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? 🎄 🙏

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

That’s revolting! Cat poo smells horrendous especially in a confined space. Why don’t their cats go to the loo outside?

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

Why would I? The streets where I live aren’t particularly dirty and we’ve got a perfectly good door mat. I don’t lick the bedroom carpet in any case.

Worse than the cat litter tray near the chair:

this person takes the lid off the litter tray, removes the poo from the tray, bags it and puts it in the outside bin. They then pick up the tray and SHAKE it to see if there is any more poo. This is in the kitchen, with dishes on the rack, packets of food, fruit, worktops, the lot. And they shake the litter, kicking up a ton of pooy dust. When I first saw that I couldn't believe my eyes. When I brought it up they couldn't see anything wrong with that (besides the fact that said pooy dust also went up their nose and on their clothes I guess).

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.

I’m with your DH here. I think it’s a matter of hygiene rather than protecting the floors. He probably doesn’t want pavement germs, mud, microbes, general outdoor dirt spread on the floors. Good carpets and rugs are expensive so I think it’s reasonable to ask guests to remove their outdoor shoes in the hall. Shoes damage decent rugs, and lots of people sit with their feet tucked up on the sofa.

I’m not sure shoes provide ‘comfort and dignity’ unless the person is wearing mismatched socks or forgot to wash their feet. You could always keep a few pairs of new cheap slipper socks (the grippy sort) to offer guests (eg say if they find your floors cold they’re welcome to wear slipper socks?)

Why would I? The streets where I live aren’t particularly dirty and we’ve got a perfectly good door mat. I don’t lick the bedroom carpet in any case

I guess because people spit on pavements and flick fag ash, dogs, cats, foxes wee and poo, leaves rot, dirt gathers? Shoes get sweaty and smell too? I don’t think shoes are clean even if they look it.

I just wouldn’t want shoe racks in my bedroom as I like to keep it as clean as possible. And no I don’t lick the carpet either 😂 but I like to feel it’s clean to walk on, have clean feet getting into bed, be able to sit on it etc.

My PIL live in a bungalow and it seems to have been designed to be as uncomfortable as possible for overnight guests. To get to from the spare bedroom to the bathroom (and only toilet) you have to walk through the living room and the kitchen. The bathroom is right next to the kitchen and the door they use most so anyone in the kitchen or coming in to the house can hear everything from the bathroom. The icing on the cake is that the bathroom lock is an old rickety painted over bolt that only closes half way (if that) and looks like it could fall off at any time.

The strangest thing is that over the years they have, apparently, had several extensions and changed the layout (including bathroom) so it's not even that this was how the house was built. They have also spent £££ on refitting the bathroom in the last year or so but not added a new lock. Everything else in the bathroom is bright and shiny except for this- almost like they've intentionally kept it as an original feature!

They have also spent £££ on refitting the bathroom in the last year or so but not added a new lock

Oh I can beat that @Bloodyfrostycar

My ILs have a separate toilet and bathroom. Both in an absolutely awful state of disrepair. Think piss soaked lino, bare mouldy plaster, you name it.

FIL finally decided to do up the bathroom, several decades late. It was done and it’s great - light and fresh, tiles, new bath and shower.

But he didn’t get the toilet room done. The piss soaked lino is still there, and - best of all - the toilet cistern leaks constantly. There’s a bucket underneath to catch the drips.

It’s not a money issue (I expect he has more money hoarded than I can possibly imagine) he’s just a very odd person.

He probably doesn’t want pavement germs, mud, microbes, general outdoor dirt spread on the floors.

But what about clothes then? Do you get changed when you get home? Because if you sat on your car seat or on public transport, chance are you got covered in 'dirt' and microbes. So do people who don't want shoes indoors for that reason also get changed when they get home?

It's just lighting for me. I get a rage when the 'big light' is on.

I hate hate hate 'the big light'

Uncontrollable internal rage.

I wish I could pinpoint when all this paranoia about shoes started. I know I’m old but none of my friends have it, we all go into each others’ houses and it never occurs to us to remove our shoes. When did it start?

Uni certificates and graduation photos or school photos, all bad if the kids, awful if it's the parents. Cold houses is a big no too, that said my parents' is baking, now it's just easier to get the kids home and into their own beds... People that tell us to use the shower in their en-suite, feels very odd.

@VinylDetective

I wish I could pinpoint when all this paranoia about shoes started. I know I’m old but none of my friends have it, we all go into each others’ houses and it never occurs to us to remove our shoes. When did it start?

I'm 65 and it was a known thing when I was a child.

I get rather cross when the spines of books, or (horror of horrors) those ghastly compact-disc things, are not displayed in such a way as to be grouped according to colour, thereby producing a 'visible-light spectrum' effect.

Some people have no consideration.

Why are CDs so ghastly?

I'm 65 and it was a known thing when I was a child

I’m 67 and people would have looked at you as if you were mad when I was a child. I’d never heard of it until about ten years ago. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

Something to do with the lack of aural-warmth, as a function of the accurate reproduction of soundwaves as a sinusoidal curve rather than a stepped saw-tooth wave.

Or words to that effect.

@VinylDetective

I'm 65 and it was a known thing when I was a child

I’m 67 and people would have looked at you as if you were mad when I was a child. I’d never heard of it until about ten years ago. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

I don't know, I moved around a lot as a child. Maybe it's a class thing

Went to a big get together at DH colleagues house for the first time. Went to change my sanitary towel and there was no bin in the bathroom I didn't know what to do with it. Ended up wrapping it in loads of loo role and putting it in the zip pocket of my handbag 🤦🏼‍♀️

@VinylDetective

I wish I could pinpoint when all this paranoia about shoes started. I know I’m old but none of my friends have it, we all go into each others’ houses and it never occurs to us to remove our shoes. When did it start?

Don't know when it started but in my village, because all the agricultural vehicles spread mud (and worse!) over the pavement as they pass, everyone takes their outdoor footwear off as soon as they get in the front door, wherever they are. It's a habit now.

We didn't have a bin in our bathroom growing up, but as soon as I had my own place I got one. Dental floss, non-recyclable packaging, hair from the hair brush, sanitary products, broken phone chargers from the bedroom, etc. Our bathroom bin is used pretty much daily. So we have one in each bathroom (but none in the bedrooms).

I don't understand how it's comfortable to keep shoes on but each to their own I guess. I don't think I've ever encountered a shoes on household and I have lived in different areas of the country (SE, NW, SW etc.) I don't make guests take their shoes off either though but most people seem to do it without asking.

It's just interesting how its always such a divisive topic on here

I don't understand how it's comfortable to keep shoes on

My shoes don’t hurt, they’re just as comfortable inside as they are out. Anyway, I’m way too invested in this. As long as nobody wants to take their shoes off in my house it’s fine.

Hang on a minute... before I'm written off as a one-woman environmental disaster: I should obviously have added that I never even buy the sodding sponges in the first place, never mind re-use them.

If I need to wash anything by hand, I use a dishcloth. Said dishcloth dries above the Aga, and then goes in the washing basket to be washed along with other stuff. Each dishcloth doesn't have its own special washing cycle.

@dayslikethese1

I don't understand how it's comfortable to keep shoes on but each to their own I guess. I don't think I've ever encountered a shoes on household and I have lived in different areas of the country (SE, NW, SW etc.) I don't make guests take their shoes off either though but most people seem to do it without asking.

Same. I don't wear uncomfortable shoes, but my feet are more comfortable in slippers than shoes.

Like other rural posters our roads are wet and muddy. I never ask people to remove their shoes, but they do anyway. It's just the done thing here. I think part of the reason, as well as the mud, is that living in a not very warm part of the country most people have carpets, and not everyone wants mud coloured carpets. We never took shoes off at my aubties house, but she had a brown carpet and wasn't bothered by dirt and mud.

While it isn't very nice to ask visitors to take their shoes off, it is also the height of rudeness to walk mud over someone's carpet.

A lot of tradesmen bring elsticated plastic covers to put over their boots when they enter people's houses.