Care to share the oddest thing house guests have done in your home this festive period?

[CharlieWeasleysWife]

We've had many guests over the festive period and most have been an absolute delight. However, have just waved off a few of DHs friends and they:

Removed phone chargers and toiletries left in the guest room/bathroom and taken home

Used (a used!) dish cloth to wipe their face then replaced on the sink

Complained we won't allow scary/violent TV until our young children are in bed

WTF?

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None of that here. But a guest once politely brought an edible treat, presented it to me as a gift with a flourish, then clearly decided they wanted it back for themselves and took most of it home, cross country 😂

I laugh now, I didn't at the time, I was really crushed that it was somehow a comment on my hospitality or worth to them or something, as they've gleefully said that they "show love with food". I'd offered a pack up to take with. They had plentiful food at mine. It was really weird, them fumbling about and rewrapping the tin foil and bundling it away..

I also once shared a hotel room with a close friend and they had a shower and wet every single part of the floor and just left it, actual proper puddles, and left wet towels on the ground etc. They've never done it before or since at other places we've stayed, it was really out of character and awkward.

2 people have used 7 loo rolls in 2 nights/3 days. That or they have taken loo rolls home with them - they had exclusive use of the en suite for their stay and I have asked himself
if he had been in to take them and he didn’t. That’s a lot of loo roll!

Guilty. I’ve lived and worked in many different countries and households. All my host families laugh about how much loo roll I go through. My Mum and Dad too when I was a child. Also my DH! Unfortunately, my DC take after me! Loo roll eaters 😂

Have you asked them why they took your chargers? Are they going to return them??

They've taken your toiletries, like they think you're a hotel? 😂

I did once have a guest uae a screw driver to remove a door handle, but that was an honest mistake

I’m the guest not the householder but they probably found it weird that I put my own sheets on the bed and had a bath at 9pm Xmas day.

Their fabric softener always makes my eczema explode like nowhere else. So my sheets it is. And I’m teetotal and they’d become annoying drunks by 9pm so took myself off to the bath.

As far as your guests go I’d imagine the chargers were an accident and the dish cloth was because you didn’t provide a flannel in the guest bathroom maybe.

We had massive consumption of loo rolls in our student house. It turned out that one of us covered the entire seat with paper every single visit...

Could be worse, I've just seen this on reddit. It's a voice recorder and camera.

Wow, that is bad!

Not an overnight guest but my friend bought her new girlfriend to lunch on Boxing day. First time we'd met new girlfriend and were excited to meet her. They stayed 6 and a half hours and she talked constantly about herself. Nobody could get a word in and, when they tried she just talked straight over them. She knew everything about everything and had one bigger than everyone else's.

After four hours I went to the kitchen to clear up in the hope they'd take the hint. Nah, they stayed another two and half hours!

My friend sat there gazing at girlfriend as though she was the most fascinating creature that has ever lived. I cannot believe the person I know as my friend wasn't reeling with boredom and WTF at it all.

DH and I felt shell shocked and sat silently for about an hour after they'd gone to recover.

MIL walked into the bathroom while I was in it and just stood there clutching her washbag until I left. I told her the other bathroom was free and she was welcome to use it but she said “oh no, don’t worry” and just stood there waiting for me to leave

What sort of mistake could that possibly be? They thought they were unscrewing something else? They were sleep walking? They thought it was haunted and were doing you a favour?

On Christmas Day, FIL asked me how my DM was doing. She died in a road accident just over two years ago.

He has now agreed, after six months of nagging from the family, to see the GP about his memory. To be fair to the old chap, he's absolutely mortified about what he said.

What do you do to get theough that many?

Nothing like half of these but one guest watched all of the new episodes of Stranger Things in the middle of the night as they became available on Netflix. Then proceeded to nap most of the next day. 🤨

Nope. Can’t beat any of these. Dying to know about the chargers. Did they think they were a gift ?! Weird

my guess with the chargers and toiletries is that guest A packed up everything in the room, assuming they belonged to guest B - after all they are both perfectly normal things to pack and bring your own for an overnight stay

Not a house guest but, my in laws turned up at 8.30 this morning to wish us a happy new year. Knowing we were out last night and would’ve been up late. My mum had stayed over to babysit for us and had taken the baby out for a morning stroll. I blearily got up and opened the door and when they said they’d popped round to see the baby and I explained he wasn’t in, they seemed a bit annoyed with me. They made moves to come in but I said “boyfriend is still asleep and you’ve woken me, to be honest I’m going to head back to bed and get another hour of sleep if I can” and MIL replied “okay I can see we’re not wanted here.” Ridiculous!!!

I'd just put a brand new pot of cleansing balm in the bathroom cabinet. My SIL was the only visitor so I know this was her - she's run her finger right round the edge of it, leaving a trench 😂. It's the Clinique one, Take The Day Off, so it's very thick and probably more solid than she was expecting!

She does have form for this type of thing. Every time she comes here she goes straight to the bathroom, flushes the loo and puts the taps on so (she thinks) I can't hear her having a scoosh of my perfumes 🤔.

I am fascinated by the door handle. What did they think they were unscrewing? Why were they unscrewing anything? We (well I) need to know more about the accidental unscrewing of a door handle

That's really sad, I'm so sorry

Describe my house as a 'modest' house at their first visit.

Have you watched series 2 of Colin From Accounts?! Maybe watch it with your friend...

Sounds like DH’s friends’ wife. Exhausting and dull! He still stares at her with adoration whilst the rest of us try to change the subject to something other than her.

My mother had conveniently forgotten my disabled 6 year old ever existed - proceeded to walk in with my two sons gifts, sat down and said "oh no! I left DDs gifts at home... how old is she again? I'll get them later" never turned up. Thankfully my DD has such severe disabilities she doesn't remember/ doesn't understand christmas and gifts etc.
My FIL proudly walked in (tasked with getting the gammon for boxing day) with some wafer thin ham instead!