To ask for another annoying things about other peoples homes thread?

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This one two years ago made my christmas... can we have another? 🎄 🙏

Going to a friend’s shoes-off house. Fine in the winter. In the summer I’m pottering about in bare feet and that’s weird. We are a shoes-off house but not for guests if they don’t want to.

My mum’s insistence that cheap bin bags from the pound shop are just as good - combined with her reluctance to empty the bin. Meaning it’s all crushed in and stuck and it takes two of us to prise the bag out of the bin and of course it rips and strews crap everywhere.

Houses without a shower

My lovely friend has painted her house in only shades of grey. One particular room is such a dark grey its black. Its opressive.
No toilet roll. When i visit ny inlaws i always check first and most times there is none...so i check the cupboard in the bathroom. None. I go downstairs and say to IL any loo roll? For them all to look at each other and argue about who should have got loo roll. When i visit now i take my own stash in my handbag for me and dd

My PIL's house is so cold polar bears wouldn't survive. It could be -100 outside and they'd have the windows and doors open for a breeze. When we go there we have to dress like we're heading to the alps.

We go there less now we have a baby as the temp is never comfortable and it's all you can think about. If you beg them to put the heating on they'll put it on and then just as you start to warm up you'll start getting cold again and realise they've switched it off. Plenty of money, just don't give a shit about other people's comfort.

@blahblahblaaa that’s like my dad. The last time we went to stay over we had to sleep in our clothes including jackets. Never stayed over since. Also plenty money but weird attitude to heating, and guests.

Same PIL also don't have a kitchen towel, where do I dry my hands? And either no soap or watered down soap. Again - plenty of money and a nice house!

I’m slightly gobsmacked by how divisive this bathroom bin is. It’s paving the way for the holier-than-thou ‘I recycle everything IMMEDIATELY’ types, who often wouldn’t dream of using something so ghastly as a cotton bud or cotton pad or would never be so crass and backwards as to use a tampon or sanitary towel in this environmentally-woke day and age... 😆

I have little bins all over the place. Useful.

Big candles that are just for show and gather dust and film.
Loos that don't flush properly.
Too hot.
Toilets in utility rooms. Why would you want someone seeing your knickers drying on their way to the loo?

@dotty12345

Those who don't like front doors opening straight into a room and not a hallway might consider it's not always a lifestyle choice more a what you can afford choice!

This.

It's interesting to see what people without bathroom bins do with their bathroom rubbish.

I use reusable Facesilk pads to take my makueup off with but i still need to use cotton buds & pads for my eyes and when im taking nail polish off. I see that a lot of people do that and other stuff in the bedroom though.

Does everyone put their floss down the loo?

We have a bathroom bin and a bathroom recycling bin! The empty plastic bottles, toothpaste tubes, product boxes and toilet roll tubes all go in the recycling! It saddens me to read how many people just put theirs in the rubbish bin!
My husband is slightly obsessive about bins so he empties them all daily (ensuite, bedroom, kitchen bin, recycling bin and compost caddy) and sorts out the things that need recycling. There are no sanitary products in our ensuite bin because I no longer need them.

Air fresheners
Synthetic carpets (make my feet sweat)
Polyester sheets
Big slobbering dogs
Being followed into around the kitchen

Bad furniture arrangement eg too many pieces of furniture for the room or the wrong size rug

@BarryWhiteIsMyBrother

We were once told our home would look like a show home were it not for our dogs. I like a tidy home, with books but not knick knacks. Our cleaner comes four times a week, our windows are open every morning until lunchtime to air our bed and get fresh air in the house. So our house is cold until lunchtime every day. I WFH so wear multiple layers until we close the windows. I don't mind because I hate stale air and stuffy homes. If we have guests we do ensure the house is warm though. To each their own....

I have been crying with laughter reading this thread! It's the perfect antidote to 2020. Please MumsnetHQ, can it go in Classics?

When staying as a guest in someone's house:

-bins that are overflowing, or better yet, when they remove the full bin bag and just leave it on the side of the bin, open so that more can be added

-towels the size of postage stamps

-when, as soon as you enter their home, they happily announce 'sorry, haven't cleaned at all!'

My DGM keeps her front room locked and will only open it for very specific guests. I have been in there maybe twice, the carpet and sofas are cream and she keeps her expensive Lladro collection in there so I think she’s afraid something will break or get ruined. So bizarre to have a big old room like that you keep ‘for best’. She invites people from synagogue to sit in there mostly.

A school friend’s Mum worked at the RSPCA and she couldn’t bear the thought of them putting healthy animals down so they had at least ten cats at any given time. The house STUNK of cats. They only had one open litter tray and they kept it directly at the top of the stairs so when you walked in the stench of cat piss and shit just hit you, it was so disgusting. They had three dogs, chinchillas and rabbits too plus a large fish tank in the living room. I loved my friend but detested her house, it was a three bed semi too so not massive. The cats weren’t allowed out either incase they went missing which just made it worse...

I don’t understand why people don’t have kitchen bins either. My friend doesn’t and she has a toddler in nappies so she has piles of bagged nappies on the side. She goes out to the wheely bin a few times a day. Their leftover food gets emptied into a plastic carrier bag... just baffles me.

Also hate the BATH, EAT, SLEEP signs. My Mum is a fan of tat like that, always from B&M. She has the ‘Friends, Family, love and laughter’ type things on her walls, they make me boak. She also lives in a townhouse and I really can’t bear the fact you have to walk up and down stairs every time you want to make a coffee.

PIL did their bathroom up and installed a new door with a window in it directly in front of the toilet. Ok, the glass is frosted, but I can’t wee when I can clearly see FIL walking up the stairs towards me!

@movingondown Your post did make me laugh, your MIL sounds great . Just loving the image of you rooting around for a whisk only for her to come straight in and hand you five different ones. I love houses with random shit in places that just don’t make sense.

I'm a bit baffled as to why you wouldn't have a bathroom bin, even if only for the use of guests. What's the downside?

OK, so you may never ever need to use it yourself, because of your bedroom bin/mooncup/unpackaging habits etc. But surely the worst that would happen then is that the bathroom bin sits there empty, waiting for guests? Why is that a bad thing?

A few people have said that it would be "another bin to empty," but surely that means that it would actually be used (and useful). It means that the rubbish would be carried out of the bathroom in one journey (when you empty the bin) instead of in multiple journeys (as you carry it somewhere else every time it arises). This is literally what bins are for. Otherwise, logically, people would have no bins at all in the house and would just carry every individual item straight out to the wheelie bin...

God!!! People would hate ours as I am always soooo cold and our heating is always on!!! LOL

Pet hair everywhere. So you sit down on the sofa and get covered in dog hair. Sister, I'm looking at you!

People who wear shoes indoors, I can't understand how they can relax when they're sat on the sofa with their shoes on.

Live, laugh, love or other similarly shit, twee signs. Also the ones that bark instructions at you like "bathe" in massive letters in the bathroom. Fuck off I know what a bathroom is for!

Houses with no books. Are they hiding them?

People who have a tv on 24 hours a day. I’m visiting you turn off the crap that you aren’t even actually watching and give me attention!

A dirty bathroom sink.

*@Whatsnewpussyhat so if someone in your family has used sanitary stuff, they have to bring it downstairs to the kitchen bin?
I HATE this. As a teen I'd have been mortified to have to do this, and why would you want it in your kitchen bin? Why not have a bathroom bin?

Just me at the moment, and yes I bring them straight down and put them in the kitchen bin. Why is that an issue? Why would I leave them sat in a bathroom bin that I will then have to empty myself anyway?

I also would never have a bin in my bedroom because, for me, there is no need. Never had a dressing table or any toiletries in there. No food gets eaten in there.

Years or working unsociable hours and changing shifts means I get washed and dressed in the bathroom then go straight downstairs to the kitchen. I take my rubbish with me. As does the rest of the household. No massive hardship and the alternative is a bin in the bathroom that would get filled then ignored leaving me to clean up everyone else's crap. Fuck that.

It means that the rubbish would be carried out of the bathroom in one journey (when you empty the bin) instead of in multiple journeys (as you carry it somewhere else every time it arises)

But why would I leave the rubbish in the bathroom when I already go straight from bathroom to kitchen anyway? Same amount of 'journeys' regardless of whether I take my rubbish right away or save it all up until a bin is full!

Bathroom bin wars!!
I agree with pp that this is a funny thread, but there is someone on here that cannot afford to hear their home, which I think is very sad.

Houses with no books. Are they hiding them?

Yes, most of my books are in cupboards with doors. I don’t feel the need to display them, there are probably about thirty out in nooks and crannies, about the house, but the majority reside in basically book shelves with doors. We also use electronic readers, which host hundreds..

I really don’t understand the need to have them on display. Then to shout about it. It feels shallow. Like you need to prove something. You can access them just as easy by opening a door as not.

Personally unless I know someone, I don’t presume whether they have books in their house or not if they aren’t displayed, and I also don’t presume if they read or not due to the prevalence of electronic readers.

So the whole faux snobbishness about having books on display is really not something I can comprehend. A book is to be read. It doesn’t matter where you store it, be it in a cupboard, an open book shelf or an electronic repository. It is not something to be shown off so you can act superior.