Being nosy - Holiday home owners - do people steal stuff?

[Polkadotpjs]

On the back of the other thread about what people want to see in holiday homes I wondered if half of it is practical or workable. I was thinking about y work where we have a dishwasher that can't be used because if dishwasher tablets are left for it, people steal them ! Ditto spare loo rolls in the cubicles or nice hand soap! I'm not a journalist so don't think that. Just wondered if there's a balance between nice stuff and risking it going walkabout.
We went away last weekend and was pleased to see dishwasher tablets and laundry liquid but then disappointed there was no foil ! I'd have taken some and left it if there if I'd thought

But why weren't the previously purchased stick blenders still there? Were the owners binning them every time you left?

I would NEVER no!
I don’t understand anyone who can afford a holiday then stealing a toilet roll or £3 box of dishwasher tablets!!

I would deduct from deposit! Disgraceful

Or more to the point, why did they keep leaving them in the holiday cottage?

I thought that too… take it home and bring it back next time. Odd to keep replacing it.

Deduct a toilet roll? 😂

Not me personally but I read a post by a member of staff on a Center Parcs group that people regularly steal the mattresses. If you’ve ever been to Center Parcs you’ll know that no lodge is secluded enough to not notice a mattress being removed. How do you get past security with a mattress strapped to the car roof 🤣

Yes and then denied taking of I got police to check it but they didn’t fine it but a neighbour seen them loading it into a van as well I am hoping karma will work and the fridge doesn’t work anymore

It depends on the way you have been brought up with your parents and those that surround you peers etc, sorry its true. I stopped my hubby many years ago packing a small kitchen item a potato peeler as he like the easy way it cut. From that moment on he told the children the same, items left behind by friends were put on the hall table to be returned, books borrowed were never put on the bookshelf but by the bed then on the hall table. It does not matter if you have loads of money or not, those with more money I find will feel entitled to pick up "after all its only ...pennies'. It does not matter the value of the item its yourself. There is I was told 7 stages of a Child'd life and few apparently reach the 7th stage. It does not matter if you are being watched or not its you must monitor yourself! After all stealing is stealing.

There is I was told 7 stages of a Child'd life and few apparently reach the 7th stage.

What's this part of your post about? It seems totally random plonked in there.

I have never been in an air BNB just the usual ones but am shocked at the amount of damage never mind the theft! I am absolutely cack handed but managed not to rip things off the wall/smash crockery (I do it at home!!) and don't steal anything. Apart from being morally wrong, I wouldn't have room for any more shit!

I once watched a programme about a hotel and a woman was happily combing nits out of her kids hair and wiping it on the bed cover!!!!

It is annoying when the owners are mean with supplies. I love to cook and we need more than the three dishwasher tablets one expensive cottage provided us for a week. I also want control of the heat and a not terribly bare kitchen. When owners are mingy we simply never go back

OTOH we never steal. We’ve broken one glass in many trips. I’ve left books and I admit I regard paperbacks as a kind of library so I would probably feel free to take away something I was reading, although I would be sure to leave a trade. I do take away partially used travel size toiletries.

Stealing is dead wrong but I din’t see it as an excuse for owners to be mingy with the rest of us, especially those who are doing well.

My DS stole the teddy bear from his bed. He got extremely fond of it so smuggled it home. I figured it probably happened a lot and it was the sort you get in a charity shop for 50p so I didn't say anything.

You’re a thief and you’ve taught your child it is ok to take other people’s things.

Somebody call the police, we have a confession.

all you needed to do was ask the owner if you could buy it from them, or where they got it so you could get one, or else just tell your child; 'No. It's not yours'.

Thsi thread has completely astounded me.

My DS got into a whole lot of trouble over it, I can assure you. It wasn't found at home until about six months later otherwise I would've contacted the lettings agency and mentioned it. And yes, I do feel bad it happened. I'm not convinced I didn't actually mention it to them and they told me not to worry because I would have posted it back otherwise.

My child was a regular shoplifter when small so trust me, I got very good at returning things and apologizing. Usually the items were in the nappy or in the pushchair and I did do my utmost to check as much as possible.

Odd that people aren't condemning spoons and potato mashers but have issue with a small child and a bear...

This is partly what I mean when I mentioned some guests having a sense of entitlement.

’I’ve paid to stay here, the teddy was a cheap one and my kid wanted it so I took it.’

Odd that people aren't condemning spoons and potato mashers but have issue with a small child and a bear...

Nope, stealing spoons and potato mashers is twattish behaviour too. I’ve already listed a whole load of ‘small things’ that were stolen from my house, I didn’t realise those who stole stuff wanted those who have been stolen from to list every last bit of stolen property before it is validated as antisocial behaviour. The fact that you dismissed it as being only worth 50p and replaceable from a charity shop is you minimising the event. It’s only when you’ve been called out on it and the poor example you’ve set to your child that you’ve drip-fed a tale of you only realising months later.

My child once took a bear from a guest house. I contacted to pay for it. It wasn't expensive just vintage looking.

Because we were travelling on our bikes and I wanted the space in my luggage to take all my purchases home! I never did get round to asking the owners if a) they binned them b) other guests took them home or c) they broke quickly because we only bought the Tesco budget version.

@:pollymere · Today 12:55

I think if a teddy bear is provided then it's provided with the idea there's a very fair chance that the child will be taking it home. I expect they wash those that aren't taken and pop them back in but nobody is going to want their child to be cuddling a teddy that some other child has been snuggling up in bed with, especially post Covid, and so would presume it had been left as a gift for the child, like part of the welcome hamper.

I'll 'fess up and say I've taken the odd paperback book, but from the sort of holiday reading shelf where it was very obvious that it had been filled by a number of different holidaymakers, leaving their own unwanted books at the end of a stay. Many bookshelves in holiday rentals are like this, and sometimes I'll leave a paperback myself. I've also taken a pair of shorts (not new, obviously) that were down the side of DS's bed and fitted him so well I assumed they were his in the first place! They'd been missed by the cleaners and were pretty old. He still wears them.

Taking dishwashing tablets, handwash etc is just petty and tight. Mind you, we were in a fairly low-rent static home on the IoW recently and there was no sodding soap by either of the sinks, to wash hands!! I mentioned it to the owner, said I thought that was a bit of a minimum requirement (you want your guests to wash their hands after they've used the loo, right?) and she said, oh I used to put out bottles of hand wash but they always got nicked at the end, same with washing up liquid (there was a scant inch in the bottle she'd left us). I did suggest she spend a couple of quid on Amazon and buy a box of tiny hotel hand soaps...

My mother, on the other hand, is VERY passive-aggressive when she's stayed in AirB&Bs, holiday cottages etc, and will go shopping (usually charity shop, might be an inexpensive shop selling all sorts) to 'furnish' the kitchen with things she thinks it needs!! Perhaps there might not be a vegetable peeler or a properly sharp knife? No matter - she will go and buy one and leave it there. She has been known to buy second hand oven trays and a pan in the right size from a local charity shop and leave them there if she judges the kitchen appointments to be inadequate to her needs. It must have driven lots of landlords bonkers, being left with tat!

If I left a Teddy it would be for the child to keep. I would be very annoyed if people took any of our books though. As I said a long way up, we don't experience thieving

This is one of the more mental things I’ve seen on holiday let threads.

Your mother actually spends money to equip someone else’s property and thinks she’s getting one over on them?

I mean, it’s not unheard of for people to leave stuff behind, the places I look after have gained a few random items, but it’s quite another thing to smugly go out and buy an oven tray while thinking ‘that’ll learn them!’

Bonkers.