30 Teens who slept over their friends' houses and wished they hadn't: 'I called my Mom and said... pick me up ASAP'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Sep 1, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

For many kids, sleeping over at your bestie's house over and over was a formative part of their childhood… but not everyone has the best sleepover experience ever! 

Going to your best friend's house on a Friday night for a slumber party was the best! It was always so fun to hang with your friend (or an entire group of kids) to watch movies, break out the sleeping bags, eat way too much junk food, and attempt to stay up as late as possible. 

Sometimes I wish I could still have sleepovers with my friends — there's absolutely nothing stopping me except that as an adult I want to sleep in my own bed, not my friends' dog-hair-covered futon. I also want to go to sleep early, not stay up til 5 AM. Anyway. That's why you do these things while you're young! Playing Mario Kart until 4 AM while eating pizza your friend's mom ordered for you is such a wonderful childhood experience. You don't even need anything fancy — as long as you have your BFF and a cozy place to crash for the night, you'll both have an excellent time. 

However, there are a ton of ways that a sleepover can go wrong fast. For example, some people shared that they saw bugs in a friend's home, and that made them hightail it out of there. Other families were weirdly stingy with their food, and wouldn't let their hungry guest have anything to eat. I don't know what's up with that, but that was enough to make folks decide they'd never stay the night with that friend ever again. 

Up next, read about the "entitled, selfish and bratty" woman who planned a wedding on the same day as her stepbrother, igniting a family feud: "She knows I don't want to be her brother." 

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    "What's something saw at sleepover that made you never want go back?"

    Teen girls wearing white pajamas bouncing on bed holding hands surrounded by pink and white balloons
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    That's crazy...

    Emily Rae We would wake up and my friend would say she's going to the bathroom and to stay in the room but really she would just go down stairs to eat breakfast then come back up and act like nothing happened and not offer me anything
    via @Emily Rae

    Who exactly would treat a guest this way? 

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    The horror!

    Britt A girl showing me a hole in the ceiling above her bathtub and saying sometimes she sees an eyeball in it. Called my mom and said I wanted spaghetti for dinner ( code word for pick me up asap)
    via @Britt

    I stayed over a home a few times that had a basement access hole right above the bed. It was scary every single time, and I never even saw an eyeball peering down at me! 

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    Carlie As I was leaving the next morning "oh yeah we're still getting over bed bugs so throw your stuff in the dryer on high for an hour when you get home"
    via @Carlie
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    readitnsleep She had made fun of me for having stuffed animals, but at her sleep over there was no room to sleep because the bed was completely covered in porcelain dolls
    via @readitnsleep
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    Two young girls standing on bed having a pillow fight in a white room with toys in background
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    Pickles I went to get a glass of water at 2 something am. I was silent except for the water going in the cup itself. His dad in underwear rounds the corner and says "not at this hour" I rode my bike home at 2 water am because I wanted some
    via @Pickles
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    they had a giant cardboard cutout of taylor lautner in the corner of their room and it creeped me out because it looked like someone was stalking us while we slept
    via @🦗🦗🦗
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    This is a great reason to never sleep there again

    Royal In 93 had a sleepover at the neighbors. I got up and left at 2am and walked home bc there were roaches everywhere.... Everywhere.
    via @Royal
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    User1520 The fact that they never ate breakfast or lunch. There was one time I woke up & had to wait ALMOST 7 HOURS to eat something
    via @User1520
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    Two women lay on beds with their hair hanging off while smiling and talking on their phones
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    littlehotdoggirl I remember the girl's mom was mad I didn't bring my own dinner with me
    via @littlehotdoggirl
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    emily taylor i was in the backseat of my friends moms car, it was just us 3. they thought i had fallen asleep and discussed the hiding spots of where they stashed their bags of doritos from ME
    via @emily taylor
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    Odd rule to put in place at a sleepover

    makayla k tried taking my phone when we went to bed. told them h_Inah and had my mom come get me immediately
    via @makayla k ♠️ 🃏
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    sydneyraehair Her mom made us pancakes and they tasted like fish, from the pan they used for dinner the night before
    via @sydneyraehair
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    Oh that's not...

    Alex Her mom was REALLY into healthy food but didn't actually know how to cook. Long story short she made salmon cakes from scratch but forgot to DEBONE THE SALMON
    via @🖤 Alex 🖤
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    Khloe and Kathy She asked me to go find a blank piece of paper and I found a piece of paper where she typed that she hated me over and over ese
    via @Khloe and Kathy
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    CY Went to a sleepover in elementary, my friend said I could borrow one of his gameboy advances...a day later he told his mom I stole it. Never went to another after
    via @CY
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    ItsjustAng they ate raw beef out of a bowl in their fridge like it was cookie dough, like they'd randomly go open the fridge and grab a pinch and eat it
    via @ItsjustAng
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    (.Y.) I had a kid who wouldn't come over because he said my house was boring. He grew up wealthy and had all this new cool stuff games and toys. I did not. lol w
    via @( . Y . )
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    pointlessfarm831 They kept the tv on all night volume so loud you could hear it a block away
    via @pointlessfarm831
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    Sometimes a person's inner world looks nothing like their outer world

    Lali_18 They mama was a hoarder she was also the school nurse
    via @Lali_18💕
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    destinyyy.420 Silverfish crawled under the couch when I was laying on the makeshift bed on the floor
    via @destinyyy.420
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    This is insane!

    urmomsb00tycqll no toilet paper in the bathroom and told me to just "figure it out"
    via @urmomsb00tycqll
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    Ehluckuh Took my phone for the entirety of being in the house this went for everyone in the house
    via @Ehluckuh
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    zaytiggy77 They didn't eat 2nd helpings for dinner. Only cooked enough for everyone to have one small ahh plate. I went to bed hungry and mad af
    via @zaytiggy77
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    manduh 1 friend had an almond mom that measured our food and only let us eat bird sized amounts and said "little girls only need to eat once in the morning and once at night" we were like 14.
    via @manduh
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    I was raised in a "the guest is served first, treated first, given the best, etc" house. Went to a friend's house in elementary school and I went to take a juice box from the table (that were set out for us), my friend said she wanted the juice box, the mom said that this is her child's house and I'm the guest so her kid is the one that gets the juice box. It was completely not how I was raised and I never went back.
    via @😎
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    Khloe they didnt feed me for three days i had to beg for my parents to send me moneu to go eat..
    via @🎋hloe🌷
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    Hailey> I'll never forget the time in 5th grade I was invited to a birthday party as a joke. I still can picture their faces when they opened the door my mom came to get me in the middle of the night
    via @Hailey🍒
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    Holy fire hazard

    Jeremiah Russell My buddy had a pad lock on the OUTSIDE of his bedroom. Nah I'm good.
    via @Jeremiah Russell
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    user9430605791397 They had an ouigi board and started talking to ghosts. I was OUT never coming back don't play w me
    via @user9430605791397
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    Vie We were 14ish, she yelled at her mom for embarrassing her by bringing us a tray of snacks and candy..
    via @Vie

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