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

Omg I just remembered. My FIL was here for Christmas and had stepped into something gross outside. I walked into the kitchen to find him cleaning his shoes with a damp paper towel on the breadboard on the side.

Thank you! I can now face 2026 with equanimity

As a child, I was told that it was because there could be no guarantee of clean water for washing

Yeah I'm terrible, seem to get through so so much.

Use one of the towels provided. It doesn't need to be for a specific body part.

Feel a lot more sorry for her kids living with that level of issues.

Well she’s a cunt isn’t she!

Or people could just be arseholes.

Just bought one, still thirty quid. $19 in the States translates to £14 here. Greedy bastards.

@Gabitule @Hollyleaves I don't know why but I find it quite amusing really. She has got progressively weirder as the years have gone on, in that she gives me what my late mum would have called "backhanded compliments" but then tries to copy me later. This has been going on for the entire 35 years I've known her!

(This is in relation to my SIL poking her finger into my brand new facial cleanser - WHICH I DON'T USE WITH A FLANNEL - and having a scoosh of my perfumes.)

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Please read many entertaining posts about flannels. Or jump to 18:46.

My sil and her wife often stay. They are naturists and wander around nude all the time. I have to admit they are a better sight than mil when she stays. I still find it odd for siblings in their 40's to hve breakfast naked with their mother.

Imagine inviting guests for Christmas and they wouldn’t stop talking about flannels.

🤢 I'd have had to burn that breadboard. Possibly the FIL too!

Oh dearie me!!

Op here. Just back to say I've not managed to keep up with the flannel chat whatsoever, apologies, didn't realise it would raise this much feeling. Glad we got a conclusion on door-gate though.

We have always used several flannels a day each and have a massive stash.

If a towel gets very old and raggedy I cut it into disposable flannels for travelling. In case we encounter a no flannel emergency.

I found an extended family member poking around in my medicine cupboard cobbling together a random assortment of probiotic tablets, herbal stomach tablets and herbal IBS drops, with which she proceeded to make a ‘tea’ by putting boiling water in a cup and tossing the random assortment in. I was speechless…(a) that she’d poked around in my medicine box, (b) that she’d helped herself, and (c) that she thought she could mix and match what she wanted and make herself a healthy drink! Apparently (according to another family member) she thought she had a UTI coming on and wanted to try to head it off (one of the medicines had cranberry in it). Weird!

Also, I never use a flannel and do not provide them for guests. I travel a lot and can’t remember the last time I saw a flannel in a hotel room. Even if I saw one, I wouldn’t use it and I’d never use it on my face (could have been used to wash someone’s butt!). For those who query face washing in the absence of a face washer…I wash my face morning and night - in the morning I wash in the shower, at night I use a cleanser and wash/rinse my face off over the sink before patting it dry with my towel.
Hope that helps!

Unfortunately I was a very bad guest once and accidentally pissed in the corner of the bedroom.

I was 13 and was staying with my parents at my mum's childhood friend's house. They hadn't seen each other for 20 years and we'd flown to Canada to stay with them.

They gave me their son's room which was a very small single and had an electric keyboard right up against one side of the bed. Which created a little square of carpet in between the head of the bed, the wall and the keyboard.

I woke up in the night utterly desperate for a pee and very confused got out of the bed on the wrong side and ended up in the little square.

It was too late, I had started to pee and didn't think I should crawl over the bed to get to the toilet so I had to stand there and do the most enormous piss of my life on my mum's friend's shagpile carpet.

I did not have the courage to confess so 🤷🏼‍♂️ thankfully they're all dead now.

Very much so as not one other poster has shared their flannel routine with us.

You don't reach forward between your legs; instead you stay seated, lean forward a little and reach right around the back then go in between your cheeks.

Link below is to health line article that describes it better than I can.
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This is so interesting! So you cant wash your face without a flannel? I wash my face by smothering it with facial cleanser foam/ gel, rinse it with water and then dry it with a towel. Never used a flannel, never felt the need! Must be an English thing.

Go easy with that stuff,it was like using battery acid when I tried it, ouch!

Can you explain what the issue was? They asked if you wanted to keep any food and you said no and told them to take the lot,so they did as you told them.