AIBU to judge total strangers on the state of their carpets?

[NotFunnyHaHa]

I suspect I'm being utterly unreasonable. Yet I won't ever stop still do it.

If someone posts something on a Facebook selling page, it could be a solid block of gold for a fiver, it could be an actual naked Tom Hardy, or lovely bottles of wine for free - if it photographed ontop of an unvaccuumed carpet I judge you. I also wonder what the state of the rest of the house is and wonder when they last hoovered. I look at the bits and try and guess. Hairs are the worst.

It's akin to washing an unwashed item of clothing.

This is AIBU so I'm fully expecting a flaming it's been sometime but I refuse to change my mind.

So in theory, it should have been a statement in Chat.

[Scremersford]

YANBU. I once visited SIL's house for the first time and the carpets were literally crawling with all the debris that builds up but had never been hovered. Crumbs were the least of it. I was sickened. To make it worse, PIL had paid for their house to be entirely redecorated, including new carpets from John Lewis, less than a year earlier. I honestly wonder if it had ever been hovered since then. I ate a snack out of politeness and the thought of it now makes me want to throw up. I haven't been back since, always make excuses. SIL and BIL are young and healthy are certainly capable of cleaning up after themselves.

They have since had their house entirely redecorated by a company that does this again...less than 5 years after the first time, as apparently it "really needed done as it was old fashioned".

[BabyGanoush]

Well, lucky you if you get a feeling of superiority/happiness by looking at other people's carpets on e-bay. It's cheap and harms nobody, so yanbu

Some people are just easily pleased I guess

enjoy it

[ChinUpChestOut]

Yanbu. I dislike dirty carpets immensely. I'm not that fond of clean ones - I can't help but think they're one day away from being a CSI crime scene.

I once visited an old friend who I hadn't seen in years, with my 8 week old DS. I had been invited to have dinner and stay the night. The carpets couldn't have been cleaned in months. I wasn't too precious with DS, and normally would happily have put him down on a blanket on the carpet. But not there. I smiled nicely at friend, perched on the edge of the sofa and prayed that the kitchen was cleaner. It wasn't.

I can't imagine why people don't see their own dirty carpets. A massive blind spot?

[TheCatsFlaps]

YANBU. It's when I look at eBay or Etsy photos and see someone naked in the reflection.

[IJustLostTheGame]

Yanbu.
I judge.
I never understand why people put 'just needs a good clean'. Why not clean it before listing it then?????

Mind you we have no floors at all at the moment. Our house has been concreted and needs 6 weeks to dry out. If I sell anything people will assume I live in a public car park or something

[Theycallmemellowjello]

Well you're entitled to judge people on any criterion you like. But I'm judging you from your OP and you seem pretty shallow.

[Anon136790]

Someone on my local page was selling a filthy baby walker caked in food and wanted ??35 for it, the carpet was filthy covered in fag butts, food and beer cans!

I judged them!!!

[anklebitersmum]

sandgrown I don't doubt that there are nice people living in that manner (I also have done perching on sofa whilst trying to breathe through my ears in the line of work)..I just didn't want to take anything home with me inanimate or otherwise

[x2boys]

well i,m having my whole house re carpeted today so my carpets would look marvellous for a couple of weeks at least!

[sandgrown]

Anklebiter .As part of my work I used to visit lots of homes like you describe. You soon learn to perch on the edge of a chair and refuse all offers of a drink but despite all that I met some very nice friendly people.

[TheIncomparableDejahThoris]

Oh. Well, um, er, the counsel for the defence rests!

[OublietteBravo]

They left me the receipts/invoiced for everything they'd had done to the house. The carpets are their work (except for the top floor - they obviously didn't get as far as decorating up there).

[anklebitersmum]

But I'd get in trouble with the tower surely?

[Havalina1]

!!!!

I need to see the kettle pic

[Tootsiepops]

Holy shit. Those are some spectacularly hideous shoes.

[anklebitersmum]

It's surely not just me?

I have the kettle pic somewhere....

[Havalina1]

Anklebiter you are killing me... Stop making me laugh I'm too pregnant and my belly can't take it

[TheIncomparableDejahThoris]

Oubliette Any possibility they brought the carpets from a previous home, and they've just been kept in great condition since the seventies? Along with some flares, and an LP collection?

[anklebitersmum]

Oooh I judge.. it's half the fun of selling sites..

My favourites to date have been;

1. The guy taking a photo of his nice shiny stainless steel kettle whilst naked.
   
2. An advert for an eye-wateringly ugly "Nitted jumper" (errrr no thanks )
   
3. A pair of genuinely hideous shoes that had been only worn 'a few times' which just begged the question WHERE?
   

My most unfortunate experience was shortly after moving to a new area agreeing to go to look at something and then pulling up outside the squat property in disrepair to see suspiciously stained mattresses propped up against the fence and numerous people in their underwear smoking and drinking on the front steps (I kid you not). DH thought it was hysterical to pull up beeping and wave, whilst I was hissing "get us out of here.." thus forcing me to have to have two showers and throw my shoes away when I got home go inside to politely decline said article whilst trying not to touch anything.

[scrivette]

Oubliette - the previous owners of my place had very similar tastes to yours as our carpets are very similar.

-misses point of thread-

[Snowfilledsky]

I don't have FB, bit the teens do. I have an occasional peek. There are many selfies, I don't spot the carpets. Just the unmade bed, the pile of laundry in the background. Then I wonder why nobody ever cleans the mirrors.

Will have to have a look at the selling pages, I do like a poke about on the local Spotted page. Very informative...

[TeamScoutRifle]

Mmmm a naked Tom Hardy
Sorry op but I just couldn't get past that bit...

[OublietteBravo]

- I'm glad I'm not being judged too harshly on the carpets I inherited (and I can assure you they are not from the 1970s - the previous owners deliberately chose these carpets in the 21st century)

The cleaner came today, so they've all been vacuumed

[BoulevardOfBrokenSleep]

I think I have mused on here before - I am a CSI fan, and they always walk into the murder scene, examine the carpet, and say; "Oh, here is a single short blonde hair, and a piece of grit from one particular quarry."

In my house, it would be more like, "we have found skin cells from 72 different people, hair traces from 26 species of animal (one extinct), and soil from 93 different locations across 3 continents."

[CrystalButterfly]

You would hate the carpet in my communal area, I hate it. It's thin brown covered in stains clearly been there over 20yrs and the landlord won't change it either.
Anyone entering my flat must think I live in a shithole but then they see my lovely flat