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

[balihai550]

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

My in laws have locks on every internal door of the house. At night, the doors to the kitchen, living room and dining room get locked with a key.

When they go out, the upstairs doors get locked too. One Christmas day, when we were just about to leave to go to someone else’s house for lunch, I was cleaning my teeth in a bedroom, to avoid getting in anybody’s way. When I came out to spit toothpaste in the bathroom sink, I found the bathroom door had been locked

Who locks a bathroom for fear of burglars? Or any room for that matter?! Their house is a dilapidated wreck, so it’s not as if there’s much worth stealing, apart from FIL’s floor to ceiling hoarded shite.

Mental.

@balihai550

My parents house has no lamps! Not one! The only lighting is exposed light bulbs which are so bright its like being on the surface of the sun.

Their Christmas presents sorted!

No tea towels in the kitchen! What am I supposed to dry the crocs with???

People trying to make others take shoes off when they arrive at their house as guests.

Both of these are at my inlaws:

• nowhere to put a coat/bag/shoes/keys when you come in. They live in a climate where you don’t need a coat all year round but when you do, they put them away in their bedroom each time. It’s a bungalow, but even so. The shoes end up in a pile by the back door that they usually use to come in and out. Keys end up on the kitchen counter. The satnav goes back in their bedroom for some unknown reason.
• no glasses bigger than a half-pint
• no bath sheets - towels are the ones that only just cover you.

In the days when I was on speaking terms with my sister, I wasn't crazy about her house, where the cat sleeps on the table amongst the food, and the dogs are allowed to lick the plates before they are washed. The justification being "we live in the country now" - so? You forgot about germs when you left town?

My MIL house the bathroom has no bin. The only bin in the entire house is under the kitchen sink!

Quote signs that say live, laugh, love, we're all mad here, it's gin oclock or similar!

Heating and lights never on
Bathroom Towels always never fresh and tea towels filthy.
Fridge full of out of date food nothing edible in the house.
Bedside Lamps have no bulbs in.
Counting the minutes till its a socially acceptable to leave.
Get in warm car, have breakfast on way home.

Absolutely in agreement about glasses that are too small - I'd like more than two gulps of water please.
Pets with no concept of personal space. I don't mind animals but I don't really want them in my face. And pets on inappropriate surfaces.
Hand soap containers that just get refilled but the plastic dispenser accumulates dust and grime.
Sinks without any hand soap. Atrocious.
Soggy towels.
Wet bath mats.
Grimy light switches.
Bedrooms and bathrooms really crammed in together with thin walls. So long, dignity and privacy.
A build up of old food on cooker/kitchen surfaces.
Loads of post left wherever it's fallen after delivery, often forming some sort of tripping/fire hazard, and making it unnecessarily difficult to open or close doors.

I've remembered another one - bedrooms with glass panels above the doors so if there's a light on anywhere else in the house at night it lights the room up. Think it used to be a thing in the 70s.

I'm really light sensitive and couldn't stand to live with this. Maybe it's why sleep masks became a thing. 🤔

Terribly cold houses. They live in expensive fleeces but I do not.
The cold makes me sneeze, repeatedly, interior cold rooms always have. I have to leave back to my much smaller but lovely warm home.

bedrooms and bathrooms crammed together with thin walls - to be fair, that can't really be helped. That's your budget.

@Carlywurly
That reminds me. Houses with those same glass panels above doors and having to sleep in such darkness that you can't tell the difference between eyes closed and eyes open. Terrifying for me, couldnt sleep a wink. And very worried for my kids all night.
Went NC after that as I couldnt stand it ever again. At 1am kids cried and I had to turn lights on to help kids in night (water, toileting, scared) and left one light on which was very badly received. Tears all round.

People who never switch their heating on and collect cheap nasty rubbish .... they're not "treasures" they're cheap tat.

Dusty bathrooms 😭
No blankets for you to use on the sofa.
Uncomfortable beds.

We have glass panels above the upstairs doors and it’s a complete non-issue! House built 1980. No one has bright lights on at night - a dim bedside light at most.

I’d hate to paint them over because we’d lose so much natural light on the landing during the day.

[quote Boatonthehorizon]@Carlywurly
That reminds me. Houses with those same glass panels above doors and having to sleep in such darkness that you can't tell the difference between eyes closed and eyes open. Terrifying for me, couldnt sleep a wink. And very worried for my kids all night.
Went NC after that as I couldnt stand it ever again. At 1am kids cried and I had to turn lights on to help kids in night (water, toileting, scared) and left one light on which was very badly received. Tears all round.[/quote]
It's always dark like this in the country. No outside lights.

It's much better for you to sleep in pitch darkness - it's what our bodies/brains are built for.
Did you really go 'No Contact' because it was dark at night? That's pretty sad if true.

This thread has reminded me that on MN there's nothing more contentious than shoes on / shoes off.

I can't work out whether the split is generational/geographic/ cultural/socio economic or what.

[quote Boatonthehorizon]@Carlywurly
That reminds me. Houses with those same glass panels above doors and having to sleep in such darkness that you can't tell the difference between eyes closed and eyes open. Terrifying for me, couldnt sleep a wink. And very worried for my kids all night.
Went NC after that as I couldnt stand it ever again. At 1am kids cried and I had to turn lights on to help kids in night (water, toileting, scared) and left one light on which was very badly received. Tears all round.[/quote]
You went NC because a house was dark at night? That seems like an overreaction?

My in-laws burn incense sticks, resulting in a cloying, smoky smog throughout the house. It's unbearable, particularly in winter when they have the heating on 24 hours a day. They think I'm obsessed with going for a walk

Also, they have one toilet in its own room with no sink. You have to nip next door to the bathroom to wash your hands, touching two door handles on the way. They only have their damp bath towels there to dry your hands on 😬

My mum's fridge and microwave aren't in her kitchen, they're in the utility. Such a bloody pain having to dash from one room to another to make a cup of tea or beans on toast. She doesn't want things cluttering up her kitchen (expect for the artificial flowers, baskets for every use imaginable, several decorative tins each containing a different half-eaten packet of biscuits...).

Absolutely carcinogenic
My cousin was obsessed with these, especially plug ins- she passed away with leukaemia last year, also a friend of mine who is also has them on full blast in her home developed cancer as did her youngest child. I am surprised they don’t come with a warning- in my mind they are worse than smoking and alcohol.

@Calmandmeasured1

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.

My DP’s mother has no lock on the bathroom door. I hate it. The door is too far from the toilet to be able to stop it opening with your foot/arm.

If I use the shower I’m in and out in minutes, just in case. And whenever I’m in the loo and hear one of them coming up the stairs I have to cough loudly so they don’t walk in

My parents downstairs loo is far too small; your knees almost touch the door. The sink is tiny, the hot tap hasn't worked for years and the hand towel is always grubby. Their cutlery drawer is always full of bits and their kitchen cupboards are an illogical mess. They have a little jumpy dog that always snags my tights and their house is always really hot. Nonetheless I'd love to be able to visit them and have the usual chaotic family Christmas, which sadly won't be happening this year.

I don't have a bin in the bathroom. All rubbish gets taken downstairs to the kitchen bin. I just find it easier that way than cleaning/emptying another bin.

I hate all those quote pictures - learning to dance in the rain egg

Huge pictures of themselves on the wall. I get having framed photographs but have never understood the need for having yourself as wall-sized. Especially when it's black & white. Each to their own though.

Houses that are too hot. I find it sickly.

Being given a cup of tea and find there's no side table or coffee table to put it down on so you have to hold it in your hands and get even hotter.