaniesLaugh · 14/12/2025 22:46

I had a lodger who had a fish tank. She used to put dead fish in the waste paper bin in her room

My dog loved it! I never thought I’d have to tell someone not to put dead fish in a bin

Milliemoons · 14/12/2025 22:58

I mean… I used to live with someone (there were 4 of us in a house share) who took it upon herself to make a “house rule” that we needed to give each other 1 week notice of guests staying over but then would randomly throw 30+ person parties that went until 3am on work days without consulting us… and then got angry when my very quiet long term boyfriend came to stay because I’d only given 3 days notice… ( she used to always argue “well you could have joined in the party too!!!!”). But there was no poo involved so you definitely win.

Arlanymor · 14/12/2025 23:02

Oh go on then... and it was me. Years and years and years ago (uni days), my ex-boyfriend temporarily moved into a shared house with two other guys while he was waiting to move into the flat he had bought. One of them had form for making passes at me - blatantly in front of my boyfriend, despite being told off by both of us several times, and the other had been signed off work because of excessive marijuana use - so much so that one night he took everyone's shoes in the house and used them to make a 'nest' under his bed. I was living in London, my boyfriend was in Redhill. I never, ever stayed there overnight.

Until one day when I was there on a Sunday afternoon and my mum called to say my great aunt had died and I needed to come home. Home at the time was in Horsham - only about 20 minutes on the train, but nothing was running due to engineering works. There was no point me going back to London that night to come all the way back down to Sussex the following day. So I stayed the night.

The only bathroom was downstairs and through the lounge and then the kitchen. This is important.

My boyfriend and I went out to the pub to have some food - to get out of the house and blow some cobwebs away. Then we came back around 11pm and went to bed. About 2am I woke up and I desperately needed the loo - I had gone before bedtime but I'd had a bit more (grief) wine than usual and also anxiety makes you want to pee right?

His bedroom was on the top floor and I made it down two flights of stairs and was just outside the lounge. Both guys were in there on the PlayStation - these people never seemed to sleep. I just couldn't stand the thought of talking to Mr Mad Shoe Nest or dealing with Mr 'I'm Only Being Friendly' Sex Pest. I would have had to go through the lounge - kitchen - toilet - kitchen - lounge - to have a wee and back to bed and I just couldn't stand the thought.

Today Me knows I should have woken my ex and got him to come down with me - but Then Me knew he had work the next day, my brain was a bit fried... so I went back up to the room. Luckily he had a big cheese plant and I then elected to have the world's most silent (but violent) wee into the plant pot in his room. I ended up opening his window quietly and tipping out the 'excess fluid' that hadn't soaked into the soil of the pot into the garden below.

We were together for another four years. And when we met later - probably a year after the split, just to say hello, I ended up blurting out what I had done. Luckily he thought it was funny and said: "I wondered why it went brown overnight and then just gave up on life!" Once in a while we still cross paths and he likes to remind me of my toxic wee... which wouldn't have been a thing if he hadn't have chosen to live with toxic roommates!

Xmasdemon · 14/12/2025 23:05

I had a workman in to fix the shower. The bathroom is just off the living room and both doors were open. I heard him making a really weird noise like eeee. When he left there was pee in my toilet

Alpacajigsaw · 14/12/2025 23:07

Eww! OMG OP that is so rank! We have one bathroom and I have pretty dodgy guts but I’ve never done that! I’ve always been able to hold on or if I was desperate I’d go to a neighbour or the local supermarket but that is completely disgusting. And it was a frequent occurrence too by looks of it? And he was then throwing shit filled underpants in your bin? 🤮

blackheartsgirl · 14/12/2025 23:13

Arlanymor · 14/12/2025 23:02

Oh go on then... and it was me. Years and years and years ago (uni days), my ex-boyfriend temporarily moved into a shared house with two other guys while he was waiting to move into the flat he had bought. One of them had form for making passes at me - blatantly in front of my boyfriend, despite being told off by both of us several times, and the other had been signed off work because of excessive marijuana use - so much so that one night he took everyone's shoes in the house and used them to make a 'nest' under his bed. I was living in London, my boyfriend was in Redhill. I never, ever stayed there overnight.

Until one day when I was there on a Sunday afternoon and my mum called to say my great aunt had died and I needed to come home. Home at the time was in Horsham - only about 20 minutes on the train, but nothing was running due to engineering works. There was no point me going back to London that night to come all the way back down to Sussex the following day. So I stayed the night.

The only bathroom was downstairs and through the lounge and then the kitchen. This is important.

My boyfriend and I went out to the pub to have some food - to get out of the house and blow some cobwebs away. Then we came back around 11pm and went to bed. About 2am I woke up and I desperately needed the loo - I had gone before bedtime but I'd had a bit more (grief) wine than usual and also anxiety makes you want to pee right?

His bedroom was on the top floor and I made it down two flights of stairs and was just outside the lounge. Both guys were in there on the PlayStation - these people never seemed to sleep. I just couldn't stand the thought of talking to Mr Mad Shoe Nest or dealing with Mr 'I'm Only Being Friendly' Sex Pest. I would have had to go through the lounge - kitchen - toilet - kitchen - lounge - to have a wee and back to bed and I just couldn't stand the thought.

Today Me knows I should have woken my ex and got him to come down with me - but Then Me knew he had work the next day, my brain was a bit fried... so I went back up to the room. Luckily he had a big cheese plant and I then elected to have the world's most silent (but violent) wee into the plant pot in his room. I ended up opening his window quietly and tipping out the 'excess fluid' that hadn't soaked into the soil of the pot into the garden below.

We were together for another four years. And when we met later - probably a year after the split, just to say hello, I ended up blurting out what I had done. Luckily he thought it was funny and said: "I wondered why it went brown overnight and then just gave up on life!" Once in a while we still cross paths and he likes to remind me of my toxic wee... which wouldn't have been a thing if he hadn't have chosen to live with toxic roommates!

I had to do something similar when I was 18 and had come home from Uni to my parents house.

My mum had a bit of a nasty temper when I was younger and if I got up and needed a wee in the middle of the night she would go absolutely mental at me, screaming and shouting all sorts and even hit me. So one night I was absolutely desperate and quite scared, really didn’t need the shit of her so I grabbed an empty mug in my room and peed into it, then very very quietly opened my window and poured the lot onto the top of the kitchen extension above my window.

I did tell my boyfriend what I’d done when I went back to uni and he was very sympathetic (he knew how bad my mum could be) and said he’d have done exactly the same thing.

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Arlanymor · 14/12/2025 23:24

blackheartsgirl · 14/12/2025 23:13

I had to do something similar when I was 18 and had come home from Uni to my parents house.

My mum had a bit of a nasty temper when I was younger and if I got up and needed a wee in the middle of the night she would go absolutely mental at me, screaming and shouting all sorts and even hit me. So one night I was absolutely desperate and quite scared, really didn’t need the shit of her so I grabbed an empty mug in my room and peed into it, then very very quietly opened my window and poured the lot onto the top of the kitchen extension above my window.

I did tell my boyfriend what I’d done when I went back to uni and he was very sympathetic (he knew how bad my mum could be) and said he’d have done exactly the same thing.

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Oh bless you, you poor thing. I am also glad that a mug held your, er, contents, because I would have needed a whole kettle to contain my, er, contents. Needs must eh?

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Serendipetty · 15/12/2025 09:38

Alpacajigsaw · 14/12/2025 23:07

Eww! OMG OP that is so rank! We have one bathroom and I have pretty dodgy guts but I’ve never done that! I’ve always been able to hold on or if I was desperate I’d go to a neighbour or the local supermarket but that is completely disgusting. And it was a frequent occurrence too by looks of it? And he was then throwing shit filled underpants in your bin? 🤮

I have IBS and have never done anything like this either!

I think it must've been a frequent occurrence. His msg read that;

"I suddenly got my upset tummy and had about ten seconds to get to a loo. Several times I had to dash to the cellar take off my
underwear
and poo in the
underwear
then throw them in the bin I'm not proud but desperate times call for desperate solutions!"

I haven't asked which bin he used however I do know that in his current house (social housing) he had an issue with his loo and couldn't put loo roll down it for a while and didn't want to ask for help with it, so for a while he was using a bin for loo roll. I know that is commonplace in other countries however...

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