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

Now we have dusters as well. Riveting stuff.

I have never, not ever, not once, reached between my legs to wipe. Have always gone around the back. Never even crossed my mind that anyone would do it any other way to be honest.

I remember reading something about UTI’s and it spoke about wiping from front to back to avoid taking faecal germs into the vaginal area, and I remember thinking who the hell would wipe down their crack rather than up? So it must have been aimed at the between the leggers to wipe the other way.

We Don't Care

Heavens to Betsy, STFU with talk of wiping, flannels and hotels. Fuck off.

I think these posters are deliberately derailing the thread, probably sent over from Reddit or Tattle.

Wouldn't have worked with my DH's vests. He liked string ones!

Flannels, dusters and arse-wiping techniques.
What on earth happened to this thread? It was funny the first time I looked at it.

I always take my own flannel - I put it in a zip lock bag on the way home 🤷🏼‍♀️

This with bells on. For fuck's sake!!!

Im a woman and I go around. As does anyone I’ve ever drunkenly shared a toilet cubicle with.

The "flannels and loo roll" thread in Chat, created by way of acting as a decoy for this thread, currently has 56 replies, which I fear might otherwise have been posted here.

So here's an odd guest story, but the guest was me. Last time I spent Xmas with friends, I was put in a bedroom with twin beds. On the wall was a very loud clock. I don't mind a bit of background noise, but the ticking was unbearable. In the middle of the night, I took it down off the wall and stuffed it under the duvet of the other bed and smothered it with a blanket. Then went to sleep.

It was only when driving home that I suddenly remembered: I had not fished out the clock and put it back on the wall! I rang them to apologise and confess, thinking I'd sound like a crazy person, but they were very understanding - in fact, assured me it wasn't the first time a guest had done that!!!!!! which makes me wonder if the clock was a deliberate way of minimising length of stay??!?!? Mentioning here as a potential tactic, should any PPs need it.

Original. I think you’re about only the 40th person to mention that. No doubt another forty will now say that they do too. 🤦‍♀️

I sometimes wrap it in my dirty laundry as well…

I'm tempted to go to the Official Flannel thread and derail it with recipe suggestions and advice on deadheading roses

🤣

Fucking hell…I am fully on board with the ‘ stop talking about Flannels brigade’, but cannot believe that people use hotel flannels to wash their vulva! Not used a flannel since I was about six, now I will never be using one!

I wouldn't worry, they get a wash between vulvas when all's said and done.

Why wouldn't you?
I am baffled by your response

On the wall was a very loud clock. I don't mind a bit of background noise, but the ticking was unbearable. In the middle of the night, I took it down off the wall and stuffed it under the duvet of the other bed and smothered it with a blanket. Then went to sleep

Ive seen this a few times and wonder why people don't just remove the battery.

A back brush, of course!

If the hosts knew full well that the clock is so loud that guests are smothering it with bedclothes, then it’s really rude of them to leave it up. I’d take the batteries home with me if I were you and if I stayed there again!

People on tattle find more interesting topics to mither about than flannels 🤣🤣 I think the flannel talk is a fairly normal MN derail tbh.

I don’t have any stories to share btw as I never have people to stay as my house is too full of children 😊

People on tattle find more interesting topics to mither about than flannels 🤣🤣 I think the flannel talk is a fairly normal MN derail tbh.

I don’t have any stories to share btw as I never have people to stay as my house is too full of children 😊

Please do! But I think it would be more satisfying, by way of revenge, to discuss oddball Xmas guests on there...

If my late, lamented FIL encountered a pub that didn't impress him for whatever reason (bad beer, unfriendly staff, too expensive) he would declare 'That's twice I've visited here - first and last.'

I would adapt that for some of these house guests!

One friend who stayed, I removed all bar soap from the bathrooms. I don’t know what she does with it, but it always ends up a mushy, sodden mess when she stays. So liquid soap it was.

Not Christmas, but I wasn't very impressed with the family member who announced the night before arriving that she was now vegetarian and seemed a bit put out that I'd already done the meal planning and shopping. As it happened we were having something that she could have most of, but it must've seemed a bit bland.