Filthy Abodes You’ve Been In

JupiterKid

I try to maintain and keep a pretty clean place. Hoover, dust and mop the floors weekly, clean as I go in the kitchen and bathroom and a good deep clean every couple of months. Change bedding at least every 2 weeks and sometimes weekly. Since I don’t have kids my place doesn’t get messy quickly or get much wear and tear.

The only issue I have is that I’m a bit of a paper/book hoarder and clutter builds up on my dining table that I need to clear out every so often.

But have you ever visited someone’s house/apt and it’s just been absolutely filthy, utterly grimy, totally unhygienic and looked a bit like some of those extreme cases you see on TV in those hoarders shows?

Do tell!

elperello

Yes I have.
Doesn't bother me, I'll just sit down and have a cup of tea if it's going.
Their house their rules.
I wouldn't want to live like that though.

Stigura

YES!!! :eek: Years ago now, Mick and I went out to visit a mutual friend, Fran. We knew Fran ran a one woman band animal rescue. (She also, ironically, bred small mongrel Dogs that people liked. But, that's another story)

She lived in some sort of mobile home thing, as I remember. On a spot of land. Amidst all these rank pens full of Dogs and cats. I must have been there before. Just never been inside her own home. This time, she asked Mick and I inside.

Jesus fukcing wept!!! It basically amounted to an armchair, facing a tv. Surrounded by junk! Just a little walk way to the chair.

What had our undivided attention though was the counter top with the several milk bottles on it. At least four or five. And most, if not all, were half full of what amounted to cheese. Topped off with Dead Flies!!! I sh!t ye not!!!

And, what's the first words out of Fran's mouth? Not, " Excuse the mess. " But; " Would ye like a cup of tea? " :eek: I've glanced at Mick. His eyes are bulging. We've both stammered that we're alright, thanks. We Very quickly concluded what ever business we'd gone there for. And fled!

Driving home, all I could think about was stripping my clothes off and having a shower. We were both instinctively scratching, all the way.

I've seen some grim stuff, in my time. But, Fran's place haunts me. It was fcuking Rank!

Chaos Tourist

sugarman wrote: »

During my college years a group of friends moved into a house share. Big 5/6 bed. Place was a party house 24/7. Cans and pizza boxes everywhere but not the worst.

That was until they went on a dirty protest, as 2 of the 5/6 lads were always doing the clean up after everyone else.

Well it wasn't long until you couldn't walk into the place without holding your nose. Place was littered with cans, pizza boxes, dirty platee. Filth.

The final straw came when one lad bought a full cooked chicken and left it in his backpack forgetting about it for days and the mice and/or rats showed up.

Sounds like an episode of Fresh Meat.

Purple Mountain

http://www.sherryfitz.ie/residential/for-sale/80077?back=offices%2F391%2Fproperties%3Fview=


Fancy a sleepover lads?

anewme

sugarman wrote: »

Other than that experience, just people who insist on keeping manky dogs in their house allowing them shed hair everywhere, stinking up the place, climbing all over the furniture, licking every surface.

Dogs are part of the family and should be part of the home.

Don’t have one otherwise.

Cleaner than a lot of humans.

Purple Mountain

Stigura wrote: »

YES!!! :eek: Years ago now, Mick and I went out to visit a mutual friend, Fran. We knew Fran ran a one woman band animal rescue. (She also, ironically, bred small mongrel Dogs that people liked. But, that's another story)

She lived in some sort of mobile home thing, as I remember. On a spot of land. Amidst all these rank pens full of Dogs and cats. I must have been there before. Just never been inside her own home. This time, she asked Mick and I inside.

Jesus fukcing wept!!! It basically amounted to an armchair, facing a tv. Surrounded by junk! Just a little walk way to the chair.

What had our undivided attention though was the counter top with the several milk bottles on it. At least four or five. And most, if not all, were half full of what amounted to cheese. Topped off with Dead Flies!!! I sh!t ye not!!!

And, what's the first words out of Fran's mouth? Not, " Excuse the mess. " But; " Would ye like a cup of tea? " :eek: I've glanced at Mick. His eyes are bulging. We've both stammered that we're alright, thanks. We Very quickly concluded what ever business we'd gone there for. And fled!

Driving home, all I could think about was stripping my clothes off and having a shower. We were both instinctively scratching, all the way.

I've seen some grim stuff, in my time. But, Fran's place haunts me. It was fcuking Rank!

So yourself and Mick didn't fancy a 3 way with Fran I take it?

anewme

JupiterKid wrote: »

I try to maintain and keep a pretty clean place. Hoover, dust and mop the floors weekly, clean as I go in the kitchen and bathroom and a good deep clean every couple of months. Change bedding at least every 2 weeks and sometimes weekly. Since I don’t have kids my place doesn’t get messy quickly or get much wear and tear.

The only issue I have is that I’m a bit of a paper/book hoarder and clutter builds up on my dining table that I need to clear out every so often.

But have you ever visited someone’s house/apt and it’s just been absolutely filthy, utterly grimy, totally unhygienic and looked a bit like some of those extreme cases you see on TV in those hoarders shows?

Do tell!

Believe everyone has their own standards and their house is their castle.

for example my next door neighbor believes dogs should be kept outdoors and I believe If you don’t let them in then dont bother with them at all.

I believe houses are homes and life is too short for housework to be a priority.

Not interested in judging people...

cantdecide

At one time did a lot refurbishment work for the city council... the horror


It's quite sad to see how some people's live are and wonder what made them end up this way. Alcoholism in particular is just devastating to some people.

Arghus

Many years ago I was back at a friend of a friends place because there was some weed to be found there that could be smoked.

I remember ending up in some fellas room and there was a giant black scorched patch, several feet across, in the middle of the carpeted floor where your man had just put out every half smoked fag for a period of several weeks. Right on the floor. Ashtrays or even coffee mugs be damned. How? Why? He had to live in that room, how could he not show any consideration to himself? It was so depressing and horrible to look at. Clearly he'd been raised by wolves.

I was pretty young and innocent back then, but even to this day I've never seen such abject degenerate behaviour from someone towards their own home.

anewme

sugarman wrote: »

I said MANKY dogs. Not all dogs.

So many people, friends and family included just let their dogs do as they please around the house and seldom give them a good bath and regular groom. Their places do be stinking of wet dog, hair everywhere ..ingrained on sofas, carpets, beds... I love dogs but some people just don't know where the line is and become overly attached and absoutely oblivious to it. It's not the dog fault, it's their owners.

Well, don’t blame the MANKY dogs then,how about blaming their MANKY owners If their places “doo bee doo bee dooo”stinking of wet dogs.

No line for me... dogs ARE family no ifs or but’s or lines drawn and long may it continue

Yer Da sells Avon

Purple Mountain wrote: »

http://www.sherryfitz.ie/residential/for-sale/80077?back=offices%2F391%2Fproperties%3Fview=


Fancy a sleepover lads?

A few people, some scrubbing brushes and bleach, a skip and an afternoon. That's all it would have taken to make that house look halfway acceptable, albeit stripped out, for the photos. On 'Blind Street', appropriately enough.

JupiterKid

cantdecide wrote: »

At one time did a lot refurbishment work for the city council... the horror


It's quite sad to see how some people's live are and wonder what made them end up this way. Alcoholism in particular is just devastating to some people.

Even through the worst of my drinking (and it was very bad at times ) I always managed to do the laundry, shower regularly, wash the dishes and hoover the apartment. But that was me. I know a lot of alcoholics and addicts do let their homes go to hell through not being able to deal with any housework.

Depression and ill health in general can also cause people to allow their homes to get untidy and messy.

ceadaoin.

JupiterKid wrote: »

Even through the worst of my drinking (and it was very bad at times ) I always managed to do the laundry, shower regularly, wash the dishes and hoover the apartment. But that was me. I know a lot of alcoholics and addicts do let their homes go to hell through not being able to deal with any housework.

Depression and ill health in general can also cause people to allow their homes to get untidy and messy.

Yes, and once it gets to a certain point it just becomes impossible to tackle, or at least it feels that way to them so they leave it. I can see how that could happen. I think most people whose homes get really bad have addiction or mental health issues of some form or another.

My own house would be generally cluttered and messy, but it would still be clean.

There's a lot of 'yet to do' jobs in my house, so places have plaster pulled partly off the walls, and there's missing skirting and architrave and that kinda thing, but i would hope when people come in, that it's obvious that it's a work in progress (and not just neglect).

anewme

sugarman wrote: »

Other than that experience, just people who insist on keeping manky dogs in their house allowing them shed hair everywhere, stinking up the place, climbing all over the furniture, licking every surface.

Ehhhh no not defensive just think your post above is rubbish.... Ie, all dogs climb on furniture, lick surfaces..it’s what they do.... so what... ?

They are not MANKY, just dogs.

JupiterKid

I also think that the standard people keep their homes in is linked to how they were brought up. My parents were tidy but not overly fastidious OCD clean. My late mother believed that clutter and a bit of dust was messy but allowable, but an unhygienic and filthy kitchen and bathroom was simply unacceptable.

I pretty much have adopted the same approach. I think most of those extreme hoarders you see on TV have mental health/ lack of self-esteem issues. It’s one thing to have an untidy home, another if it’s filthy.

Then again, I think some people overdo cleaning and are too fussy but it’s their home, their rules.

Graces7

anewme wrote: »

Believe everyone has their own standards and their house is their castle.

for example my next door neighbor believes dogs should be kept outdoors and I believe If you don’t let them in then dont bother with them at all.

I believe houses are homes and life is too short for housework to be a priority.

Not interested in judging people...

for this, blessings and thanks. You are a rare person.

Realt Dearg Sec

anewme wrote: »

Ehhhh no not defensive just think your post above is rubbish.... Ie, all dogs climb on furniture, lick surfaces..it’s what they do.... so what... ?

They are not MANKY, just dogs.

My dog doesn't lick surfaces, because she was trained not to. It took about a week to get her out of the habit. She climbs on the couch because we let her but it's perfectly simple to train a dog not to do so. So, as the person you're arguing with actually said, the point is that ALL dogs don't do those things, just ones whose owners couldn't be arsed training them properly. And as for the dog being manky: if I go a week without cleaning the kitchen, then you walk into the kitchen, you wouldn't say "the owners of this kitchen are manky" (although you would be right), you would probably say "this kitchen is manky". Same with the dog. It's not the dog's fault if she gets manky by not being washed, trained, groomed. But she's still a manky dog until those things happen. Complaining about the phrasing of it is just pointless semantics and looking for a way to be obtuse even though the person you're railing against doesn't actually have a substantially different view from you.

On topic I lived in a few places with close friends of mine from back home that got fairly manky (sorry anewme, it wasn't a manky house, it was just a house. Full of mank). The main problem for me was a sense of futility: you could clean up after yourself but if you started cleaning up after your lazy friends, they would just take that for granted, and if you didn't tidy up after them, you had to live in filth. And if you kicked up **** you were basically inviting a row over petty bull****. I am glad I didn't have a falling out with great friends over stupid nonsense, but I'm also glad I don't live with them anymore.

Sile Na Gig

JupiterKid wrote: »

I also think that the standard people keep their homes in is linked to how they were brought up. My parents were tidy but not overly fastidious OCD clean. My late mother believed that clutter and a bit of dust was messy but allowable, but an unhygienic and filthy kitchen and bathroom was simply unacceptable.

I pretty much have adopted the same approach.

I think this is true where people are reasonable. My parents are ridiculously fastidious. My mam has ocd and would be literally unable to rest if there was an unwashed utensil or a bit of a mess lying around.

When I left home first I was incredibly messy, it was so liberating to not have to clean up right away that I let it go to my head. Lived in some truly manky flats. I’ve found a level with it now, especially after having kids.

Flippyfloppy

Graces7 wrote: »

for this, blessings and thanks. You are a rare person.

Don't mean to burst your bubble, but he quickly went onto judge people

Reati

anewme wrote: »

Well, don’t blame the MANKY dogs then,how about blaming their MANKY owners If their places “doo bee doo bee dooo”stinking of wet dogs.

No line for me... dogs ARE family no ifs or but’s or lines drawn and long may it continue

God, You must be right Craic at a party... Getting more and more convinced there needs to be a test before people are allowed post on the internet.

Vladimir Poontang

I think in general here people are not the best at keeping the place, themselves and the environment clean.

As a general rule taking your shoes off on entering a home is an exception not the norm. Personal hygiene is not the best. Our streets are filthy, our rivers polluted and we can't go to the beach on a nice day without leaving rubbish everywhere

ArchXStanton

Vladimir Poontang wrote: »

I think in general here people are not the best at keeping the place, themselves and the environment clean.

As a general rule taking your shoes off on entering a home is an exception not the norm. Personal hygiene is not the best. Our streets are filthy, our rivers polluted and we can't go to the beach on a nice day without leaving rubbish everywhere

Ever been to south East Asia,it makes here look like a surgical theatre,though they do take shoes off when entering an abode

Bob Harris

I've been in student houses where I've had to wipe my feet on the way out.
Toilets I wouldn't use if had diarrhoea and showers I wouldn't go into if I was in a chemical protection suit.

pxdf9i5cmoavkz

JupiterKid wrote: »

I try to maintain and keep a pretty clean place. Hoover, dust and mop the floors weekly, clean as I go in the kitchen and bathroom and a good deep clean every couple of months. Change bedding at least every 2 weeks and sometimes weekly. Since I don’t have kids my place doesn’t get messy quickly or get much wear and tear.

The only issue I have is that I’m a bit of a paper/book hoarder and clutter builds up on my dining table that I need to clear out every so often.

But have you ever visited someone’s house/apt and it’s just been absolutely filthy, utterly grimy, totally unhygienic and looked a bit like some of those extreme cases you see on TV in those hoarders shows?

Do tell!

Dublin City Centre.

kylith

I was checking on a neighbour’s house while they were on holiday, went to use the loo and .... let’s just say that I suddenly experienced acute constipation/urinary equivalent.

A friend’s mother was a total hoarder: every surface was covered with everything you could think of. Also, one of the dogs wasn’t housetrained so there was literal sh!t all over the place.

I’m not a neat freak; my dog lives on the sofa, the corners of the bathroom are a bit dusty, but I’m not _dirty_.

JohnnyFlash

When my marriage broke up I needed somewhere to live. Had an apartment in town, so told the tenants I was selling, and moved in. Jesus, but they were some dirty fûckers. There was a living organism on the floor behind the shîtter, and I found a used fannypad wedged in behind the headboard of the bed in the main bedroom. Ended up getting a Polish bird to come and clean the place up.

Graces7

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Don't mean to burst your bubble, but he quickly went onto judge people

Oh OK! Been offline

I learned a great lesson on this when I had t call on a farmer neighbour when my car died on me.
He asked me in while he put his boots on .. his kitchen was awash with papers, unopened letters, half eaten food, open packets of food, etc etc etc. No floor, no chairs.. His sister was visiting too,. Total mess,,
And the kindest man ever born, gentle and good humoured,

I asked my landlord about it al and he told me he had bee there until 4am one night helping him to find the Dept of Ag paperwork he needed for sheep

I asked if he could not help him sort out,

He looked down and said quietly, " It would shame him."

Changed the way I saw these things

Although there was one house on the Funny Houses page...

http://www.daft.ie/donegal/houses-for-sale/termon/goldrum-termon-donegal-1528463/

Picture 5 onwards..

kylith

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

When my marriage broke up I needed somewhere to live. Had an apartment in town, so told the tenants I was selling, and moved in. Jesus, but they were some dirty fûckers. There was a living organism on the floor behind the shîtter, and I found a used fannypad wedged in behind the headboard of the bed in the main bedroom. Ended up getting a Polish bird to come and clean the place up.

Gods, that reminds me. When I moved into my current place I moved the bed and discovered that the previous occupant had been just dropping his used condoms down the side of it.

looksee

http://www.daft.ie/donegal/houses-fo...negal-1528463/

It looks very untidy, but it doesn't look dirty. Not very sensible to put it on the market looking like that, but who knows what the story is.

whisky_galore

anewme wrote: »

Dogs are part of the family and should be part of the home.

Don’t have one otherwise.

Cleaner than a lot of humans.

House shared once where one of the tenants owned a dog, the second the door was opened to look at the place there was an absolute bang of dog. After that, masses of hair, and sh1te and vomit on the floor from time to time. Don't think a small house is great for a large retriever to be cooped up all day while their owner is at work.

kylith

whisky_galore wrote: »

House shared once where one of the tenants owned a dog, the second the door was opened to look at the place there was an absolute bang of dog. After that, masses of hair, and sh1te and vomit on the floor from time to time. Don't think a small house is great for a large retriever to be cooped up all day while their owner is at work.

Went to visit my brother once. The bang of baby puke and nappies in the place was rank.

Houses smell like what's in them. Eat a lot of Indian food, your house reeks of curry. Taken up oil painting? Your house is going to reek of solvents.

Your flatmate had a hygiene problem. My dog certainly does not poo or vomit in the house unless there is something wrong with him.

Graces7

looksee wrote: »

http://www.daft.ie/donegal/houses-fo...negal-1528463/

It looks very untidy, but it doesn't look dirty. Not very sensible to put it on the market looking like that, but who knows what the story is.

look at the bookcase.. thick mould

Graces7

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Yes, and once it gets to a certain point it just becomes impossible to tackle, or at least it feels that way to them so they leave it. I can see how that could happen. I think most people whose homes get really bad have addiction or mental health issues of some form or another.

or just physically ill and with no help. i was like that at one time and have to be alert now .. a quick clearing while the kettle heats works well. Taken me years to sort that

jamesbere

House I'm living in is pretty manky to be honest. I live with 4 Chinese students and 1 Irish lad. Kitchen is awful, the lads are awful for tidying up, they put stuff in the dishwasher but that's about it. Never seen them clean down any work tops and the cooker is cat.

I don't use the kitchen much, get my dinners in work and eat out or takeaway at weekends. The rest of the house isn't much better. Sitting room is ok, the bathrooms with the exception of the one I share on the top floor which I keep clean are awful.

I've made efforts before to clean up around the place but it's a waste of time, landlord isn't bothered. Lovely fella but doesn't really give a toss. Only reason I'm staying here is cos rent is cheap for the area and it suits me perfectly for work.

xzanti

A messy house I can deal with, but if there's a smoker living there and there are dirty ashtrays everywhere, I'd feel sick. I'd have to get out of there. Cannot stand the smell.

I would be a tidy/clean person (or as much as possible with two smalls kids).

Chiorino

Sold a lad some tools a couple of years back and agreed to drop them to him as he wasn't too far away. He'd bought them for his son who was getting into playing with fixing cars etc. The oul lad himself was a small scale farmer.

Jesus when I got to the house, pure filth. Turned out the wife/mother had died a few years previously it was obvious neither the father or son had ever done a shred of cleaning before or since which was a shame as the house would have been really nice at one point. Food, papers & general rubbish everywhere. Worse was, you could see the sh*t stains all over the furniture, couches and even the beds, where they had come in from working outside with the cattle and just fell asleep/crashed out with the wellies still on. Had my 6 year old daughter with me and couldn't wait to get out of there before she said something.

Graces7

xzanti wrote: »

A messy house I can deal with, but if there's a smoker living there and there are dirty ashtrays everywhere, I'd feel sick. I'd have to get out of there. Cannot stand the smell.

I would be a tidy/clean person (or as much as possible with two smalls kids).

Agree totally. Odd that that was not mentioned sooner.

JupiterKid

Well, Im a smoker and smoke in my living room and kitchen with the windows open and scented candles. There is a lingering smell of smoke in my living room but its not too bad and I have hardwood floors. I don't smoke and I use air freshner when guests/family/friends who are non-smokers come to visit. They come back to visit all the time so I reckon the smoky smell isn't that bad.

I never smoke in my bedroom or the bathroom.

My place, my rules.

looksee

True, your place, your rules. But don't fool yourself that scented candles and air freshener improve the smell of cigarette smoke, if anything they make it worse.

JupiterKid

looksee wrote: »

True, your place, your rules. But don't fool yourself that scented candles and air freshener improve the smell of cigarette smoke, if anything they make it worse.

Well, don't worry because you aren't obliged to sit in my living room.

anewme

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

Don't mean to burst your bubble, but he quickly went onto judge people

Who is this “he?

Why would you assume I am a man?

Flippyfloppy

anewme wrote: »

Who is this “he?

Why would you assume I am a man?

I think you answered you own question with a question.

Apologies for assuming your gender.

anewme

Flippyfloppy wrote: »

I think you answered you own question with a question.

Apologies for assuming your gender.

Ironic you would accuse me of judging people while at the same time as blasé as you like making a snap judgement on my gender.

Oops...

Samuel T. Cogley

Mine

Have to get a cleaner now and again.

I'm pretty much a slob TBH. I just don't notice the mess until it's pretty bad, and then I do a massive tidy up. It really depends whether I'm single or dating though. If there's a chance I might be bringing someone home, I'll avoid the embarrassment and keep the place reasonably tidy (similar to friends places). If I'm smoking with regular munchie binges then there's no hope at all and the place will be a disaster zone.

JupiterKid

JupiterKid wrote: »

Well, Im a smoker and smoke in my living room and kitchen with the windows open and scented candles. There is a lingering smell of smoke in my living room but its not too bad and I have hardwood floors. I don't smoke and I use air freshner when guests/family/friends who are non-smokers come to visit. They come back to visit all the time so I reckon the smoky smell isn't that bad.

I never smoke in my bedroom or the bathroom.

My place, my rules.

The smoke will get into the paint on the walls, any curtains you have and any furniture with fabric. I'm a smoker too, but don't fool yourself. We don't get the smell, but non-smokers do. (I used to smoke in my home, before I had to rent it out to cover the mortgage. In the end, I needed to repaint and redo much of the interior, because the smell of smoke bothered so many people. I'd also done the scented candles gig. Doesn't work)

But I agree. Your place, your rules.

anewme

Thread is a bit depressing to be honest.

Don’t mean to be a nark bag but I’ve been to bail out too many dogs or animals that were cute when they were small but turn out””manky” ( not my words)

When you deal with these situations: you end up being straight(because the animals can’t)

I make no apologies for this.

spotted article today where people who bought a house next door to a farm in a rural area were complaining that the animals smelled causing the owner to out up a sign saying:

This is a farm. farms have animals and animals make funny sounds, smell bad and have sex outdoors.

Unless you can tolerate the above, dont buy property next to a farm.

The manky dogs comment was similar to me. I might not think that my dog is smelly or sheds hair, but they all do, that’s life, my clean dog to me might be a manky Fokker to you, it’s his house, come in or not.

Ironically people not being able to clean their house ( or themselves) could be a sign of depression, needing a different input again.

anewme

Reati wrote: »

God, You must be right Craic at a party... Getting more and more convinced there needs to be a test before people are allowed post on the internet.

I work with rescue dogs so see the fallout when the cute puppy grows becomes a “problem” manky dog.

It requires harsh blunt talking.

You should draft an official mandatory template for the internet test you are “convinced” people should have to take before you, in your wisdom, deem them worthy of posting.

It would prove an absolute Godsend for when the more slovenly ones amongst us ran out of toilet Paper.

JupiterKid

If you're very busy work wise and are on a decent income, a cleaner is a great idea.

You need to get one with good references, though, to make sure things don't start to go "missing" or they don't work all that great.

My sister used to have the laziest cleaner. She was too nice to get rid of her. She eventually left and then she got a much better cleaner.