What do you dislike about your home?

[RoJoHen]

I think we all have little things in our homes that we would prefer were different. Maybe you hate your stove, or you don't like the kitchen floor, or your bathroom is too small.

I hate that the fan in my bathroom turns on automatically when I turn on the lights. It's just unnecessary. I don't need a fan on when I'm brushing my teeth or shaving, but it's on nonetheless.

I also dislike my blinds. They're the long vertical blinds (which is fine), but they only slide open from the right-hand side of the window. I wish they slid from both sides.

Unfortunately, I'm just renting this apartment, so there's not a whole lot I can do.

 

[thestrangequark]

I hate that the boys don't understand clean. Even when they try, it's just never clean. Other than that, I have a very nice, very big (for New York), apartment devoid of roaches. I might move into my own place, but I'd be happy to stay here too.

 

[sidious618]

Interesting question. I rather like my home so I'm not sure if there's anything I'd change. Maybe if I thought about it for a while...

 

[RoJoHen]

I hate that the boys don't understand clean. Even when they try, it's just never clean.

You know, I used to live with 5 other guys my last year of college. I'm still very good friends with all of them. Our house was always very clean. Now, though, when I visit their respective apartments, I realize that the reason our house was always clean was because of ME!

I spent the night at one of their places last weekend, and the shower was the grossest thing I'd ever seen.

 

[thestrangequark]

I hate that the boys don't understand clean. Even when they try, it's just never clean.

You know, I used to live with 5 other guys my last year of college. I'm still very good friends with all of them. Our house was always very clean. Now, though, when I visit their respective apartments, I realize that the reason our house was always clean was because of ME!

I spent the night at one of their places last weekend, and the shower was the grossest thing I'd ever seen.

I went away to Seattle for two months this summer, and returned to find that they hadn't cleaned the bathroom once. Not once! In TWO MONTHS!

 

[Gary Mitchell]

I hate that I don't have a swimming pool.

 

[Goji]

My room is located to the far end of the house, and it doesn't get heated. So in the winter time, I, and I alone, freeze.

 

[RoJoHen]

I hate that the boys don't understand clean. Even when they try, it's just never clean.

You know, I used to live with 5 other guys my last year of college. I'm still very good friends with all of them. Our house was always very clean. Now, though, when I visit their respective apartments, I realize that the reason our house was always clean was because of ME!

I spent the night at one of their places last weekend, and the shower was the grossest thing I'd ever seen.

I went away to Seattle for two months this summer, and returned to find that they hadn't cleaned the bathroom once. Not once! In TWO MONTHS!

I'd be surprised if my friend had cleaned the shower once in the last 1.5 years that he's lived there. He freely admitted that he had lived there about 10 months before he ever vacuumed his bedroom.

 

[thestrangequark]

^ I cannot comprehend how people can live in such filth.

 

[RoJoHen]

My room is located to the far end of the house, and it doesn't get heated. So in the winter time, I, and I alone, freeze.

Get a little space heater! I got one for $15 about 4 years ago, and it works wonders. It's no bigger than a toaster, and it's ceramic, and it really doesn't eat much power at all.

 

[RoJoHen]

^ I cannot comprehend how people can live in such filth.

Seriously, I was afraid to touch the shower curtain while I was bathing. It was BROWN! It should have been WHITE!

 

[thestrangequark]

^ I cannot comprehend how people can live in such filth.

Seriously, I was afraid to touch the shower curtain while I was bathing. It was BROWN! It should have been WHITE!

That's how ours was when I got home. Even grosser? The tub was brown too. And the white grout between the tiles on the floor was black.

 

[Jeri]

Maybe I'll come up with something, but I can't really think of anything I don't like about it at the moment. We had it built, so we got to choose things.

 

[RoJoHen]

^ I cannot comprehend how people can live in such filth.

Seriously, I was afraid to touch the shower curtain while I was bathing. It was BROWN! It should have been WHITE!

That's how ours was when I got home. Even grosser? The tub was brown too. And the white grout between the tiles on the floor was black.

Yeah...boys can be gross. My roommates were actually pretty good at cleaning when they did it; it just almost never happened. Sometimes I would refuse to clean just to see how long it would take one of them to step up and do it.

Eventually we would make lists of things that needed to be cleaned, and we would each put our names next to a chore, and we promised to complete it by the end of the day. That actually worked out pretty well for us.

 

[thestrangequark]

Well, I just refused to step foot in it until it was cleaned. Fortunately, we have two bathrooms -- there is one off the master bedroom, that roommate pays more, and she let me use hers until they cleaned.

 

[Gepard]

^ I cannot comprehend how people can live in such filth.

Seriously, I was afraid to touch the shower curtain while I was bathing. It was BROWN! It should have been WHITE!

That's how ours was when I got home. Even grosser? The tub was brown too. And the white grout between the tiles on the floor was black.

Oh, my tub's better than that – it's a mottled brown, gray and white. You can kind of see the thickness of the mildew, too, if you look. It's not that I don't know it's filthy; I just don't care.

 

[Kestra]

I dislike that it isn't in downtown Chicago!

 

[trekkiedane]

I have a small ground floor flat just across from an ancient church (built in 1184 - this one)

The only thing about this flat that is a bit off is that whoever put in the kitchen and the bathroom must've been drunk 'cause the bathroom faces the street and the kitchen faces the bins in the little concrete enclosure we call our yard.

So when I'm on the can I have a window with opaque glass facing a busy street and the tree on the parking lot of the church but when I'm doing the dishes I have a good view of the bins

Not only that, I also can't tear down the wall between the kitchen and the living room and make it like a studio apartment -because if I tore down the kitchen wall I'd end up in the bedroom!

 

[Daneel]

My apartment faces North, and the heating isn't quite as strong as I'd like it to be, so it tends to get kinda cold in here during the winter time -- that's my main problem with my place, I suppose.

Oh, and location-wise, I'm on the first floor and right next to an exit, so it can get somewhat noisy in the hall during the day -- and sometimes when I'm trying to sleep. Fortunately, earplugs have more-or-less solved that problem.

 

[jamestyler]

^ I cannot comprehend how people can live in such filth.

A friend of mine recently moved back from working in Wales for a few years. There were five people sharing the flat, so cleaning, taking the bins out and any other duty was always someone else's job.

He told me the worse it got was leaving Pumpkins to rot for weeks after Halloween and coming in from a night out to find a mushroom growing in the bathroom.

I've not been the tidest of people, but I doubt I'd let anything go that far.

In the place I'm in now... it's the neighbours. Everyone downstairs is nice and quiet, the woman next door is lovely... but the family upstairs seem to communicate via shouting, throwing things and there have been time when I've expected someone to drop past my window as the arguments escalate.

In my previous place, it was the kitchen. It was no bigger than a small cupboard which I was fine with at first. I had a very regulated diet and I wasn't there much at first so there was no need for much space.

But after a while, having to keep my fridge in the bedroom as that was the only place it'd fit... that was annoying.