15+ entitled house guests who overstayed their welcome: '[She] used the laundry machine more than 50 times in a single month'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 27, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

It's remarkable how many people do not know how to be a decent guest. It doesn't matter if you are an old friend, a parent, an extended family member, etc. If you are crashing at someone's place and they are generous enough to open up their home for you, don't start rocking the boat. It turns out that despite the existence of better judgment, some people just can't help themselves.

Sure, not everyone knows how to be a great host, either, but you get what you get and you can't get upset. If you do get upset about how uncomfortable the couch is or how loud the neighbors are, then you could always just get a hotel. If that's not feasible, then you're not exactly in the position to complain. After all, it's not your space, is it?

Unfortunately, too many folks like to make the environments they are in suitable for them, regardless of whether or not they are entitled to doing so. Keep scrolling below for this collection of ungrateful house guest stories!

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  • Before we begin, I'll share a brief anecdote of my own. A few years ago, I stayed with a friend whose cat made the most abnormal whimpering sounds in the middle of the night. It was the kind of noise that was worrisome, but when I checked with my friend, he said this is just how their cat sounds. It got to the point where I was so sleep-deprived that I needed to stay somewhere else for a night, which, of course, could have been an uncomfortable confrontation with my friend. Thankfully, though, he completely understood. It just goes to show that transparency is the best policy. If I had stayed, I would have gotten resentful and complained the whole time. We can all learn these lessons, people!

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    oGsBath Salts. 20 hr. ago "I was emptying your dishwasher and I didn't really know where anything was supposed to go, so I went ahead and rearranged all your cabinets in a way that makes sense to meeee..."
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    I knew my MIL staying with us was going to be a problem, but this was a level I was not prepared for. Like really, you couldn't just open cabinets until you found the cups and put them in there, and so on?
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    alwaysmyfault 20 hr. ago Guy from high school stayed at my house a few years back. It was someone that I wasn't close with, but someone I knew, and he gave me a sob story about how the pipes in his house burst and got everything wet, so he needed a place to crash for the night.
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    When he got to my place, I showed him how to use my Firestick so he could watch TV, and then I went to bed.
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    I woke up in the morning to a bunch of emails from Amazon. "Thanks for Signing up for HBO Go" "Thanks for signing up for the Showtime App" etc. signed me up for a bunch of premium movie channel apps.
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    tla_ava 19 hr. ago My grandparents stayed with my family for a few months after my grandfather had surgery. I was a young teen then. I took the guest room because it was smaller and let them have mine. I offered, it was initially for a month only, and I still kept my things in the closet.
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    My grandmother reorganised everything, checked my nightstand and desk. Went to every single thing and then had the audacity to whine to my parents.
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    Ever since that I can't have people in my room without feeling uncomfortable, and they can't be left alone. There's nothing to hide, but I can't stand it.
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    BMagni 20 hr. ago Use the laundry machine more than 50 times in a single month after we told her she used it too much after one week and 20 uses
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    luhfalchi 19 hr. ago my mom told me the woman who babysat me when i was like 3 years old would change the place of our entire furniture
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    to her liking Imao my mom would get home and our whole living room would be diferente and the woman would just say "well i like it better like that" and my mom would be "yeah but that's my house, not yours????"
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    DiscoLibra 19 hr. ago Our redneck friend was staying with us for a night. He said our shower drain was clogged and got pliers and just ripped the drain cover up.
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    This was an apartment, so the drain cover was like fused into the tub. Sharp metal was sticking up from him bending it open.
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    strangeloop414. 20 hr. ago. edited 18 hr. ago Had a neighbor stop by. We gave him a beer and he popped the top off and casually tossed it (ETA: the cap!) on the floor like it was completely normal.
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    Livid Parsnip6190. 19 hr. ago A guy I dated used to put on a hat to make a phone call. When I asked why, he said because he usually would go outside to smoke a ciga tte
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    while making a phone call (he tried not to smoke around me because I didn't like it). He also put on sunglasses to brush his teeth. I didn't get a good answer for that one.
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    Used Wafer6049 19 hr. ago I hosted a Tibetan Lama (teacher), who was also a monk, several years back, for about a week. This monk REALLY made himself "at home" in my place, and so I think the "weird" comes into two things:
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    1.) I came home from work one afternoon, and from my garage (and IN my car!), I could smell vaporized grease - it was like I was outside a cheap restaurant. I walked in, and there was oil.... everywhere. All over the hardwood floors, the countertops, the ceiling -
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    even him! And he'd tracked it through the house, and even on my cloth couch. He explained he wanted to make momos (a Tibetan fried dumpling), and had invited some people from the temple over for dinner. I was too polite (read: too much of a doormat) to speak up, and spent the next month cleaning oil out of my house.
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    2.) I came home from work a different afternoon, and the monk had been meeting with students from the temple in my home office/ library. He said "Oh, you had too many books, and you're too attached to things! You have so many, I let everyone take some." (Again, me as doormat.)
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    After that week with him, I never hosted monks in my home again.
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    Preciousfrs 19 hr. ago I had some work people over for a dinner party at my house. We purposely shut off the lights leading upstairs to sort of let the guests know that the party is downstairs...i.e. there is nothing for you upstairs.
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    Throughout the night I would see one of my coworkers taking out the dip from his lip with his index finger and scraping it into his solo cup.
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    A bit later I went upstairs to check on my dog and hear some noises from the master bedroom.
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    I walked in and saw the same dude using my toothbrush to get dip out from in between his teeth. He doesn't get invited to parties anymore.
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    South-Entrance-8725. 19 hr. ago He said he needed to look up something on internet so i lended. him my laptop He then proceeds to watch on my couch while i am 6 ft away from him. I took the laptop back,,
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    czapatka 19 hr. ago In my 20s a friend of a friend came over and she would always pretend to be a cat. Not in a cute way, but in a "I'm gonna pretend to slowly push stuff off of your countertops and tables
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    with my paw." The first time it was a little funny because we were high and it was something innocuous like a pile of papers, but she kept doing it and doing it. On a couple occasions she actually pushed glassware off my table, shattering it so I finally had to ban her from my apartment.
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