If you were staying as a guest with family or close friends or visiting a family member or close friend for the day at their house, particularly if you have small children that you’d be bringing along.
Would you make a conscious effort to be cleaner/ tidier than in your own home (even if that wasn’t very tidy!) or would you think nothing of making quite a big mess in someone else’s home?
We have visitors staying with us at the moment, they go home Thursday, thank god. Every morning I get up before them all and try and get the house back to some sort of normality before they all surface, for my own mental health if nothing else. They then surface and the mum says things like ‘just going to make DC breakfast as they like a cooked one’ and proceeds to use every single cooking utensil, leaves pans, food, tins etc scattered all over surfaces, grease splatted up the walls. The washing up bowl is filled and things are just chucked in there and then pretty much left. 3 hours later the water is stone cold and there’s a load of dirty plates etc just sitting in it 🤢
The kids surface and it’s their iPads, toys, books...just everything over every single surface and chair. I walk into the living room and their dad is sitting in there with them and they’ve pulled every single cushion from the sofa and are bouncing around the floor on them. Dad has said nothing, mum walks in to call them for their breakfast, sees the chaos and says nothing.
They take ‘making yourself at home’ to the next level and I’m just getting sick of it now and want to say no more visits unless you get some manners.
I just cannot imagine making a mess of someone else’s home? Even if you’re not a clean and tidy person naturally and live in a pigsty at your own house, surely if you’re visiting a family that are house proud and clean and tidy you’d reign in your messiness a bit? Or is this just part and parcel of hosting people?