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

is that now how everyone does it anyway?! I didn’t know people did it the other way. Although I didn’t know til I read on here people wipe while sitting….

@CharlieWeasleysWife @mumsnet
Please change thread name to flannel usage 🙄

Same! I use lots of toilet paper (see my TMI post above!) but thought everyone wiped from behind.

I was taught it was unhygienic to wipe from the front as a girl / woman as it risks UTIs if you get poo up front.

I taught both my DC to wipe from the back, I thought it was a non-negotiable, especially for girls!

I can't believe you lot are so desperate to talk about how you wash YOUR particular face in a super special way that must be shared

And as a result there has been no comment on
Oboe at 6am
Mid 80s raucous shagging causing bed collapse
Full suitcase in pool

?!?!

Edit: omg I missed "thankfully they're all dead now" 😭😂

Yeah I’m confused too. She said they could take it, then got upset that they did. People are weird.

Just fuck off with the flannel/facecloth talk now PLEASE.

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Not just me then
Cheers for that 😎

I'd have told her to wait outside, locked the door and would have taken my own sweet time. How could you be so passive?

Surely if you are that bothered about having a flannel then you take your own with you in your wash bag. Personally I find muzzy squares travel better and dry faster but do take a flannel sometimes.

Me too.

Away from the subject of flannels and back to the question in hand:
We once had visitors and who brought their adolescent large dog. On arrival it pood all the way down our (carpeted) stairs. Then we went out for a couple of hours leaving both their dog and ours in the house. When we returned their dog was standing on our table and he had chewed the edge off a step - his owners did not offer to mend it or pay for a repair!

Not exactly crazy, but maddening

I have a friend who will "correct" my food storage or decorative items. Just one or two things a visit.

Say she helps make a round of drinks. She will take out the tea, coffee caddy, sugar, squash, then sort of "hmmmm" when we are done making them. Then she will move them around the kitchen, putting them in entirely weird places (e.g. instead of the cupboard next to the sink where the squash usually lives, she'll put it in a glass-fronted cabinet of the posh glasses).

Then she'll give it a pat and give me a beatific smile as if to say, "there, that's better".

Hmm yes that’s a bit much !

Not a guest ,well not an invited one anyways !.I was sat on the toilet 6 am one morning without my glasses on and door ajar as usual when my son comes into bathroom stands by the sink looks at me then walks into hall leaving door open and starts waving at me!.I waved back thinking to myself how oddit was and that his hair had somehow grown longer and darker we were staring at each other when it dawned on my that it wasn’t my son it was one of his mates!.

Why? Was he/she a weird germophobe? I was told by a very senior doctor years ago that the only way you'd catch something off a toilet seat is by licking it.......🤣

Where? I have never seen a face flannel provided in any hotel I have stayed in, both in the UK and in Europe. I only stay with family in the US, so don't know if it is usual there.

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I have two piles too. And I use white ones (preferably thin) for my face and thicker coloured ones for elsewhere. I always take flannels with me if I'm going away as many hotels etc don't supply them.

I’ve stayed in multiple hotels in different countries this year, and the last few and I’ve been provided with a flannel once. Literally. I always pack my own and give it a good squeeze before I pack it - it goes in my toiletries bag and makes nothing else wet?

Yes. They probably thought they were being helpful by clearing the food away!

I've decided that everyone who can't manage without a flannel must be absolutely huge and needs a flannel to get in between the folds of fat.

Yes. I've stayed in many hotels, hostels, B&Bs etc in several countries over the last 20 years, and can only remember one place where flannels were provided. (That was in a cheap hotel in Austria and the flannels were so old, stained and scratchy that I preferred to use my own anyway.) I take a small plastic bag with me for packing the damp one.

PILs used to do this when we were entertaining a houseful. MiL said she'd come early to help - but didn't. This was also accompanied by their refusal to leave until everyone else had.
We started telling them that parties were starting an hour later than they were, just so they weren't so early. The having to leave last is still a thing - which can go on seemingly forever of there's someone else of the same mindset!

My sister took the duvet covers off all 6 beds before her family left “so I could wash them “.
she told me this.

thank you.

BUT

she left the pillow cases and bottom sheets on the beds.

I found this very odd.

Blimey that's weird. How old is your son?