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? 🎄 🙏

Oh one single pillow on the bed

@Chickenwing

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.

I don’t have a bin in either of my bathrooms. When I finish a toilet roll the cardboard goes straight into the recycling bin outside. The same goes for empty toiletry bottles, they get rinsed and put into the recycling bin.

As for used cotton pads, sanitary products etc. I have a bin in the spare bedroom that I use as my dressing room for waste such as that as that’s where I remove make up etc.

Where every room has white/magnolia walls - why would you want to live in a soulless home?
Plastic grass/concrete slabs - we share our planet with other animals, let some live in your garden, your house is taking up room where they previously lived

@Chickenwing

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.

I agree re shoes. I wouldn't dream of being so rude as to ask someone to take their shoes off in my house.

If you've got carpets or rugs then just vacuum them afterwards .
If you've got would or plastic laminate , it's even easier to clean.

We have no books, interesting to learn we're viewed with suspicion 😄

Houses that are freezing cold and no-one ever thinks to ask the guests if they're comfortable. SPARE THE EXPENSE FOR ONCE!

Ditto houses that are so hot you are dripping with sweat. THERE'S FOURTEEN PEOPLE IN HERE WHICH EQUALS 2 EXTRA RADIATORS ON TOP OF THE ONES YOU'VE GOT AT FULL BLAST!

(I do find it really strange that some people have no insight into the fact that their guests might not be comfortable at the same temperature, hot or cold, that serves to please them.)

Hosts who never offer guests more drinks or food when there's patently loads and you don't want to look greedy by asking.

Telly blaring away while no-one's paying any attention to it.

Wood not would. 🙄

Blue flashing Christmas nothing more chic at Christmas than the major accident, police in attendance look

This

Toilet at the end of the pantry. (My Mum + Dad’s last house.)

Cream carpet in the hall. (Our house.) nice idea, not practical at all.

No thanks - I have 3 floors, 2 flights of stairs, a carpeted lounge and a laminate kitchen and hall. I'm not breaking out the Dyson and the steam mop every time someone comes for coffee. It'd take me longer than the visit lasted.

Ancient bed, like 30 years old, too small, seriously uncomfortable. Cigarette smoke at 3am cos mother can’t sleep. Doors that don’t close so I can’t stop the smoke coming into my room. Stupid Aga below my room so always too hot. Matching lampshade and bedding, wtaf?! The sheer horror of the clock ticking away minutes of my life I’ll never get back whilst sitting in the kitchen waiting for something to happen.

DH avoids visiting my sibling as their house is cold all the time. I tell him he's being silly and just wear more layers , but then sit shivering under a blanket while I'm there and remember he has point.

Dog houses. They smell. They're unhygienic. They're hairy,

No, the dishwasher doesn't work, we use it for storing jam in.

ROFL

@XherdanShaqiri

We have no books, interesting to learn we're viewed with suspicion 😄

But ... but ... but ... how?

quick repair jobs not done , once asked a friend why they hadn't fixed door that hadn't shut properly for over 5 years , too busy sitting scrolling through FB apparently. Fixed it myself in 30 minutes as it annoyed me more than friend (tightened the hinge screws)

@Lila653

Separate toilet to the bathroom with no sink?! So have to leave toilet and go into bathroom to wash hands or have to go to the toilet in a separate room before going in the shower. I know this is old fashioned now but a lot of houses still have this design!

Live, laugh, love and other signs, usually relating to gin, family etc.

When front door opens straight into a room, not a hallway.

Beautiful barn conversions where actually there is zero storage as all the bedrooms are in the eaves.

That grey/cream pebble dash exterior wall covering on front of house (not sure what it’s called!)

Stucco?

@ArabellaScott kindles, libraries, buy a book then pass it on.
No books doesn't mean no reading 🤷🏻‍♀️

This doesn’t annoy me, just puzzle me.

Why do some people like to keep supermarket trollies in their front gardens? There’s a neighbourhood in my town where loads of people do this. One front garden has two shopping trollies, upside down with their wheels in the air. It looks as though they’ve died. But most people seem to store “their” trollies upright.

Plug in air fresheners.

Too much Artex.

Unreasonably dirty kitchen sinks - I'm not a fan of cleaning, but really dirty sinks are just gross.

White/cream carpets make me nervous.

We used to have loads and loads of books, but realised that they never got moved as mostly they had been read, so we got rid of almost all of them (bar around 50) and we now either read on kindles, or go to the library. If we do buy a book they will be found by the bedside or passed on to a friend. We just don't have the space for tons of books.

No hooks on the back of bathroom doors or in the bedroom drives me mad. In B & Bs too

This thread is making me cry with laughter/make suppressed snorting noises, sitting next to my dog on sofa.Thank God no-one is coming round any time soon. And we have no spare room..hmm

I detest old unhoovered carpets when I'm staying anywhere, and mattresses where there is a sheet straight on the mattress no mattress cover.
Also white sofas terrified of staining them.

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

First time I've ever worried I might have a RL friend on MN.

My Mil's house is devoid of teaspoons. I mean, she must have at least one, surely? But when I'm there I can never find any. No sharp kitchen knives either.

And she likes Anchor spreadable butter. But her fridge is like the Arctic, so the butter does not live up to its name. Spread it does not.