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

He’s a thief! Did you not challenge him on all these items?

For those who use lots and lots of toilet roll, I've started using Wype and really like it. All the benefits of a bottom wet wipe, but none of the disposal problems

How does one accidentally remove a door handle? 😂

Exactly, and even if you are expecting a flannel, who the bloody hell decides to use a dirty dishcloth instead 😂

God my DH does this - he’s incapable of eating and talking at once, and it drives me MAD. We have a special needs child and quite often DS will need caring for just as food arrives at a family do. I’ll say that I’ll look after him while DH eats and then he can watch DS while I eat, and I’ll come back long after my food has gone cold to find he’s barely started his because he was telling some long winded and dull story. 🙄

I've noticed that in some public loos, like in a restaurant, someone will try the door and I'll yell "Occupied".....but some people will then continue to rattle the door every few seconds! They know full well that someone's in there and they haven't come out yet. It's so rude.

That's crazy for your young guest to be pulling on the door enough that it's affecting the hardware, when she knows perfectly well that someone is in there. You should tell her that she must go to one of the other loos and not pull on the door or harass the person already in there.

Am I the only person who lathers up their hands well and washes themselves with said hands?? Like when you wash your hands - for which you don't need a flannel!

FIL - who is known for being somewhat ‘heavy handed’ - got up to leave the room and yanked the door so hard that he pulled it off its hinges. So the door is dangling languidly and DH and I are staring at the door and FIL in astonishment and MIL calmly states “that door needs re-hanging!”. Well yes. It didn’t, but it does now!

Americans see them as absolutely essential and are often on Reddit bemoaning the fact that hotels here don't always have them.

I don't understand this thing about flannels. Why has someone who said they don't use them think no one else should? Why the snobbery?
I used face flannels for washing my face and ,OMG!, my private bits. How else do you feel clean, surly not a manky sponge? You can't put them in the washing machine. This is crazy!

I remember one year my aunt was staying with us and decided to practice her oboe at 6am on Christmas day 😂

Soap in your hands, rub on your face.

Yes I run an Air BnB and provide flannels since most of my guests are American and when I didn't they kept mentioning it!

My very slim sister in law commented on at least 5 people's weight this Christmas. She always feels the need to comment on her teenage nieces' weight too - she always tells my daughter she's lost weight, even when she's put a few pounds on. She has previously made a sly dig when I was "obese". This year I've lost 5 stone. She never mentioned my weight.

I’ve used a clean flannel twice a day for washing since having a boyfriend with Japanese heritage. Bit of a revelation after the bald, sad, infrequently washed single flannels of my childhood which in retrospect look like acne induction vectors.

Thank you to those who’ve inspired us to catch up with series 2 of Colin from Accounts.

My BIL and SIL turned up mega late one Xmas day with the most awful hangovers, both so nauseous they couldn't eat any lunch. Sat dozing on the sofa all day whilst I and DH had to entertain their 3 young DC'S along with our own 4, I thought they might leave when their kids were needing their beds but they dozed until the early hours of boxing day, the whole day was utterly exhausting.

Yes, I wash my face like that, but then clean the cleanser off with a wet flannel. I can't stick my face under the tap to rinse like I do my hands. Given I see make up or whatever on the flannel it clearly helps. Most hotels I've been in provide flannels as well as cotton pads etc.

ExH and I had something similar! We'd been invited to stay at a couple's house for the weekend, but when we got there, the wife wasn't there - she'd gone away! And with her went all the manners. The host talked at my poor husband literally every second of the weekend. I've never seen anything like it. They were sitting next to each other at a restaurant and my husband couldn't even eat because his head was turned towards the host, who was yabbering on without taking a breath. Morning till night for two full days - he didn't draw breath all that time.

ETA: I share the shell-shock of both people quoted above. My late father's partner talked excessively too. There were weekends that, when she left, the silence would ring in my ears. And there were other times that I wanted to watch something on TV, but every time the person on TV spoke, SHE would speak! She would just go on and on and on, long rambling tales about people I didn't know. And she would jump about without clear transitions, so even if you listened, you couldn't follow what she was saying. And she had a voice like Janet Street-Porter. It was truly, truly awful, just total drivel, rambling with no direction. The stress of the constant noise was horrendous.

I use a foaming cleanser plus water, so no flannel

I use cleanser, wipe it off with cotton pads, and then splash with water and dry with a towel.

Took a hot chocolate into our lounge/ TV room that we don't allow food and drink in , promised not to spill it .
Placed it on the carpet ( cream ) instead of table .
Again said they wouldn't spill it.
Got up later in the evening and tripped over cup and brown liquid all over the carpet , like someone has been sick in the doorway.
This is a close relative who has alot of money .
Didn't attempt to clean it or offer to pay for cleaning and did not apologise, basically did not care.
Another relative when going to their car on our driveway to get something , leaving the front door wide open , when we have dogs.
I feel that I am just being a bad tempered old woman but I would have more respect for other people's property.

God, why are some people so competitive about weight? She goes on about people being overweight and then, when you lose a ton, says nothing? What a beetch.

#TeamFlannel

But I don’t have a problem with anyone who calls them facecloths. I stay in a range of types of hotels, and you do occasionally get flannels, but I’d say that unusual.

The only people I know who use them are toddlers.

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Surely the flannel discourse is played out now? They have varying names, some people find them necessary and others don't. It's not something everyone would provide for a guest because not everyone uses them. End of discussion surely?