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Things that make you go urgghh when visiting other peoples house...

380 replies

EvesMama · 30/06/2006 20:05

my first must be..
there only being thier bath towels in bathroom, so when youve washed your hands after using the loo..you could be wiping them on front bum/back bum/willy parts!!!...bleeergh!

OP posts:

Bozza · 02/07/2006 22:10

cye. I think you lot are being snobbish about books. We don't have books on display. But we do have books. Although a large proportion of my reading is via the library and I keep my library books in my wardrobe so you would have to be exceptionally nosy to see what I was up to.

Cappucino · 02/07/2006 22:28

Bozza I'm not being snobbish, I just like books

looking at people's books is a damn sight more interesting than looking at the fluff on their skirting boards

Caligula · 02/07/2006 22:30

Cat litter (still with bits of shit in it) on the kitchen work surface.

Half drunk bottles of wine, beer, gin and vodka all round the house (once took a dirty towel out of the laundry basket to dry my hands with because there was no clean one in sight and was startled to find an open bottle of red wine standing up underneath it) with a drunken DH serving the dinner. Am always a bit nervous that this particular one will get confused between the cat litter and the food...

hulababy · 02/07/2006 22:31

We have hundreds of books, but most visitors would never see them. Bookcase is upstiars in spare room, as are someother books not on there. Others are in our room. DD's boxes of books, again she has 100s herself, are under her bed and also int he garden room downstairs.

WideWebWitch · 02/07/2006 22:33

I couldn't care less about untidiness or a bit of grubbiness, not at all. The company's a lot more important. I do look at people's books and dvds though out of nosiness.

liath · 02/07/2006 22:33

at the crapping dog!!

Actually I get a bit put off by houses if every available space is full of professional photos of the owners & offspring. But I don't like getting Christmas cards of peoples kids either. Am a curmudgeon, me.

Carmenere · 02/07/2006 22:35

I'm not mad about professional photos either now you mention it. Don't know why, just don't like them.

suzi2 · 02/07/2006 22:36

Is washing your pets food bowls in the dishwasher with your normal stuff acceptable?

I definately verge on the untidy house. But I'd like to think that it's not that diry - clean mess as my gran would say.

Personally, I hate mugs with chips in them. Or worse, getting to the bottom of your cup of tea to find something grimy stuck to the bottom of the mug. Never gave the bath towels thing a second thought. Hate to see manky dishcloths or sponges and worse to see them getting used, overwet, to wipe a worktop down.

Carmenere · 02/07/2006 22:36

I don't mind if a house isn't surgically clean as long as the occupants are happy to see me.

liath · 02/07/2006 22:39

The massed professional photos always smack a little like "come and worship at the temple of us!"

A few is fine.

tigermoth · 02/07/2006 22:43

caligula dirty cat litter left on a kitchern surface is a bit much, I grant you, even if the books choice is excellent. Was this person a friend's dh?

Anyone looking for books in our house will not see them as we keep them in our large bedroom. And that room is strictly out of bounds to guests as it's usually where I dump clutter a few minutes before guests arrive.

Jimjams, you are on my wavelength, houseworkwise - and I will take you up on your invitation

Blondilocks · 02/07/2006 22:44

Being able to smell pets :S eugh

Caligula · 02/07/2006 22:48

yes he was tigermoth. Obviously he had a major alcohol problem, which is usually not very conducive to domestic order!

Chandra · 02/07/2006 22:48

Erm, you don't have to be a bad person to cringe at some people habits. As a student I shared a house with a woman who had a cat that was allowed to drink water licking it directly from the kitchen tap, and forget about the cat walking on the worktops, any sort of thankfulness for dinner served disapeared when after cleaning the table the cat owner put the dishes we had just used on the floor, and that the rest of us used regularly, for her cats to lick... I swear to god this is not a lie. I might be a horrible person but being feed in the same plate as the house cats was really disgusting, could never see the woman again under a positive light... now, I never liked her much anyway... so I moved as soon I found another place...

2mum · 02/07/2006 22:49

My dh was shocked after he used the loo in an old friend of mines house a few years ago. She lived with her sister and they were both single (and they still are) and as he was using the loo on top of the toilet was a box of Vagisil. I think it sort of freaked him out a bit. but as it was all girls in the house they probably forgot about it. And to this day i dont know what one had the itch!

tigermoth · 02/07/2006 22:50

I have a theory about this thread - are all the ultra clean people at the younger end of the mumsnet spectrum?
It's just that being 48 years old, I grew up in the hippy era - lots of homes I visited (or really wanted to visit) were interesting but not pristine or tidy. Dirt was 'in' if I remember correctly. And things like dishwashers and microwaves were just not around - I grew up in my twenties seeing them as expensive luxuries. I got used to not having them and still don't have them. Wouldn't know what to do with them.

And I am proud - yes proud - to say I don't own an ironing board great way of cutting down ironing. Guess what - I use the bath towels p there they go, lying down on the living room carpet ..... then back to the bathroom am I wicked?

Caligula · 02/07/2006 22:51

LOL. That reminds me of friends of mine who left their vibrators in the middle of the table (they'd just bought them and were playing around with them -not near their ladygardens, I hasten to add) and their landlord had to let himself in for something or other. Snort.

suzi2 · 02/07/2006 22:52

I'm guilty of letting my cat lick my plate if he wants to. But we have a dishwasher so things get cleaned properly. I can't see what the fuss is letting a cat drink out of a tap though - but then cat saliva doesn't bother me.

WideWebWitch · 02/07/2006 22:52

I do like the word lady garden.

WideWebWitch · 02/07/2006 22:52

well, 2 words. ykwim.

2mum · 02/07/2006 22:53

Lol

tigermoth · 02/07/2006 22:53

ah that didn't make sense - when I need to iron something, I put a bath towel on the carpet, put the creased item on top, iron it, then return bath towel to bathroom... doesn't everyone?

fattiemumma · 02/07/2006 23:14

oh for heavens sake.

if you all judge your freinds like that i am surprised yoru ever invited back! how mortified would your freinds be if they knew what sort of comments you were making about them.

my house is untidy but not dirty, you probably would be invited in even if i had a pile of washing in the front room(there usually is) or if i had yet to go and change the bath towels/hand towels.

your there to visit your friends..not inspect their cleaning rituals.

tigermoth · 02/07/2006 23:21

and regarding towels again - if you are a guest how do you know that the host family do not dry their privates with the seemingly clean hand towels? Do you simply trust them to use the bath towels? why? do you ask?

MrsJohnCusack · 02/07/2006 23:24

am I weird?
I couldn't give a monkey's if the towel I dry my hands on has dried someone's privates. I really couldn't.

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