Dirtiest house you've been in?!

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Hi. This is my first post and I'm new here????
was just startingmy daily routine, but today feel like I'm on a major ocd rampage as visited a friends house that was seriously filthy and it's set me off..Their house stinks of cats and dogs,the kitchen sides are manky, bits all over the floors, and downstairs loo full of washing and skidders down the toilet???? I could go into more detail, but I'll leave it there...oh and it was a party so there were about 20 guests arriving at the house.
What's the dirtiest house you've been in? I had to wipe my feet on the way out!

My friend's house. She's lovely, but jeez it's awful. I can't even bring myself to sit down in it. Dog food all over the floor, dirty laundry everywhere (some of it may be clean but even she can't remember half the time), kids can't play in the garden 'cause she doesn't want to clear up the dog poo, I could go on...

There's not even enough beds for the children

People who live in houses like these must have mental health problems. It's a shame for the kids. The poster who said they found cheap plastic toys with it all broke my heart. It's awfull

I think at points my mums would be the dirtiest I've seen. She has mental health issues and my brother who lives with her is next to useless. Hers has never been anywhere near as bad as what other poster's have seen though!

I've been in 3 houses that would make anyone I know skittish to enter... and the worst was SILs. So disgusting, that I left after I went to the bathroom, left, and never spoken to her since. I was pretty angry (for the kids), except OH was adament I wasn't to call SS. There was vomit and poo up the walls, on the floor, smeared in the bath. There were period wrappers and san-towels USED on the floor, along with used nappies. This was the only bathroom in the house. How on earth were the kids supposed to wash or keep clean?

So disgusting. Much worse than the crack den, or a relative's place, who is the poster child for Hoarders United. There is the tiniest pathway in the latter's house to walk through to get from room to room. It's filled with boxes and junk, from floor to ceiling. The bathroom is an outhouse, and the kitchen is also nonexistant - for years they've washed up dishes in the bath.

I'm sure it's nothing compared to places some of you have seen, but my friend's house is pretty messy.

They have 6 DCs and a small 3 bed terrace. Think two decent sized bedrooms & a cupboard you can either get a single bed in or a wardrobe & chest of drawers. Not both.

In the hallway downstairs, there are 5 pushchairs/prams (some in pieces), almost blocking the front door. The ground in dirt on the carpet is pretty grim - it could do with replacing but even picking up the rubbish & giving it a vacuum would be a huge improvement.

The stairs still have a birthday banner on from DD2's 3rd birthday. She's 7. There are still Christmas cards blu-tacked to the lounge door. The lounge is just so full of toys, piles of papers & dirty crockery it's almost impossible to walk from one side to the other. I'm not sure what colour the carpet is.

The kitchen is probably the worst room for actual dirtiness. I've not been there at a meal time for a while but I can't quite imagine how a meal for 8 people gets made each day without any clear working space .

The dining room is unused. It is the "junk room". Not dirty as such, but just incredibly over full of "stuff". The upstairs rooms are all similar - with stale milk bottles (baby bottles), used nappies, dirty clothes, empty Coke bottles & just "stuff" everywhere.

I appreciate having 6 DCs in a smallish house does make for a lot of "stuff", but I do think they could help themselves by keeping surfaces cleaner & clearer and throwing things away sometimes.

They don't have dog shit anywhere though - friend's DH does clean up after the dog daily. It's just the humans he leaves in dirt.

I have offered help to either tidy up a bit or to babysit the little ones to give friend a chance to do some housework (and her DH), but their attitude is that there's always something better to do.

Which is true in a way, I suppose.

Haha some eye opening experiences on here! I don't judge people on the cleanliness of their homes, but I don't understand how people can't be house proud at all? Both my grandmothers have ocd, my mum is particular how she likes things, and I'm quite clean and tidy so I think we are getting better going down the generations in terms of relaxing the OCD!
I just like everything clean, and in its place. We have the ikea kallax shelves in every room so i can tidy/put my hands on things quicker...kids toys don't bother me though, and I'm not scared to have visitors, as I know it all tidies up when they leave! ?

Santa's that's a bit like my friends house, except there is dog poo all over the back garden, cat hair everywhere, and general crap piles. .They don't even have kids yet, she's pregnant and I can't wait to see how it looks when baby is here!
I have thought about offering to help clean and tidy, but I'm afraid I may cause offence? ! What if she thinks her house IS clean?! (I'm not trying to be a bitch,but it really isn't! )

I've not been in any houses anywhere near as bad as some you describe. But my friend just cannot seem to get organised with her house. It's a effort to find somewhere just to sit down, without having to move laundry, magazines, other detritus etc.
She admits that she can't keep up with the laundry, so when it gets out of hand she goes to the laundrette and does it all in an industrial sized washer.
And she did try to employ a cleaning lady, but the lady came round and said that she thought it was even beyond her capabilities!

When we bought our current house, there had been an old blind lady living here who obviously couldn't see to clean. It was the first time that I've ever had to sweep the walls, and the cobwebs were like something out of Hammer House of Horror. The bathroom was grim, and my mother went in to tackle the toilet (black bowl) with a pair of gauntlets on. She was in there for an hour and had got half of the black stuff off, but only with the aid of a chisel!

My friend had a council house and wanted a bigger one but owed rent so she couldn't swap with them.
A girl she knew was giving up her (bigger) council house to move in with her boyfriend.
Instead, my friend moved into the bigger house one day, the girl went to her boyfriends and the smaller house was left with all her stuff in. They were all claiming housing benefit and nothing was done above board.
The other girl spilt up with her boyfriend, demanded my friend out of the other house immediately so she rang me to collect her.
We got to the smaller house she'd lived in first and I've never seen anything like it.
Rotting food all over, cartons of milk gone green on the side, bins overflowing with flies, washing moulding in the machine, dirty and clean washing all over the show mixed in. Toys full full of shit. Nappies stinking, turd burns in the toilet, dead fish in a bowl.
She had literally walked out in the clothes she was standing in to set up camp in the other house. She had been back for mail and other bits over the months but ignored it all. Funnily enough, I declined a brew.

what's wrong with washing on the kitchen floor?? aRe you OCD op??
I have it ALL over my floor at the moment so I make sure it gets in and out and done!!!

My best friend's i've cleaned it for her several times (at her request, I'm a cleaner) and I really do leave it looking like a palace but i know within hours it will be as if i was never there. I dont know why but she just seems totally unaware of dirt or maybe she never learned how to clean. Ive heard her say that her mum sometimes makes comments about the state of the place so it cant be that she was raised in a house like that. Also her ex husband is a real clean demon, and i know there is no way she kept the house like that when they were together, in fact i know because i was in it and it was clean. I really dont get it, i think maybe she has lost sight of what normal levels of clean are. Like having a bin somewhere in the house or even a plastic bag hanging on the back of a door, instead of just setting rubbish on the kitchen table or kicking it into a corner on the floor. She used to have two dogs and i hate to say it but when they died i was relieved because it meant no more dog shit or piss everywhere and dog hair. Mounds of it gathered on the sofas, the floor, the corners of the kitchen worktop, on her piles of washing that just seem to be everywhere. I dont actually know how she manages to dress her children in the morning. There is no laundry system at all. I cant eat at her house, it really is very bad. I feel awful saying it because she is a lovely person but her house is awful. I used to think if i cleaned it for her and showed her how nice it could be she would be inspired but as i said, it lasts a few hours, if that. She just doesnt seem to know how to keep a house clean or tidy.

Yes I wondered about that Ireally! Our washing machine is in the kitchen, so it's not clear where else the washing would go before it goes in the machine, especially if there's more than one load waiting

Harlett - I saw some pictures of a house where the bath was being used as a toilet.

I was working as a local government employee at the time too. I wonder if it was the same house?

My washing goes in the basket in the bathroom. When i unload from the machine i unload into a round flexible bucket type thing and it goes straight on the line or the clothes horse then i take the bucket to the bathroom unload the next load straight from laundry basket into the bucket and then take it to the washing machine. The washing never needs to go on the floor, clean or dirty.

I help out a disabled neighbour by taking his dog for a walk a couple of times a week. His house is an eyesore from the outside - trees and plants growing into a wilderness everywhere, brown net curtainns, filthy windows and always pigeons all over his (holey) roof as he puts feed out for them despite the council getting a court order against him doing this.

He lost his leg above the knee when he was hit by a car aged 19, and has struggled with pain, disability, depression and alcoholism ever since (he's 50 now). The house was his mothers and he moved back in after she died fifteen years ago.

He invited me in once for a cup of tea and I thought it would be rude not to... Never seen or smelt anything like it. No carpets, he has some injured pigeons in cages in his front room, so pigeon feed and shit everywhere as another friend can only clean the out every few weeks... the SMELL! He can't get upstairs much to use the bathroom so he wees in bottles then pours in the sink. There's piles of old newspapers and beer cases everywhere. He drinks at least 20 cans of lager a day. There's dog hair, dust, mud, grime, cigarette smoke and yellow nicotine stains everywhere. He uses paper plates as he has only one running cold tap in the kitchen. No heat or hot water, as the rats ate through the boiler cables years ago. He sleeps downstairs on a mattress that stinks of urine (it was new six months ago, a friend gave him a new one as the last one was so bad). He had a bath a year ago at someone's house, but that's it, so he smells dreadful too. I was in there less than five minutes (declined tea!) and I had to have a bath when I got in.

The daft thing is, he would be eligible for all sorts of help from social services - maybe a downstairs bathroom, help with cleaning, a boiler... but he will not let them in the house due to previous experiences with them. The council threatened to evict him if he didn't let the pest controllers in, so the rats have gone for now, but they'll be back. He can't bear killing animals, he says.

And his latest bombshell was that he plans to leave the house to me! He said he does not want his horrible siblings to get it, he doesn't think he has long left, and he wants it to go to someone who he knows will benefit from it.... but there's no way I could sort that house out before selling it ... it needs bulldozing! He is very kind and vulnerable but stubborn as an ox.

Wow some of these posts make me want a shower. I'm not perfect, there's a thin layer of dust on my tv atm and I haven't hoovered since Saturday but I do have to live in a tidy and clean house. Some would say I'm ocd but I don't think so, I don't get anxious about mess etc Im just a bit of a perfectionist.

I have a friend whos house absolutely stinks of dog piss, she has 3 children and I often feel sorry for them.

The worst house by far I've been in is my brothers. Toilet stinks of amonia as the floor has been pissed on so much and the toilet is black. Floors are filthy, walls covered in food splashes, kitchen filthy and thick with grease. Bedrooms are all a pig sty and the gardens rarely get tended too. I feel so sorry for my 3 nieces as they often visit my house and marvel in the fact it's tidy like it's a luxury bless them.

The hand towel in my uncles bathroom is often covered in poo too and so is the toilet seat.

I know for a fact none of these people have MH issues too. Some people just don't see keeping house as a priority or they get overwhelmed. Sad really

Exactly Surlycue. There's no need to have dirty laundry all over the floor. Just gross. I have a separate utility room now but when I didn't, the load of laundry got carried in to the kitchen, put straight into the machine, then straight into basket when finished to hang/dry. Sorry, it might be a bit ott but it's just imo vile to have piled of dirty laundry all over the floor of the room you cook in.

ouchmybloodythumb that. is. rank. Made me feel weird just reading it.

Dog shit covered gardens. No excuse. Vile.

Been in some awful places in the past with work. Agree re MH issues / addictions .

What I can't fathom is how wall and floors get sticky and dusty/ cobwebby ness can appear in a house less than 2yrs old though.

I am a bit of a slob. Bathroom and kitchen are clean. No question. Carpets hoovered at times. Dusting rarely and I can't tell you when I washed the skirting last- it's a bit dusty but not sticky or miss haversham like. So how does it happen in a new house ?

My friends house is an absolute dive.
When I have to go round I stand in the kitchen because I wouldn't want to sit on any of the seats,never accept the offer of a drink either.

Every now and then she will moan about the house and say she has to get it sorted and make excuses as to why she hasn't.Any offers of help are turned down.

Her and the kids can never find anything and that is always the reason they give for being late to everything.

My opinion is if she didn't sort the house when the babies were crawling then she has no reason to do it now.

Oh sorry re washing in tge downstairs loo! lol. I said they have crumbs and bits of food all over the kitchen floor, then we weren't allowed to use the downstairs toilet because it was a "mess". DH went in the downstairs loo and there were piles of dirty washing on top of the loo, in the sink, all over the floor and even in the shower! (they live in a 3 story townhouse and have a bedroom and shower room downstairs! )
I mean, why not in a wash basket? why all over the piss stained floor?

amd no ireallyknowiamright I don't think I am OCD..I just like things tidy amd clean. I'm not scared of germs I just don't wish to associate with them in my house!

Funnily enough the 'dirty' laundry that can't possible be on the kitchen floor are the same clothes that you wore yesterday when you were standing in the kitchen preparing and cooking food.

OCD.