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

[balihai550]

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

Oh dear. As much as this thread is hilarious, I currently have a John Lewis online basket with £119 of bins in it! I'm not sure I can press check out...

For years I've used stray plastic bags for general waste and bags for life for recycling. I don't really see the point in having a bag of bags and then going out and buying more bags in our push to use less plastic.

My bathroom bin is really a waste paper basket. Clearly I should have a bin with a lid, proper bins for the kitchen and recycling instead of the bags tucked away behind the kitchen door.

The John Lewis app says 33 people have purchase little bathroom bins with lids in the last 24 hours. Are they all watching this thread?!

@brimfullofasha

Houses where everything matches make me uneasy. Like the kettle and the toaster matching the tiles. Or all the cushions, pictures and ornaments being a particular colour. Do they change everything when they decorate? Seems such a waste. I really dislike Christmas decorations with a colour- theme as well. I pick things I like not because they go. Im sure other people would dislike my home because it is cluttered. I'm not a hoarder but I like to have books and pictures and bit and pieces on shelves.

You'd like my house. Nothing matches

Has anyone mentioned a bathroom bin yet?

You'd like my house. Nothing matches

And mine, Ginfordinner.

As an addition, I can't bear symmetry and thought it was just me and DH until I went to Japan. Now I think of it, my lovely brother built a set of bookcases in our then house in the UK and he said how much he enjoyed making asymmetrical shelving as his clients universally wanted matchy-matchy. Recently I hoopla-checked the since-sold house and saw his peerless joinery has survived two owners.

@Totopoly

Probably already mentioned, but used washing up cloths/sponges/brushes that are evidently going to be used again. 🤮

Cloths should be washed after one use. Sponges should be thrown away. Brushes could, I suppose, be put in the dishwasher.

But never, ever reused after sitting there damply all day. XH would have reused the same sponge for a week if I hadn't thrown them away as soon as he had used them.

I dread to think how many uses I've had out of a washing up cloth. It hasn't killed me yet.

Probably already mentioned, but used washing up cloths/sponges/brushes that are evidently going to be used again.

Nope, not mentioned. Literally nobody else thinks sponges are single use only. You must go through a literal truckload if you throw them away every time you have washed a dish.

I just soak my dish cloths in bleach overnight. It appears to be in constant use throughout the day

No wonder there’s a problem with plastic overload on this planet, if people are using sponges once and sending them to landfill. Awful.

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

I agree. Why don’t people buy shoe storage units so shoes are out of sight (and smell). You can even get shoe units with a full length mirrored door so double purpose.

There’s nothing more grotty than a heap of shoes at the entrance (or worse, up the stairs!) I don’t understand why people need so many pairs out. We have 2 pairs each and the rest live in the garage. And our 2 pairs are hidden in a shoe cabinet along with leather cream, shoe cleaner etc.

If a guest didn’t take their shoes off I’d stop them mid-hall and tell them we’re a shoe free household. I think it’s really rude to wear outdoor shoes in someone’s lounge, unless the floor is filthy or they have dogs!

We have 2 pairs each and the rest live in the garage.

You keep your shoes in the garage?! Mine are in my bedroom on racks or in their boxes. They’d get ruined out there.

@VenusClapTrap

No wonder there’s a problem with plastic overload on this planet, if people are using sponges once and sending them to landfill. Awful.

I'm really hoping it's not actually the norm!

Buy washable sponges, don't throw them away after one use! Jesus, do you really not care about the planet?

I admit to taking snack when I stay at my parents house except at Christmas because whilst meals are excellent her portions for the women are smaller than the men (significantly) and there's never biscuits you can snack on without making a fuss in secret (she insists on serving cake etc properly), Christmas is ok because you get sweets as gifts and she buys multiple tubs of crap chocolates.

Oh and I take my own coffee

Everything else I can deal with except toilet or bathroom with no lock. And totally silent houses where you hear a pin drop. Or badly laid out furniture that traps people in.

@Totopoly

My sponges manage 2-3 weeks, possibly longer and I'm still alive and kicking after 25 years of doing this. Cloths get thrown in the wash when I do a load, perhaps once a week (yes clothes are reworn, towels are reused ...) don't waste water here

@Kintsugi16

I just soak my dish cloths in bleach overnight. It appears to be in constant use throughout the day

That's what I do too. Kills any germs.

Please don't come to my house any of you... I'd be a dismal failure because I have 5 kids and it's lived in...

The cat litter tray right next to the chair and when the cat has a poo, no one makes a move to clean it up, so whoever is sitting in this chair has a choice of either inhaling the warm noxious cat shit aroma or asking them to clean it, which is met with derision and cries of "It's enclosed so we dont need to clean up more than once a day!" before reluctantly cleaning offending shit.
This for 4 cats!

4 cats sharing one litter tray? My solitary cat won't use his tray if it's not clean, and will go somewhere else. I guarantee you there will be cat shit elsewhere in that house....

MIL's home is absolutely perfect, only annoying thing is the constant need to discuss every facet of my motherhood and decisions at great length.

An unclean, crumb - ridden kitchen table with a pile of rubbish think post, keys, glasses, shoved in the centre.

Downstairs shower and an upstairs loo.
Cuckoo clocks that chime through the night.
Clearly just changing the bed sheet and not the duvet because it's "only been slept in once " - THE PERSON WHO SLEPT IN IT WAS NOT ME.

My worst was sitting down on the loo to do my business then realising to my horror there was another door in to the loo behind me that was wide open!!

If a guest didn’t take their shoes off I’d stop them mid-hall and tell them we’re a shoe free household. I think it’s really rude to wear outdoor shoes in someone’s lounge, unless the floor is filthy or they have dogs!

This is a bone of contention between me and DH.
While we don’t wear shoes inside, I find it incredibly rude to tell guests to remove their shoes. To me, it is the sane as telling them that the floors are more important than their comfort and dignity. I cringe every time DH says it.

You keep your shoes in the garage?! Mine are in my bedroom on racks or in their boxes. They’d get ruined out there.

Our garage is nice and dry with a utility room, I keep all the spare shoes/out of season ones in breathable boxes. Along with riding boots, hiking boots, snow boots, anything we don’t need day to day.

Actually I have a couple of fancy pairs that live in boxes at the back of my wardrobe and only come out for special occasions! But I clean the soles when I’ve worn them (about once a year 😂)

Don’t you worry a shoe rack in the bedroom will bring all sorts of bacteria and street dirt into your bedroom?

I prefer shoes out of sight, even pretty ones!

No soap by kitchen sink... Why?!