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

Yeah, I'm on Tattle too. I mentioned it so as not to give Reddit all the blame 😉

It still stands that I feel it's a deliberate derailing as I can't believe so many people are so self obsessed that they think people give a fuck about their flannel/wiping habits.

I think it could be as simple as people not reading the full thread before responding which is very common on Mumsnet.

I did this at my godfather's house when I was about 9. Couldn't figure out how to open a latched door. Felt terrible but didn't own up. He blamed the dog.
Still feel guilty so many years later :(

Never own up, it's too late! I did tell Mum 40 years later and she was horrified, angry and mortified. So I said I was joking and hadn't really pissed on her friend's carpet. Kind of a yellow lie.

I wonder if he knew the truth, but blamed the dog to spare your feelings.

At least he didn't have the dog put down. 😱

My aunt does this too. I’m fairly clean and tidy but clearly not quite up to her standards.

She even moves things around and I often have to ring her after a visit to find where things are. But I don’t really mind. I’m a solo mum and her deep cleaning ever so often saves me time. Plus I get that she is doing it because she cares.

How TF do you properly wipe (front to back) going between your legs? Surely your whole bleeding arm must be hanging in the toilet?! I know everyone is sick of the topic but I can't wrap my mind around someone thinking doing a contortionist act to wipe is the obviously done thing. Do you need to put a foot up on the toilet or something?

Me.

I’d impale her to table with a fork if my sister pulled that stunt on me.

I was about to say "How unreasonable!" but then I saw it was about cake. Carry on.

The same way you wipe where you pee from! The urethra is not a mile away from your anus you know. They're not that far apart! Do you need to wrap your arm around the outside of your leg and wipe your pee hole from the side, too?

I think we might want to stop discussing how we wipe our bits. There might be some pervs reading who are really enjoying it.

They’ll be the only ones then.

I once had a guest come to stay for 2 nights. The first morning she came with me to do the school drop off, and must've stepped in dog poo, which she then walked through my carpeted house, including the stairs. The second morning I did the drop off on my own, and when I came home my house was filled with dark smoke and stunk of melted plastic, as she had attempted to boil my electric kettle on the gas stove (it was designed a bit like the old fashioned whistle kettles).

During another visit she caught her dressing gown sleeve on the teaspoon in the full sugar bowl and knocked the contents down the back of my oven, followed by her hot tea as she tried to stop the sugar. She also dropped an operating fondue set full of melted cheese on a new cream rug. She was a lovely lady, married to my relative, and they're both dead now, but I preferred seeing them at their house.

Me, sort of. I don't use soap, but a gel face wash; but I rinse (and lightly scrub) with a flannel, then dry on a towel.

They're probably the ones posting this shit.

Maybe the guest was hoping to discreetly ask for some feminine hygiene products? 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

I had a house guest the day after Mario Kart came out on the Wii. More accurately my housemate had a guest in our shared house. I didn't know him, but he seemed quite nice and despite being told to make himself at home, even asked permission to use the gaming consoles in the living room while I was at work.

I got home that night to him informing me that he'd completely finished Mario Kart, won all the races and unlocked everything, before I'd even had chance to play it...and seeming quite proud about it! 😅

Me too.
Dove soap and hot water takes off eye make up no problem.

I can’t ever imagine washing my face with soap, never mind removing my eye make up with it. My fave feels shrivelled at the mere thought of soap going anywhere near it! Doesn’t it dry your skin, especially round your eyes where it’s so much thinner?

I use good old Simple make up cleansing lotion to remove make up, followed by warm and then cold water.

Well it worked for our ancestors haha.

I use hot water first with a soft make up remover cloth, then a tiny of dettol, diluted with the hot cloth on my chin, and my skin has never looked better. I have used all of the cleansers going and not one of them worked as well. I use a light moisturiser in the daytime. I don't suffer from dry skin though, so less really is more for me.

Unwatched again. I loved this thread OP. It was hilarious until the flannel people descended.

But I rewatched it in the hope that we would could get back to what you envisioned.

Unfortunately, the people who think we give a flying fuck about their “skin care” keep bumping it.

Could you maybe start it again?

That would have really done my head in. I adored Mario Kart. Used to text my husband at his work to let him know I was beating him 🫢