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

[balihai550]

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

Overbearing air freshener scented candles. So that they longer on your clothes

Dirty loo brush. Or no loo brush! I know they divide MN but how to clean the loo after myself without one! Oh gosh. I’m staying home just thinking about it

@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!

I always see that as more of a regional building design (up north, workers cottages) rather than a lifestyle choice. It seems fairly standard in a lot of lovely little cottages.

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!

Same number of journeys = no reason not to have a bin.

But to be fair, it sounds (from your previous post) as though everyone in your household expects you to be the one to empty all the bins and deal with their rubbish as well as your own. Which is a separate (and bigger) issue to be dealing with.

@Maireas

How, just how can you not have heating on???

Money. We can't afford it. If it's really cold (shivering under two duvets in bed kind of cold) then I take the control up to bed with me and switch it on for 1/2 an hour before getting up if my DCs are in the house. If they are not the heating doesn't go on.

Only one loo upstairs - I'm lucky enough to have two which feels luxurious by comparison.

When washing up you have to play 'hunt the clean dry tea towel' as the only ones readily available are manky old damp things.

Food is put out on the kitchen worktop completely uncovered. Surprisingly I've not suffered food poisoning - yet.

Heating up high. Where is the thermostat? I've never found it.

fishykettles I'm sorry to hear that you have that much discomfort in your own home.
I think it's terrible that people can't be warm or comfortable - it's a basic need.
I don't know your personal circumstances, but I wish I could help.

Too hot or too cold.

Too much air freshener.

Memory foam mattress (argh so sweaty!)

My parents’ house is always freezing. What’s weird is when I was growing up there I didn’t notice. My best friend once brought an extra fleece when she came round and when I asked about it, she said my house was cold. I’d always thought her mum’s house was like a furnace so I didn’t think much of it.

Now that I’ve been away for a decade and keep my own house at a reasonable temperature, I find myself frozen to my bones when I go back and visit. If I ask to put the heating on there is a lot of huffing and even if they agree, the radiator is on the lowest possible setting. They’re not skint by any stretch of the imagination either.

What do people mean by watered down soap? When it gets to the very bottom and won’t go up the pipe I put a bit of water in. Am I being talked about? It only lasts a couple of squirts. I’m really worried now...

@Maireas

fishykettles I'm sorry to hear that you have that much discomfort in your own home. I think it's terrible that people can't be warm or comfortable - it's a basic need. I don't know your personal circumstances, but I wish I could help.

Thank you. It's just how it is though. We wear layers and get snug and cosy that way.

fishykettles xx

@Henio

People who sweep the road outside their house, not their garden or the pavement, the actual road 🤷‍♀️

That was a done thing in the olden days. I remember my Granny scrubbing the pavement outside her house.

@carlaCox

Can someone explain to me why people have bathrooms without locks?! I could understand if you've got young kids in the house but I'm talking about people whose kids left home 30 years ago. My partner's family does this and I've never had a more stressful showering/going to the loo experience in my life.

DP got trapped when the lock failed on the upstairs bathroom. The shower room has an identical lock, so it was rapidly removed. We could technically get £1 bolts and screw them into the frames if somebody were coming to stay.

Hot houses.

I visited my mum once after she'd had an accident and couldn't do much. It was a hot weekend, 28C inside and out. I ran round all weekend, cleaning, cooking, shopping, washing....when I asked if it was OK if I opened a window, she said, "Insects might come in. And anyway, I'm not hot." (Probably she wasn't, she was sitting in a chair watching me do everything and dropping with sweat!)

When she moved into a care home, she wanted the heating kept on in her house 24hrs a day. It was October, so not even any risk to pipes. "The gardener says it's cold in there," she said (gardener would make himself a sandwich in the kitchen) and "The cleaner says it's cold," (obviously not cleaning hard enough if she was cold!). Anyway, she bypassed me and persuaded the gardener to set the heating 24hrs a day in her unoccupied house .

All the people complaining about the temperature of houses so you expect the people having you over to make themselves uncomfortable for you? If they like a hot house wear less clothing, if they like a cold house wear more layers. Why should they make their HOME uncomfortable just for you? My father in law(ish) has a cooler house than k would choose so j wear a jumper. Similarly my mother in law(ish) has a warmer house than I'd like so I wear thin clothes. I lived at hers for a few months while we were saving up and I adjusted by wearing cooler clothes not complaining about the temperature when she was kind enough to have us there in HER space.

I'm not suggesting people should adjust their house temperature to my liking, but it's just something I don't like about other people's houses - the point of the thread I thought?

My mums - only ever two heat settings - ice cold or tropical - no in between - and eye rolls if I ask for it on/off

No I do not want a cup of tea as a follow up to the bottle of fizz we just had - I want more alcohol (please choose from the extensive selection I have given you! - and can we drink the champers I got as well?)

I LIKE walking - stop treating me like a car dependant twat - I know I drive a lot FOR WORK but I am perfectly capable of walking places.

I really am happy to sleep on the sofa (because you are 70+ and go to bed at 9:30 meaning we all have to) No? Really? Okay then I'll take your bed - which is so soft my spine cries in agony - I don't mind your alarm clock going off at 6am - I've been in bed since 9:30!

Please buy decent washing up liquid and bog roll - ffs

and actually when I have guests I want them to be comfortable - it's not about 'it's my house my rules' for most people

I have books, but they’re on shelves in the study and I mostly use a Kindle. I never buy magazines. There are pale grey walls in my house,, but with colours too. We have a memory foam mattress, but a new one that doesn’t get sweaty.

My friends house is so clean and tidy. I can't relax there and am worried about my baby making a mess.
Don't think I'll dare go round there when he's mobile.

@Rosebel

My friends house is so clean and tidy. I can't relax there and am worried about my baby making a mess. Don't think I'll dare go round there when he's mobile.

This is my parents' house. And everything is white. I feel like a walking stain when I'm there. I'm horrible to my kids too as I don't want them breathing, let alone touching anything!

Relatives who live in a massive, seven bedroomed, three-storey house. Middle floor is the main, ground floor with kitchen, living room(s!), dining room, conservatory, front door etc. No toilets on that floor! But there are five toilets in the house. I’m lazy and hate having to go up or downstairs to pee all the time.

Houses where the carpets are so precious that even when you're in your stocking feet you want to magically hover to the sofa.

Also hate a warm house and also cold house .
When the host gives you the smallest glass in the world also my dm gives you the smallest tea cup in the world and no offer of another one ( I do like a big cup though ) .