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

[balihai550]

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

Dm's house is full of dusty clutter. Think things we got as kids in crackers on window ledges and little pots all over kitchen worktops with half used food stuffs. They also don't have sheets, just duvet covers from the charity shop which do the job, but feel weird. Just a couple of examples, but the whole house is like that.
She must find my house stark, so horses for courses, but I really can't relax at her house.

The books one is funny. I work in publishing, have a degree in Eng Lit, and worked in bookshops at school and uni. I read widely and often - on my kindle.

The only books around are the kids' ones. We have a small house and I hate dusting, so wouldn't want shelves of books just to indicate to visitors that I'm well read.

The people who matter would know this, and those who judge based on a lack of stacks of books don't matter.

I'm a massive snob about art/pictures in homes so what drives me mad is a tiny picture placed randomly on a huge wall and/or pictures hung way to high on wall. Drives me mad.

They also don't have sheets, just duvet covers from the charity shop which do the job, but feel weird.

How does this work? You mean duvet covers as sheets? Cut up and opened up or... how?

My MIL had no kitchen bin either. She also was a fan of the carrier bag on the door handle.
She said kitchen bins attracted ants. I also did not understand why free standing bags of rubbish would not attract ants.
In the end she got a dog and then she got a bin as the dog was obviously eating all the rubbish out of the bags.

Apart from one friend's home which doesn't have a lock on the bathroom door, I don't find anyone else's home annoying. I'm not even annoyed by the lack of lock - just wish my arm was longer so I could reach the door instead of having to listen out for anyone coming up the stairs.

Some people are making “taste” judgements on this thread - books/no books and mentioning inspirational signs etc.

These are surely not annoying ? Much as I dislike certain aspects of decor, or at least think they’re not really me, the only dealbreakers are dirt and embarrassment.

So dubious hygiene in kitchens, unclean bathrooms and any loo which commits the crime of having no lock, being in too public a place, having a see-thru panel or able to transmit the slightest noise to all areas and all members of the household.

My mum hardly eats anything so when visiting if you start talking about dinner, for example, she'll always tut and ask how we can even be thinking about food yet (when lunch was at 1 pm and it's now 7 pm). It it so annoying.

I have books, but I have even more books on my kindle than on my bookshelves - so shoot me.

I don’t understand people disliking clean, clutter free and tidy homes. I dislike dirty, cluttered houses, not that anyone I know has a dirty house. Clutter just makes me feel claustrophobic.

I dislike it when people refuse to put the light on. SIL does this because she prefers to sit in the gloom. DH and I don’t see very well in gloomy light, and when she asks him to look at her laptop he says “I can’t see in this light” so she reluctantly puts on her 40 watt single light bulb.

Re bathroom bins. I only got one when DD started her periods. We don’t put loo roll cores and used shampoo bottles in the bathroom bin because they get taken downstairs to the recycling bins. Who want to forage in a bathroom bin for these? Our bedroom is opposite the bathroom so any other rubbish just got put into the bedroom bin or straight into the dustbin.

Both bathrooms and the downstairs loo have locks. The worst house I went to was where there was no lock on the downstairs loo door, and the door opened outward.

Cold houses, and even worse, cold houses with no curtains. I always have to take loads of thick jumpers when visiting my sister. Having no curtains in a cold house makes it feel even colder, especially at night when you have a big square of black that just sucks the light and any heat out of the room.

No bathmat - I can't stand making the bathroom floor damp, or putting clean damp feet on a floor that might have fluff or hair on it.

No hooks in bathroom to hang dressing gown or clean clothes up while showering/bathing.

House rule that no one flushes the loo during the night - gross, unhygienic and unpleasantly personal.

Having loads of books out on display is a huge pain as it's just more to dust/clean around

Also they are fucking heavy en masse so it's a nightmare when moving house, having a clear out or rearranging furniture

I wouldn't judge people for having them though, just understand why people don't

@Flibbertigibbet2211 not to mention it's bloody dangerous to get out with wet feet on a slippery floor!!!! I don't know why people don't have them

@Calmandmeasured1

I assumed the problem with cushions on leather sofas was that they would slip around.

@iswhois

That too!

@carlaCox

People who are funny about their dishwashers. My parents won't allow the "nice plates" or the "nice glasses" or the "nice dishes" to go in there, even though they are perfectly dishwasher safe. So we end up doing mountains of washing up every evening while the dishwasher just sits there empty.

My mother rinses everything before putting it in the dishwasher - which to me defeats the point

only instant coffee

Oh dear we’re guilty of this. We do have a mocha pot but it’s a pain to watch it on the hob while you’re multi-tasking. I’ve no problem if guests want to make their own. Although our fresh coffee is in the fridge and a bit old.
I remember one guest being so shocked we didn’t have a grinder (for coffee beans) she actually bought us one as a gift 😂

When the top drawer in the kitchen isn't used for cutlery, it's used for screwdrivers or something. Not a problem, I just ask where the cutlery's kept, but I just think WHY?!

Dsis moved into new apartment and when I visited announced there was a building rule that toilets must not be flushed between 10pm and 7am.

I knew it. I was seized with a terrible stomach upset at 2am. Added to which she has no hall as such so the bathroom is off the sitting room and adjacent to the bedrooms.

Sorry, but some of these posts are by annoying guests .

If someone doesn’t have premium coffee, so what? And an earlier pp complaining about charging points in a spare bedroom... presumably these are mostly in-laws’ houses (very occasionally parents’!) - not a hotel.

Dsis moved into new apartment and when I visited announced there was a building rule that toilets must not be flushed between 10pm and 7am.

I annoy a neighbour over the road by very rarely closing my lounge blinds and curtains. She thinks burglars will see when I am in and what I have in my home, despite my home being at the top of a 20 feet, fairly steep drive so passers-by cannot see in anyway.

Their drive slopes downwards toward their home and they always shut all their curtains at night and they have nets too.

I would say you are more likely to know when they are on holiday because their lounge curtains are almost closed, with a one foot gap in the middle, night and day.

She doesn't think it is a problem that my ndn closes her lounge blinds at 5.30 p.m. all year around when they go off to work their night shifts. No, burglars will only know you are in if they can see you through open blinds/curtains.

@StormyInTheNorth

It has been so long since I went in anyone's home I've almost forgotten what it is like!

Er, a relative who 'doesn't stand on ceremony'. Means there's always poo in and around the loo. To look at said relative you'd never believe it.

A friend who has a fixed knob doorstop not right in a corner. I always trip over it and hurt my toes.

I have never heard of this,please explain...do people.stand up to go to the toilet??

My mother rinses everything before putting it in the dishwasher - which to me defeats the point

I know someone who not only rinses, but pretty well thoroughly washes everything before putting it in the dishwasher, thereby rendering the dishwasher redundant. (I'm a Luddite who feels dishwashers are redundant anyway, but that's beside the point.)

People with carpet in the hallway and living room who think that because they ask you to take your shoes off, their carpet is clean. Especially when they allow snacks in the living room. Carpet needs hoovering at least daily no matter what, and even then it's not clean. Yuk.

Someone listed "no attempt at interior design". Get over yourself!!!!!