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

[balihai550]

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

@balihai550

Oh god my parents don't have a kitchen bin either! So traumatic. They used to use crappy supermarket bags until they got banned And I can't imagine what they must be doing now they cost 10p.

We don't have a kitchen bin, we use the brown paper bags that our shopping goes in. I start two bags when I cook the evening meal and it goes straight out to either the compost bin or rubbish bin after we have eaten, any recycling is washed immediately and into a cardboard box. I don't then have a bin in my kitchen as I've got no need for one.

Packaging - from toothpaste, soap etc. Cotton wool. Used razor blades. Toilet roll cores. Empty deodorant roll ons. Loads of stuff.

We don't use cotton wool or razor blades. Packaging from our soap is a cardboard box, same for the toothpaste so they go straight downstairs into the recycling, toilet roll core go to the compost/the hamster. Our shower gel is refillable bottles so no waste there either.

Single beds with sheets and blankets instead of duvets

Cold house

Coffee option is individual sachets with milk powder and sugar in too!

Comments on what you’re eating/drinking

Meat defrosting in bags on draining board.

Bathroom locks - yes you can get them so that can be undone from outside.

Dog smells. I suppose you have to care. When my brutally honest DB visited from the UK I said, tell me, does the house smell of animals?

No.

Having said that, no litter trays, no food left after feeding. Dog not allowed on sofa unless his special blanket is there. All carpets cleaned with those huge professional things twice-yearly.

@jgjgjgjgjg
They live in a constant state of drowsiness and fall asleep as soon as they sit down

My parents have a set of Stressless Windsor leather sofas, they are the most conveted item in the house. Also the most hideously uncomfortable sofas in existence, they are too close to the wall to recline so practically snap you in half. We all end up sitting on the floor whilst DM gets very offended that we won't subject ourselves to back ache.

The same family members that have no control over their dogs, all panting, jumping and nudging you constantly. If you gently move one off your knee you get told off. 'oh he's upset now! Poor doggy he just loves you coming round' ARGH

Also parking wars, they live in a very posho area and it wouldn't be proper to park outside a neighbours house so we're instructed to just park across the driveway.

Not enough fucking alcohol and thimbly wine glasses

Tester paints on the walls for months with no decision made

Bad wine glasses

I'm guilty of the cat on worktops. I don't believe anyone with a cat can stop it. I always wipe down before cooking though.

I hate freezing houses, surely they notice how uncomfortable guests are?

No offering of drinks/top ups.

Thick kinds of dust in corners where they've hoovered by not got the nozzle out

Mopping around furniture or moving it so you can see the filth around the coffee table legs

Erm, I may have to cancel the post covid party I had planned.

We don't have a bathroom or kitchen bin. Unfortunately the 2 are connected, so there is really no point in leaving rubbish in the bathroom. We use carrier bags as bins in the kitchen as there is insufficient space in our galley kitchen for a stand alone bin.

My thermostat is set to 23 constantly and sometimes I boost it. I hate cold houses and will radiator cling.

We have plastic pint glasses, an excessive amount of kitchenalia , we don't use the cutlery drawer very often as I prefer to store commonly used items in the extensive over sink drying rack.

I have a vast collection of wall signs and weird crap on my hallway wall, it makes me smile (never about prosecco or love, usually sarcastic). I even have wall quotes from lilo and stitch.

We have a toilet brush.

We keep loo roll beside the loo, because practicality trumps aesthetics.

We are messy.

For me, I hate:
dog hair and spit/slobber/smell.
food waste and crunchy floors.
smelly towels.
Perfection.

Never mind no lock on the bathroom door, a BiL and SiL of mine had no door on the bathroom for years. It had been taken off at some point and nobody could be arsed to put it back..
We never actually stayed there but my poor MiL found it very awkward when she wanted a bath.

Bathrooms that have a million bath towels hanging up but no discernible hand towel. So as a guest you are standing there with dripping hands contemplating whether it's acceptable to use the towel someone dried their arse on that day or not, and if so which one?

Friends’ house where there was only one properly comfortable chair in the sitting room, and He always had that - nobody else would ever think of sitting there. The sofa had wooden arms, horrible thing. I would often plead tiredness very early so at least I could go and be comfortable in bed.

Take a small rubber door wedge in your bag and jam it under from your side
Fab idea!!!!!

No pets for me to fuss over. That's it really because I almost never stay with people. I'd choose a hotel every time.(Preferably one with a resident pet)

Houses which smell of pets
Animals allowed to sit on the furniture
Animals allowed to lick, sniff and jump up at visitors unchecked - cue “he’s just being friendly”
Cold houses
Overheated houses with permanently locked windows
No drinking water on the table at meal times (but fizzy lemonade offered as an alternative).
Water between meals measured out like liquid gold in teeny tiny glasses

@ApplesandAardvarks

No pets for me to fuss over. That's it really because I almost never stay with people. I'd choose a hotel every time.(Preferably one with a resident pet)

You and I will never be staying in the same hotel 😊😊😊

Oh we tick lots of these boxes

We have no bathroom bin.
Why do you need one?

No blinds or curtains as I hate them

Only 1 lamp

I don’t like having visitors much so all good

Never mind no lock on the bathroom door, a BiL and SiL of mine had no door on the bathroom for years. It had been taken off at some point and nobody could be arsed to put it back..
This thread is making me girl with laughter and also feeling that my house is not the worst 😀

howl not girl

@burritofan

My MIL one-ups the “no bathroom bin” by having no KITCHEN bin. You have to pile things in a neat little heap on the counter near the door where they’re then taken to the wheelie bin approximately 6,000 times a day.

Oh GOD my MIL does this. And her kitchen is UPSTAIRS. Have to cart everything downstairs then through the family room out through the back door across the garden and into the garage, where the bin is hidden. It’s utterly mad.

@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.

We have a bathroom bin, but loo roll middles and empty shampoo/conditioner bottles don't go in it. Otherwise we'd have to pick them out of the used tissues and sanitary products to recycle them.

@Kintsugi16

Oh we tick lots of these boxes

We have no bathroom bin.
Why do you need one?

No blinds or curtains as I hate them

Only 1 lamp

I don’t like having visitors much so all good

It was only when an Xmas guest shuffled nervously into the kitchen to ask where 'the bin' was I realised I needed a bin in the guest bathroom.

I felt terrible.

I never put stuff in the bin in other people’s bathrooms. Makes me feel weird and self conscious

I thought this thread was going to be funny, but it's mostly quite judgey, even snobby

This. The tone of many posts is really unpleasant. It’s not remotely funny.