'We're not friends anymore': 25+ Horrible house guests who will never be invited back

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 9, 2024 11:00 AM EST

What is the one thing someone could do to ensure they'd never get an invite from you again? These folks were faced with that question after hosting some very impolite people. It doesn't matter if it's an unstoppable little toddler or a badly-behaved party-animal adult, when that person crosses the line, they won't be allowed back. 

Count yourself lucky if you've never had a terrible guest visit your home. That definitely happens from time to time. Some people shared that they hosted parties, only to have some unsavory characters arrive and trash their house. Other people hosted family members, but then they realized that they'd made themselves a little too comfortable. 

Most infuriating are people who stole valuable (and sometime irreplaceable) items. One person admitted that one of their three friends stole their "prized Wayne Gretzky Rookie card." But because they don't know which friend took it from them, they have no way to get it back. Another person had a family photo frame pilfered from their home. They didn't care about getting the frame back, but their mom had no copies of the childhood photographs that were also taken. 

There were a few guests who made positive impressions, though. U/alanchazari asked, "What is something a guest did at your home that shocked you?" A few people were stunned to find that a guest cleaned or reorganized their home! Instead of being thankful, people seemed to find that weird, and wondered if the guest had been going through their belongings while cleaning. 

Up next, check out these people who technically told the truth. 

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    What is something a guest did at your home that shocked you?
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    Dups_47 Someone took a nice crystal picture frame full of pictures of me growing up because their friend wanted a frame, so obviously steal it from my house. I didn't notice but when my mom did she was really sad, just wanted the pictures back as they were her
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    only copies, but the kids threw them out. The Edit: thanks for all the support. Teenagers can be with no regard to others.
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    10S_NE1 Their child ripped our spare bedroom curtains right off the wall and pulled the shower curtain rod down. Parents didn't say a word. We didn't find out till after they left. Come to think of it, I'm blaming the toddler. Could have been the parents.
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    + [deleted] My friend and his wife came in just for a minute to see my new house before we all went out together. I showed them the kitchen, dining room, and living room, and she said "Is this it?"
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    They're rich on inherited money, I am not. I was pretty offended that she would say something that . We're not friends anymore, because they are just terrible snobs.
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    Rhana At my youngest kids first birthday (they are twins) one of my relatives brought their fairly unbalanced kids with them. Normally it's not too big of a deal since everyone just stays outside. WELL they decided they didn't need to pay attention to their kids and when I was inside taking care of some
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    things I hear noises coming from my daughters room, I open the door and find their oldest daughter in the middle of the room looking at me like "Who the are you and why are you in here?" The entire room was torn apart, stuff everywhere, the bed was moved into the middle of the room. I mention it to my mother and by the end
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    of the party my relative is in there with her kid "taking care of it" she laughed it off like its no big deal, because she rearranges rooms all the time. Like really? You let your kid go and completely redo someones room in another persons house like it's completely normal?
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    Worst part, it looked really nice and ended up having more space after it was moved around.
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    Mac30123456 My dad is a realtor, and he invited a potential buyer who was a long- time friend to our house for dinner. My mom is an amazing cook and was working for hours to make a great meal, to ensure that the deal would be successful. As dinner was winding down my mom began serving everyone coffee. When
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    our guest ran out of coffee, instead of asking for more he simply tapped his spoon against the coffee mug until my mom took it away. He was never invited back. Edit: For all of you asking, it was pretty obvious that he was doing it to get more coffee. He wasn't nervous, he wasn't
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    from another culture, and he didn't do it by accident. Edit 2: A lot of you are pointing out that this was a normal thing back in the day, and that it is still common in places in the Southern US, as well as many places in Asia. That doesn't make it any less . For
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    example, burping loudly during a meal is polite and complementary in some cultures, but it would be considered inconsiderate and gross in places like the US.
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    [deleted] Kirby vacuum salesman shows up at my house at 8 PM offering to vacuum the house during the demo. I roll my eyes and let him in because I'm ok with not vacuuming. He proceeds to drag in this box containing an unassembled vacuum, dumps it out and then
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    stares at it for a solid 10 minutes. Picks up a piece or two and then puts them back down. I get bored and go grab a soda. I walk back in with it and his face lights up "Aw THANKS. I'm so thirsty, dawg" while holding out his hand. I man reluctantly give it to him and go to the kitchen for another.
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    I come back and find this dude racked the out on my sofa. Head back, mouth open, soda in hand, full-on sleep apnea demo in progress. I guess he somehow managed to get himself into REM 3 in the time it took me to walk to the fridge and back because I could not wake him. I screamed, shouted, shook and stomped to no avail.
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    So, I dig through his stuff and find the card of the guy who dropped him off and call him, explaining the situation. After expressing zero surprise about the predicament, he shows up ten minutes later. He walks in, stands over him for a minute, screams "DANTE YOU SLEEPY " and out slaps the of this guy. Dante
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    calmly sits up, cracks open the soda and takes a swig while declaring that the instructions for assembling the vacuum are "straight up bro" as he's being shuffled out the door.
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    The next day I get a phone call from the manager offering to take $100 off the $2300 vacuum "for my trouble". Kirby Van Winkle.
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    [deleted] Kyle. He cleaned. He cleaned my entire apartment. My roommate took sleeping pills, I went to get groceries, and when I got back Kyle was vacuuming. He'd folded all my laundry, washed all my dishes, and changed my sheets. I was confused as
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    GolgiApparatus1 A friend of mine was eating a candy bar. After he was finished, he quietly stuffed the wrapped underneath the couch he was sitting on. I didn't really know what to say.
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    Kektus Little kid tried to take some of my PS3 games. I noticed they were missing after they left, I called the parents and the kid pretended they just "fell" into his bag. Black Ops 2 does not just fall into your bag, Note this was 2 days after launch and he wasn't even allowed to be playing those
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    kinds of games. I watched him come back and read me an apology note, crying his eyes out the whole time. I was kinda miffed, but just told him not to be doing that when he gets older. Edit: The kid was the son of my parent's friends, he was much younger than me, and wanted to play really bad but I couldn't
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    because his parents said he wasn't allowed to. He wasn't even supposed to be watching but kept peeking his head through the door and he even used a mirror to try to get the reflection of the screen. I thought nothing of it and just told him to stop. I went downstairs for a snack, and ended up getting distracted by the tv.
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    They left a few minutes later, so I went back up to keep playing, and that's when I noticed the game was gone.
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    Badlands_ My friend brought his buddy over one day. We were eating pizza topped with banana peppers, and I guess this guy decides it's too hot so he gets up, goes to the fridge, cracks open a brand new jug of milk and just starts drinking it right out of the jug. I mean seriously, who does that at another person's house?
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    TheRealChocolateFrog. FIL hung dripping towels on my expensive spare TV. Then threw a hissy fit when I politely asked him not to. Edit: 40" TV. He also had his 12 yo son stay with out informing us, prior to the visit, who would leave piles of wet clothes on the
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    bathroom floor and sprayed the shower with one of my expensive shampoos. Then one day, I left the front door key under the mat IN CASE they needed to get in, they took thing. I had to call my SIL to call them so I could get in my house to get ready for work.
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    SpruceWayne After a party a particularly wasted friend crashed on our couch. When I woke up he had kicked in my door and was sitting on my bedroom floor staring at me like a pet cat. He acted like it was the most normal thing in the world, and was never invited over again.
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    Iranian Genius Broke a piece of my furniture and got a bruise on his leg in the process, then threatened to sue me over it.
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    Chlobi-wan-kenobi. Stayed on a phone call to her boyfriend all the way through the family dinner.
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    Kattou Tried to steal my credit card information through some con artist scheme. To be fair he wasn't really a guest, just my "new neighbour" who wanted to say hello.
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    trollboogies I had a friend who wrote an infomercial phone number onto the back of a sketch of a fall out boy poster I had been working on for weeks, then ripped the corner with the number off of my sketch pad. This was when I was a kid living at home, obviously, but yeah I was for weeks. I still am.
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    Jokkie One of my old friends (not friends anymore) stole a wristband of mine, that i bought 2 days before then. they come in pairs, you can't buy them individually. when i realized it was missing i just thought i lost it, UNTIL i went to his house later and he had that wristband on,
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    the worst was that he blatantly denied he stole it, so i asked him: "ok so where is the other, they come in pair". and he just said he bought 1, which isn't evne possible. unbelievable that guy.
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    januarycanyou The first time my best friend of 15 years came over we were battling Pokemon with that game boy cable to connect the devices. When I went to play later that evening after he left I was missing my two best Pokemon. The kid had traded my best Pokemon to himself
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    goofyphucker I had someone steal a check from me, out of the middle of the checkbook, years ago. I had a debit card and never actually wrote checks, except to the apartment complex because those would only take checks or money orders, so I didn't notice that the check was missing until this fool forged it and
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    cashed it a year or so later. (Checkbooks would last me for years at the rate I used them.) I went too easy and told on that the bank that I didn't know who stole it, when I knew who it was. well
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    [deleted] Vanished during the night. We were eight or nine years old and she was spending the night at my house. The next morning, she was gone, along with all of her stuff. No note or anything. No answer when my parents tried to call her house.
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    My mom drove there and found out that she had gotten scared of being away from home. She had called her mom, let her inside (don't know how because my dad always locked doors), and they left. Her mom could have at least left a note or woken me up and told me.
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    I guess this is relevant. I was talking to my friend's little brother one day. He was saying how he went to a house party one time and took the plug from the bathtub. In his words 'it's nothing noticeable or even valuable until you realise what you've lost.' Kid was a genius.
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    Nuudoru Mom had a friend coming by and she cleaned my room while I was away for the weekend. According to my mom she was just away for 2 hours on an errand and when she came back her friend told me that she had cleaned my entire room. And we're not talking putting clothes in laundry basket and
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    change trashbin cleaning. We're talking dust off all shelves, scrub the floor, put books in order, change bedsheets and sort evergthing out on my desk. I'm not a very private person, so this didn't make me mad. It was just weird that some stranger decided to clean my room.
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    [deleted] I was in like 3rd grade, and I was friends with these two brothers down the street. Well they also had a little sister who would come over to play. One day they all come over, and their sister remarks about how unfair it is that I'm keeping a frog locked up, a pet frog, that was nice and fat and well taken care of.
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    Well after they leave I decide to go and check on the frog, and much to my surprise his cage is open and he's gone. Commence freaking out because I can't find my frog, I'm crying it's just terrible. Come about 2-3 months later,
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    we discover that the little sister had let him out my window when we weren't looking, sometimes I miss that frog.. oh and my cousins once cracked the screen to our big family tv, but it was an older one, so the Crack really didn't make a difference.
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    NickyDeuce My best friend was living with us and secided it would be a good idea to sleep with my wife's brother's wife...
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    ✪ [deleted] I had a house party in my early 20s, and the next weekend I noticed my animal encyclopedia was gone and I couldn't find it anywhere. Two years later I found it in the back of the upstairs
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    bathroom cabinet covered in peanut butter fingerprints. I also found the jar of peanut butter with finger scoop marks in it.
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    lumpiestprincess Demanding i go out at midnight to find him a carton of milk to wash down the two large bottles of pop he'd polished off. Whined until I did it. First and last time he was invited over.
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    [deleted] I let my friend stay with me for about a month after her living arrangements didn't work out. I was so annoyed after a week. She had just started a sort of fancy job at the time where she was expected to dress nice for work-related outings. Unfortunately, she was more of a t-
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    shirt and cut-off shorts kind of girl who didn't waste her time with make-up, hair styling or anything she deemed "girly". When that didn't work out for her at her job, she started helping herself to my nice stuff instead. If she had just asked, I probably would have said yes. But she didn't, and not because she thought I would say
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    no, but because she "thought she didn't need to". I'd come home and my closet would be torn apart. What was worse is that we didn't have anywhere near the same measurements, so some garments would come back stretched or misshapen. Then she started using my makeup and helping herself to my expensive perfumes
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    (which were a very special gift from my then boyfriend) and other beauty products. What really made me mad about this whole ordeal is that she had always been extremely condescending about me "painting my face with " and "not embracing my natural beauty", and poking fun at me for "wasting money" buying nice clothes. You're gonna
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    try and knock me for wanting to wear makeup and dress nice, but when it benefits you (and you're not the one paying for any of it), you're totally okay with wearing my wardrobe and smearing my makeup all over your face? Not cool. She also rearranged my bedroom while I was at work. Why?!
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    sauceboss412 I threw a party at my parents house when I was 18 while my parent were away on vacation. Had roughly 30-40 people and we partied all night. I ended up passing out and waking up late the next day to a house cleaner
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    than it was before the party. People were still there and had went food shopping and cleaned the whole house.
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    thebloodofthematador · I let a former friend stay the night because she didn't have a car, but had an interview the next morning near my house. She refused to sit on or touch any of the furniture in my apartment, for fear that my boyfriend and I had ever had on it, or that one or both of
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    us had ever been naked on it. She sat on the floor the entire time, and even slept there. She refused to eat any of the food I had, and brought her own food (which consisted mostly of candy bars). I offered to order food; she said no, because she wouldn't like it. I offered to order pizza or whatever, something really
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    neutral, and she still said no, because she was sure she would hate it. She complained about the state of my bathroom. I had cleaned it, obviously, before she came over, but she said something like "You know, if I were having people over, I might at least try to clean up the hair." Embarrassed, I went to see if I'd missed a big
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    clump of hair in the corner or something. There were like... five hairs in the shower. That was it. And that's saying something, since I have long hair and shed like crazy. She made fun of the fact that I had my first cat's cremains in the living room. The cat had just died like... three months earlier.
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    She hogged the bathroom in the morning, despite knowing I had to get ready for work before dropping her off at her interview. She left her wet towel balled up on the toilet seat, despite the clear presence of a towel rack. She pretty much refused to interact with me the whole time she was there. Just sat in the corner on the floor
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    with her laptop. I tried to engage her, to put a movie on, anything, but she basically ignored me. Fine, I was in grad school and had a ton of work to do, so I did that. Later, she complained that I hadn't entertained her. I was about ready to throw her in the car and drop her off at the Marriott down the street by the time evening rolled around.
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    To top it all off, she came into my room in the morning while I was sleeping and just stood there watching me-- I heard the floor squeak, opened my eyes a crack, and she was just standing there. I sat up and was like "What the are you doing in my room"
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    and she said she just wanted to see if I was awake. I asked her how long she'd been standing there and she said "Oh, a couple of minutes." Creeper.
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    pjcanfield8 Well my wife and I were hosting a dinner party for the employees of my company. One of our branch managers brought one his stranger employees. The employee asked us the square footage of the house then the branch manager said that's a question to ask and proceeded to ask us how much we
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    paid the house for. The employee of the branch manager then started shaking banisters on the stairs to "test" them. He wanted to know how structurally sound the house was. He also tried to test the chimney. Did I mention that the branch manager also brought potato salad to a catered party?
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    [deleted] Stocked our refrigerator, cupboards, and liquor cabinet to more levels then when they arrived. Me and the wife had to go out for a while and we came home to that surprised. The classiest thing a guest has ever done.
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    MrsSylviaWickersham Invited himself over without warning, brought several sketchy friends, and proceeded to set my best frying pan on fire trying to cook a meal for them [with my groceries]. Variations on this theme were a semi-regular occurrence with him.
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    ✪ [deleted] Made me touch a cattle prod before I knew what a cattle prod was ✩ 140 140 Share idklolbryson Corrected: Taught you what a cattle prod was.
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    heisenberg802 Some I stole my prized Wayne Gretzky Rookie card, I was . It was one of 3 iends so its hard to not be friends with them all because il never know.
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