15+ Homeowners whose hosted entitled, impolite guests: '[She] let her 2-year-old eat chocolate biscotti and get it all over my new carpet'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 11, 2026 3:00 PM EDT

You have no idea how people act behind closed doors until you let them stay with you for a weekend. 

I bet you could recall the worst house guest you ever had. That kind of experience leaves a real impression on a person! And, as some of the people below noted in their own stories, sometimes you have to cut a person off after they disrespect your humble abode. 

As hosts, we never expect our guests to treat our homes poorly. Most of us were raised to be super polite when someone invites you into their space — helping out with dishes, making polite conversation, being quiet during nighttime hours, not using up all their soap or eating all their food. And yet, as you'll read about below, some people had guests who've simply never heard of etiquette before, who are so wrapped up in their own wants and needs that they're happy to leave someone else's house worse than they found it. 

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    Couple with suitcases enter a building to stay with friends. 

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  • Grouchy... I had a friend visiting over the weekend. She had a well paying job at the time I was still in college struggeling to make ends meet every month. I had to work the morning
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  • she wanted to take the train home so I told her before leaving to help herself with things from my fridge to make herself some sandwiches for the journey (about 6 hour ride). When I
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  • came home she had helped herself indeed to my - weeks worth of groceries. The only thing she didn't take was some milk and a quater of a watermelon. I nearly cried.
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    See, like this is a great example of a way to ruin your host's week, all the while guaranteeing you'll never be invited back. Why would the guest do this? What a strange way to "thank" that host! 

  • Freudian... My husband loves to bake. He spent the whole day proofing, folding and prepping a bread dough for dinner. He shaped a few loaves and left them on the kitchen
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  • counter to rise one more time. On this day, my dad came over for his six-monthly cry about how I dont love him or talk to him enough. As he was leaving he
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  • squished all the air out of one of the dough loaves with his fist. He then laughed at my husband's face and walked out. He wonders why I don't put effort into seeing him.
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  • My sister once left an entire quesadilla under my couch cushions. Edit: we were both in our late 20s/early 30s when this happened.
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  • DismalC... The last time my brother-in-law and his wife visited, we found multiple things broken when they left. One big thing (the leg of a chair) and multiple weird small things
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  • (an ice tray, the handle of a spatula, a knick-knack). I obviously hated that they broke stuff, but I really hated that they didn't bother to tell anyone they did it. Especially, the
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  • chair, which was a surprising find when sitting down in it.
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  • SureLee... doing a sewing project on my couch and leaving needles in the arm of the couch
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  • One sentence horror story:

    Hipsters... A new friend came over, laid on my bed with shoes on, with the shoes on my pillow!
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  • Some people (especially family members) seemingly can't resist rearranging someone else's home to their own liking

    Suitable... Dad d 1. My aunt came to stay to support my mom. She rearranged the kitchen cabinets "to be more efficient" relative to where the stove was. (After
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    They're only there for a brief window, so why would they do that? And in this case, it was an especially hurtful thing to do…

  • them being that way for 30 years) My calm little mom nearly p 'ed her.
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  • In the wake of her life changing literally forever and for the worst, the last thing she wanted was more change out of no where.
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  • sonibroc My Mum would rearrange my furniture and decorations in the first house my husband and I owned. After the 5th time, I told her last, very clearly, that she
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  • was making more work for me as I put back the way my husband and I want our house to be, and is sapping and joy/pride of
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  • homeownership and she can go back and decorate her own house.
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  • wildanim... I was the r de guest and accidentally dised a window while staying with family in Switzerland. They were very understanding about
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  • American windows being completely different, but had to call their neighbor to come fix it. I felt really bad.
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  • A friend of mine mom and dad used to come in and open the kitchen cupboards and just look around. The h_l?!
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  • m dujour Let her 2yo eat chocolate biscotti and get it all over my new carpet. Accidentally wrapped up a piece of my silverware and took it home with her. Then said I was making a big deal when I asked for it back
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  • Child makes a huge kitchen mess at guest's house.
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    Child makes a huge kitchen mess at guest's house.

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  • This couple didn't know how to read the room

    Formal_... A friend and his girlfriend came to visit me and my partner for brunch out, then board games at our place for a couple of hours after. Or, at least we thought that was the
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  • plan. They only live about 45 minutes away, it's not some crazy drive, a pretty standard distance for where we're at. They also don't drink, so they weren't getting tore up at brunch or
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  • something. Anyway. Brunch happened. They come over. Warm up board game followed by crunchy board game. They've been at our place for 2 hours so it's about
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  • 4pm. He pulls out another game. 90 more minutes pass. We don't want to provide them with dinner. We're doing all of the "welp" [knee slapping] "this has been fun!" social
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  • cues. They aren't getting it. I take the dog for a walk. A long walk. No changes. Then they start talking TO EACH OTHER about
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  • whether they are going to stay the night at our house. They did not ask us if they could. It's only like 7pm! Go home! It's hardly even dark outside!! It's not treacherous road conditions!
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  • YOU DIDN'T ASK IF YOU COULD STAY!! It was the weirdest d in thing. We finally pulled some story out about how we had a busy day the next day and had to wake up early, and
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  • they figured it out. But we never talked to them afterwards because like man.
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  • Magical_... It irritates the sh out of me how my MIL does laundry at my house. She starts the full cycle and puts in TWO pieces of clothing and she does it twice a day.
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  • Alana567 My friend once stole around 5 granola bars sneakily. It was so odd because I saw her do it & she tried denying. If she
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  • would have asked she could have had the whole box! It was it being sneaky that was so weird to me
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  • Very impolite to treat that animal like she's not a family member

    Salome_... Shouting at my dog for sitting on the sofa, calling her a Bad Dog and telling me about it like he'd done me a favour. off, mate. She lives here, you don't.
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    Pets are obviously family members, so if you wouldn't treat a human that way, why would you treat someone's fur baby in such a manner? 

  • thefrene... Visiting dude kept changing the thermostat in my apartment. I was struggling to keep the anger out of my voice. He claimed he didn't know there's
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  • anything wrong with doing that because he's from Europe and doesn't have AC, but you still gotta know you can't go to someone's home and start changing things.
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  • Icantbeli... My mom's friend was staying with us for a weekend, she had the audacity to tell me to shut up because apparently i was being too loud while she was trying
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  • Awful etiquette

    to sleep. i was in my room with the door closed, and it was a weekend. I'll hate her forever.
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    This is the kind of remark that makes you cut off contact with someone instantly. I hope the Mom did that! Or at least never let that woman enter her home again. 

  • What an odd thing to do

    Charact... started using my laptop without asking. that's private, dude, use your phone if youre that desperate.
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  • wasnt password locked before that, i didnt live with anyone and it didnt leave, but it sure has been since.
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  • Now why, just why, would they do that? What was bothering them so bad?

    ChefMo... I had a guest take all my things off my floating bookshelves and threw them in the closet.
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  • Books, pictures,that kind of thing and put their personal items there instead. Just weird.
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  • Oopsfoxy He ate all my sweets without asking, even though he had his own treats. And yes, he still hasn't admitted that it was him.
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  • Differen... This is very minor compared to what others experience here, but coming from SE Asia, I always find it weird (and ride at first) when people help themselves to our
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  • fridge. My mum wouldn't even let her guests step into her kitchen. It's always, what do you need? I'll get it for you. Please go back to the living room.
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  • lightyana Putting her dirty shoes on our dinner table where we eat.
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  • This is the kind of thing parents have nightmares about

    big_gay_... An ex-friend's 7 year old son jumped up and down on our expensive sofa, and broke the wood front frame. Yeah -stupid me for having a $8k
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  • Why wouldn't they apologize and offer to pay???

    sofa, but who the f lets their child do that? They left, never apologizing.
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  • dermatill... Take a bath during a PARTY. He tried to do it at anyone's house he was at long enough. It was SO WEIRD
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  • A couple walks into friend's home with their suitcases.
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    A couple walks into friend's home with their suitcases. 

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