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

[balihai550]

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

Here are mine:

Dirty houses
Houses which are too hot
A poor flush in the downstairs loo

Too hot. Dirty oven gloves and tea towels. Filthy, smelly coats hanging up. Hideous dusty baskets of pot pourri. Toothpaste on sink. Wet hand towels. Mirror completely wrong height.

My IL house is also too hot. It's an upside down house and MIL gets up at stupid o'clock and stomps about the kitchen above our heads. They have a really complicated bin system with home compost, food waste, normal recycling, other recycling and general waste...It makes me never help in case I get it wrong 🤷🏻‍♀️

They also cheapskate on everything eg fil rebuilt balcony himself after waiting til it was so unsafe he nearly fell through it and now it's brand new but wonky and wobbly as fuck!

My in-laws never have the lights on! Lighting is limited to one dim lamp per room usually. They live in a constant state of drowsiness and fall asleep as soon as they sit down.

My neighbours live in exactly the same style house as me but it's like a surgery. Sometimes I feel jealous of how tidy it is but then I come home and feel all cosy. Not that my house is untidy or cluttered generally it's just normal and colourful with all the bits and bobs of family life. I don't know how they live in such a clinical environment!

Those random squirting air fresheners. Absolutely awful.

We don't have a bathroom bin blush we moved here when I was pregnant and I've had one period in 3 year and I use a cup. Other than pregnancy tests whats to throw away? Will get a bin for guests (that will go unused for months at a time)

Packaging - from toothpaste, soap etc. Cotton wool. Used razor blades. Toilet roll cores. Empty deodorant roll ons. Loads of stuff.

@Magicbabywaves

I remember that thread, really enjoyable.

My mum’s house is hot. Radiators all on and temperature set to 23 (our house is set at 17/18), so almost the minute I arrive I have a bright red face and I have to go to the bedroom and turn the radiator off and get the window open. My mum never has the telly off, so I find myself gormlessly staring at it whilst we’re talking. It’s also on loud so the heat and the noise starts to make my head spin.

My mother in law on the other hand, her house it the perfect temp, however her house is filthy. There’s mouse poo in the cupboards and the worktops are sticky with crumbs. The bread is left out on top of the bread bin and it’s virtually impossible to put anything down and there are piles of mails, books, medication and other detritus. Food has been in the fridge for an unspecified time and it’s safer to buy fresh when we get there.

Does your mother live with my father ?

Folks who don't turn their heating on, but then I like to be warm. No lamps, hate overhead ceiling lights. No bathroom locks - stressful if you're a guest. Also, I know this is controversial but no toilet brush! Ok fine if you don't use them yourself I suppose but what do you expect house guests to do if, umm, stains occur?? Get the marigolds out???

Their dog that surreptitiously licks your fingers or toes whilst you're talking, but all you can do is squirm slightly, put up with it and pray it'll leave you alone. (I love dogs, just not their tongues.)

I'm mentally adjusting now to what people want to see

My MIL one-ups the “no bathroom bin” by having no KITCHEN bin. You have to pile things in a neat little heap on the counter near the door where they’re then taken to the wheelie bin approximately 6,000 times a day.
@burritofan

My MIL has a plastic bag on the door handle as a bin, and keeps the spare plastic bags in the bin. Many visitors get those confused (understandably) and in the end she taped a notice onto the bin to say it was the storage for plastic bags and not to be used for rubbish.

In all other ways she's pretty normal and lovely. I do not understand her thinking on that at all.

FIL has the heating set to 25 degrees permanently, is a heavy smoker so the air is thick, NEVER opens the windows, has a dog that leaps all over you and tries to sit on your knee panting in your face. His sink is home to an old brown stained dish cloth.

No I’m fine I’ll stand for a bit thanks, I’ve been sitting for ages in the car. Cup of tea? No, I’m okay I’m trying to cut down in caffeine.

I don't like dirty houses. But not much else.

I do have a loo in my utility. I dont know why that would be a problem?

So many that have already been mentioned (most of these are my parents house..)

No bathroom bin
No lock on the bathroom
Really old not quite clean glassware
No fresh hand towels
Clutter everywhere
Not enough chairs so adults have to sit on the floor
Too hot

Pets

Too hot

No lamps, and having to watch television in the dark.

Can someone explain to me why people have bathrooms without locks?! I could understand if you've got young kids in the house but I'm talking about people whose kids left home 30 years ago. My partner's family does this and I've never had a more stressful showering/going to the loo experience in my life.

PIL are guilty of many of these sins. No bathroom bin. No kitchen bin. House outrageously hot. Guest bed is a small double with a winter duvet on all year.

But worst of all, the guest room blinds are decorative only and made of very thin gauze. I now take a child's travel blackout blind with me or I'm awake at 3am in summer. I like my sleeping environment to be like a tomb.

Bathrooms that smell of damp towels, toilet seats and sinks that have pubic hairs on them 🤢
Lack of hand towels in toilets and bathrooms.
Radiators in bedrooms that don't turn off.
Apart from those things i can probably put up with anything else if it's just for a couple of days.

I bought a bin for my bathroom for the first time after reading this thread last year. 🤗 We never had one growing up and it never occurred to me people might want one.

Anyway, I finally provided one, and a month later lockdown happened and no-one else has been in my house since! The bin waits (dusty but) pristine, waiting for a vaccine which could herald its first visitor...

DM has a house as warm as the surface of the sun, no bathroom bin and yes, no kitchen bin either. I will never understand.

Dmil has a house as cold as a bloody igloo and what I like to call a jenga fridge. In fact, a jenga kitchen. So full of stuff that if you move one thing a whole pile of other things falls on top of you. It is impossible to find anything simply because there are at least 10 versions of each thing. You're always invited to make yourself at home and use the kitchen, but if you need a whisk you spend 20 minutes finding it, once you finally do find one MIL will intervene and pull out 5 other whisks and ask whether you really want that whisk, or whether one of those would be better. Repeat that with every kitchen utensil and piece of cookware. If you help with the dishwasher it is rearranged again afterwards.

I feel better for getting that off my chest. Thank you!

A suggestion for people whose relatives have no bathroom door locks. Take a small rubber door wedge in your bag and jam it under from your side!

@olderthanyouthink
Kleenex after blowing your nose
Cotton wool after applying or removing make up
Cotton buds
Empty toothpaste tube
Wipes
And so on...