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

[balihai550]

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

Manky, damp hand towels.
Non-locking bathroom doors
Baskets of toilet roll next to the lavatory: you just know they're covered in shite because people don't lower the lid before flushing. I also don't get why anyone would think it's remotely attractive to look at a pile of bog roll.
Pictures hung too high up on the wall
Pale leather sofas - looks like chewing gum

Air fresheners!! So disgusting. Sickly smell and no doubt carcinogenic.

Those horrible fabric and/or plastic floral displays. Dust collecting horrible things.

No blinds or crap, flimsy curtains in the bedroom - or both! My mum lives in an urban area and even the streetlights glaring through the rubbish curtains keeps me awake. When I finally get some shut eye I end up waking at the crack of dawn once the sun is up and can't get back to sleep, it's so frustrating.

I live in the countryside and have blackout blinds and blackout curtains so it's completely dark and completely quiet - bliss! I don't know how I ever managed to sleep a wink when I lived in cities.

MIL's house smells of chip pan fat 🤮 smell clings to anyone who goes near the house AND she never changes the hand towel in her downstairs toilet, it's damp and smells sour

Houses wear people wear shoes. Makes me feel a bit I'll. (Definitely cultural as brought up by a mother in whims home country no one ever enters a house with shoes on)

not to be used decorative towels

I'd struggle with a house with no books. Though I think some MNers would object to mine, as I have shelves in the bathroom, having run out of space in every other room in the house. I suspect someone will say it's unhygienic, and mention poo particles.

@Tootsietootie

Houses wear people wear shoes. Makes me feel a bit I'll. (Definitely cultural as brought up by a mother in whims home country no one ever enters a house with shoes on)

This is v funny. I have a horror of 'shoes off' houses, as they seem very bourgeois to me...

@olderthanyouthink

Some of you would love our bathroom and en-suites that have no windows at all. Extractor fans only run with the lights on too.

We don't have a bathroom bin 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)

We have a bathroom bin and I haven't had a period for 20 years. I use it for tissues, empty shampoo bottles, cotton buds etc. It's emptied every day

I hate using someone's bathroom where they don't have a hand towel and expect you to use their bath towels. I'd rather dry my hands on my clothes or my hair than the towel they dried their bum with.

I refuse to stay at mother in laws house because it has no

Lock on the bathroom
Functioning oven
Kitchen knives
Overhead lights downstairs (only lamps) and no light at all in the downstairs bathroom just the option to pee in the dark

It does have
A lot of pet hair
An unpleasant damp musty smell
A range of threadbare guest towels

Premier Inn every time.

Surprised at all the no books comments. You'd all hate it in my house you wouldn't see a single book, they're all in cupboards because I think they look too messy on show!

Mil is a crafter. This is a euphemism for every surface in the whole house being covered in some manner of homemade tat. Sitting down on any chair requires manoeuvring around at least 3 oversized cushions and a throw.

There is never anywhere to put a drink down. Put your car keys down and it's like a game of where's Wally to find them again.

I literally have to look up at the ceiling sometimes to calm my brain down. It's the only uncluttered area.

Other things I hate - long term broken things with workarounds, like a door handle or toilet flush where residents know "the trick" and everyone else risks breaking whatever it is

Bed ends. I'm 5ft 6 but tend to sleep halfway down the bed. I do not like bed ends.

Really strong sickly sweet fabric conditioner smells on bedding.

Awkward driveways or access

Stuff which broke YEARS ago and nobody has ever bothered to fix it.

Yes, sorry, that door doesn't open properly, you need to heave it upwards and to the left and then wiggle through the gap. No, the dishwasher doesn't work, we use it for storing jam in. I know it's a pedal bin, but the pedal's broken, so just lift up the lid with your hand every time. No, that window doesn't close (WTF?!). The ceiling lightbulb has gone, but if you walk across the room in the dark and trip over the hostess trolley then you'll find a table lamp on your left which will give you a mild electric shock. The toilet DOES flush, you just have to pump the lever up and down eight times, take the lid off the cistern, twiddle the blue thing, stand on one leg and whistle "Auld Lang Syne" first.

Meanwhile the garden is pristine, with a green velvet lawn and a hedge that's cut with a set square.

GET A FUCKING HANDYMAN IN

Bathroom locks-
FIL collapsed in bathroom (stroke) MIL couldn't open door to get to him, , DP won't have lock on door

I love my mum's home, it's gorgeous but she never uses glasses for cold drinks, only cups/mugs. I find it infuriating

I can forgive almost anything except gushing signs about love and making memories. They were shit even when they were 'trendy' about 10 years ago

Wall stickers/stencils

Cold houses
I also get annoyed by the TV being on- I wouldn't mind if I was round someone's for the night as much, but TV being on during the day if I go visit someone winds me up..

Have been feeling ill all day and this has cheered me up no end.
Nothing to add. Carry on.

Shoes on inside a carpeted house is gross. Why would you want to stomp about in someone's house and risk leaving dirty rain prints, leaves, and stones from your shoe grips? I'd be mortified.

Cold houses. The thermostat at my parents is genuinely set to 5 degrees...

Being jumped on by large heavy dogs who behave as if they are lap dogs, while the owners watch them lovingly...

The smell of wet cat food. Ugh

I’m completely gobsmacked at people not having bathroom bins! Every house, holiday let and hotel I’ve stayed at has had one.

Even if no one in the house uses sanitary products, what about the random rubbish that you end up with in the bathroom? Disposable contact lenses and the cases, cotton wool, makeup wipes, ear buds, packaging from toiletries, Hair cleaned out of your hairbrush, tissues, worn toothbrush heads, floss, dull razor heads etc.
Do people have to carry it downstairs to the kitchen bin? I’d end up with handfuls everyday! I find it so bizarre.

Magnolia
How is that even a colour.

Same @Scarby9 no bathroom bin in my childhood or parents current home

We have no Kleenex
Bottles of liquid soap are refilled from big bottles, looking to just refill in a shop
No make up to remove now but used Muslim cloths in the past
Cotton buds are seldom used and go straight in the kitchen bin
Toothpaste comes out of the box before going in the bathroom, totally pointless box
DD is 2 and I've never bought wet wipes for her and stopped using wet wipes at all went I went crunchy after having her (I grew up flushing them, which I now know I shouldn't have)

I don't houses which are
Too hot
Too thick a carpet so doors can't close
No bins in bathroom
No tissue boxes in rooms
Many bedrooms / many people living in the house ... one bathroom
Not all of the light bulbs are working
Not many mirrors and nine which are full length
Houses which don't have a pet