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

But the six million dollar question is: did they steal your flannels?

Er, no we don't!

It's very important women wipe from front to back for hygiene reasons. UTIs are no fun!

I'm sorry no one ever taught you this.

I do hope most girls and women know this. I always assumed it was common knowledge tbh.

What was obvious exactly?

I’m lying awake with insomnia and this post has just tickled my funny bone.

Hysterical.

I don't have flannels. They do. So I'm guessing if I had flannels, they would take them 🤔
They have been at OP's house for sure 😂

I have the opposite with my mother. Christmas Day, we are eating at four mum but come from two , Fil will be here at two. I’ll come and get you - no I’ll walk . Ok.

two comes, half two, three pm. Daughter looking out of the window . FIL asking is your mum coming? Just after half three she tips up. Empty handed but that’s standard. Half six asks who is taking her home?

I know I should be grateful she isn’t a lingerer and I know I said come from two - but it’s a real message that she cannot be arsed!

How do people who don’t use cloths clean their backs? I grab the opposite corners to scrub. MN diagram included (however I don’t have a fancy cloth with handles like the image—just a bog standard flannel).

I love that you even included a diagram 😆🤗

I can reach my whole back with my hands. Though as it happens, I do use a flannel, but am fine in hotels without one.

This thread has clearly triggered something deep within MNetters, like catnip. I'm going to start one in chat about flannels/facecloths and use of toilet paper, just so that I can describe my own routine without feeling guilty for derailing. There is an inexplicable yet pressing need to share!

Probably just a mistake…. Not everything is a calculated plan 😂

No they don't! Why do yu think this????
You reach around and wipe backwards! Everyone knows this surely!!

Yes I agree with this, would have been an automatic small talk thing rather than literally having forgotten, I expect. I’m so sorry about your mum too.

The bun fight can continue here if you wish:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5470645-flannelsface-cloths-and-loo-roll-how-do-you-use-them?reply=149644611

I feel like the Pied Piper!!!

Aaaaaaargh!!!! STOP IT!!!!
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@BlackCat14 omg I am so sorry this happened to you, especially as your mum was being so helpful taking baby out so you could get a much needed sleep in!!!! If you’re feeling even the tiniest bit of residual guilt from MIL please let me absolve you of it. I hope you got back to sleep.

good red nail varnish will fix that!

Any ADHD present?

I sometimes fidget with my hands and I'm not really aware of what I'm doing - although I've never destroyed anything yet. It's a bit like the people who doodle or colour in squares on paper, just mindless yet soothing action.

What? I’m not sure which hotels you use but the last four hotels I’ve stayed in have provided face cloths with the towels. We also put them out for guests with our guest towel sets. They are washed afterwards as are towels. The mind boggles.

Same - my dad’s old pants etc! And now I’ve caught myself saying “don’t chuck that it’ll make a good duster”

Using old pants as dusters is a step too far imho 😅
No problem with old cut up towels/sheets/t-shirts used as cleaning cloths though, that makes sense from an environmental pov.

Unwatched the thread. Shame. It had the capacity for being a hoot.

Instead it’s about FLANNELS, toilet roll, how to wipe your bottom, as if people are all 3, how you wash your face and bed changing.

Hard to believe that people think all these things are something people are dying to know…

dads old vests were good dusters as well as underpants. It's a bit embarrassing when your friends come round, and mum is dusting

I’ve just remembered - my mum used to use the leg of my dad’s old pyjamas to recover her ironing board. Thrift was definitely her watchword.

Thank you so much! We haven’t heard from MIL since so we think she’s annoyed…I’m just so glad my boyfriend is fully on my side with all this!