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?

Edited for typos

That was lovely of you but tbf most people wouldn't want a buffet after Christmas dinner.

it is not just your face that needs washing

Not with soap as such, but a foaming face wash in the shower in the morning and an oil cleaner at night, both of wish get washed off with water and I always dry my face with a towel (not sure what else you would use)

And then splashes soap/water up the wall and all over the floor if you are anything like my brother when rinsing it off!

Not to mention the irritating and self obsessed way in which people enter a long thread that has moved way on since a particular comment and add their twopennorth as if a) nobody will have already said it and b) their take is the most interesting and relevant. At least on a thread like this it's just boring, unlike the important threads about serious stuff where people join after days/weeks and respond to the first post as if nothing has been said since then, repeating pointless or dangerous nonsense.

Agreed, a lovely well behaved dog is most welcome. However, many dogs are not well trained and their owners often seem oblivious to their impact on other dogs and people. In any case, your house, your rules, end of.

I’ll try ! I’ve had them a really long time however ! I’m pretty sure Boots or Amazon or the like will have some .
I wouldn’t have the machine in every day to wash face cloths, but these little pads come to no harm being left until I put a wash on .

I have a shower every morning?

but not all guests use the shower

We have a reasonably sized hallway with empty coat racks, shoe racks and bag space for visitors.

Nevertheless, my relatives walk all the way through the hall to dump their bags, coats, vape, dirty travel cups, and half eaten food all over my dining table, whether or not we’ve set it for dinner.

But surely that's just old-fashioned thriftiness? And better for the environment than buying towels, possibly microfibre ones, specifically for the counters. They are presumably put in the washing machine.

Sounds like my husband. He can cover a shower screen with toothpaste from about 6 feet I swear !

Weird, isn't it. We had a family of four to stay and one them pulled the sink off the bathroom wall. No one admitted it. We tried to fix it back to the wall but it cracked in the process, so we ended up having to get a new one.

Completely understand the charger/toiletries. I would have packed up the chargers thinking they were ours (DH takes a bag filled with plugs/chargers everywhere we go), so I just would have thought I was efficient packing up. Similarly, DH likely would have thought the toiletries were ours (as I’m in charge of taking those when we go places) and would have thought he was efficient in packing.

However, when we got home and unpacked and discovered such an error, one of us would definitely have sent a message ‘Hi Bob/Jane, thanks for having us, had a great stay, it seems I inadvertently packed your chargers/toiletries thinking they were ours, I’m such an idiot and sorry about that. Will pop them back in the post next week’.

Not this Christmas but previously friends with a toddler stayed.

As we were saying bye and leaving, they tinkly laughed and said the toddler had thrown a potty full of wee down the stairs while they were packing up, so I'd probably want to shampoo my stair carpet 😬

Sorry, anti-flannel-derailers but I am interested, how do you not splash water all around/have it drip down your arms (usually down into your pj sleeves which won't stay pushed up)? (those who use wipes, I get that's not a problem) With a flannel, I squeeze out the water till it's only damp and hot, wipe my face free of cleanser, repeat if necessary, wring it and hang it to dry. Replace every few days. Also it never occurred to me that people use a flannel for other parts of their anatomy!

Oh god @SquirrelFan, don’t fan the flame! Start your own flannel thread! 😂

Ok so I’ve had a look and there’s no label on either the bag or the pads I’m afraid. But if you google washable make up remover pads you’ll find some .

Weirdest thing guests did: put up a blackout curtain in the guest room, using strong sticky backed tape that subsequently took the paint off the window frame.
Other guests: did not shower in three days, also left weird vivid pink dribbly stains on sheets - clearly not a bodily fluid but can't imagine what it was!

And that is why showers were invented.

No, but you should definitely scroll back if you don’t want to miss internet gold of The Great Flannel Debate. Or would like to share with the group how many you own, how often you wash them, whether they’re strictly for your face (or perhaps the occasional cheeky bumhole swipe), or whether the hotels you frequent provide them or not. And if you don’t use flannels (or facecloths), well then what do you use to wash your face, @HoppityBun, and could we please have a detailed breakdown of exactly how that goes for you?

Honestly don’t blame you for not RTFT. I expect the poor OP has disappeared to nominate it for Classics.

Could have a medical condition like inflammatory bowel disease.
Or contamination OCD.

Do you take your own sheets and towels when you stay in a hotel?

They had exclusive use of a bathroom and I put 7 loo rolls in it the day that they arrived. I have loo roll storage racks and I remember it was 7 as they all hold 6 and I had one rogue roll!

Flannels aren’t just for faces