What's the weirdest thing a guest in your house has done? (Lighthearted)

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DH had a close childhood friend. They were in their early 20s and friend had come over to hang out (just for the evening not to stay over).

DH was still living with his parents at the time and they were all in the living room chatting when friend randomly gets up and announces "right I'm going for a bath" and just goes off and has a bath in their house.

It's such a small thing but so bizarre. What odd habits have you seen from house guests?

A former friend, who I was beginning to realise had some CF tendencies was having a cuppa at my house when they spotted a box of something that I had been collecting and spent many hours trailing eBay and a whole heap of £ to build said collection. They had a rummage through and then casually announced they would take half of it as they wanted a collection of said items too and I "already had enough". I was gobsmacked but did manage to say no, that wouldn't be happening.

For this and many other similar reasons we are no longer friends.

We have a recycling box and stuff goes in there straight away, I don't pick through the bin for it!

Don't you think it was more likely a sample that she forgot to take with her 😁

This thread has prompted me to get a bathroom bin with a lid for the boys' bathroom, now that DS1 has a GF who visits sometimes. I would have no issue with her wrapping any sanpro and putting in the current bin but she might feel more comfortable if it was lidded.

Thanks, that's helpful!

we've bins everywhere in the house all lidded these days as the small ones that didn’t where a bit crap to be honest.

We have three toilets, one in the loft room two floors up. People put stuff in the bins in each toilet. They don't walk through the house holding stuff - we all use the bins.

I have a bin with a lid and a waste paper basket for recycling stuff in the bathroom. No need to walk through the house with recycling. How hard is it to have 2 receptacles like you would in the kitchen?

Or are people rummaging through their kitchen bins to fish out recyclables as well? Nothing would surprise me anymore about people’s bizarre approaches to waste management.

Huh. I put empty toilet rolls, shampoo containers etc on the side and take them downstairs to the box next time I go. To each her own.

I always have lots of other things to take down, usually laundry. I grab the bin once a week from each toilet and decant everything. I have an adult daughter with special needs who needs a straightforward system she can follow and I find this easiest. She just has to put everything in the bin.

Fair enough.

I live in a first floor maisonette. Put the stuff that needs to go into the recycling bin at top of stairs. Put in the bin when I’m going somewhere or check the post - post box at the ground floor

Love these threads too! I'm reading through it all, half expecting to recognise myself in an odd behaviour though 🤣🤣🤣

I'm the other side of the menopause and I've never flushed a pad. We were always told to wrap them and put in the bathroom bin.

I've been in toilets where pads are left stuck to the floor. Some people are appalled at the thought of dealing with someone else's waste, no one should be made to feel embarrassed for using the bin though. I never had to worry about mine as they were reusable and I had a special bag for them.

This is so Julia Davis in Nighty Night.

That's lovely and considerate and will surely be appreciated by any women using your bathroom 🙂 x

But that’s generally what bin bags are for…….what about toilet roll tubes that have touched unwashed hands? They’re still touching the bin with no bags or his hands when he sorts them? What difference is there? Plus the original comment was based on a girl coming round to see her boyfriend, so she has to then walk through the whole household with a sanitary bag because the bin apparently isn’t meant for waste………why have bins at all? Just make people walk past blokes with bloody pads, fabulous, what a time to be alive……..

Just realised that I thought the second poster who didn't like sanitary products in the bin was the same as the first one, who involved her son and was offended that the towels fell open... I didn't realise they were two separate people. So I apologise for thinking Alice said things that Bolognese said and posting accordingly.

But I absolutely stand by it being totally normal, expected and not at all bad manners (!) to put your wrapped towels and tampons in the bathroom bin!

What?!

This has got to be the most bat shit and potentially damaging post I've read today. It's also nonsense.

@OurDreamLife
Over the past few months I’ve lost count of people who have left skid marks all over my toilet.

You must know some skanky people! I don't find that to be an issue with visitors.

Panning for gold has really tickled me

I have to agree with you. Even sanitary product chat aside this seems like a terrible way of doing things. Why would you put recycling and general waste into a bin together and then fish things out later?

Even if there's no menstrual products, what about bits of used floss and things? Or is that not allowed either? I'm starting to wonder if the bin is expected to literally be a recycling bin for toilet roll tubes and hand-soap bottles maybe.

I find it easy enough to pull cardboard and bottles out without much touching anything else tbh.

I might have done this also, so apologies if I got the wrong poster too!

I want to know if her son has to walk the used condoms he's used shagging said gf, through the house in front of everyone to the outside bin? Hope he washes his own wank socks too 😂 of course he does, someone with a mother who is such a stickler won't have mummy doing jobs for him surely!