How long can you stand house guests?
 

I consider myself to be a rather welcoming person when it comes to inviting guests into my home. However, I have house guests at the moment that were meant to be here for two weeks and are now half way through their third week. I like them and they haven't done anything wrong but there comes a time when you just need your house back.

How long can you stand having other people in your house?

I had my Mom here week in week out for almost 3 years (not weekends).. she commuted from another state... I think your 3 weeks is tolerable :P

yes but that is your mom

Family as long as they want to stay, everybody else about 1 week...Friends are nice, but at some point I'm more than happy when they leave, especially if they spend hours in the bath in the morning.

Play sick and they'll probobly leave themselves. Seriously, 3 weeks is more than enough for quests.

I generally don't mind guest but I started to get bothered by things like having to get properly dressed to go to the bathroom at night and stuff.

At my cottage 3 days... At my house about 1 day.

DH

I've had people stay for months, I don't mind at all. I like the company.

depends on the person anywhere from 2 days to a couple of weeks

3-4 days unless they are here from really far away and have a good purpose for staying here

We had a Mexican exchange student a few years ago stay with us for 6 months to learn English. Considering the loss of privacy and the language barrier, that was hard. Had it been a Swedish, female university student, it probably would have been a little more tolerable.

Since then, nothing more than a couple of days would be acceptable, excluding the Mother-in-law of course. She gets the overnight treatment.

Family: 2-3 weeks
Guests: 4-5 days

People can't stand to be my houseguests.
Just kidding, I never have people over in my city-residence though.. overnight drunk mates maybe, but never 'houseguests'.

My summer cottage is a different a matter, a few weeks without any issues.

I can tolerate house guests from Kentucky for 30 days (give or take a few days)

Usually depends, family can stay as much as they want as long as they dont get in the way...
Friends can stay for a few days for free
if they want to stay longer they'll have to contribute by at least cleaning the house, cooking (depends who...), etc etc

One day that's it.....

a couple of hours and then i throw them out....seriously

Right now I feel like I have a permanant house guest... room mates girlfriend. She lost her job so now she's here every damn day. Drives me crazy. Still figuring out how to get rid of her.

I have a 5 hour rule ...lol I don't like anyone over the house for more then 5 hours. if I'm having a big party then I'll make a ruling based on how much fun I'm having but generally i like my space and don't have many people stay at my house. I also hate when people just show up. Call first mother fucker !!

my sister...forever. anyone else. 2-3 days max lol

I'm also a welcoming person and if it's a guest that I'm good friends with and they dont bother, I could stand having them around for awhile. Not forever though, I do like my privacy.

On the other hand, guest that I don't really like well and are annoying, I try to keep it short to a few hours

Family = a month
Guests = a week....

If they are friends - I don't mind, but if just "house guests" and you feel obliged to entertain em - that can get monotonous and time-consuming :winkwink:

In the last 12 months we must have had 4-6 months worth of guests at varying times - but most were "easy" as guests and did their own "thing". Kinda like having guests for long breakfasts in the mornings :-)

I do not really mind them all that much as long as the understand my very clear house guest rules.

I am not obliged to entertain them unless I feel like it.
I do not have to suddenly gain modesty I did not have before they arrived.
Kids are only permitted for a day.
Guest chip in for food every so often.
Guest clean up.

our guests usually stay for about 2 days:)

3 weeks! I'd kill someone. 1 week is about my max - maybe if you have a huge house and can stay out of each other's way - but in the end it's all about being able to sit down and surf porn when I want and I can't do that with house guests.

3-4 days max unless it is my mom or sister

2 months max, but that was exeption.Usually not more than a week

about 20 minutes

I have a short attention span and usually about 20 minutes I'm ready to go back to working. And I dont allow guests in my office space.

I'm the reverse. Family get fewer days or none. I have no problem putting them up in a nearby hotel and spending a lot of time with them while they are here but family feels more entitled to make themselves at home with out the consideration of cleaning up / etc.

Close enough friends to stay one night... can stay 5-7 days. but anymore than a week they better be damn good cooks and nearly invisible

I have to admit the free pug sitting while I work is a benefit but I reach a limit where I just need to be able to walk around naked if I want to or something like that.

If we're drinking I prefer them to be gone before I wake up. If they are not gone by 11 AM I usually start drinking again.

As Ben Franklin once said "After three days fish and guests start to stink. ...

I had that situation some years ago... I suggested to the roomie that if his girlie was going to stay, she was to pay 1/3 of the rent/utilities..
She decided to stay at her mom's place :)

Two days max..they tend to over stay their welcome

if its not a party, 2 or 3 hours in my house is perfect.

honestly, even if im a hospitable person, a week would be good. depends on their reason to stay...if its gonna be months, they gotta share the bills

yeah..anybody that goes to the roomate level should pay something..years ago we had a friend stay with us for 6 months and he never paid anything. However, he was in a really bad place in his life and I was fine with helping him get back on his feet. However, if he could have paid and didn't I would have been ticked.

2 days unless they've brought a fine supply of weed/wine then they can stay a bit longer. Got my sister coming this weekend, but if she pisses me off I can tell her so that makes it easier.

You got to be shitting me?? Getting dressed to go to the bathroom? Unless you sleep naked then I think thats a bit weird.

About 2 hours for me...I hate visitors.

max 1 week for guests
family ...a few months

Well sometimes I do sleep naked...but generally in something very light..what I meant more was after a shower having to put clothing on to walk to my room, etc

If this are my close friends or relatives then I don't really give a shit. They can stay for as long as they like but for the rest - not more than couple of days, I'm sorry I need my privacy!

I despise unannounced company. The vast majority of the time, I just won't go to the door.

I don't mind them staying forever...it does'nt bother me having random people living at my house !

hmmmn...if my house is as big as a castle it doesn't really matter...

hhhmmm, i can take them for a week and if it exceeds i don't know what will happen...