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To never invite an MNer to my house again due to .......

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Mamazon · 14/09/2009 17:24

This thread

honestly. I didn't realise so much went in to inviting your mate round for coffee.

i normally have a very open house policy and have people in and out all the time but i think i may have to reconsider now.
god knows what people must think about my own lax housework skills.

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lockets · 14/09/2009 21:14

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triffictits · 14/09/2009 21:14

I read that post but am not qualified to post on it....I have soap in the loo, no bookcase in the living room and...........a lladro ornament. Fook me, what tacky squalor I live in

Oh, also have more than my kettle on kitchen worktops!

You're all welcome for a cuppa anytime though

Alambil · 14/09/2009 21:15

I'll come again - your house is truly a palace compared to mine

thisisyesterday · 14/09/2009 21:17

don't forget christmas decorations up until August lockets!

i am proud of my current helium balloon, it has been on the ceiling since ds3 was born!!! that's 3 whole months

lockets · 14/09/2009 21:18

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thisisyesterday · 14/09/2009 21:19

i can barely even see my worktops due to a plethora of ridiculously underused kitchenalia (and other crap)

but going back to my other point, there is space to make cake, and coffee. so bah!

lockets, i love that when i came to your house last you pointed out how dirty your rug was. i went home feeling all pleased that i wasn't the only one with a dirty rug (or, in my case entire carpet) and that you hadn't hidden it away before i came

thisisyesterday · 14/09/2009 21:21

i'll tell you what i used to hate. people who had kids and had gardens that looked like an overgrown jungle of death, strewn with broken toys and stuff that just shouldn't even be out there.

well, now that is my garden. and i don't care!

flaminhell · 14/09/2009 21:33

Hah, well my now ex, left me, for may reasons (excuses) but one was because the house was messy??? Its not messy it just has 2 kids in it, and a fulltime working mum with one ex lazy bastard, so I say, sod it, the washing up will still be there tomorrow, take your time and live your life.

MollieO · 14/09/2009 21:52

We have two helium ballons that have been on the ceiling for 3 months this week! Bought for ds's birthday in June. He has shown no interest in them since .

MollieO · 14/09/2009 21:53

balloons even.

thisisyesterday · 14/09/2009 21:56

excellent! lockets and I will come over to yours then. don't suppose you also have a carpet with bits of squashed raisins/play-doh in?

Squiglet · 14/09/2009 22:01

oooh i didnt realise that there was such an issue with shoes off. I always ask people to take shoes off but my neighbour always makes a huge point of saying to keep shoes on. Now pondering if i have offended them by shoes off here... oh well. I dont want crap on my carpets where my kids play.

DidEinsteinsMum · 14/09/2009 22:09

I posted on the other thread. But must say some of it is complete anal retentiveness. At the end of the day its their houses if you dont like it dont visit. My bug bear of raw meat/cooked meat hygiene and straight pictures is 1.understandable on health grounds and 2. OCD tendancies. And I am not that fussed as long as you dont give me food poisoning.

This house was a building site for nearly 15 years and has a patio full of sawdust and a lounge decorated with toys and laundry. Sitting is optional and dependant on seat availability But its a no shoes house. How else can you hold the wooden floor skating championships?

SerendipitousHarlot · 14/09/2009 22:10

OMG, that other thread! How rude!

My dh has the tv on ALL THE FUCKING TIME. Drives me mad.

However, you're all welcome round mine. I'm moving soon

SarfEasticated · 14/09/2009 22:13

I hope I will never be invited to stay with a friend and then criticise the size of the towels in the guest bathroom. Christ I don't know anyone with more than 1 bathroom let alone a guest one. I live in SE London though innit

SerendipitousHarlot · 14/09/2009 22:15

Innit tho....

I have very small hand towels. They're flannels

PinkTulips · 14/09/2009 22:20

My friend gave me some really good advice last week.... i was talking about a mother at school having brought her ds round and that i'd been mortified about the state of my house (dd with a broken leg, 7 month old, 3 year old, 6 cats and not enough hours in the day!) and she turned to me and said 'Don't ever feel bad about your home, if they don't like it they can leave!'

She's right you know, our house isn't filthy unlike some i've been in, it's cluttered and untidy and needs painting badly but it's our home and i refuse to be ashamed just because others might have differant standards about their own homes.

RealityIsNOTDetoxing · 14/09/2009 22:22

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ErikaMaye · 14/09/2009 22:25

2shoes I don't have to tidy when you come to meet baby then?

2shoes · 14/09/2009 22:49

no
I will just hog the baby

ErikaMaye · 14/09/2009 22:50

As long as I don't have to clean you can do what you please

vInTaGeVioLeT · 14/09/2009 22:53

i quite like the smell of wet dog and i have little drifts of dog hair in the hall

HeadsUp · 14/09/2009 22:55

At first I thought the other thread was funny but as I read on I found it quite depressing.

I don't have many books around because I read them once then hand them back in to the charity shop, I do have some in a book case in the hall, mostly reference books and a few c lassic roald Dhal. But if you visited for tea you wouldn't see that.

I don't like airfresheners much as they make me sneeze and give me a sore head but hey each to their own, wouldn't worry too much about others having them.

PortBlacksandResident · 14/09/2009 23:11

This thread is starting to mirror the other one in a weird dichotomy. Like satan and god or the extreme right and extreme left in politics.

PortBlacksandResident · 14/09/2009 23:19

"little drifts of dog hair" - i call those dust bunnies. A friend calls them Woolly Monsters.

I reconcile myself that if i had a carpet i wouldn't see them to clear them up - so my delightful untiled as yet floor is actually very hygienic.