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

[balihai550]

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

Cold houses, I sleep in a cashmere jumper at one relatives.
Piles of stuff on every surface.
Houses so tidy and shiny that you feel like an intruding germ.

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Having to change for dinner at aunts house. Like we're the bloody landed gentry and it's 1842. Same house. None of the doors close properly and/or swing open.

Friends house. Turn the bloody heating down. I'm melting here.

Cousin's house. Your TV is FUCKING MASSIVE and your living room is FUCKING TINY. it's looks ridiculous.

Friend. Why do you always ALWAYS have piles and piles of shoes everywhere?

Change into what, exactly??

Live laugh love decals 🤮

People who are funny about their dishwashers. My parents won't allow the "nice plates" or the "nice glasses" or the "nice dishes" to go in there, even though they are perfectly dishwasher safe. So we end up doing mountains of washing up every evening while the dishwasher just sits there empty.

The bar of soap on the sink in the downstairs loo that has been there for 5 years, never gets any smaller and has dried into a substance harder than diamond that produces no lather.

When I see the EAT sign over the kitchen table, I expect the SHIT sign over the toilet and the FCK over the master bedroom bed.

Bowls of little pebbles.
Why?

@JesusInTheCabbageVan - my ex mil has the plastic in her hallway! Very fancy!

Some of the top of my head...
As PP have said, small glasses. I want a proper drink of water not a thimble!
A relative who has a (luckily obscured!) glass door on her downstairs bathroom, next to the kitchen!!! Also, it is a slidey door so doesn’t seal at all!
Another one is someone I know who has their living room curtains closed all night and then opens them before they go upstairs, ready for the morning 🤷‍♀️

Smelly pets or indoor smokers.

I don't have a bathroom bin and the washing basket is downstairs. No visitors use the upstairs bathroom or stay and any rubbish produced whilst using the bathroom gets brought downstairs straight away and put in kitchen bin. Empty bottles etc. Same with dirty washing.
This is because I know that it would only ever be fucking me that emptied the bastard bin. Also to keep recycling separate to other rubbish.

Eldest DD asked for a washing basket on her room but not a chance. It would just fester. I'm not chasing other people's dirty washing. If it's not in the washing basket downstairs it wont get washed.

Grey. Grey walls, grey furniture,grey everything.
Almost everyone's house is grey

I hate watered down soap. Gives me the boak.

I hate other people’s houses when you aren’t offered a refreshment! Why have you invited me?! Please may I have a drink?? It’s so odd.

Other people's houses are just too hot, full stop. I don't really have the heating on, as I can always put another cardy on if I'm chilly (old, draughty house where the heating would just go straight through the windows anyway). I can't bear heating. Other people have it on very high, and it makes me feel hot and ill.

@2bazookas

Hanging signs with cute messages about love, gin, dogs, husbands etc , which can be bought in any trash shop but are intended to emphasise individuality.

No books.

Bathroom with no soap/damp handtowels/down to the last two sections of toilet paper and no spare roll/ ancient tide mark in toilet bowl /all stinks of airfreshener

No books?

Ooooh controversial. But yeah I think I'm suspicious of people with no books at all.

Houses with a hit water tank rather than combi boiler, so if someone has just had a bath there's no hot water.
Houses where step straight into the lounge from pavement.
The worst of all....HOUSES WITH NO BOOKS OR MAGAZINES. that's all kinds of wrong!

I'm guilty of the no lock thing. In my defence, the bathroom is not much bigger than a cupboard and we never have house guests, so it's just me & DC using it. The loo is the size of a very small cupboard, so the rule is 'if the door's closed, it's in use' Plus both rooms are upstairs, so no risk of anyone overhearing/walking in. I have got a really swanky loo with built in sink though, so I think that grants me some immunity from hatred?

The WORST ones are where the bathroom is massive, the loo is on the other side of the room from the door, and there is no lock. Ex ILs decided this wasn't awful enough and also had a clear window in the bathroom door so that even if someone didn't actually walk in on you, you could be seen from about half a mile away as you tried to have a discreet poo.

@movingondown

Do we have the same mil?? My mil has two cutlery trays stacked on top of each other in one of her drawers. There's only the two of them and we're their only visitors approx twice a year. Why so much cutlery???

My ILs house smells of dinner, all the time. When you leave your hair, clothes and skin all smell like mince and gravy. You can even smell it as you approach their front door. They refuse to open any window anywhere in the house ever, as they pay too much for heating in winter and don't want flies to come in in the summer. They keep a well used plastic fly swatter on top of the bread bin, unaware of the horrors festering on it.

MIL has a rectangular flip top lid bin but for some reason won’t buy the right sized bin liners for it, so instead she stretches a carrier bag across two corners. It’s such a fucking pain the the arse. You can’t just open the bin and just throw some rubbish into it, you’ve got to make sure you get it in the minute triangular opening of the overstretched plastic bag.

Also, she has no sink in the toilet. It’s a really weirdly converted, flat so the nearest sink to the toilet is actually the kitchen sink.

My own parents have a stupidly big TV that they put in the big bay window of their front room, so the light is always obscured. It’s gloomy in the day, and the curtains stay open at night because it’s too much of a faff to reach into the bay behind the frigging TV to close them.

Dirty houses, I find myself staring as the dirt and have to make a conscious effort to stop and then I feel awkward and don't know where to look.

Houses where the pet owners think you want their pet (and probably it's hair) all over you.

A personal dislike of mine is crap stuck onto the fridge with a variety of magnets. It looks so scruffy and I just hate it.

Can't get to grips with this grey obsession.
Also carpeted bathrooms and kitchens
Fingerprints on windows
Dirty toilets blurrrgh

When the tv is bigger than a bookcase ❌
No bedside table in guest room - particularly annoying as a glasses wearer

@JesusInTheCabbageVan

You don't see it these days, but in the 80s you'd occasionally see houses with heavy duty plastic covering high footfall areas, and sometimes furniture with the plastic covers still on. Don't know how anyone who could relax in a house like that.

My MIL has this in her house. The house is hotter than the sun, the telly is too loud and EVERYONE SHOUTS AT EACH OTHER ALL THE TIME. Everything also has to run to a timetable. Family of teachers

Im confused about the people with no toilet bin... where do you put the cardboard bit of the toilet roll? Or empty shampoo/conditioner? Face wipes, sanity products, cotton pads????

I dislike when people make me take my shoes off. Or if there's nowhere to sit.

Lack of locks on bathroom doors - ugh
Dogs and cat smells (do owners not smell it?)
Dogs and cats on chairs - even worse, walking a,ing kitchen worktop 🤮
Air fresheners
People eating meals at their settee (tables exist)
Outdoor footwear indoors - even on chairs
People talking over a programme when everybody is watching it - grr