What's your normal house load...

[Business_Casual]

and an Aussie

Are Australians not human?

M_P

[mattjmcd]

Are Australians not human?

M_P

Nope. Not this one, at any rate! (he's a dog, yo?)

[Submariner]

We have two adults (aged 55), 24-, 19-, 17- and 13-year-old daughters and 22-, 15, and 11-year-old sons. Home based business. Five BR/1 Bath old farm house.

It's like living on a submarine.

NO ONE who visits would dream of staying with us.

[Boris]

We have two adults (aged 55), 24-, 19-, 17- and 13-year-old daughters and 22-, 15, and 11-year-old sons. Home based business. Five BR/1 Bath old farm house.

It's like living on a submarine.

NO ONE who visits would dream of staying with us.

Geez. The opening scene from Caddyshack comes to mind. . . .

Feel better now, Rob? At least your increased chaos is only temporary. Ha ha.

[MSP "Sarge"]

5 bedrooms and 3 baths . Me the wife and 4 boys 8-11-17-21. Oh yea 1 cat and a lab. Luckily the house is big but it's full. Lots of football wrestling and ass kick'n in the living room, Drives the wife crazy.

[Surf]

2 kids is all I can handle. Love em to death and I wouldn't trade either for any amount of money, but I wouldn't give .10 cents for two more just like em.

I designed and built / building a rather large home in a single story configuration so that the master bedroom / bath is on the total opposite end of the home from the family room and the kids bedrooms. We also have 4 bathrooms so I don't have issues there either. The "man cave" is not finished yet, but if I really get irritated I retreat to the garage, which is what I designed the home around anyway.

[Macx]

2 bedroom/ 1 bath, urban condo. Normally houses this happy couple of whom I am one & our two kids. + one cat . . . Submariner, it is like what you describe

NO ONE who visits would dream of staying with us.

but on a smaller scale. . . think mini-sub (just as cramped & lacking privacy but with fewer people to talk to) can't fart without the whole house hearing, makes diner parties fun

My father is cool, my mother is crazy . . . he is welcome to visit by himself and sleep on our couch. My mother is not welcome without my father & as a couple they have to go to a hotel. My wife's parents are co-dependant in the creepy, text book sense & consequently must get a hotel . . . though the mother-in-law would be welcome to our couch if she could get my father-in-law capable of keeping himself in coldcut sandwiches long enough for her to come alone. My father-in-law has the self care skills of my daughter (2 years 2 months) though he isn't "disabled" in any typical fashion. My wife gets along great with her father-in-law & he is the only one who has actually stayed with us.

For Christmas my folks came up the 22nd - 25th and hers came up the 24th - 27th . .. two days of overlap, but everybody was sleeping elsewhere. Many meals were here & yup, I am still catching up on dishes. Soon as I get the dishes caught up, I am off to the woods for some frozen solitude.

[rob_s]

We have two adults (aged 55), 24-, 19-, 17- and 13-year-old daughters and 22-, 15, and 11-year-old sons. Home based business. Five BR/1 Bath old farm house.

It's like living on a submarine.

NO ONE who visits would dream of staying with us.

I know that at least part of that will not happen to me. I've told the woman that when the boy is 19 either he leaves or I do.

[rob_s]

Since I own my own business and work from home I used to get that reaction until I level set everyone. They were informed that just because they are on vacation does not mean that I am. I have no problem hosting them, but If they want to be able to return here again, instead of seeing us in a cardboard box, that they better cut me some slack and adjust their expectations. They will get my attention as host as soon as I take care of business. In the mean time they will have to make do with my wife and fend for themselves when it comes to the kids.

Ugh, don't get me started. The inlaws only cry about me ignoring them because it's one more thing to cry about, not because they want to spend time with me. But the woman sat down to pay bills the other day and the sister pouted and made a big scene about "you can pay bills any time, I'm only here for two weeks".

It is a miracle that the woman turned out OK. She's the youngest of four, and most times it feels like the other two siblings are here as well because they evidently can't wipe their own ass without calling the mother to talk about it. These siblings are both over 50, by the way.

I heard the mother ask the woman yesterday if she should plan on staying past the 1st. I don't care if she does or not, one of us is leaving on that day.

[Artos]

It is a miracle that the woman turned out OK.

I hear ya.....i swear my wife was switched at birth when she was born...there's no friggin way she came from the same batch.


man, some you guys are saints.