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? 🎄 🙏

@carlaCox I have carpets and a large doormat. Wipe shoes thoroughly on entry. Obviously remove muddy boots or shoes.

@Kintsugi16 No books always threw me when babysitting. No magazines either in some cases.
I'm the kind of person who read cereal packets every single morning if nothing else was available. I learnt to bring my own.

I find it difficult to be in houses where someone smokes regularly. One in law smokes all the time and his family all says oh no you can't smell it. Yes, I can, and I can't go there without my inhaler.

My parents are very cluttered and keep a cold house. It annoyed me when I lived there but now that it's just visits it drives me nuts because it isn't actually that hard to not have every surface covered in stuff, I am not even a very neat person at home but my house looks a million times less chaotic than theirs, haha.

Regarding dirt in others homes. Guess other peoples dirt always seems worse than our own. Im probably guilty of noticing it elsewhere but then realise mine is no better.

Growing up we had no bathroom bin , when on a period I
was told to rip up san pro and put down toilet . When I moved into my own home I got. Bathroom bin .

No tv

My friend has a fireplace in the living room which they light rather than turning on the heating. The living room door stays closed so the rest of the house is freezing cold but you sweat buckets in the living room! You also come away stinking of bonfires.

[quote BeHappyAndSmile]@Bloodypunkrockers I did. And I saw quite a few people saying the owners of the home weren't short of money. Implying they should be catering to them by putting the heating on even if it makes them uncomfortable. I get it's a feature that annoys people, that's fine it annoys me too. But I'd never dream of making remarks about them being able to afford heating or going as far as to ask them to put it on while I'm at their house. If dirty toilets annoy you would you demand they clean them? No, so why is heating different?[/quote]
Because they want us there and complain that we don't come over with the baby. I'm not freezing and making the baby uncomfortable because they refuse to put their bloody heating on. They walk around in dressing gowns, scarves and slippers so they are cold. If you want visitors don't freeze the fuck out of them.

Too frigging hot. It was 25 degrees last time.

No towels? Anywhere? Wtaf?

Likewise, if its too cold I'm just not going to visit. The kids huddle up to the radiators at my parents house - this is a clear sign you need to turn up the heat!

Another one here who can't stand the 'big light' on overhead

Also, I HATE being in a room with the door shut. God bless open plan

@Kintsugi16

Why are no books an issue? It’s not like you’re going to read them whilst visiting

It's not an issue but I find it odd. I love to look at book shelves and see what people have. I loved looking at the book shelves in the background on all the zoom news interviews this year. I'm not going to read a novel but enjoy seeing books

Cold houses. I can’t think below 21 degrees.
Noisy doors
Houses with lots of rules I’ll invariably break by accident

It's not an issue but I find it odd. I love to look at book shelves and see what people have. I loved looking at the book shelves in the background on all the zoom news interviews this year. I'm not going to read a novel but enjoy seeing books

How odd. So folks have to have their books on display to satisfy your curiousity? What else do you feel they should display for your perusal in their own homes?

As said, mine are predominantly in a cupboard designed for them, a bookshelf with doors, likely about thirty in different places in the house a casual visitor wouldn’t see, and hundreds on ereaders. Why should I possibly change that so randoms can see them? The books are there to be read, not some signal to show superiority to folks 😂

No pully thing on pull cord for light in bathroom, so you have to just pull the (usually dirty) string.

No kitchen bin at my mothers either, she uses a carrier bag and usually hooks it over the back door handle and it usully falls of when she comes in from the back garden.

Another one for the no bathroom bins or teeny tiny bathroom bin that is always full.

My mother has no dimmer switch for her 2 ceiling lights in living room and they have 6 bulbs so its either really dim at night with the one table lamp on or the room is like being in a bright supermarket.

Bars of soap that have no dish and leave a sticky residue on the side of the sink.

Kids programmes on loud all day. Or TV just being on all of the time in the background.

Tea bag bowls for used teabags.

Houses that have been cleaned with a spray that leaves everything sticky.

Having to move things off dining chairs so you can sit down.

Loads of mis matched cutlery in drawers.

Knives and forks with those bubble resin handles.

Coats hung over backs of chairs or doors and just left there.

Dirty dishcloths.

Smelly sinks from food going down the drain.

People who invite you for a coffee then have
a) no sugar
b) only instant coffee
c) no biscuits, not one. Or if they do they arent offering any.
d) red top milk only

It's a bleak way to host.

Other bugbear

• grey everywhere
• worse (at present) the inevitable navy blue feature wall making the whole room darker and gloomier
• tv in the kitchen/dining room and its ALWAYS on

Blue flashing Christmas lights nothing more chic at Christmas than the major accident, police in attendance look. I utterly detest blue Christmas lights. Especially if they're mingled together with red lights too! They trigger off my migraines something chronic. That said if Im behind an emergency services vehicle in the dark and they have flashing blue lights on that triggers it too. I can just about cope with the light blue ones but even those hurt my eyes. Plus there's nothing worse than driving down the road to see loads of blue lights in the distance and thinking you're about to drive into a major incident or something and it turns out to be houses ablaze in flashing blue lights.

TV blaring as constant background noise.

Kills me 😭

Cold houses. I can’t think below 21 degrees.

Horses for courses. We recently tried having ours at 20 and we just can't in the mornings, we get hot & sweaty and have to walk around in only a vest! We have it at 19.5 in the morning but do have it at 20 in the afternoon

The kids huddle up to the radiators at my parents house - this is a clear sign you need to turn up the heat!

I remember doing this as a child because I liked it and couldnt be bothered to put on jumper.

Now as an adult I'm aware of how much its costing the planet that we are all heating our homes to roasting temperature and now we all wear jumpers.

My MIL has a pack of Earl Grey tea for me which she bought in approx 2012. It was a kind gesture but the tea has now gone off and is disgusting.

For a few years I ploughed on with the shit tea but one day thought fuck this.

I now take my own tea bags (my one cup in the morning is sacrosanct) but am judged a princess for doing so.

To offer a contrary view, I think bathroom bins are absolutely gross. I have no wish to have other peoples sanitary products stinking out my bathroom. If I need to change mine in other people bathrooms I wrap it up and take it away with me.

Clutter
Dirty houses
Houses that are too cold
"Inspirational" quotes on walls
Bathroom near the living room
People wearing shoes indoors
I can always tell when people don't open their windows for fresh air regularly
Cool white lights

Not being offered a hot drink on arrival. This is MIL/Fil and I’ve had to learn that it’s not a deliberate slight, they’re lazy.

By contrast, DM will offer regular drinks and snacks and send you away with a quarter of cake wrapped in tin foil.

Shameless place marking to read later

@Literallynoidea My MIL has a pack of Earl Grey tea for me which she bought in approx 2012. It was a kind gesture but the tea has now gone off and is disgusting.

I am guilty of this, anyone know how long tea bags last?

We are not frequent tea drinkers and if I offer my DD a cup of tea she always asks when did you buy the tea bags? I once offered a relative a speciality tea that I had bought for her ... the previous year.