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

[balihai550]

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

[quote Sweetpea1532]**@balihai550* and @Ginfordinner*
You both are welcome to visit mine anytime....oh, unless you don't like to wear jumpers or jackets with hoods inside. We keep our house rather chilly. That's my DH who offered to pose to illustrate how he sits around in the evenings whilst reading the paper. It's about 18° in here right now.
FYI, if we have guests we do turn on the heater (central heating) so they are nice and toasty...we just close our overhead vent so none of the hot air gets in our room.

As you can tell OP, in answer to your post, I cannot tolerate other people's overheated houses.

I feel the cold quite easily. BIL doesn't, and there have been many times I have visited in winter, and he is sat in shorts and a T-shirt with the heating off while my sister and I have been shivering under a duvet while watching TV.

He feels hot easily so everyone else has to be cold. There is no happy medium with him.

And 18 is not tropical.

I think 18 degrees is quite warm. I wouldn't need to huddle under blankets. I'd just wear a jumper.

I would just wear a jumper at 18 degrees as well. My sister's house was considerably colder than that. No heating on at all in winter.

18 degrees would have been a happy medium IMO.

Always keeping the living room door open to let the air in while cranking up the heating and fire. Overly hot houses, mess, clutter and dirt-if you know you have guests please don’t let them see how you really live. Actually not being prepared for guests really pisses me off. I have gone to stay with friends who don’t even bother with a duvet cover for the guest bed, have no food or coffee or once memorably a friend had no toothpaste-luckly I had my own. Now we are all older I opt to stay in hotels.

Lol at the differencing opinions of my 18° house temp! Sometimes it does get down to 10° though.....oh and the reason DH is all bundled up is because I've given him a corona cut since all the barbers are shut down....I accidentally used the wrong thing on the clippers and he is now sporting the "kojak" look.
@Crimeismymiddlename
You just reminded me of my youth...Hahahalol! My mum had us very well trained to clean up before guests came so they wouldn't see how we really lived. We'd be sitting in the lounge watching the telly and have a view of the front drive which allowed us to see if anyone was coming for a visit....I can clearly remember one of us shouting " Hurry up! Clean up! Someone's coming to visit!".... we'd scurry around shoving things in the cupboards and under the sofa only to find that people weren't actually coming for a visit...they were just using our drive to turn around. We'd laugh our heads off!

I feel like the little boy from the Snoopy / Charlie Brown cartoon who walks around with a cloud of dirt following him "Pigpen" I think.

@hammeringinmyhead why are your guests walking round every room and floor of your house when they come for coffee necessitating a full house hoover and mop?!!!

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?

67 years ago people didn't have beige carpets. Carpets, if people had them at all (it was often Lino and rugs) were usually patterned and they didn't show the dirt as much. They were most likely minging!

Nowadays people tend to have plain light carpets.
I really don't want wet muddy shoes on my light carpets, fortunately my guests remove their shoes automatically as I do in their homes.

Why on earth would anyone sensible arrange books by the colour of their spines? What if most of them arePenguins? It would be very inconvenient to find a particular book. Gwyneth Paltrough does it this way, so it’s obviously mad.

I hate being told to take off shoes when visiting. I wear tights or knee highs nearly year round, and don’t want the feet to get grubby or snagged.
A relative keeps chickens in a pen in her kitchen all winter. It always smells grim and they all wash and clean very rarely. I never sit down or stay long. Her granddaughters need a hairbrush at both ends.

@missmouse101
'Those random squirting air fresheners. Absolutely awful.

Reminded me of when my sister bought one for the toilet and put it on the wall above it...it squirted her partner in the face whilst he was having a wee!

@Rocococo

This thread has reminded me that on MN there's nothing more contentious than shoes on / shoes off.

I can't work out whether the split is generational/geographic/ cultural/socio economic or what.

We were a shoes on house when I was growing up and I remember my gran saying it was common to ask people to remove shoes

Then again, I don’t think there was as much dog poo all over the pavement when I was growing up, it’s everywhere here. I seem to spend the entire time I’m out of the house telling the kids to mind the poo!

Then again, I don’t think there was as much dog poo all over the pavement when I was growing up
Really? There was more when I was growing up (50s onwards) No one used to pick their dog poo up ever, it just wasn't a thing. There are still people who leave it on the grass but rarely on the pavement.

I agree about the dog poo: it used to be like doing a slalom when you walked along a pavement. People were always getting dog poo on their shoes.

Just remembered the trauma of pil’s house and their security. They lived in a 70s development where everyone knew each other and had moved in at the same time. Still, the pils had a state-of-the-art alarm system. They kept every door and window locked when they were inside, even in the summer. The side gate had barbed wire and bars.

When I went to visit for the first time, dh warned me not to go downstairs in the night for water/go to the loo as there were lasers running across the rooms to detect movement and the alarm would go off.

@CaptainMyCaptain

Then again, I don’t think there was as much dog poo all over the pavement when I was growing up Really? There was more when I was growing up (50s onwards) No one used to pick their dog poo up ever, it just wasn't a thing. There are still people who leave it on the grass but rarely on the pavement.

And a lot of dogs used to roam free without an owner in sight, so no-one to pick up the poo anyway.

That's true @sueelleker. We used to get dogs in the school playground all the time. There were no locked gates then and the dogs used to wander in looking for 'their' children.

@Shetoshe for around £25, you can buy a portable black out curtain that has suction cups to put on either the window, frame or wall. Your host would never even know you used one and you’ll always get a good night sleep when travelling (if the light is your only issue). Greatest gift ever received.

[quote ForeverAintEnough]@hammeringinmyhead why are your guests walking round every room and floor of your house when they come for coffee necessitating a full house hoover and mop?!!![/quote]
Because the kitchen, living room and bathroom aren't on the same floor. It's not that rare in townhouses.

@sueelleker
Thank you Yes! He's the one!..Pigpen..especially since I love to garden and usually have stirred up clouds of dust as our soil is very dry where I live

I always thought he was being followed by a cloud of flies!

That brings back memories. My sister and I used to love watching the Charlie Brown cartoons that were shown on TV on Boxing Day.

Oh dear the coffee quest. I can relate to this. I am always first up, and no I can’t function without coffee. I will tear your house apart to get something that resembles coffee.

If you are my overnight guest...
At my house, I pre make it the night before and take 2 seconds to show you which button to push if you wake up first...you won’t but just in case you do it will be ready and easy. Don’t like that machine..no worries I’ve also shown you the Kureig, and pointed out where the tea and coffee pods are...not up for that, how about the tea bags, loose tea, and kettle. So, you are not a fan of hot drinks and need your caffeine in the form of a pop, why yes there are some in the fridge.

Can you tell what my biggest pet peeve of staying over at someone’s house is?

Since I’ve posted now...you no bathroom bin people are truly bizarre in my world. I have run across 1 bathroom in my lifetime that didn’t have a bathroom bin... it was 5 guys living in a party house in Uni. All the other party houses that only had guys living there had a bathroom bin. Strangest thing ever!

Homes with the windows permanently shut. I can't stand not having any fresh air.