“My wife and I had food poisoning many times before realising what was happening.”

"We don’t drink hot drinks at night. Ever. So it just sits there… a full kettle… achieving nothing except taking longer to boil in the morning.

I’ve mentioned it. Repeatedly. Politely at first, less politely now. Still happens without fail.

At this point I’m convinced they think they’re offsetting their stay. Not quite a mortgage payment, but in their heads it’s probably close."

"My aunty and uncle do this, when they stayed at my parents, they switched off the internet router and Virgin box which took days to reconnect, and put the landline out of actions, switched the freezer and the boiler off."

"They spend the time doing the housework saying they are giving me a break.

SPEND TIME WITH THE GRANDKIDS SO I CAN HAVE A REST"

"We had our fence replaced last year and I specifically asked the landscapers to keep the clematis and rather than cut it back, bundle the branches and leave it as the new growth grows on the old stems. My intentions were to reattach it to a new trellis.

My mother-in-law (MIL)  turned up one day when I was working to help paint the new fence, and just lopped off the entire clematis and a buddleia. She didn’t need to cut it back to reach the fence, she assumed it was dead and just cut it all.

My MIL has a history of chopping back trees and any plants to pave over and replace with artificial grass and rockeries in any of her gardens. That’s her style and we have a more ‘cottage garden’ vibe.

It’s only just started regrowing now and it’s so upsetting to see the state of it. I'm just super lucky it’s growing back."

"Mine painted my kitchen while I was having my son."

"I'm talking wooden things in there, a single glass taking up four plate spaces in the bottom rack, all the dinner spoons spooning together in the cutlery basket, plates that still have entire pieces of pasta on them lying flat in the top rack. These people have a dishwasher, use it daily, and their house and plates, etc., are always immaculate. This cannot possibly be how they load their own dishwasher."

"Last time I found three peas that had been in the baby’s mouth, a spoonful of mash and half a sausage, each in their own tiny tin foil parcel.

Not only is it not enough food to save for another meal, you also can’t see what’s in the parcels, so you have to open every single one to see what it is.

"It is bordering on Hyacinth Bucket levels of grandiosity. It's nice once in a while but we feel forced into it due to the expense they seem to put in every week.

It gives them something to do and I feel harsh for not wanting another goose for my lunch, but sometimes I just want something normal and not to have to sit down at a banquet fit for a 19th-century Duke."

"She then roasted a chicken and strew it about the garden for the dogs to eat. The glasses she put away she put upside down even though we keep ours right side up and she could plainly see that. Whole house up at 6:30, corralling dogs and putting kitchen to rights. Everyone angry."

"We moved into our first home together two years ago and this drives me mad. I come from a home where it's always been just good manners to call or text in advance. Don't get me wrong, it's lovely to see them, but they often turn up at inconvenient times when you are eating/cooking dinner, getting ready to leave the house, or even just vegetating in your pyjamas! 

"Then of course you get the passive-aggressive remarks about still being in your pyjamas in the middle of the day. We've asked multiple times for them to let us know if they're dropping by, but it never seems to register."

"My mum has been told this repeatedly, but every damn time she gets out a new roll from the cat-proof box. ‘You ran out of loo roll, so I put a new one on top of the cistern!’

Great. Now we HAVE run out of loo roll because the one you put out has been shredded within five minutes."

"Both my mum and aunt couldn't visit without pushing everything back against the wall, or rear of my desk, out of my reach, because to them it looked ‘tidier’. It wasn't malicious, I mentioned it several times, they just couldn't help it after years of autopilot tidying stuff.

‘Where's the TV remote? Oh, on the window sill BEHIND my desk. Great’."