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? 🎄 🙏

Can't stand toilets smelling of piss and people who don't hoover / clean under the sofa.

MIL walks into my carpeted living room with wet shoes on (it's raining outside and she has leaves stuck on her shoes). She then farts, without a care in the world!

Then there's my cousin who has cameras all over the house, including the kitchen. Apparently it makes her feel safe 🙄. Why would you get joy out of spying on your guests??

I've loved this thread so much!

Do have a bathroom bin but it's an open one so have been researching little pedal bins and ordered two new guest towels on line. I have loads but I thought two little brand new ones would be nice for the kitchen.

My MIL has a beautiful decorated house wherever she lives but always freezing and with those god awful air fresheners that blast you in the face. Wtaf?

I never really go and stay in anyone's house thank God but usually have everyone here so am taking notes.

I don’t mind how other people keep their homes except for one thing. Those giant TV screens that dominate the room and don’t seem to have an off switch

dont use any towels in their bathroom. some maybe for their bottoms.

We have a bathroom bin and there are nappy bags in the bathroom for sanpro, that’s what my DD uses so I would assume guests would do the same. I don’t touch the bin contents when I empty it anyway.

@Cattenberg

This doesn’t annoy me, just puzzle me.

Why do some people like to keep supermarket trollies in their front gardens? There’s a neighbourhood in my town where loads of people do this. One front garden has two shopping trollies, upside down with their wheels in the air. It looks as though they’ve died. But most people seem to store “their” trollies upright.

Do they have cars?

Where I used to live people did this when they didn't have cars and used the trollies to transport the weekly shop home because it was too much to carry.

MIL also likes the house HOT. She thinks shower curtains are unhygienic and they don’t have shower screens so everything just gets soaked every time. They also don’t have any normal sized towels - they have a cupboard stacked floor to ceiling with hand towel sized towels and you can take as many of those as you like to dry yourself and the soaked bathroom.

My brother doesn’t have a bathroom bin, or guest hand towels in the bathroom. We visited after lockdown and he was quite covid anxious - instructed us all to go and wash our hands immediately, and then we dried our hands on the same filthy tea towel. Also, they don’t have any glasses and only about 10 mugs so when we all get together you’re constantly washing up mugs to have something to drink out of.

We visited after lockdown and he was quite covid anxious - instructed us all to go and wash our hands immediately, and then we dried our hands on the same filthy tea towel.

😂😳 People are so strange!!

@QueenPaws

A cat is not a downside, in my book. A cat is very much an upside, especially if s/he will deign to sit on my lap

My personal pet peeve, other than crusty surfaces, filthy, tea-stained mugs and the smell of cats' wee/overpowering air freshener, is lack of shoe storage, so that all shoes - residents' and guests' - are piled up in the foyer. The first thing that greets you when you visit is the sight and, frequently, stench of feet, made especially bad if it's a glass foyer and the sun's beating down on the shoes. I have been to the loveliest of homes where they do his. It's grim.

The first thing that greets you when you visit is the sight and, frequently, stench of feet, made especially bad if it's a glass foyer and the sun's beating down on the shoes. I have been to the loveliest of homes where they do his. It's grim.

It’s a bloody good argument for keeping your shoes on!

My parents have a zero clutter policy in their kitchen. Which is great except it includes appliances as well. So every time you want to make toast, you have to go out to the utility room and fetch out the toaster from its special cupboard. And then put it back when you've had your toast.

@VinylDetective

The first thing that greets you when you visit is the sight and, frequently, stench of feet, made especially bad if it's a glass foyer and the sun's beating down on the shoes. I have been to the loveliest of homes where they do his. It's grim.

It’s a bloody good argument for keeping your shoes on!

None of my friends, either the visitors or the visited, have stinky feet. We all have baths or showers in our homes. I have shoes and wellies in my hallway now but I'd move them if I was expecting a visit.

I'm doing a mental checklist of my home now.
We have 2 bathroom bins (1 for recycling and 1 for rubbish - though that's largely my long, fine hair from the shower drain).
Hand towels in the bathroom are replaced weekly when it's just us but more frequently if we have guests.
Guests get clean bedding and plenty of feather pillows plus a feather quilt with cotton bedding.
All the windows get opened every day whatever the weather but we have plenty of blankets and will close them and, if necessary, put the heating on if it's cold.
We do have cats that are allowed anywhere they want. We have resigned ourselves to the fact that they will go on the kitchen counter but there's nothing left out that they can eat/lick and we thoroughly clean the surfaces before preparing any food. One of them has claimed the spare room as her bedroom which is why there's a bedspread on the bed all year round.
There is evidence of my book obsession in every room if anyone wants to be a snob.

For myself I hate houses that are too hot (parents in law) or too cold (birth mother). My parents in law have the heating on constantly and if it gets too hot they don't turn it off, just open some windows. They also have a spare room that's so full of furniture and knick knacks that there's nowhere to put a suitcase, all the sockets are almost impossible to reach and you can only get into the bed from one side. My birth mother lives in an unnecessarily large house and refuses to do anything about the Victorian windows to stop all the heat escaping. She'll light the fire in the 'good' sitting room and insist the door is kept closed to keep the heat in so you're sweating buckets then freezing when you go to bed. Blankets are seen as some sort of personal failing.
I dislike big slobbery dogs that climb all over you and the hosts just smile indulgently at their "friendliness"
Other than that I don't mind much, I just enjoy spending time with friends and family.

I've got to the point where I HATE staying at my DM's house - one thing that Covid has saved me from this year!

• it's dirty - she hates cleaning and she has a cat with long hair so there is cat hair everywhere and a stinky litter tray on the landing;
• the TV is ALWAYS on, blaring away with game shows or sport;
• there is no shower in the guest bathroom, but it's too small for a normal-sized bath, so they put a narrow bath in there. My DH can barely fit in it. The reason? My DM 'doesn't like showers', yet she never uses that bathroom, because she has her own - it is literally only ever used by me and my family!
• DM is on a permanent diet, so instead of using full-size plates she uses side plates for every meal. She then puts a normal amount of food on them, so it all falls off when you start eating. If you say anything or ask for a larger plate she goes crazy;
• the house is boiling hot and the bathroom radiators are so hot they actually burnt my DS's hand when he was a baby.
• the hot water tank is in a cupboard in the guest room, meaning the room is permanently about 25 degrees, which is stifling. At home we have no heating on in the bedrooms and a window open year round for fresh air;
• she loves the colour yellow, so she put yellow curtains in the guest room. In summer, when the sun comes up at 4am, you're woken at 4.05am by the room glowing bright yellow (we have black-out lined curtains at home, so this is particularly hellish!)

Oh God, Just remembered another one. I had a friend who let their dog drag itself across the carpeted floor scratching it’s bits (or whatever dogs do). That carpet was gross.

This thread makes me quite proud of ds who made sure to buy a bathroom bin - and loo brush - when moving into student accommodation this year!
I do have one of those plug in air fresheners, mostly because of dearly departed dcat who had some bladder issues at the end, and I’m a bit paranoid about cat pee smells (seems like someone’s going to be annoyed either way!) I do have a litter tray, but no. 2’s are removed immediately, and the whole thing is emptied and cleaned twice a week.
I also find it funny that my friend with the messiest house is the one who most insists on shoes off, but I love her so I just take slippers 🤷‍♀️
I think that’s what it comes down to though.. I reckon we’re way more tolerant when it’s people we care about most.

MIL hates bins and won't have one in the house and also hates getting the outside rubbish bin dirty.

If you need to throw something away (e.g. sanpro) you have to walk 100 metres down the garden to their bonfire to be burnt.

@haworthia What happens if there's a fire? Is the route to the front and back doors at least left open?

@WhyDoYouAsk

Oh God, Just remembered another one. I had a friend who let their dog drag itself across the carpeted floor scratching it’s bits (or whatever dogs do). That carpet was gross.

The dog needs its anal glands emptying.

Your comments made me feel better about my house-although out downstairs toilet is off the utility room-can’t change that. However, it being an old house there is only partial central heating which means nobody ever complains of feeling too hot.
Generally it is grubby houses with unclean bathrooms and kitchens that get me

My SIL has clutter on every service in her kitchen. You have to clear space just to put 4 cups down when making tea/coffee. And don't get me started on her glass fronted medicine cupboard .I dare anyone to open the door .It would take ages picking all the packets and boxes up that i just know are just waiting to fall out

@Ginfordinner it's always been just me and DP living here, we put a little bolt on one loo door but didn't feel the need to do it for the rest. We always know if a loo or bathroom is occupied.

@wigglerose Back door can only be accessed via kitchen so that’s locked Front door and porch also locked with keys hanging from a hook on the wall, so tbh, if there was a fire they’d be in serious trouble.

@Flibbertigibbet2211 he's always scared of other people but within minutes will demand head bops and scratches and kisses and a lap to snooze on