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

Some people don't wash all the bedding in one bit,they do sheets one week and duvets the next. I think it's so you don't have tons to do at once but I've never done it as I like a whole new bed.

We invited a local family over for festive drinks and nibbles just before Christmas last year. Our kids are all friends so I scheduled it for their tea time and made it clear I’d be doing food and drinks.

They turned up having already fed their kids and the parents were so hungover from a party the night before that they didn’t touch anything. I had handmade a selection of canapés and bought champagne, I was so disappointed! We don’t have many friends locally and it felt like a bit of a slap in the face. Have never been invited back either!

Flannel usage and how to wipe your bum after a poo....

I’m with you. I found it very odd.
I obviously can’t wash and dry that amount altogether but normally I’d wash all the laundry from one or two rooms at a time. Leave the others made even if slept in so they felt like proper rooms if you looked.

I need to know more about this. I suspect it’s not true but don’t care! Do they get dressed at all? Do you have Christmas with them and do presents and full turkey dinner with them sitting in the buff passing the cranberry sauce and stuffing balls around the table?

I don’t use a flannel, there are alternative ways to wash your face!

I use a cleansing cream with a cotton wool pad to remove make up, then rinse my face with warm and then cold water! Dry my face with a towel!

This made me lol 😂

WTF?! Why on earth did he do that?!

How awkward for you!

not true at all
Some people use a flannel in the shower
some people use a flannel instead of a shower

Yes - and a flannel is mildly exfoliating so can be more effective than just using your hands. And how else can you clean in the folds of your ears? Even skinny people have folds and creases in some places!

This is really revealing who's well-off and who isn't - you only get them in posher hotels. I'm not well-off and have seen it only once (The Ickworth, for those who like Suffolk and consider flannels essential).

The slightly panicked incomprehension you see from Americans when they're not supplied with a "washcloth" seems to suggest it's the norm there.

It’s also really revealing who doesn’t read most of the thread which is now about FLANNELS 😭

It’s for removing the cleanser. When I wash my hands, I put both of them under the tap. I’m not flexible enough to do this with my face. If I try to splash the cleanser off of my face, everything runs down my arms to my elbows and gets water everywhere.

God this thread is so bizarre. I’ve been washing my face with a foaming facial wash and warm water for decades. Simple facial wash. Lather up with warm water. Rinse off. I use a hot cloth with cleansing lotion sometimes when removing make up .

I have a whole basket of flannels in my bathroom. I roll them up after they have been washed and dried, very satisfying to see the basket full.

Did you not cure yourself and your children of this trait during Covid?

Definitely not an English thing, maybe a boarding school thing? I use a lovely cleansing oil, massage onto face, wash with water, pat with towel. How is a towel and flannel different? We could call it a large flannel if that helps anyone ?

Ok, that is disgusting.

To be fair you can’t give away or sell old pants like you can other items. Using them as cleaning rags seems sensible.
@Liverpool52
People are rarely disciplined enough arseholes to refuse free food.
I agree 100% that it’s a cleanliness or hygiene issue.

I know right? How annoying that people are posting quirky, interesting and funny stories that actually relate to the OP, when we’re all here for the real gold of forensically detailed face-and-arse washing routines and how these people are never more than three feet away from a giant stack of fucking flannels.

It’s amazing how many droning, boring derailers have been drawn to this thread like sticky shit to a furry bum. It’s obviously got some magical algorithm so I’m wondering whether the rest of us could quietly sneak out the side door and reconvene elsewhere, and this could be left in perpetuity as a honey trap for any passing poster who hears the murmurs of ‘facecloth’ and ‘toilet roll consumption’ and thinks, ‘well this sounds like a chat I could really add value to …’

I am also concerned with the oboe (which now appears to be a 5am bassoon) - did nobody wonder why the sister turned up with it and carried it into the house? I mean, it's hardly essential packing for a weekend away is it? 'Clean underwear, check. Washbag and toiletries, check. Bassoon, check.'

I'm presuming they are the 'frightened of missing something' sort.
It's usually the sort that you want leaving first 😂

This is so interesting

I beg to differ 😴

Here is an n=1 (European), use a bidet, not a flannel.

I could see someone smuggling in an oboe - the case isn’t particularly large and would fit into a suitcase. A bassoon is definitely bigger (even though it does get taken apart like the oboe) so might be harder to smuggle in.