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? 🎄 🙏

If I was staying in a bathroom bin-free house, I used to bag used sanitary towels up and put them in my handbag for disposal later. Beyond grim to be carting that on the bus. At least that's all done and dusted.
Anyway - books. Yes, I get that you have a Kindle, borrow books from the library etc, but your house looks very very dull to me now. Also, I can't trust you to forget you've borrowed one of my books and pass it on to a charity shop instead of returning it. I only keep books I'm going to re-read, so I will notice.

My sil has two teenage sons and no lock on the bathroom door. Also she doesn't really do clean towels or sheets so the last time I visited I treated myself to a hotel nearby.

Oh that sounds amazing she said, I'll come and stay with you! There's no privacy at mine!

@ILoveYourLittleHat

What do people do if they're on their period and the bathroom in the house they're visiting doesn't have a bin? I really hated having to deal with that when I was young and vowed never to put anyone in that position.

I remember the joy of having a sleepover at my friends house when I was a teenager and had my period. No sodding bin, I realised too late. I ended up tucking the used tampon applicators into my pants and waddling to her bedroom so I could put it in my coat pocket

Houses with dogs in because they smell and the owner can’t smell it

I spent a week in the worst house ever once. No kitchen bin just a compost bin with no lid and home to wasps and flies. Fridge full of mud from veg that had been just pulled out of the ground and stored there without washing. No harsh chemicals to be used for cleaning instead they just used lemon juice - yeah, that worked well. Constant lectures about using one sheet of toilet paper at a time as they had a septic tank.

I had a very heavy period and had to smuggle used sanitary products upstairs where I stored them in a tied carrier bag in my bedside table for a week. I then smuggled the gross bag out of the house when we left and dumped it in a bin at a service station. I lived in fear of forgetting and leaving the bag in the bedside table for the hosts to discover at a later date.

Ah people would judge us for having no books, but we do. They are just neatly in cupboards because I don’t like them out.

I think they only thing that bothers me is dirty toilets / sinks (don’t care about dusty etc.) and smelly fridges.

Grey crushed velvet.

I say no more.

My ex mil's house was freezing. She had an age concern thermometer strip thing that never registered above blue- turn the heating on. And it was next to the cooker. To add insult to injury we stayed there one Xmas and the sodding boiler in the bedroom cupboard in kept me awake. How could the boiler be running constantly in a cold, cold house. Because she had the heating on, the thermostat set and every single radiator turned off.

@Completelyfrozen
One litter tray for four cats? That would annoy me. You are supposed to have one litter tray per cat.

My ILs house has so many...

No bathroom lock. I asked them once and they'd said it was because it would take to long to fit. Yet they have a handmade sign hanging from a nail on the outside of the door that says vacant in one side and busy on the other. In the time it took to make that and hang it, they could have put a bloody lock on.

Only enough dining chairs for them. So anyone else coming round has to sit on a stool.

TWO separate taps at the kitchen sink, one mixer, one not. I've no idea which one I'm supposed to use to get drinking water.

I've given them family photos of us before and they've said how nice and then never put it up. They just don't have any photos on display at all. Not even of their grandchildren.

No bedside tables in the spare room.

Others I've encountered...

Agree with glass windows in bathroom doors. Just no.

Also agree with small glasses. Who wants a glass that only holds about one gulp of liquid?

People who don't even use cheap instant coffee, they use coffee powder with whitener

@drtyminded

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

If you ever did want some kind of lock, one solution is to have a circle of string, attached to the doorframe, that can be looped around the door handle. Make it long enough to open the door by about an inch. It makes visitors feel more comfortable to have a way of preventing someone from opening the door fully but in an emergency can be cut with string.

@sleepyhead1980

My in laws bathroom has no blinds and the windows aren't frosted.. so in the winter people can see right in when you are showering. They live in the middle of nowhere so they seem to think it's fine but their neighbours house looks on to the bathroom so they can definitely see in! It's so disturbing 😂

My friend's bathroom is like this. She has a lightly frosted window and houses opposite the bathroom. I hate to use the loo even in daylight!

I mean, long enough to get round the door handle, too! My friend was an elastic band, that's what made me think of opening the door by an inch!

*uses, not was!

Aren't there also locks with a slit you can put a screw driver in the other side to unlock? Not sure if possible for all doors

Haha you would hate my house

Separate toilet and bathroom (rented house, can't do anything)

Magnolia walls (see above)

No locks on bathroom (young children!)

No toilet bin: I use a cup, empty toiletries and loo roll holders go straight downstairs into recycling bins. Don't use cotton buds or pads (reusable ones used here!) so we don't have need for one. Don't have any visitors of an age that would need a bin in the toilet although as kids get older snd have friends and girlfriends that one I'll have to concede defeat

Also no adult books (all on my kindle) - plenty of kids ones

Dogs that are welcome on sofa and beds

No full length mirror apart from
In my bedroom (no where for one!)

You see, I dont understand how some people dont need a bathroom bin

What do you do with:

- empty toiletry bottles
- used cotton buds
- used make up remover pads
- used dental floss / Ti-Pis
- used tissues
- empty loo rolls
- nail clippings

Well the empty loo rolls and bottles go downstairs and into the recycling.

No make up pads/any type of wipes

Why wouldn't you just flush nail clippings down the loo? I've also never known anyone who has a box of tissues in the bathroom. Only seen that in hotels. Aren't they flushable though? If I need to blow my nose while in the bathroom I just use loo roll

As I said before, we all simply take our rubbish downstairs. I cannot be arsed having to empty a bin.

I have a bin in my bathroom. They all use it but nobody empties it except me.

I have a bin in my kitchen. I put a bin liner in it and people fill the bin and split the liner and still put more rubbish in. I have to remove the liner as best as I can, lift out the rubbish and bleach the bin and then reline it.

If I run out of bin liners, they still put rubbish in the bloody bin. They also don't seem to know which is bin rubbish and which is recyclable. I have a box for the recyclables.
I give up.
I am at present using a bag on the door which I take out twice a day until God gives me the strength to start using the bin again
Rant over :)

At my IL's house, everyone has to spend the early part of the evening sitting chatting/watching TV etc. in the dark, until the timer switches the two lamps on. This happens at the same time of day, all year round, with no allowances made for BST or particularly gloomy evenings.

No one is allowed to have a drink at the table with their meal (except for wine at Christmas), so no glasses of water until a grandchild starts complaining that they're "just so, so thirsty Granny!", whereby MIL will usually relent (reluctantly) and I'll end up pouring glasses of water for everyone at the table except for my PIL - who appear determined to prove that complete hydration can be achieved by simply eating what has been served on your plate!

We are guilty of having a bathroom without a lock - partly because we live in a rented place, so we'd have to get the Landlord's permission, but it doesn't worry us, so we haven't bothered. The rule is; if the door is closed, you knock. It's pretty straightforward and after nearly 4 years here, me, DH and 2 DDs (11 & 13) have all managed to avoid anyone opening the door when they shouldn't. We have the same rule for bedrooms though, so we're all very used to it.

Around 2010, my DM and her STBExH had a couple of friends to stay for a few days right before we arrived for an overnight stay ourselves. After we arrived, I asked DM if she wanted a hand changing the bedding as her friends had been sleeping in the room DH and I were going to be in that night, but she said not to worry, as she'd already done it. Fab. Come bed time, we’d put the girls to bed and DH and I were just getting into our bed, when I lifted a pillow to plump it up, only to find a pair of Y-fronts underneath!

When I raised my suspicions with my DM over whether she really had changed the sheets, she replied "Well, I pulled the duvet down a bit and opened the windows wide, so it's all had a good airing"... I was very glad our DDs were in their toddler beds, so I could be reasonably sure no one else had slept in their sheets too!

Those of you with bathroom bins: do you then have to sift through everything to separate the recycling from the rubbish? That sounds more grim that not having a bin in the first place.

Clocks that tick in a guest room. Ticking clocks drive me insane, i cant sleep with one in the room.

Normally take the batteries out but have had times in the past hunting in the middle of the night for the source of the ticking (parents spare room is also used as storage room) to find an old alarm clock in the back of a drawer. Not even telling the right time.

Then there was the time that they decided to put up a clock that needed a screwdriver to change the battery... That one got left outside their bedroom door to deal with. 😂

My mums kitchen, in the cupboards there are Tupperwares full of ancient Tupperware or baby bottles or kids Tommy tippee stuff. Her counters are full to bursting, so often I say mum treat yourself, get rid of antique plastics and use your cupboards as intended!!

Other irritating people who have a dishwasher, but don’t clean said dishwasher, and give you a drink with grit in the glass.

Cat owners who always oh no they don’t go on the kitchen counters, I call bullshit!!

What do you do with:

• empty toiletry bottles (recycling)
• used cotton buds (bedroom bin)
• used make up remover pads (reusable makeup cloth)
• used dental floss / Ti-Pis (bedroom bin)
• used tissues (flush)
• empty loo rolls (recycling)
• nail clippings (flush)

I have a bin in the downstairs loo but it’s never been used by any friends (pre covid had people over all the time). I can’t imagine leaving my period bits in someone’s bin for them to empty. Gross.

Too hot
Carpet in the bathroom
Dog hair and dirt in the bath
Watered-down soap
Doors that don't close properly
No bathroom locks
People who leave the door open whilst they pee
Dropping food and not immediately cleaning it up
Dirty pet food bowls on the floor with chunks of meat flicked out
Shit WiFi
Damp patches (cos that's great for your health )
Crap piled so high in the sink so you can't use the tap
Bins that don't have a pedal so you have to touch a dirty bin lid
No bathroom bin
No toilet brush
Painting around pictures on the wall then moving those pictures but not repainting so there's big squares everywhere
Not locking your doors at nighttime
Having a "pet" mouse