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What naice things do you make sure are visible to visitors

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Wiggles84 · 06/10/2016 02:51

Most of the time I have detol hand soap in my bathrooms but if I know someone is visiting my home I get out the posh L'Occitane matching soap and moisturiser stuff I recieved for Christmas a few years back. Surely people notice it's always the same amount of fullness each time they visit? Plus who has enough time to moisturise their hands every time they wash them with a toddler in the house. Jesus if Im more than 15 seconds having a wee he'll be banging the door down wanting to come in or he will have jammed quavers in the xbox. There's no time for the luxury of hand moistorusing. Plus it's a bugger keeping a grip on his squirmy hands St the best of times let alone adding lubrication into the mix.

When my guests leave, back it goes under the sink so as not to waste it.

I also like the fruit bowl to be bursting with beautiful fruit. We always have bananas and satsumas but for some reason a pineapple just makes my mundane life feel that little bit more exotic. "Ooh look at wiggles84 she must peel her pineapple fresh each morning for her delightful childs breakfast". No a quick bit of toast and a banana and we're off to start our days. No one's got time for that surely?

None of us even like pineapple Shock

I know, I know I shouldn't care what people think but what little things do you project to the world so as to not to appear the frazzled dog tired slutten you are?

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RaisingSteam · 08/10/2016 23:35

Pineapple is traditionally a symbol of welcome and hospitality, it's obvious why, now!
"I so appreciate you coming round I've prissed up my lifestyle to enhance your visitor experience"

NorthStarAtMyFeet · 08/10/2016 22:18

When I was living in a student house & knew prospective tenants were due to visit, I'd dress my inflatable alien in my lab coat or put it in the shower or make it look as if it was taking a toy dog for a walk.

Not rtft so it might already have been mentioned - "the occasional garden" by Saki is about exactly this.

FoxSake · 08/10/2016 21:54

I chuckled to myself this morning. I called over to my friends house, good friend the kind that you don't tidy for and whilst I was there drinking coffee she pulled a pineapple out of the fruit bowl, sniffed it and chucked in the recycling. Clearly stunt pineapple.

mimi14 · 08/10/2016 21:46

Nothing here but MIL always bakes a cake if someone is coming over. But it's not for the guests to eat... just to make the house smell nice!

She also bought some lovely mugs from Tesco, but she didn't want guests to know they were from Tesco so she tippexed over the Tesco label on the bottom Grin

ImYourWomanJonSnow · 08/10/2016 21:06

abyssinian they must be easier to sort to put on the shelf but how do you find anything?

TheNoodlesIncident · 08/10/2016 20:25

Is this your gaff OP

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DailyMailFuckRightOff · 08/10/2016 20:20

I ate a pineapple today in celebration of this very thread. Chopped it up and everything.
Fantasising about Aesop soap now.

ChequeOff · 08/10/2016 19:33

(Claudia pulls a pineapple from a carpet bag)

ChequeOff · 08/10/2016 19:32

In a little skit between C & T, just before Will Young's dance.

I think it's def a little nod from the producers to MNetters

TheColonelAdoresPuffins · 08/10/2016 19:30

Which dance was it in or is it part of the general decor Cheque?

cecinestpasunepipe · 08/10/2016 19:28

Yes to stunt carrier bags to make my home look like it's inhabited by someone well- travelled and enigmatic (ie ME!!). I keep carrier bags from foreign countries nonchalantly on display, which have an even higher cachet if they are in a non-Roman alphabet script like Russian or Mandarin. Also like to tickle visitors' curiosity with my prize exhibit, a carrier bag advertising a Private Investigator which I got from a charity shop!

ChequeOff · 08/10/2016 19:26

Stunt pineapple on strictly!!! Grin

BigApple11 · 08/10/2016 19:25

Check out this bookcase (not mine)

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RockinHippy · 08/10/2016 18:34

Abyss your colour co-ordinated books made laugh & then I thought about it & realised that ours are similarly well organised, but each shelving cube has a topic, Art, Fashion, Music, Food, Nature etc & as above, always start with the taller books to the left graduating down in size to the right.

Its how I like them though, not for guests. Thinking on it further, I do, do a lot to display our bits & bobs, but always for me/us, not for guests. Most I might do is light a smelly candle or our wax burners to get rid of stale smells & cooking smells smelly assed cat smells, but I do that without guests too.

Gowgirl · 08/10/2016 17:58

I give you....

.egg bowl arranged by cooker like I bake or make breakfastcheerios all the way here

What naice things do you make sure are visible to visitors
habibihabibi · 08/10/2016 17:47

Might be back in stock by Chrimbo OP and you could put it on your wish list .

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RockinHippy · 08/10/2016 17:43

Do people really do this Shock

IMHO, if its too good for us to use every day, then its too good for guests too!

AbyssinianBanana · 08/10/2016 17:40

Pst, sorting books by colour is so much easier and faster than by subject / author / any other system that requires you to categorise each book. I saw it in a magazine once and packing/unpacking books has never been easier. Best of all, it's a task you can delegate.

AnneGables · 08/10/2016 17:39

I had visitors today, scrubbed the bathroom clean, show towels and soap out, aloe Vera toilet roll etc. Not one of them used the bathroom, gutted. I hate it when it all goes to waste.

They also trod mud all over my sparkling floors Angry.

Natsku · 08/10/2016 17:35

Oh there are photo frames galore on my shelves! And various 'fancy' items like antique candlesticks and oil lamps (nearly all charity shop finds Grin ). Pinecones are an idea though, could get DD to make a naice autumn arrangement in a bowl to put somewhere prominent before we have our housewarming party.

Gowgirl · 08/10/2016 17:33

And add some niace features, silverish framed photos, a souvenir maybe some pinecones/conkers....

MaQueen · 08/10/2016 17:23

That just won't do Natsku you need to get a grip and get your shelves in order, tsk...tsk...tsk...

Natsku · 08/10/2016 17:18

I just put my books in any old order on the bookshelf with the exception that the high brow books are on the top shelf so they are more visible and the Finnish ones are on one end together. Maybe I'll get around to organising them at some point.

NoCapes · 08/10/2016 16:55

Oh my God that bookshelf is like something from a beautiful dream 😍

MaQueen · 08/10/2016 16:51

pretty you're Dad is absolutely right, tallest on the left of the shelf down to the shortest on the right.

And, I speak with authority on this (ex librarian).