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

That's me. I don't think I've ever used a flannel/facecloth.
What do you do with it?

What a pair if absolute arseholes!

Apologies, tight arse arseholes!

Weirdest guest incident was a moussaka (or possibly bolognaise) spillage left on the wall.
Never had an explanation. I only realised after she left.
Difficult to explain, but definitely weird!

And you can’t take your own because then if you use it the morning you leave it’s wet in the suitcase.

Of course you can! That's what a wash bag is for.

Maybe they have ibs or a medical issue. The taking loo roll home is weird. How did you know?

Mil brought us a hamper with some bits in on Christmas Day as we were hosting. Then when they were leaving she asked for the hamper basket back to give to SIL so we had to quickly get everything out

WTF?

Me! Never needed a flannel in my life. I use cleanser to take the makeup off and water to rinse the cleanser off. Towel dry. And for the ridiculous comment about how someone would clean children’s hands without a flannel….sink, soap and water. No flannel required.

Oh my god enough with the flannels!!!

My DPs insisted on bringing their dog for Christmas when they were staying 3 nights. I am uncomfortable around dogs generally and we have a poorly cat so I’d asked them to please not bring it. The dog wasn’t awfully behaved but they were! Encouraging it to eat chew treats directly off my nice sofa, sitting at the table with it in their arms feeding it bits off the table and my favourite, asking if the Christmas ham (ie our dinner) was going to be ready soon because they needed some for the dog. I know these might be normal things if you have a dog but if you’re in someone’s home you know is uncomfortable, would you?

Maybe we can have a dog derailment and that’ll distract people from the flannels 😂

Dogs are like children. I have a toy poodle and if I was visiting family I would want to take him with me rather than leaving him home alone. He's a lovely little dog, in fact nicer than many people I know!

They were staying with their child, sounds quite normal to me

TOILET PAPER OVER USERS ANONYMOUS

Let me change your life.

1. Use your left hand.
2. Reach around behind your backside - yes - way behind with your left hand and wipe from front to back. This forces you to spread your cheeks wide making it much easier to get the job done in only 2 or 3 swipes.

Try it today: nobody but you can see your awkward first attempts but they'll soon notice the massive reduction in paper usage.

You're welcome.

@Mummyoflittledragon FIVE air fryers?

PIL stayed with us for a week. When we were out, MIL went through our wardrobes! Years later she told my husband and complained that I had lots of cheap clothes!

1. How dare she go through my things.
2. My clothes were not cheap but she just made that up as something nasty to say.

This is a woman who is so tight she reuses tea bags! In hosting them, it never occurred to me that she would go through my stuff because this is something I would NEVER do in someone's home.

On yes, on a separate occasion when my SIL was visiting from the States (arriving empty handed as usual and with no sterling either) she got up at 6.30am one morning when we were still asleep and went through my laptop to see what financial information she could find!

Needless to say, I have very little to do with DH's family!

Similar to this, I had a friend stop by on his way as part of a longer journey. He said he'd forgotten travel sickness tablets for his son. I got a full pack out of the medicine cupboard. When he left I realised he had pocketed the whole thing rather than just taking a couple out. Cheeky.

Oh yeah, another thing the MIL does is that when towels are thread bare and no longer usable as towels, she cuts them up and uses them as cleaning cloths to wipe down the kitchen worktops and the kitchen table! YUK!

My washbasin is waterproof. Side pocket for wet flannels. The whole thing can be washed, which is just as well because no matter how well I rinse it my toothbrush smuggles copious amounts of toothpaste

Well use some cotton wool clean my face and if I want a wash I just in the shower

Oh my god stop!!
hiding this thread now, the flannel chat is so boring

I ususally use soap/water/towel. But a flannel is good for a quick freshen up all over.

Had a guest take my brand new Apple charger (£30+ back in the day) and leave their manky non working one at mine in its place. I am still flabbergasted by that.

I read this and thought 'I really must spend less time on Insta' because I know exactly where she has got this bit of batshittery from... They think it 'puts toxic mould in the air'. She is probably so deep in that weird wellness woo online bubble that she really did think that everyone would know that and accordingly shun the trees.

Who fucking cares about flannels, possibly the least exciting topic on the planet.

Off to buy a flannel