Scare so that the more they go to you do not dare. Or maybe you yourself will keep aloof.
There used to be such a tradition: when the guests were called, they prepared for a week. They tidied up, came up with something for the feast. Now, very few people will bother with pickles, because you can always order pizza. Some do not even consider it necessary to cover up the unsightly sides of their life. And in vain – after all, some things unprepared people can scare.
1. Unpleasant smell
It can smell of anything: fried fish (although it was fried the day before yesterday), cats, dog hair, forgotten trash can, sour soup, mustiness, incense sticks. It shouldn’t. There is a certain light smell in any apartment, but here the key one is light. If you regularly forget to clean the litter box, take out the trash, or, conversely, burn incense for days on end, the smell in the house will be heavy. It is unlikely that someone wants to once again commit a crime against their own sense of smell and their own lungs.
2. Cluttered rooms
Not even dirty, no. Just stuffed with all sorts of little things. You know, when there is no living space on the shelves, there is no place to step on the floor because of the chairs, padded stools and bedside tables, everything is forced, and the cabinets swell from things. Such a passion for hoarding over time can develop into Plyushkin syndrome when a house turns into a warehouse of unnecessary things. In addition, for sure the head of the owner is just as crammed with rubbish as the apartment.
3. A mess
There is dirt on the floor, dust on the shelves, scraps on the table, corpses of long-withered flowers in a vase. So what’s so nice? Of course, such a devil-may-care attitude to one’s own home is scary. After all, a person as he gets older becomes quite picky about personal comfort. And if your level of comfort is a complete mess, it can not but alarm.
4. Sterile cleanliness
This is the other extreme. It is necessary to accidentally touch the polished tabletop, as the owner rushes to destroy fingerprints, not a speck of dust around you, as if you were in a hotel room that was cleaned by a team of clinics. There is some kind of mania in such cleanliness. After all, a living person cannot devote all his free time to cleaning. And in another way such purity is not achieved.
5. Facelessness
When the apartment has a non-residential appearance – not a little bit of decoration, not flowers in pots, no posters, no books, no photos. In general, nothing in what would somehow manifest the individuality of the owner. And sometimes even complete minimalism, like that of the hero Matthew McConaughey in The Real Detective. Whether a person is so empty, or he does not care where to live. But the one and the other variant are equally unattractive.
6. Dirty bathroom
This disgust in clean, sorry for the oxymoron, the form. If the bathtub is yellowed, there are drips of toothpaste on the sink, the mirror is splashed, and it is terrible to use the toilet for the intended purpose, it means that the landlord treats his own hygiene extremely superficially. He can not sincerely not notice that the plumbing needs cleaning! There you will think about it ten times more, to wash your hands or they will only get more dirty if you touch the tap. What kind of guests here. Escape from this house.
7. Clothes on the backs of the chairs
Yours, and maybe your girlfriend. On one chair, a bra hangs coquettishly, a sleeved shirt hangs over the other, and here jeans roll, from the legs of which socks stick out. So-so spectacle. It’s not just sloppy, but also too intimate. After all, dirty linen, even the person with whom you live together, is inconvenient to show. And then – all in a row.
8. Excess of old stuff
From the series “throw a pity.” These are old magazines, cracked dishes, and unnecessary clothes (the one from which the cupboard swells), and broken appliances. Very close to Plyushkin syndrome – this is the first. And secondly, it speaks of the owner as a person who is not too generous. Rather, even frankly greedy. If he is sorry to spend money on new, comfortable, modern and beautiful things for himself, then what can he offer to others? Your rich inner world?
9. Unmade bed
There are two types of unmade beds: when I accidentally slept and didn’t have time and were chronically unmade. Here is the second type – the least cute: wrinkled, in crumbs, stains, often also lying on top of something. And if the owner flops on this bed right in street jeans, then things are bad. After all, this means that the hygiene in this apartment is not too much thought.
10. Too personal stuff
You should not flaunt a collection of sex toys, underwear, a practical guide to black magic and a portrait of a mutual friend, generously set with needles. Hide a voodoo, too, hide away. Or signs of an unusual hobby – if you, for example, are interested in taxidermy. There are things that are only for you and someone very, very close. Guests are unlikely to fall into this category.