- Blog
- Bios
- Boards
- Classifieds
- DIY
- Gallery
- Vendor Reviews
- Shop Weddingbee
Weddingbee boards
I really enjoy it actually. It's fun to have people come see our place and spend a few days with them. It can get stressful what with the cleaning before and after they come, but for the most part I enjoy it.
I like it but only when it's not often. When you have a friend come once a year its awesome. I love creating a pampered experience for them. Plus I love cooking others dinner, so that's probably part of it.
I really enjoy it! As long as I don't have to host people every weekend or something, I love getting the special time to spend with people!
DH and I both are always offering up our apartment for people to come visit and stay with us!
I love having people over for events/dinner/ daytime. But I hate overnight guests because I need my quiet time in the morning.
I love hosting guests! But I do like having advance notice so I can clean up and buy some extra goodies (bagels and stuff we wouldn't normally keep in the house, you know?) for them!
ETA: Our place is a one bedroom one bath English basement, so if friends come to stay, they sleep on the pull out couch; if family comes, we'll probably put them in our bed and sleep on the couch ourselves.
I have a one bedroom apartment. We just aren't set up for it! Plus, our doors swell in the summer heat, so neither the bathroom or our bedroom door fully closes. Can you say *awkward* FIL visit?!
I love hosting but only for a few day and maybe a few times a year.
Maybe my problem is that this particular friend comes to stay once a month and then we probably have 1-2 other people staying with us every 3-4 months. It gets tiring and I really like my personal space :( I would probably enjoy it a lot more if we had a couple of people only visiting us once a year. Oh well!
I like having guests, but not often and I like planned visits. I don't like the stress of cleaning, etc. I am also a creature of habit and sometimes, I'm just tired at 9pm. I don't want to push someone out the door, but if I can't keep my eyes open, I feel bad.
Love my friends, but I'm kind of a homebody.
I hate it, because the house we are in has no space. To me tidy is everything put away in cupboards, and I just dont have the cupboard space. So everything is out and it feels messy, others say its homey but i dislike. So i feel when guests come I have to super clean for it to be in order.
I have my SIL coming this weekend, and she just picks on everything and anything in the house. Maybe thats why it puts me off having guests in our home... I dont mind people crashing for the night but when it feels like 2 - 3 days its exhausting.
I love having people come stay with us (we only have 3-4 visitors per year), though I'm dreading May. My in-laws are coming over for a week. I haven't spent more than a few hours around them at one time (over a six year period) so having them around us constantly for days causes a bit of anxiety.
I don't like having houseguests at all. Also, I don't enjoy being a houseguest. I'd much rather stay in a hotel if possible.
I like it but planned in advance with the end date decided. :)
I like it but planned in advance and only for a short period. I love seeing family and friends but sometimes you are just so relieved when they are gone!
I like it for a few days, as long as its planned in advance. But I am a crazy neat freak, so after a few days I am exhausted from running around cleaning up and making sure everything is just perfect for our guests. I hated it when we had a small apartment though.
I like it as long as its no more than a week. I like company in small bits I hate having guest on a regular basis I like my house to be neat and quiet most of the time. However, I do enjoy going to other people's houses.
I will once I have my own house. I love cooking and entertaining somehow.
I don't particularly enjoy this either. I am always over anxious about everything. I.e. did I cook properly? Are they comfortable? What to do for entertainment, etc.
I love hosting good house guests. My best friend came to visit me and stayed at my house for 3 weeks without saying thank you. We had tons of fun but I was mad for a week after she left without a thank you.
I don't particularly enjoy this either. I am always over anxious about everything. I.e. did I cook properly? Are they comfortable? What to do for entertainment, etc.
This EXACTLY. I feel like a grump - but I really don't like people "stopping over" for visits with at least a phone call either - I like to make sure my house is tidy before hand. Call me weird I guess! LOL
We had the same kind of situation happen for us with a friend that would come "visit" for work. It was a few nights a month. I tried to just relax and let him feel welcome. I know he would be upset if I spent too much time cleaning up the house for him.
Now that work has picked up in our area he is actually renting a room from us for a few months which really takes the pressure off of me to keep things tidy for him.
I love hosting people. I just like being able to have other people to cook for and sit around sharing stories. However, I hate being a house guest. I always feel like I am intruding and in the way.
I'm in the middle. I don't hate it but I don't love it. And the length of the visit can get to me as well.
Like you, I don't like my routine getting messed up. I also don't like being kept up late at night. My grandmother got stuck with us during the last snow storm and it was over a week she was with us. Like your friend, she is up at 5 am minus the dog. Our bedroom is right off the living room and kitchen and you can hear everything. Some mornings when she would get up and mess around, I could sleep through it but other times I couldn't. I would get mad, especially the one morning when she was acting like she didn't know where anything was so she was banging so many things together but then I discovered the best of both worlds: close our door so we are not woken up.
i like it, but we don't have a big place, so only if it's planned. i just like being able to sleep in my undies and walk to the bathroom without having to wear a robe (we only have one bathroom and it's outside of our room). if we had a master bathroom and a bit bigger place, i wouldn't mind as much.
sorry if that's tmi, but it's truly how i feel! :)
I love having house guests! (To be fair, in my case they're apartment guests, but whatevs.) It's like a slumber party for grownups!
I love having people over, especially for dinner, drinks, games, etc. We've never had anyone sleep over yet, but I think it will be fun occassionally. I definitely couldn't have people over ALL the time though.
@piglet_625: same here. We have friends over till the wee hours of the morning, but my FI (before he moved in with me) would have friends stay over.
Personally, I'm on the fence. I don't MIND the idea, and every once in a while would be okay with me, but not on a constant basis and as long as they obey the "house rules", I'd be fine with it. Considering I know our friends pretty well, I know they'd be respectful.
Except I kinda figure the fact we have small kids would scare away any wanna be house guests before any thing else, lol!
What about house guests during the week of your wedding? We are having FH brother and wife stay with us. It really isnt our choice. They are coming from Europe. We are going to tell them they must stay in a hotel a few nights before the wedding. I need time to relax and not worry about making sure my guests are accommodated! I AM THE BRIDE!!!! Sorry I have been watching bridezillas.
Only when planned in advance and for a short period of time. Nothing irks me more than unannounced overnight guests which we have dealt with several times unfortunately. And we live in a 1 bed/1 bath, so you can only start to imagine what kind of an imposition this is on us.
As long as I have enough time to prepare for the visit and it has a defined beginning and end then I actually do love to have house guests. It's when I'm thrown off guard that I get irked.. because it's not like we live in a large detached home where it wouldn't be as big of an imposition, we are literally in our guests faces the entire time they stay with us.
I really enjoy having short-term houseguests. We have 5 bedrooms, so there's plenty of space and no need to be on top of each other 24/7. A long weekend is about my threshold, though. Cooking and cleaning for others gets tiring.
I do not, however, enjoy being a houseguest. It's just not relaxing. I like to go to bed when I want and wake up when I want, and when staying in somebody else's home it's only polite to keep the same hours.
You must log in to post.
| Visit our sister sites | eHarmony Online Dating |
eHarmony Advice Dating Advice |
Project Wedding Wedding Songs |
JustMommies Pregnancy Calendar |
Create the honeymoon of your dreams.
| User | Posts Today |
|---|---|
| rachgirl82 | 39 |
| MissBoPeep | 36 |
| pengoala | 33 |
| Beckster329 | 21 |
| Future Army Wife | 20 |
| Sunfire | 19 |
| couawilou | 18 |
| MsBrooklynA | 16 |
| KatNYC2011 | 15 |
| beargoose | 15 |
| User | Posts Today |
|---|---|
| MissBoPeep | 4 |
| Bostongrl25 | 2 |
| Sunfire | 2 |
| slicey19 | 1 |
| pinkshoes | 1 |
| ccranetobe | 1 |
| o0olibelulao0o | 1 |
| namarie | 1 |
| BayStateBride | 1 |
| rachgirl82 | 1 |
Hello Bees,
My fiance has a friend who occasionally stays with us on his way to or from work. He works in the middle of nowhere (which we are pretty close to!) and sometimes needs a place to stay for a day or two during transit. He's a great guy and pretty polite so normally I have no problem with this.
This last visit has really got me thinking though! I HATE having house guests. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I am a creature of habit and hate having my routine messed up, but I'm feeling seriously frazzled after this last stay of his. My fiance is out of town and his friend stayed in our guest room for 4 days this time. Every...single...morning...he was up before 5am. This wouldn't bother me, but for the fact that once someone is awake in our house the dog is up too. Once the dog is wake this means I am also awake :( There were also a ton of tiny things that were just getting on my nerves and being stressed about the wedding I just kept making myself feel worse and worse. I'm the type who wants to make sure my guests have clean towels and the bathroom stays shiny etc, so it was tough feeling like I had to run around for a guest when I'm just too busy. I would much rather have the house to myself. Of course it is a different story if we've booked time off for a visit or someone who we haven't seen in forever is coming to stay.
Am I alone? Is there anyone who actually ENJOYS having a house guest?