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Dinner dates and casual drinks offer a controlled environment where bad habits are easy to hide. But when the venue shifts to a home setting, the space gives a much deeper peek into who a person really is.

The other day, a post asked women on Reddit to share the worst things they’ve found at a guy’s apartment. The responses and the speed at which the thread went viral show just how common — and alarming — these unexpected discoveries can be.

One woman recalled visiting a man’s apartment for the first time, after months of dating him, and finding trash covering every inch of the floor. She even found a used tampon lying in plain sight.

Another woman found fist-sized holes punched through the drywall at her date’s place.

Some of these stories prove that while a messy room can be cleaned easily, deep red flags stamped into the walls are much harder to fix.

#1

A woman making a disgusted face, possibly at the state of a man's home. I once dated a guy for a few months before visiting his place. He was a very attractive guy, making 6 figures in a professional job. He wore suits to work, and our on our dates. When I walked inside his house for the first time, it was a literal mess, with trash and debris littered all over the floors. My eyes caught focus near something on the floor near the bed...and it was a used tampon. Not my tampon. Not his tampon. How long had it been there? Who did it belong to? These are questions. His house was gross but that random tampon was the cherry on top for me.

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    #2

    Man sleeping face down, representing men's homes that caused women to leave immediately. Only one bed that he shared with his male roommate who I guess was about 50 years old (we were 19). He had brought me to his place to make out. The roommate was there.

    Made up an excuse to gtho, walked to the next corner and took off running.

    6_67 , Nicola Barts/Pexels Report

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    #3

    A woman looking distressed, representing women's experiences visiting a man's home for the first time. A confederate flag above the bed. 

    I’m black.

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    When you walk into someone’s home, you see a lot more than just their furniture. The way a person cleans and arranges their space can actually give big clues about who they really are.

    According to psychologist Sam Gosling, the “minutiae of our private spaces hold the secrets of our true personality.”

    His study found that our personal environments leave behind a physical trail of our habits, emotional stability, and self-care.

    #4

    A dirty, old mattress and pillows in a dimly lit room, indicating an unkempt man's home. Bed with no sheets, no pillow cases on pillows and VERY stained mattress. Smelled like dirty greasy hair.

    Afraid-Wishbone4680 , Thomas balabaud/Pexels Report

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    #5

    Exposed electrical wires in a hole in a wall, suggesting an unsafe condition in a man's home. Fist sized holes in his walls.

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    #6

    A woman with a shocked expression, possibly reacting to a man's home and needing to leave immediately. Bro carved my and his name into his wall.

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    Basic cleanliness is one of the most telling signs of daily habits and self-care.

    Research consistently shows that a high degree of conscientiousness around personal and domestic hygiene is a strong indicator of long-term health, career success, and overall well-being.

    This does not mean that having a temporarily messy room after a busy week makes you inherently dirty.

    However, when there’s complete absence of basic sanitation, like a sink overflowing with moldy dishes or a toilet that has never seen a brush, it’s more of a warning sign.

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    “That’s actually one of the reasons why people’s living spaces are so informative. It's because they essentially are the crystallization of many, many acts over weeks and weeks, months and years. It's the accumulation of those books and the way they're organized and the various other knick-knacks you have, and those sorts of things,” says Gosling.

    #7

    A messy, dirty room in a man's home, suggesting a woman had to leave immediately. Lived in his animal hoarder mother’s absolute hole of a basement. Cat feces, vomit, and hair over every surface. Untrained unneutered dogs marking everything. Partially decayed mice everywhere. He’d grown up with it and had given up a long time ago since no one else was doing anything about it, and 8+ free roaming animals plus more in enclosures is a lot to try and battle back.


    Only discovered all of that later; the first time I was there I just asked if I could use the bathroom when I arrived to pick him up on the way to a show we were going to. Walked me inside like a man on his way to the electric chair. The ferret reek hit me like a brick wall and I hard 180’d and decided to hold it til we got where we were going. Really heartbreaking.


    That was three years ago and I have since extracted him and the cat that’s his baby to my place where they are both doing *so* much better.

    OneGayPigeon , Strange Happenings/Pexels Report

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    #8

    Woman looking concerned, hand covering mouth, reflecting on experiences of women leaving a man's home. We'd been dating for about weeks, 3-4 dates in total. I went to his apartment for the first time and he had an A4 size closeup photo of my face (no neck or shoulders, no body, just my face), framed, mounted on the wall right next to his 5yo son's photo. I had gone over there that day to help him seal up some windows ahead of a pending storm. The photo freaked me out but I held my composure, sealed the windows, gave him a peck on the cheek goodbye and got out of there as fast as I could. Went home, waited a bit, and then sent him a "this ain't gonna work, take that photo down" type of message.

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    #9

    A woman with her eyes closed, pressing her fingers to her forehead, reflecting women taking an Epi Pen. He had spilled milk on the floor from earlier that day and he had just put some paper towels over it, so it was rotting on the floor.

    His bedroom floor was covered in dirty laundry, including an old thong his ex had left behind. Then he said his mom "would usually come over and clean but she hadn't been over in a few weeks."

    Fun-Significance4650 , www.kaboompics.com/Pexels Report

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    The issue of cleanliness isn’t exclusive to one gender, either.

    A recent survey by YouGov asked British men and women what traits would bother them most in a partner. About 71% said that someone who cares less about being clean than they do would make them most uncomfortable.

    In another survey, 69% of Americans said the simple act of seeing their partner clean is a turn-on.

    “Cleanliness can be such a deal breaker for so many reasons. Mostly, if one person is keeping things clean and tidy and their partner is constantly creating mess and chaos, they can feel like he or she is being disrespectful and selfish, this is even worse than being untidy and unclean,” explains dating coach Jo Barnett.

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    #10

    A framed photo of a smiling couple, contrasting with some women's negative experiences at a man's home. Pictures of him & his girlfriend.

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    #11

    A close-up of a cockroach on a textured wall, illustrating reasons women had to leave a man's home immediately. Roaches, which I know is obvious, but to make it worse, he called the roaches his roommates and even more worse he didn't want to hurt them cause he was vegan..... yep.....

    shartdankredemption , Jari Lobo/Pexels Report

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    #12

    Food in clear containers, representing the prepared bags for women who had to leave immediately. A freezer with several months worth of prepared meals. He flew his mother in from India every 3 months or so and she would cook and freeze food for him. He didn’t know how to do anything domestic. He had a gorgeous apartment in the fanciest part of town and it was filthy. We stopped by there because we were having drinks near there and I needed to [use the bathroom] but it was so gross I couldn’t and I made up an excuse and went home. I did not see him again. He was a super nice guy and was incredibly funny and charming but I could not get over how gross his apartment was and the fact that his mother cooked all his meals despite living in India!!!!

    TheBlackPajama , Kate Trifo/Pexels Report

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    There are plenty of reasons why people don’t like messy environments.

    Research shows that living in a cluttered space directly increases stress and makes it much harder to focus on tasks. When a room is messy, the brain’s visual cortex gets overwhelmed by irrelevant objects, making simple projects take twice as long to finish.

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    Clutter is also closely tied to negative feelings like confusion, anxiety, and irritability. An organized home, on the other hand, creates a sense of calm and well-being. To the human brain, physical mess represents unfinished business, which becomes especially overwhelming during stressful times.

    Most people find they can regain control of their environment by clearing clutter and keeping their space organized.

    #13

    Burning red candles, symbolizing the urgency for women to leave a man's home. I'm a gay dude, but, once I went to a dude's house I was just getting to know, and he had a literal shrine for someone. I thought it was a deceased family member, but when I asked who it was, they said "Oh, that's my ex boyfriend, he moved out 2 years ago, I just can't get over him". I was flabbergasted, I promptly left and never spoke to the guy again because I was so freaked out.

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    #14

    An old reel-to-reel tape recorder, ready to play back stories of women leaving a man's home. I went to a guys house one time after seeing each other for a few months. Things were going along great, house was nice. I go inside, no issues. We had a great dinner, I was planning on spending the night… I used the last of the toilet paper and went to look in the cabinet above the toilet for a new roll.

    I opened up the upper cabinet and my heart sank. I saw a tape recorder. It was running when I opened the cabinet. I stopped the recording and deleted (I think) what was on it. I put it back and closed the cabinet.

    I told the guy I felt off and had to go home. I blocked him, filed a police report and don’t know if anything ever came of it. I still think about it a lot, I told my sister and she thought I should go to the police, but I deleted the recording?

    Curious_Chain_1104 , Ogy Kovachev/Pexels Report

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    #15

    Blue yoga mat on the floor, possibly in a man's home, where women might feel the need to leave. No bed. Slept on a yoga mat and used a bike tire as a pillow.

    Traditional-Feed8428 , Vitalii Abakumov/Pexels Report

    Cleanliness also touches on a common stereotype: that men are naturally messier than women. While it sounds like a simple cliché, both history and recent numbers back it up.

    Historically, men were the primary earners while women were expected to handle all the housework. But even as women entered the workforce in massive numbers, that domestic burden never truly balanced out — even in situations where women make more money.

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    #16

    Two garage doors at a house, symbolizing the first time women arrive and leave a man's home immediately. He told me he rented a room in a house, except the room ended up being the garage. And no, it wasn't converted. He asked if I wanted some air flow and grabbed the clicker...

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    #17

    Empty room with wooden floors and sunlight streaming through blinds, highlighting reasons women leave a man's home. Completely empty. A couple of boxes in one corner. Nothing in the fridge. Not even condiments. I asked “Did you just move in?” He says “Nah, I’ve been here for like three years” It really weirded me out.

    paperbackella , Curtis Adams/Pexels Report

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    #18

    A bunk bed with a futon underneath, indicating a man's home women had to leave immediately. Bunk beds with his roommate.

    LengthinessRadiant15 , Curtis Adams/Pexels Report

    Overlooking these early living space red flags during initial dates doesn’t pay off in the long run. Even if women decide to give these guys a chance, the workload almost never balances out over time.

    Global data shows that housework remains the most unequally shared responsibility in a household.

    According to the European Institute of Gender Equality, around 91% of women with children spend at least an hour a day on chores, compared to just 30% of men with children. On average, working women spend 2.3 hours every day on housework, while working men spend just 1.6 hours.

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    In the UK, studies show that 45% of female breadwinners still do the vast majority of household tasks, compared to only 12.5% of male breadwinners. For many working women, taking care of the home still equals a second full-time job.

    #19

    This guy was a marketing exec for a major gun manufacturer so I knew he’d have guns. I was raised in a hunting family so it wasn’t a big deal, conceptually. I was NOT prepared!

    He lived in a very large house (son was away at college) and literally had guns and ammo in every room. some well organized and some just spread all over. I kid you not, every room!


    NOPE.

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    #20

    A pile of dirty dishes in a sink, showing women's experiences visiting a man's home for the first time. Counters and sink filled with dirty dishes. One pan was rusted up so bad it broke when he tried to scrub it out so he could cook up dinner for us.

    BlackberryCrumble , Gary Barnes/Pexels Report

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    #21

    I saw his room when I walked in the door, unmade bed and the FILTHIEST sheets and pillowcases I have ever, EVER soon. That was before I saw the state of the "oh [HELL] NO mess" that was the bathroom. Kitchen reeked, garbage all over. That was the last time I saw that human. It was years ago and I have never forgotten the shock.

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    Research shows that men and women actually notice mess at the same rate, but society holds women to much higher standards of cleanliness.

    Because women face harsher social judgment for a dirty home, they might be socialized from an early age to prioritize household upkeep.

    #22

    A woman looking thoughtfully to the side, reflecting on women's experiences visiting a man's home for the first time. Walked in and saw a cross stitch on the wall with the date he was ordained as a Catholic Priest!

    Britexp , Tiger Lily/Pexels Report

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    #23

    A woman covering her face, depicting women's experiences visiting a man's home for the first time. In the room with his gaming PC i saw a bunch of 2L coke bottles filled with light yellow liquid. I didn't ask him, but I'm pretty sure they were filled with urine. He played a lot of Dota, which is a game which I believe you can't leave and go to the bathroom during the match, so my assumption is he would just pee in the bottles while playing matches...

    Ew.

    _Hayley_Hilton_ , MART PRODUCTION/Pexels Report

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    Beyond simple mess or poor hygiene, certain other details serve as immediate warnings. For example, a punched drywall, broken doors, or destroyed furniture often signal unresolved anger and problematic behavioral patterns.

    While a sink full of dishes might mean a busy work week, severe neglect and other signs around the house can speak volumes about who a person really is. Pay attention, because sometimes, the walls really can talk.

    #24

    I had a girl weirded out that my place was clean and tidy, I had candles and plants and didn't use the 3 in 1 shower gel, she thought I was secretly gay.

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    #25

    A toilet with a towel on its lid, symbolizing discomfort that makes women leave a man's home immediately. A black toilet. As in the toilet was originally white, but lack of cleaning turned the inside of the bowl black. And no hand soap in the bathroom on top of that.

    No-Luck2014 , Scenehaus Production/Pexels Report

    #26

    Hands holding a plate of tacos, representing the varied experiences of women at a man's home for the first time. When I was younger and extremely naive, I met a guy at his apt for the first (and last) time. I can’t remember if we knew mutual people or not, but he worked for the local pd and I stupidly thought that made me safe, or that he had his life together.

    I didn’t make it very far inside, but it was small enough to see the majority of it. He had an air mattress for a couch. He had just cooked taco meat, which smelled terrible, and offered me tacos that I refused. Then wanted to watch a movie on his air mattress. Upon a closer look while he was talking to me, it appeared that he possibly had a severe case of gingivitis.

    I had a sudden emergency and had to leave. I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but that one may take the cake.

    Emotional_Seaweed33 , Israyosoy S./Pexels Report

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    #27

    Floor to ceiling shelves of Funko Pops in the living room, no other decor anywhere. Gaming setup filled the dining room. He did not own a table, I guess he ate in the recliner happily surrounded by the Funkos. He’s 57…..

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    #28

    3 boxes of Bud Light. I think they were 24 packs. So many empty cans on his countertop.

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    #29

    An empty, dirty plate with a used napkin, reflecting experiences of women leaving a man's home immediately. 4 unclean dinner plates under the bed.

    Evening_walks , Alexey Demidov/Pexels Report

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    #30

    Close-up of handwritten words on paper, emphasizing the need to leave a man's home immediately when uncomfortable. The walls were covered in words. He would just grab a sharpie and write whatever was on his mind on the walls. I'm so glad I was there with friends - it felt like it could have been a dangerous situation.

    Statesbound , KoolShooters/Pexels Report

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    This could be just an autistic artist type ooor a skitzo type. Wonder which it actually was

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    #31

    A stack of newspapers, featuring headlines about women's experiences leaving a man's home. No TP! In a house with 3 guys! They used newspaper!

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    #32

    The toilet was covered in 1" of moss.

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    #33

    A living room with empty beer bottles on every level surface as "decoration" that hadn't been dusted in years. In fact, every level surface hadn't been dusted or vacuumed in years. I noped right out of there. I have pretty severe allergies. Went home and had to take my epi pen. Yeach.

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    #34

    I got bitten by fleas that were in his carpet, then as I was leaving I saw him kick his dog.

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    #35

    A man painting on an easel, using an EpiPen to help him focus on his art. Not me but a good friend. She was on a date with what seemed to be a nice, educated and good mannered guy. They went to his place and it was filled with portraits of his mother. On each and every walls, bathroom, toilet, kitchen and bedside tables. Not pictures but paintings that he made.

    No need to say that my friend ended the date right there.

    RainbowStar290 , Taryn Elliott/Pexels Report

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    #36

    Disgusting bathroom and kitchen -- mold, dirty rags, towels, nothing organized, etc.

    I just can't.

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    #37

    A woman making a disgusted face, representing women who had to leave immediately. I went to use his bathroom and found multiple pictures of random pregnant women taped to the walls. And three boxes of rubber gloves stacked up on the back of the toilet.

    BrailleNomad , Pavel Danilyuk/Pexels Report

    #38

    Several cans of empty Vienna Sausages with just the weird juice rotting in them... Nope.

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    #39

    Hands packing clothes into a cardboard box, symbolizing women who had to leave immediately. His ex-wife (that I didn't know about) throwing his clothes out of their shared house. That was fun.

    itisSUNNYinhere , cottonbro studio/Pexels Report

    #40

    A close-up of a metal mesh fence, resembling a barrier, for women who had to leave immediately. Wire mesh on all the walls / ceilings to protect from radio waves.
    He also lived with his uncle.. that stereotypical conspiracy theorist uncle type.

    bubbushkaa , Willians Huerta/Pexels Report

    #41

    Went to visit a friend after he finally moved out of his parents. Three young men (between the ages of 21-25) and he was complaining that he could get girls over but never a second date.

    Bedroom was fine. Kitchen, a little messy but not too bad. But the bathroom, lord.

    No garbage can, that's fine. Pile of empty toliet paper roles by the toliet. A bar of soap that all three roommates were sharing in the shower AND using as the soap for handwashing. Bro didn't have a SHOWER CURTAIN. They were just laying a towel on the floor and hoping for the best. Towel smelled moldy and rank. Sink was full of beard clippings and tooth paste stains.

    My partner and I went out the next morning and bought them a garbage can, hand soap, cleaning supplies and a shower curtian. Told him point blank the issue. I would never ever go on another date with a man if I found out that's how he was living.

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    #42

    Smelled like there were pets.

    There were no pets.

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    #43

    Dirty. Not messy. literally a hoarder room, things were stacked to the ceiling, mold, and it smelled like urine.

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    #44

    It was 1998, so frail the wind off the lake had knocked me down that winter, goth chick, it was Before Cellphones. We walked into his tiny studio apartment and he asked. “Do you want to see my knife collection?” There was a wall covered in knives. The sort you would buy off the television at 3am from an infomercial. Hundreds of knives…cheap swords…Impossible to miss. I said “I just remembered I have a late shift at work.” Turned and walked out. Ran out of the building. In retrospect the black leather trench coat should have been my first NOPE. But I was young.

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    #45

    Carpeted kitchen AND bathroom & the carpet was not clean.

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    #46

    Portrait of Jesus over the bed.

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    #47

    I affectionately refer to one guy as "Monster can Smaug" - his bed was in the middle of a mountain of them, they reached the middle of the mattress (which shockingly was on a base) in places.

    That guy was my treehouse guy, not relationship material at all in any way.

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    #48

    Three guys living together, one roommate put up a poster of Jessica Alba in the living room/kitchen that was so large it literally took up an entire wall, floor to ceiling. I'm not even sure how you get a poster that big. I think it was a movie poster for Fantastic Four so maybe he got it from a theater?

    When I saw it I was like, "Welp, I can tell none of you have girls over."

    They also didn't have hand towels in the bathroom so you had to dry your hands on their sweaty bath towel (reeked of BO) or your own pants.

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    #49

    I rolled over and saw a booger wall one time. That was a proud moment.

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    #50

    I was very dumb and naive and very lucky I’m so awkward and blunt that nothing happened. Met up with this guy who I worked with and he gave me the wrong address, we drive down to his “grandmother’s” house, tried to go in the front and back door about 5 times as I’m texting my coworker “call the cops if I don’t show up for work tomorrow”. He managed to get in through the back, the lights are all off as he leads me to what I think was a living room but there were 2 identical kind size beds with no sheets on these wooden frames and it’s was probably a trap house? I dunno he tried giving me rum, I faked sipped it. He went to kiss me and it was like that scene in monster’s inc where they scream machine sucks out the screams. I start crying and demand to go home and he lets me. A week later he got fired at work for [using] Xanax at work.

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    #51

    The only furniture was a mattress in the living room.

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    #52

    I feel bad sharing this because he was a sweet guy, but he was smoking throughout the date, and was ashing his cigarette into the coffee he was actively drinking.

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    #53

    Not a thing but a smell. The place smelled unclean.

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    #54

    I'm a guy, but I had a woman nope out on me when she saw my place because I've collected several animal skulls over the years. She thought it was some voodoo stuff.

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    #55

    Dirtiest house I’d ever been in. Didn’t even want to sit on the couch in case I caught something. I am a neat freak myself so that was the end of that.

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    #56

    The fridge contained only energy drinks, ketchup, and one lonely pickle.

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    #57

    I've run across multiple men who straight up did not own toilet paper. Just various containers of "dude wipes."

    I feel like they should have invested in toilet paper for guests at least!

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    #58

    Bed on the floor in a carpeted room, fine you’re maybe in the midst of getting a bed frame. but right next to the bed, at the top of it where he lay his head every night to go to bed was the cat. litter. box. i could not believe that in his one bedroom apartment he had all to himself he would choose to sleep next to his cat's [litter box].

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    #59

    He had a ring around his bathtub, stains all over his kitchen, and a sink full of dishes. Me, young and stupid, offered to wash the dishes. He then stated he didn’t own dish soap. Very quickly noped out and sent probably one of the meanest breakup texts I’ve ever sent.

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    #60

    Giant Klingon weaponry over the fireplace (a bat’leth) and literally no furniture in the room. He had a huge McMansion but only had a huge couch and tv, a bed, and a treadmill in the basement. He was an OB/gyn and he wore his gore-splattered work tennis shoes in the house and on the couch.

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    #61

    Guy #1: He had mantras pinned up on his wall, but not in a good way. They were like power, wealth, success, control, domination.

    Guy #2: went into the bathroom while his female roommate showered in there. It was totally casual, like they always did it.

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    #62

    Disney princess sheets. I wasn’t going to sleep with him but still… they were his sisters and he was too lazy to change them.

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    #63

    Montreal Canadiens merch EVERYWHERE.

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    #64

    The bottom of his bare feet were black from walking around his house. 1 single flat pillow on the bed with no sheets.

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    #65

    At the foot of his bed he had a folded throw blanket. Underneath was a blood stain on the comforter that resembled a period stain, which he was obviously trying to conceal with the throw 🚩. He said it was from his ex, that he tried to wash it but the stain wouldn’t come out. I called [nonsense] as the stain didn’t look faded or semi-washed out. He kept insisting and apologized that I had to see that.

    He finally washed said comforter a few months later 🚩, and would you know that the stain miraculously washed right out! I realized years later that this was just one of many red flags about this guy. Love is blind and I ended up marrying this lying slob. I could write a book detailing how bad his hygiene was. After three years of marriage, I had had enough of his careless and gross ways. In retrospect, I probably thought he would change once we started living together. I was sorely mistaken. Lesson learned!

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    Rathoren
    Community Member
    1 hour ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry but no sympathy for those type of women who marry these man pigs 🙄

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    #66

    He had no personal items of any kind anywhere in the house. No books, photos, momentos, decor; not even just general belongings, things for hobbies, etc; nothing. A few pieces of furniture only. The only single thing in his house that was not furniture (bed, table, and chair) was one piece of art hanging above his bed- that I made, that he’d bought from me at an artist market years ago when we didn’t know each other. this was after one date. I ended things shortly thereafter. He had described himself as a minimalist but this was just too much for me.

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    #67

    A fork in the bathroom.

    Why the hell is there a fork in bathroom.

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    #68

    There was water all over his dining room floor. I said “oh! I think you have a leak or something!” He just casually said “oh, no, I just dropped my cup a few days ago and haven’t cleaned it up”.

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    #69

    Hoarder house. Stacks of newspapers lining the hallway, etc. I don’t know if it was him, or his dad, or both of them, but I was done after that.

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    #70

    No real furniture, just an old recliner and an office chair in the living room, looks like it had never been dusted or swept, and the worst part: a bullet hole in the floor.

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    #71

    Swords EVERYWHERE. A few in a collection…fine. This was excessive.

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    #72

    Years ago my best friend and I dated two guys who were also best friends. They invited us over to their place for the first time. We discovered they rented a room in a house from somebody. The room was tiny and they shared a single queen sized bed. We all sat on the bed and watched a movie. The best part is the guy I was dating was like 6’5. My friend and I were so weirded out that we ended things shortly after.

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    #73

    Not first time at his house but rather something I noticed right after we moved in together, hope that’s okay.

    I was in the bathroom with the door open, fixing my hair in the mirror. He asked if he could pee while I was still in there, nbd.

    He didn’t raise the seat and when he was done peeing, he stood on one leg and took his socked foot and ran it along the seat to soak up the drops he left. He then proceeded to leave the bathroom, walking his p**s-sock-ed foot all over the carpet.

    A little while later, he put his shoes on over his p**s-sock and asked if I was ready to go.

    I obviously informed him that was not normal or sanitary behavior for an adult. I made him have the carpets professionally cleaned and told him p**s-socks were a hard boundary for me so if he wanted to keep doing it, I’d find somewhere else to live. He was a paramedic too! Ick!

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    #74

    Omg! The comments are k*****g me, lmao!🤣 I’m gonna clean my toilet bowl, the tub, change my sheets, shower, and go to bed, lol!

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    #75

    A mattress without sheets. I don't even care how nice the rest of the place is, a bare mattress is an instant "I'm heading home.".

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    #76

    Have had several women ask me if I was a serial killer because my bed was made neatly and my house was very well kept. My response was usually “no you fit the MO the police have created you’d give me away”.

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    #77

    Another girl’s necklace on his nightstand.

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    #78

    I was dating a guy and we had never spent the night at each others homes. It was all hotel s*x for the first month. I was in my late 40s, he was early 50s. When we decided to commit to dating each other, we decided on his place — it was super cute from the outside. I live in San Jose, CA, close to the Milpitas border. On certain days when the breeze is right you can smell Alviso, the garbage dump.

    Anyway, I thought I was smelling Alviso as I was approaching his front door. As he opened it, I noticed his beige rug just as a swarm of chihuahuas came, yapping and barking. Then I saw a chihuahua just pee on the carpet while another was squatting to do a #2. Then as I got closer, I noticed that it wasn’t carpet on the floor.

    It was cardboard. It seems he would just cover the floor with cardboard when the dogs would urinate and defecate on it. I got to about 10 to 15 feet from the door. As he was telling me to come in, I went, “Oh my God I forgot your present in the car. Let me go back and get it.”

    I calmly walked back to my car, jumped in, and drove off. I blocked him on everything. Later on, I creeped on his profile from a friend…and I was so annoyed w myself because allllll the messy, poopy, pissy signs were there in the background of his pictures. I just never looked at the background because I had been too focused on him. 🤦🏽‍♀️.

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    #79

    Skid marks on his kid's toilet seat. He wouldn't allow me into the master bathroom. I ended up using the bathroom at a McDonald's. He also loaned me a completely filthy crock pot that my neighbor saw on my kitchen counter and she grabbed it and cleaned it up for me. I broke up with him shortly, thereafter.

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    #80

    His toilet looked like it had never been cleaned once since he moved in. He had two young kids btw.

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    #81

    Guy here. I’m answering because I don’t think the s*x/gender matters on this post.

    Walked into her apartment and EVERY SINGLE TRASH CAN was overflowing. In her bathroom, the trash can was full. The box next to it was full. There was more trash beside the box.

    Her shower was covered in pink slime. Very likely a bacteria that’s pink.

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    #82

    Used c****m sitting on the kitchen counter.

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    #83

    Pubes and body hair all over the bathroom floor. He was a hairy dude but it was just gross. Like clean it up, don’t just leave it there.

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    #84

    Not someone I was seeing, but a friends bf. He had written messages in blood on the walls of his apartment 🫣.

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    #85

    Dog p**s and s**t on the floor. Treats pets like s**t. every surface in kitchen covered with bug infested dirty dishes. bathroom so disgusting I didn’t feel comfortable using it. No tp, no hand soap. Any one of these is enough for a a nope. Sadly I have seen all of these at once in one place. Dating in your early 20’s is hard but you quickly learn what you will and will not tolerate.

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    #86

    No sheets.

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    #87

    A homemade sandbox about the size of a queen bed in his living room for his giant dog to s**t and p**s in during the day.

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    #88

    Electric toothbrush abandoned on the living room carpet of his apartment.

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    #89

    No bedsheets.

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    #90

    No hand soap in the bathroom. Yuck 🤢.

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    #91

    Used Bandaids left in his uncleaned shower 🤮.

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    #92

    I went to pee in his toilet (only person who lived there) and there was a massive diarrhea t**d. Hard. F*****g. Pass.

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    #93

    Holes in the wall.

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    #94

    Not a date, but when I was living in Hell’s Kitchen in the late ‘80s, I came home one day and the building super was messing with the door of the apartment next to mine. “You want to see what you’ve been living next to?”

    Now, I’d seen the neighbor, having been in the building for more than a year. Nice guy, tall and stout; he ran his own tour company with a classic car and used to wear an old-fashioned chauffeur’s uniform.

    It turned out he was a hoarder, but at least a very tidy one. When the super opened the door, the whole place—a good-sized studio—was filled to the ceiling with stuff, mostly paper, neatly piled. There were newspapers, magazines, flyers, pizza boxes (meticulously cleaned), all kinds of stuff. The super, I guess through the local grapevine, later found out he did this sequentially—take an apartment and stay in it till it was full. By the end, before he left, it had gotten to the point where he could no longer access the bathroom (and could otherwise only really stand next to the door or sit on one of the lowest piles), and I guess that’s when he moved on.

    I worked at Lincoln Center, and I saw him a few more times—still perfectly turned out in his uniform, showing the place off to tourists.

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    #95

    He left his d***o out.

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    #96

    Yeah well if your house is neat and clean, dishes put away etc and you’re obviously not gay (because you’re at my place and we’ve been getting warmed up on the way)?
    “You’re married, aren’t you.”.

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    #97

    He told me he could cook, tried to make spaghetti, burnt it, put sauce on it anyway and tried to feed me the burnt spaghetti clump.

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    #98

    I'm reading these comments and thinking "yeah it's gross. Is this a testament to men being dirty or men being extremely lonely and depressed".

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    #99

    Was told I'm a red flag due to how clean my place was and how organized my bathroom was. Oddly ocd if I remember carectly. Like should I live in a mess so ypu feel comfortable?

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    #100

    American Psycho DVD sitting on the hall table when I walked in. I married him though. I’m not great with instincts.

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    #101

    One guy slept on a sofa pull out in the dinning room of his step brothers house. It wasn’t used as a dinning room since everyone ate in front of the tv. He was truly trying to get back in his feet.

    A college guy who thought we were going to do something…..went to his dorm, saw he spit his chew spit directly on the bed bc he slept with it in his mouth. Found out later, that he hooked up with my roommate at the same time he was trying to hook up with me. He said “wait….you know each other??!!” She did confirm that yes, steroids shrunk his junk as rumored and I wasn’t missing out on anything.

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    #102

    I love how roughly 90% of these comments are women saying how disgusting the homes are of the men they go home with, while about 10% of these are from men who've had women leave because their homes were too clean.

    Not sure what to make of that, but it's definitely interesting.

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    #103

    Smelled like a giant cat box, but they had no pets....

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    #104

    We were carpooling to go to an event in Montréal a while ago. We were a bunch of friends from the geek/nerd/computer club in college, and I happened to be the only girl from the club doing the trip. I don't remember which event that was, but I remember the women's bathroom was just so filthy that I just couldn't bring myself to do my business in there, so we left the event at the end, but seriously, I was just ready to burst.

    Not a big problem though, because three guys we all know own an apartment not too far away, and their door is always open, so we'll just drop by, say hi, shoot the s**t a bit, and then leave, right? Right?

    There was not a single square of toilet paper anywhere in the apartment. No paper towels, no Kleenex, nothing. They didn't have a proper towel either for drying your hands if you have the strange notion of wanting to clean them afterwards.

    I was so taken aback by this. I mean, come on! I understood then why the three of them were single.

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    #105

    A whole team of 8 of us flew to a town for a work thing and on Friday 2 dudes sharing a hotel room invited the lot of us over for beers. After taking a p**s I discovered they didn't open their bar soap or have an alternative at the sink in the washroom. I had to open the provided one that was chillin on the counter unopened since they checked in. Dudes touch their d**k n s**t on the daily without washing their grabbies. F*****g rank.

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    #106

    Ghost!

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    #107

    Went over for drinks and entered a very dirty dual-bachelor pad full of dirty bongs and general filth. That was bad enough but the funny part was the couch. A 3 seater with the middle seat completely missing and destroyed with a big hole that was kind of burnt looking? We were sitting on opposite sides of the couch watching tv and he went to "make his move" by ever so slowly getting closer to me which required him to slowly lie on his side across the giant hole in the couch until he was almost touching me with the top of his head. It was hilarious in hindsight.

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    #108

    A p***s pump, right on top of his dresser.

    Also no AC in the house and it was peak summer in Chicagoland. So incredibly uncomfortable.

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    #109

    I've had dates question if I was gay because:

    - No straight man uses a loofah/ bidet/ moisturizer/ has a face routine (well s**t, hands off my hyaluronic then. The sun is a deadly lazer and I dont want cancer)

    - You must be gay because only gay men can cook edible food (its just lasagna, not beef wellington) and the same girl...

    - Only gay men bake (f**k you I like sugar and baking is literally simple chemistry)

    - Who else would keep feminine products in their guest bathroom? (this one actually left, I was raised by women so I sympathize and keep battle rags/ war sponges on hand)

    - You use weird words and gays are, like, all cultured. (todays ick is the word "cathartic").

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    #110

    Completely empty flat no furniture and he was burning newspaper on the floor for heat.

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    #111

    I walked in and the place was filthy like hoarder filthy and reeked of weed. His bed didnt have sheets and he just threw on a blanket ans was like we can just sleep here.....uh no we cannot. He had ONE towel. One. I was like.. ..yeahhhh Im going home.

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    #112

    What I gather from this thread is that if we men are clean, it's creepy. If we are messy, it's creepy.

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