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? 🎄 🙏

Maybe it's a class thing

I read in some etiquette book years ago that it is a lower class thing to ask guests to remove shoes. Can you imagine the RF asking guests to remove their shoes 🤣🤣🤣

It’s a cultural thing from DH.

For some, I think it came with the arrival of wooden floors when high heels could wreck them maybe?

@HikeForward

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?

Because then some poor neighbour will come across it when gardening.

@Thismustbelove

Maybe it's a class thing

I read in some etiquette book years ago that it is a lower class thing to ask guests to remove shoes. Can you imagine the RF asking guests to remove their shoes 🤣🤣🤣

It’s a cultural thing from DH.

For some, I think it came with the arrival of wooden floors when high heels could wreck them maybe?

The Royal Family pay people to clean up after their guests. I highly doubt of course that attendees at investitures have come straight from competing in the mud-wrestling championships of course.

My parents came from quite poor backgrounds and it was an achievement to buy their own house so why wouldn't they want to keep it nice? I'm actually not as bothered as my DH but I prefer hard, moppable floors downstairs and we are a shoes off house. My house before we got together had quarry tiles so I didn't mind shoes downstairs. I wasn't suggesting it was an upper class thing.

So do people who don't want shoes indoors for that reason also get changed when they get home?

I don't actually crawl or bum-shuffle in the mud and on dirty pavements, it's really not comparable.

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?

Yes, always. We have indoor clothes and outdoor clothes.

But I don’t think many animals wee or poo on bus or train seats. Nobody smokes or spits like they do outdoors. No foxes on public transport either. So I’d still consider shoes much dirtier than clothes.

I highly doubt of course that attendees at investitures have come straight from competing in the mud-wrestling championships of course.

Does anyone have guests who arrive straight from a mud wrestling championship?

an achievement to buy their own house I think this is quite true of most people and the reasoning behind removing shoes. We spend money on wooden floors and nice rugs and we want them to look as good as possible for as long as possible because we saved up and paid hard earned money for them.

I also vote for no bathroom bin.

Maybe it's a class thing

Or common sense? Why risk bringing in outdoor germs, mud, animal poo etc when you can leave your shoes at the door?

Or cultural. In many parts of the world wearing shoes in someone’s home is extremely rude!

Or they have a crawling baby or kids who like to play on the floor, so they prefer to keep carpets clean?

I agree with you HikeForward. I think my class comment has been misinterpreted.

A jar containing a severed plait of my SILs hair in the room only DH and I sleep in 🤮

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@burritofan

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.

OMG my MIL is the same. And even more inexplicably, she has just had her kitchen redone and she STILL has no kitchen bin?! Drives me insane.

But I don’t think many animals wee or poo on bus or train seats. Nobody smokes or spits like they do outdoors.
I've thrown people off of trains for both offences before. But yes, the seats are generally cleaner than pavements.

Footmen tending to visiting dignitaries at Buckingham Palace are taught to set up a trestle table for unpacking suitcases precisely because suitcases get put down on railway platforms and pavements and might mess up the bedspreads.

@Cantbelievelife - that’s thrown up a interesting image!

By saying he “doesn’t stand on ceremony” basically means he doesn’t change anything about his living habits even if he has guests visiting. Most of us would do a quick clean around (hoover, clean the loo etc) but he obviously doesn’t bother.

The phrase comes from when soldiers line up to have their kit/uniforms inspected and will get a bollocking if there is anything that isn’t perfectly polished etc.

I thought this thread was about annoying things about your own house as in doors hinged the wrong way or not having a side entrance to the garden etc 😂
I’m completely shocked about people wearing shoes indoors though, the pavements/roads are not clean & would take more than a vacuum to clean the unseen grime off your floors. I like to sit on my carpet with the children to play & read books, I wouldn’t sit on a pavement outside. I remember as a teenager a few of us went round a friend’s house, all of us took our shoes off at the door except one girl who trod dog poo all through their house 🙈 I was mortified for her, we only smelt it when it was too late! Then a couple years ago at my Aunty & uncles, a guest left dark muddy footprints all up their stairs, strangely they seemed surprised that the shoes they had worn outside had dirt on them . I have a bathroom bin

We keep shoes on downstairs but have no carpets. They’re removed before we go upstairs.

I like to sit on my carpet with the children to play & read books, I wouldn’t sit on a pavement outside.

But presumably you would sit on grass. What’s the difference?

But presumably you would sit on grass. What’s the difference?

If it is in the OP's garden there will be a lot of difference between that and the pavemant. In a park she might sit on a picnic blanket.

@VinylDetective

I like to sit on my carpet with the children to play & read books, I wouldn’t sit on a pavement outside.

But presumably you would sit on grass. What’s the difference?

Or on public benches - so many young people sit on the back with their feet on the seat. Do you sit on those benches?

But presumably you would sit on grass. What’s the difference?

Grass? Too many ants! I take a picnic rug.

I’m also someone who dislikes people wearing outdoor footwear in their homes. Its just dirty.

When you have a hot drink at someones house and there isn’t anywhere to put it, so you sit there with a boiling cup in your hand.

When you stay at someones home and you need a degree in engineering to work their shower.

@Simonjt also see trying to turn the tv on or the microwave

Not really annoying as such but... A jar on a shelf containing half chewed toffees with the chocolate coating sucked off. She didn’t like the toffee but the boyfriend did so they were popped in the jar for later. 🤮

White, see through bedroom curtains.

No bedside table light so you have to have the glaring overhead light on if you want to read in bed, and then get out of bed to turn off the overhead light before you go to sleep.