Things that annoy you about other people's housekeeping

[chumbler]

Recently stayed with a friend, in the week we were there the hand towel in kitchen wasn't washed, there's no hand towel in the bathroom (just their body towels???) They ran out of handwash for about 4 days in the bathroom do had to keep washing my hands downstairs and ran out of loo roll!!!

Now obviously these things never happen in my home and I am vigilant about it (wash hand towel everyday, hand towels, soap and loo roll always available). But I wondered if I do anything that could potentially annoy guests? What bugs you when you stay with others?

Lord above people are mucky beggars.

I like animals but only well behaved ones and ideally outside ones.

Our neighbours have horrible old smelly dogs that wander all over their sofas so you always get covered in hairs. Plus the cat walks everywhere around the kitchen wafting fluff.

My mum's cat sleeps on the beds. It had tapeworms once poking out it's arsehole. Gross. You can smell I it's shit in it's litter tray as it doesn't like to go outside if it's raining.

My mum's cousin used to breed Newfoundlands and the bottom five feet of wall in their house was mud coloured. These giant dogs used to perch above you if you sat on the sofa drooling into your coffee. There was a stair gate to keep them out the kitchen but one of them used to hurdle it anyway (did I mention she had 14 of these humungous hounds). Inside the kitchen, the pet rat in his rather pongy cage. I never ate anything in that house.

My brother and his wife have miniature dachshunds who are child replacements and sleep beside them in their bed. More than once one if them has had diarrhoea all over their bed.

I think people are blind to how revolting their beloved pets are sometimes. And I am an animal lover (except rats and cats).

what's wrong with drying your hands on a tea towel? If you've washed them, they are clean surely. Am I missing something here? Or giving myself away....

Wet or dirty nappies rolled up, left lying around. Or dirty bottles with a few oz of formula, lying around.

Loud music (unless it's a party or gathering)

Changing handtowels daily is OTT IMO!

People who bleach/anti-bac everything obsessively. Can't stand the smell of bleach in people's houses.

People who like to talk about housework when we are out socialising. I recently spent the day in the company of a really good friend who kept mentioning that she hadn't had time to wipe a fingerprint off her fridge door before we had to leave to catch our train! Dear God, get a life woman!

No loo roll in the lavatory?? Good grief ....

No kitchen hand towel just tea towels - do some people dry their hands on tea towels?

Yes...It's the only thing I use them for...what else do people use them for?! threads like this make me realise how unrefined I am

I use tea towels for drying dishes. Or am I the only one whose dishwasher doesn't get everything bone dry, especially mugs with an annoying dip in the underside? We also handwash quite a few things that can't go in the dishwasher.

So tea towels and hand towels in the kitchen here, changed a couple of times a week. I'm not a clean fraek.

My bugbear is dirty kitchens and bathrooms. I have a pair of dear friends (a couple) whose hygiene standards disgust me so much I don't avoid taking DD to their house. They have litter trays full of cat shit either side of their fridge. Once, an Easter egg they'd bought for someone else's child fell off the fridge and right onto one of the trays of hardened cat shit, and one of them just picked it up and put it back on the fridge like it was nothing. I don't eat or drink there, obviously.

I don't have a dish washer bibbity. I hand wash and the dishes dry in the rack. Seems unhygienic to me to dry them with something likely to not be as clean as they are. And quite illogical to dry something that'll dry by itself within an hour

*I avoid.

Not I don't avoid.

(Need caffeine)

Oh I'm not the least bit worried about using a clean tea towel to dry a few splashes of water off things that have come out of the dishwasher as I put them away. It does not give me a moment's pause for thought. Rest assured .

Also, it would seem to me quite illogical to take something out of the dishwasher and put it on the draining board only to have to take it off the draining board and put it away later. I'm all for minimising the amount of time spent on domestic drudgery, believe me.

Hosts hovering. It makes me feel nervous. Sit down!

I always dry my hands with the tea towel. Washing-up air dries. I'm not sure why I have tea towels actually.

The dish washer is the game changer here...I'd definitely get one if it was more than me and DD. No point right now as I'd just replace washing time with drying time

Forced eating. I come from a family where not eating or drinking something when offered is regarded as one of the biggest insults going - even if you've said you won't want/need anything for some reason. It is possible to not be hungry or thirsty at some point even if the person you're visiting is a great cook. My family circle would take a 'No Thanks' as a very serious matter indeed though.

I have never in my life seen a kitchen hand towel! Odd.

This is definitely unreasonable, but it annoys me that people iron their kitchen towels. Yes it looks nicer, but really - don't you have anything better to spend your time on? Will you judge me for not doing it?

Air fresheners everywhere. The ones that spray when you go into a room. Bloody hideous.

duckdemon don't pop over here for a couple of tea then (eyes 3 bottles of half drunk formula)

And I am an animal lover (except rats and cats).

are you sure?

Wow, drying hands on a tea towel is causing controversy They are too thin for hand drying!!!! I always feel like I'm doing something wrong by drying my hands on a horribly thin and non absorbant tea towel. I have a hand towel and a tea towel hanging side by side on the oven door (slattern) Tea towels are for wiping things that were not fully dry from the dishwasher, or you know, for drying dishes. Didn't realise that hand drying on them was a proper 'thing'

I was reading that earlier post, wondering if "balcony hands" we're like "Jazz hands" wearing some sort of oven glove contraption. I can't stop laughing now at the thought of someone waving Jazz hands around the kitchen, instead of washing their hands. now that would be annoying!!

TheToys love the bunched up buggery sheets

General filthiness makes me go all Hyacinth Bucket. I don't mind untidy and a bit of dust (get me) but towels that obviously haven't been changed in a l o n g time, hairy soap etc barf...