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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Who are you inviting over who steal from you are they not family/friends? Bizarre you are so chill about it like its a joke

Perhaps send them a message asking if they need any more toilet rolls?

There are medical reasons people need extra loo paper.

We had a guest that didn’t surface until 11/11.30am then went back to bed in the afternoon.

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I would have great fun with the SIL with Christmas tree in every room , even a mini one in the toilet .

How many toilet rolls per week are used in your houses ?
I am trying the left hand trick today to reduce my usage.

I was telling my colleague today about this thread , she informs me that her 85 year old uncle and Aunt were being romantic at 1am on boxing day , Auntie didn't realise that the second bed pulled out from underneath to make a double bed and she rolled over and broke the bed , they both ended up on the floor naked.
Colleagues father thought his brother had dropped dead and walked in to find them both.

I had no idea people still used flannels - last used by me when bed bathing old folks in hospitals 20 years ago. They were frowned on then. Breeding grounds for bacteria. Foul things 😅

Your aunt is very welcome to come for lunch at mine anytime.

I love that you just let her get on with it rather than being offended.

Just back - got a 3 for 2 deal at Dunelm. The till lady said there’d been an unusual run on flannels this morning.

Oh God, yes, the dreaded tinkly laugh.

We had friends who have a daughter who has Downs and when she was 11 or 12 she started spitting at people if they "were too close to her" ie playing in the same room or sitting next to her at the dinner table. When my children complained about it we also got the tinkly laugh and her parents acting as if it was totally normal. No apologies.

If they had warned us beforehand we could have warned our children or they could have been at my parents' house instead.

The worst part is that the mother ( with the tinkly laugh) works with disabled children and knows very well that people with Downs can learn manners but she and her husband just never bothered correcting either of their daughters when they misbehaved.

How could they be breeding grounds for bacteria? Surely they got washed at hot temperatures after each use?

Nonsense.

What's wrong with that?

Please please tell me you called them out and got your stuff back whilst reminding them you’re not a hotel

I know her very well
It's not done as spite,it's done out of love
It's literally her love language-that and feeding people
I knew she would do it so cleaned up,let her in and left her to it
Shame that it didnt stay as spotless but made her happy and thats all that mattered

Diagram please

Was just thinking the same

why specifically your left hand
my left hand is rubbish

@GreenSmithing we need to know more about the door handle!

I can do this for my body but need a flannel to scrub my face.

No they were patients' own , and festered in wash bags and lockers. Or hung over locker doors by patients.
Patient owned flannels/clothes/towels don't go to hospital laundries.
Soiled clothes go straight in a knotted plastic bag and stored in lockers until took home.
We used paper roll if they didn't have a flannel - some wards started stocking soft, once only disposable wash cloths(hopefully they all do now).
We had disposable "netty knickers" for those without underwear.

Eh?

I'm one for leaving things behind I'm afraid.
Even double checking everywhere there's a risk I'll leave my phone charger. I've tried to repack it every time I've used it to stop this happening.
I have also left bed socks at hotels because I've not remembered to pull them out of the bed when I've got up and packed.