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House made of sweets and gingerbread. Boiling cauldron over chimney fire.

azinize , probablyA_cat/reddit Report

99points

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ucp 1 day ago

Oven large enough to fit two children? GTFO!

39points

NoFunction_ , skytheanimalman/reddit Report

Large political flags on the wall. I don't care what your political affiliations are, if you are that obsessed with it that you feel the need to hang a huge flag in your living room to announce them, that's a no from me.

98points

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago

*Nervously eyes her United Federation Of Planets flag*

67points

I did some real estate photography on a home.

It was a Mass State Trooper. It was disturbing: A nice neighborhood, a nice home, clean and well maintained. Kids and wife photos decorating the walls and end tables. But I started noticing holes punched into walls (some of them plastered and repaired, some of them "fresh". Doors that had been splintered at the bottom from being kicked in. A couple doors that had padlocks on them that had been ripped out. There were just signs of rage everywhere I looked. It was disturbing and I felt bad for the family.

parkerjh , Lujia Zhang/unsplash Report

92points

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Schmebulock 18 hours ago

They need way better screening and treatment of police for mental health issues.

40points

Myctic_Darling , Daiga Ellaby/unsplash Report

No hand soap in the bathroom.

89points

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ucp 1 day ago

Or an absence of hand towels.

23points

When their pets water bowls are empty. Monsters.

LoJellythings , tps12/flickr Report

86points

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Shannimal 19 hours ago

Gah. Remi drinks her bowl down and doesn't let me know, so it might be dry for a bit until I notice. She also isn't running any marathons, so she's fine.

26points

slightlydramatic , Daiga Ellaby/unsplash Report

I change the bathroom towels in our guest bathroom every Friday. One Friday I told my son to go wipe up the urine he left on the seat & floor and then watched this imposter of my DNA, wipe the urine with a hand towel and hang it back up, in front of me. I've never wanted to disown a relative more in my life.

84points

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Debbie 1 day ago

As a parent, this made me smile, not because of what he did ofcourse. But sometimes we forget that we never taught them how to do something. It kinda depends on his age though. At a certain age you could expect them to figure out to use toilet paper for that. But at other ages I am unfortunately not surprised that they do not think about what to use to wipe something up. My kids had the habit of taking a clean dishtowel (theedoek) from the cupboard to clean up spills. Instead of a rag (doekje) or a towel that was in use/more ready for a round of laundry. On one hand, ok, you are cleaning it up, but aaargh!

21points

rusty_trashcan_210 , Gláuber Sampaio/unsplash Report

This extreme beigeness. Especially if there are kids. I saw videos of parents painting colorful toys beige. It's just sad.

84points

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Child of the Stars 1 day ago

I don't understand this at all. It feels so impersonal. I dislike overly matched and perfectly decorated houses too. Being in someone's home should tell you who they are, but an overly-curated home always makes me feel like they're trying to hide themselves.

30points

NaiveOpening7376 , Midnight Believe/flickr Report

Crosses / jesus s**t everywhere.

79points

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Donkey boi 20 hours ago

For clarity, as this one seems to be dividing, I read this as; 'People with a LOT of religious iconography' I don't think they mean just a crucifix or two, but like, a cross in every room, or a shrine type setup.

17points

#10

Dirty litter boxes if they have cats, and I mean filthy.

Ophede , B****Bussy/reddit Report

78points

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The Doom Song 1 day ago

No one wants to walk into a house that stinks of cat poop

13points

notcool_neverwas , Francesca Tosolini/unsplash Report

#11

I don’t know if I’d go as far as “red flag”, but people who have zero books in their home give me pause.

76points

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Alvia Vseobecna 1 day ago

ereader is easily concealable

38points

NeitherWait5587 , Zealousideal_Event45/reddit Report

#12

Really gnarly aquarium. If you’re gonna trap fish in a box for your personal pleasure, keep that s**t pristine.

74points

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Papa 18 hours ago

Pristine aquariums are not healthy environments for the fish. Much of that gunk is bacteria that takes the ammonia secreted by the fish and breaks it down into less toxic substances. One of the biggest mistakes new fish keepers make is to do regular deep cleaning. Regarding the picture here, that's just a buildup of algae on the glass. While it may be unsightly, it is not unhealthy for the fish.

26points

#13

My bicycle that I reported stolen 2 weeks ago. Big Red Flag.

ianmoone1102 Report

74points

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Tesla Sulu 19 hours ago

omg. that happened to me too!

3points

#14

I was looking at an apartment to rent in a very liberal part of the USA. Place was great! I’d have a huge windowed area and lots of nice amenities like a fireplace. I went to the other part of the place where the landlord lived. Above *his* fireplace was a portrait. A portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest. Founder of the KKK. I noped right the f**k out of there.

_CMDR_ Report

68points

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Michael Largey 22 hours ago

Forrest was also a war criminal during the Civil War.

15points

BeNice-ThisTime , Sarah Leo/flickr Report

#15

Trashy neighbor's dog died in a kennel, probably from starvation.

They ignored the body until well after rigor set in, and then they couldn't get it out of the cage because the limbs wouldn't bend. So they just left it in there, in the house, surrounded by piles of garbage

Their 10-year-old eventually asked other neighborhood adults for help because the parents wouldn't do anything about it.

So... dead dog rotting in a cage is my red flag.

60points

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago

OMFG >.< I'd have had the cops, RSPCA, and anyone else I could think of on their fkn doorstep.

44points

CamoWeddingDress , Sandra Seitamaa/unsplash Report

#16

When they let their pets poop and pee in the house. Bonus if they let their kid sleep in a room that is essentially a massive litter box.

59points

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The Doom Song 1 day ago

Oh dear God! No! Just no!

8points

badcatgarfield , jonathan fisher/flickr Report

#17

No sheets on their bed but clearly they sleep on it.

58points

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The Scout 1 day ago

In a pinch, I have sometimes slept in a duvet cover without putting a sheet on. But directly on the mattress would be a big no for me.

13points

#18

When they don't do basic preparation for a preplanned guest coming over. For example, there's no toilet paper, they don't offer you anything to drink, house is really messy.

AriasK , Ivan Radic/flickr Report

53points

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The Doom Song 1 day ago

First thing I do when I know I'm having people over is clean the toilet and make sure there's enough TP

25points

#19

Growing up my mom always told me if I saw a gun in someone's home to politely leave and call her and that she'd pick me up. How to tell in one quick story that someone was raised outside of the United States. I still get a jolt when I see a rifle in someone's house, I understand that there is responsible gun owners but I am not fond of being near weapons even when properly stored.

teachmeyourstory Report

50points

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Fellfromthemoon 1 day ago

If you see it then it's probably not properly stored, in a closed cabinet.

44points

Donald 21 hours ago

I'm fairly comfortable around firearms and if I saw a rifle just propped up in the corner of someone's living room I'd be unsettled. You are a 100% right, they need to be stored away preferably in a gun safe. The only exception would be one kept in your bedside table for ease of access. No guests should be poking around in there anyway.

4points

BookFanatic 17 hours ago

I grew up with an old rifle mounted high on the wall. A friend's dad was concerned, so my dad took it down and showed him it was unloaded, missing the trigger, and probably older than anyone in the house. Years later I figured out it was a Civil War replica.

3points

Scott Rackley 15 hours ago

I have a sharps rifle on the wall. Is that going to freak you out?

1point

featherytoad 22 hours ago

I remember my dad's long guns being stored in the little broom closet in the kitchen, and the shelf was for the liquor.

1point

SDLT010 14 hours ago

Only for actual real guns of course, if it's like an artifact or replica like the one said by @BookFanatic it can be displayed like a prop because it can't be used as an actual weapon.

0points

Riley Quinn 13 hours ago

I was raised on a farm deep in a wooden swamp, so our rifles were loaded and ready for any situation. Very typical on all the farms, and all us kids were taught as toddlers to never go near them. We were all taught how to use firearms by 2nd/3rd grade. There are reasons why some people need to keep guns, and those people shouldn't be lumped in with the irresponsible nitwits who happen to own a gun.

3points

Nikole 7 hours ago (edited)

Completely agree. I never had a need to have a gun, but I was raised by responsible gun owners. There’s actually a really funny picture of little Nikole (still very blond… my hair got a bit darker later) at about 8 years old shooting a 22 at an outdoor range wearing ear mufflers that look huge. Although, I’ve been thinking of getting a FOID card, so my dad will give me one of my old rifles (he won’t before that, because he’s a responsible gun owner… I have asked). Chicago is getting shady.

0points

David 14 hours ago

I find this one an interesting red flag. To me, a gun is not at all a red flag. I grew up on a farm in a rural community. Rifle in the milk house and another in the mud room of the house. Just used rarely to scare off the odd coyote that might be bothering the cows. My step dad had a long neck 12 gauge he rarely went pheasant hunting with - used to belong to his dad, who cleared the farm land with draft horses. When I went to high school it was literally no big deal to see a pickup in the parking lot with a gun rack across the back window and a rifle in it. But none of us were shooting people with them.

3points

john doe 15 hours ago

Only crazies leave guns lying around, I own 3 safes for mine, one big safe at home a small one at my hunting cabin and a biometric safe for one handgun under my bed, it's incrediblely unsafe to have unlocked firearms, the fact it's never going to be a law in the US makes me so mad, gun culture used to be hunters and shooting enthusiastists, now it's a cesspool of deranged low lifes over compensating for their terrible lives, you can't even go into a gun store now a days, trump stuff everywhere and idiots thinking they are super cool for buying a weapon that have no idea how to use or store safely.

3points

CP 1 hour ago (edited)

I think you are the actual crazy one because it feels as if most gun owners in the USA don't take gun ownership as seriously as you do. You don't need to pass any competency test to buy a gun in my state.

0points

CP 18 hours ago

In my anecdotal experience growing up around guns, there are less responsible gun owners than people that don't take them seriously, they just get lucky nothing bad happens.

3points

Katherine Richardson 12 hours ago

they won't do you any good if you can't easily access them in an emergency that being said any that we aren't carrying or keeping track of are stored in a safe

2points

Jonathan Gerow Premium 12 hours ago

I have guns. You’ll never know that I have them. Sorry if that sounds ominous just making a point of I would never leave them just laying around in the open. Idiotic gun ownership.

1point

Millie Brown 14 hours ago

What about if it's in a locked safe in a closet/cabinet that you don't see?

1point

Sven Grammersdorf 14 hours ago (edited)

I keep a rifle propped up against the wall in my living room next to the couch in case of intruders. There are no minor children in my home.

0points

deletemyaccount 15 hours ago

I'm a gun owner and I wouldn't be comfortable in a house that doesn't store their guns properly.

0points

Upstaged75 20 hours ago

I'm American and don't know anyone who keeps guns in their house. And I'd leave too if they did! (Well, I had one friend whose dad was an FBI agent. But he was either wearing the gun or it was in a safe) I hate when people outside the US assume that everywhere in the country is the Wild West.

0points

BarfyCat 16 hours ago

I'm sure it varies according to where you live. Where I live it's unavoidable.

0points

dewdropcat , albertpullinger/reddit Report

#20

Live laugh love.

49points

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ucp 1 day ago

More writing on the walls than in books? Massive red flag.

19points

#21

Dish rack was in the sink and had black mold on it, they put clean dishes on it to dry i was horrified they also just put water in the baby bottles and let them soak and used them. Never actually washing the bottles HORRIFIED.

sorrytooffnd , Simon Job/flickr Report

48points

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Lyoness 17 hours ago

That's frightening, especially for the baby. I really, really hope OP was able to say something.

7points

FatFuckinPieceOfShit , Victoria Romulo/unsplash Report

#22

A collection of young women's ID cards.

46points

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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 1 day ago

O_o

18points

Hangrycouchpotato , Getty Images/unsplash Report

#23

When they use the sofa as a changing table with no blanket or anything on it. I went to someone's house and the kid had a blow out. The mom just put the baby with poopy diaper on the sofa to change her and looked at me when my jaw hit the floor and said "What's the big deal? It's just poop!" I never went there again.

It also explains why they purchased a brown sofa. 🤢.

45points

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HF 1 day ago

maybe the sofa was white when they bought it?

26points

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#24

We were looking at a litter of German Shepherd puppies. Very large house, lots of land. Looked rather posh.

The mum and pups were in the kitchen. Dog poo, puddles of urine everywhere.

I managed to step in 💩

Owner said ‘oh sorry! Give me your boot and I’ll clean it’.

I assumed she had an outside tap? Oh no…she took it to the kitchen sink and washed it there.

We declined a cup of tea.

GingerbreadMary Report

45points

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Will Cable 1 day ago

Well that put me off my dinner

9points

#25

Books on Dianetics

My phone kept changing that to diabetics.

eatmeat2016 Report

43points

POST

Ellie Vanille 23 hours ago

Agreed. Scientology is no joke.

8points

RosyRiddle86 , Steven Ungermann/unsplash Report

#26

One major red flag is if their home feels too sterile or empty—like they don’t actually live there. Also, lots of signs of anger, like holes in the walls, can be concerning!

38points

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Jay Scales 22 hours ago

Homes that are SO tidy & sterile that I feel I'm making a mess just by breathing!

10points

Woman Put A Water Fountain With A Camera In Her Yard, Here Are 24 Photos Of Regular Visitors (New Pics)

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#27

They had only one kitchen cloth. Just that ONE. Used for wiping hands, wiping the counter, wiping the dishes, and wiping the microwave/stove after cooking.

Successful_Ranger_19 , Faruk Tokluoğlu/unsplash Report

38points

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Bat cat in a hat 1 day ago

I still have to colour code the kitchen cloths or my partner would use the same one for drying hands and face, the dishes, wiping floors, cleaning the cat litter box, alternative currency and summoning spirits

12points

#28

Roaches and people who smoke cigarettes inside. Heretics.

No_buddy_cares Report

37points

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The Scout 1 day ago

Only topped by roaches who smoke cigarettes inside...

28points

#29

There was a guy who posted on r/malelivingspace who has 3 ‘obey’ prints above his bed.

lizabeth478 , highlife_/reddit Report

34points

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Ava Lemar 1 day ago

Well, at least you know what you are in for early on in the relationship.

14points

#30

A thousand bottles of baby oil.

TrionCube Report

34points

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Ava Lemar 1 day ago

Looks like someone went to an R Kelly or P Diddy soiree

11points

Minute_Marzipan4597 , Christian Lue/unsplash Report

#31

Cr*ck pipe, cats but no litter box, liquor bottles are the only decoration you can find, barely any furniture.

33points

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Schmebulock 18 hours ago

Stay out of crack shacks - problem solved.

10points

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#32

A dog with a shock collar.

Razorback_Ryan Report

29points

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Schmebulock 18 hours ago

Those should only be used on kids!

26points

Ill-Profession8600 , Shonduras/youtube Report

#33

No furniture, black garbage bags as window curtains, and a box spring with no sheets just a dirty blanket..

28points

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Kylie 1 day ago

Was it a crack house?

19points

#34

Carpet in the bathroom..

DrunkRespondent Report

28points

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Lyoness 17 hours ago

Unfortunately this is a thing in some older houses and the people living there either can't afford or don't know how to remove it. Agreed it's gross but I don't know I'd call it a red flag. Just MO.

9points

buoyant_nomad , Domas Mituzas/flickr Report

#35

Roaches. My in laws place is full of roaches and they act like it's no big deal.

26points

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JD 18 hours ago

It depends. You can do everything right and still have roaches. Especially if you live in an apartment building or close to others with a roach infestation. My dorm in college had roaches the second semester because they were building a sports complex 30 feet away. All the roaches living in the field came to the dorms.

12points

ABluntForcedDisTrama , slothliketendencies/reddit Report

#36

One of my best friends from middle school invited me to spend the night one weekend and their house was so unbelievably *nasty*. It was more than just trash and dirty clothes all over the place. My friend’s older sister had a baby and they even had dirty diapers and food scraps throughout their apartment. Aside from some odd behavior from their mom who was gone pretty much the whole time we were there. We went swimming in their apartment pool that same weekend and my friend told me that her mom actually had a d**g problem and she sometimes just wouldn’t see her for days at a time. So now I think any unusual amount of trash could indicate a serious issue someone there must really be going through something in order for their house to be looking like *that*.

24points

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Debbie 1 day ago

I think that is a correct assumption.

8points

Woman Moves Out Of Parents' Home After They Asked Her To Give Her Space To Brother, They Freak Out

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#37

Hoarders.

Strange-Catch6862 Report

24points

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CP 18 hours ago

That is a mental disorder. In reality every one of these problems in this list is mental.

9points

#38

Bare mattress on the floor. No duvet cover or pillow cases. Crusty hand towels that haven’t been changed in days or weeks.

TartGoji Report

24points

POST

"Disembodied voice" 19 hours ago

Duvet cover is too much of a pain, I have a sheet between me and the blanket anyway

4points

#39

Toilet paper roll facing in the wrong direction.

txlady100 Report

23points

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Upstaged75 20 hours ago

Any time my dad argues that there is no "right" way to hang toilet paper I show him a picture of the original patent for it. He's a patent attorney. :)

17points

#40

Crushed prescription pills lying all over the living room coffee table.

Slingblade1170 Report

21points

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Schmebulock 18 hours ago

Why are so many of these people hanging out in crack houses?

33points

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What do you think ?

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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 day ago

Some on this list are just really funny but some are just really snobby. No evidence of hobbies or books! That's not a red flag some people don't like reading and don't have hobbies.

16points

Donald 21 hours ago

I'm dyslexic, the books are just a decoration lol. I don't feel like struggling for a week to finish a few chapters, audiobooks all day.

2points

Novel Idesa 23 hours ago (edited)

This! And the ones that are decor related. Beige furniture and Live Laugh Love signs don't belong on a list that includes crack pipes and child neglect. It's just judgey. I think people have forgotten what a red flag is ...

2points

Happy_Pandalover 15 hours ago (edited)

Agreed. Also i actually own many books, but they are not openly visible.

0points

The Doom Song 1 day ago

For me it's a dirty kitchen. I can't deal with it. I'm talking like piles of dirty dishes in the sink, food scraps, nothing has been wiped down. Even down to the cloth used.

11points

All profits to charity 1 day ago

Don’t judge the bath towels! I don’t know where my kids haul them off to but I’m TRYINg!!! 😩

8points

deletemyaccount 15 hours ago

I guess being in object poverty is a red flag now.

4points

Mike F 12 hours ago

To some folks apparently it is.

0points

UncleJohn3000 19 hours ago

A lot of these look like depression.

4points

Marissa Voleta 18 hours ago

This is on the more superficial side, but I don't enjoy going to people's homes when they don't know how to use chill, entertainment lighting...like no warm lamps or even some candles or string lights. They just have on all the overheads with bright/flourescent lights...AND when it's cold in their house. Both of those things don't make me feel comfy or welcome..it makes me feel like I'm in my office, where I spend 40 hrs a week already. How bout no music?! Like how do you entertain and it's cold, brightly lit, and nothing in the background?

3points

Linda Lee 8 hours ago

Thank you for sharing your point of view. I needed to read it.

0points

talliloo 10 hours ago

nice guy lived in the building that i was in. eventually, he asked me to come by for dinner. so, sure - why not? knocked on his door and when he opened it the first thing i saw was that pretty much every place on the walls were cut outs of women from men's magazines. i mean they were everywhere. so, i quickly came up with an excuse as to why i couldn't stay for dinner and left. it was just so creepy. he still asked me over a few more times until i told him that i had entered into a relationship with someone and i was very happy with the situation. the new love of my life: a doberman puppy.

2points

T'Mar of Vulcan 1 day ago

Went to visit some family friends who live in England. Their entire house was covered in stuff. All over every table, counter, seat, couch. They had two young kids who had to snake their way through a tiny path in the back yard because the grass was taller than they were. It's not that the house was dirty, there was just stuff everywhere. When we ate supper, I couldn't even fit my plate on the table because of everything piled up. Friend moved the stuff when he saw I didn't have space. But who doesn't neaten up their house for guests?

2points

Hassel Davidhoff 15 hours ago

Hoarder by the sounds of it.

1point

Daya Meyer 1 day ago

After reading this, I am so glad that I've cleaned my bathroom this morning. Including changing the towels and the bathmat like every week.

2points

CP 17 hours ago

I have lived the mattress on the floor with lawn chairs as furniture lifestyle in my early 20s, nothing wrong with that. You still have to be clean though.

1point

Breadcrumb. 9 hours ago

I love a clean house. It's easy to get motivated now if I have a podcast or audio book to listen to awhile I work on it.

0points

Ron Man 10 hours ago

I think a lot of people who posted on here have friends who live in d**g houses

0points

Russell Rieckenberg 16 hours ago

Bagpipes

0points

Kelly Scott 16 hours ago

I can't stand people who can't keep their pets clean. You go over to their house and petting their dogs is like petting a greasy Towel. Plus in those kids of houses, there's pet hair stacked up in the corners of the room and so thick on the furniture you don't want to sit on it.

0points

Binny Tutera 16 hours ago

Went to pick up a coworker and they had an engine block on the floor in the kitchen. AND a hole in the floor big enough to fall into the basement.

0points

Debbie 1 day ago

I commented on these posts way too seriously. Red flags is often a culmination of things. And somethings shouldn't be called red flags if they are THAT obvious or if they're criminal/abuse. Abuse is not a red flag, it's abuse. A red flag to me is an indication of someone possible being bad/not sane. If there is clear evidence... skip the flags and leave.

0points

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EmAdoresHerKats🇮🇪🇩🇿🇵🇸 1 day ago

Some on this list are just really funny but some are just really snobby. No evidence of hobbies or books! That's not a red flag some people don't like reading and don't have hobbies.

16points

Donald 21 hours ago

I'm dyslexic, the books are just a decoration lol. I don't feel like struggling for a week to finish a few chapters, audiobooks all day.

2points

Novel Idesa 23 hours ago (edited)

2points

Happy_Pandalover 15 hours ago (edited)

Agreed. Also i actually own many books, but they are not openly visible.

0points

The Doom Song 1 day ago

For me it's a dirty kitchen. I can't deal with it. I'm talking like piles of dirty dishes in the sink, food scraps, nothing has been wiped down. Even down to the cloth used.

11points

All profits to charity 1 day ago

Don’t judge the bath towels! I don’t know where my kids haul them off to but I’m TRYINg!!! 😩

8points

deletemyaccount 15 hours ago

I guess being in object poverty is a red flag now.

4points

Mike F 12 hours ago

To some folks apparently it is.

0points

UncleJohn3000 19 hours ago

A lot of these look like depression.

4points

Marissa Voleta 18 hours ago

3points

Linda Lee 8 hours ago

Thank you for sharing your point of view. I needed to read it.

0points

talliloo 10 hours ago

2points

T'Mar of Vulcan 1 day ago

2points

Hassel Davidhoff 15 hours ago

Hoarder by the sounds of it.

1point