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

This is exactly what I thought of too!

🤣 I'd have bitten her!

Worked as a chambermaid one summer in a fancy London hotel. Would not use a hotel facecloth/flannel after seeing what the permanent staff did with them when cleaning the rooms...

I'm pretty sure most of those wipes have not been used on faces. The companies that make them bear a little responsibility though as for a long time many of them were marketed as being flushable.

I’ve just ordered myself more flannels. I use one every day and it annoys me when I don’t get them through the laundry quick enough 😂 2026 is the year of a new clean flannel every day 👏

What gets me is.... Why don't these people realize that they have been talking non-stop for hours and the person they are talking to has said just about nothing. It's so rude. So selfish. And if ever I tried to interject with a couple of sentences, she just says nothing, makes no comment at all, waits patiently and then starts the monologue again.
So it is not conversation in any way shape or form.

. So many this Xmas. The one that pissed me off the most was DIL waiting till we had gone to bed, then turning on the heating to run all night and all the downstairs lights. So her precious would come down to a warm and fully lit house in Xmas day. We woke at 1 am boiling hot. I had to go down to turn everything off and then couldn’t get back to sleep again. When said child woke up at 6am I was angry, exhausted and not enjoying the day.

Sort of the opposite. My older aunty came to stay with us and brought her own flannel. I don't use a flannel and genuinely thought it was a cleaning cloth that had somehow got into the bathroom. I think I vaguely thought that exh had done some bathroom cleaning, unlikely but at that point I lived in hope. It was quite tatty so I threw it away. Next day, oh has anyone seen my flannel? Reluctant to admit I had binned it we then had this ridiculous search of my,tiny, bathroom. I remember saying oh perhaps it's fallen down the back of the radiator? Cue, peering down the back of the radiator. I have never confessed.

A lot of people are quite careful about looking after the skin on their face these days. I personally double cleanse, using a headband so that the Luke warm water doesn’t wet my hair, and use a chemical exfoliant rather than use a physical exfoliator like a flannel. Most of my contemporaries have a similar routine. The most I’d use on my delicate face is a microfibre wash cloth for a hot cloth cleanse.

I had an inlaw staying at Christmas 2 years ago, and when I went in dining room I found them drinking straight from a 2 litre cola bottle. Needless to say I poured the remainder down the sink and only buy cans now,. They also have previous for 'double dipping', including using spoon they are eating with to scrape food off serving spoon when helping self to more. I have commented, but I don't think they understand the issue, as repeat offend.

Lots of wipes are used on faces - they sell them specifically for faces in the beauty section. Wipes are not just for bums. Of course the companies bear some responsibility but consumers have been asked not to do it repeatedly but just don’t care 🤷‍♀️

WTF 🤣🤣🤣

Honest to god 🙈 they pull stunts like this often so I shouldn’t be surprised! I used to get so irritated by them but now I just try and laugh at their behaviour. Luckily boyfriend is on side and isn’t afraid to let them know what we think!

came with a bottle of red wine and a bottle of white wine, and kept them by the front door.
ultimately left with the red wine, turns out they didnt like the white wine thus it was donated!

For future reference, if you are staying in someone's home and there is no flannel in the guest bathroom, the correct etiquette is not, in fact, to go in to the kitchen and use the dirty dishcloth to wash your face😣. That is, in fact, really bloody weird. There are alternatives, including asking politely "may I borrow a face cloth?" - that would be much less rude.

Even I know that, and not only have I stayed in "indecent" hotels where flannels are not provided - I am so common that I don't even have a guest bathroom 😬

The face washing talk is so boring and has ruined an otherwise entertaining thread. I don't care if you clean your makeup off with a brillo pad and toilet duck, I want tales of outrageous guests!

Hilton has flannels..

Who cares 🤦🏼‍♀️

Maybe someone should start a thread about flannels for those who are interested instead of derailing this one.

my guest forgot their flannel and we had to hunt to find a suitable alternative,
what a coincidence

Unfortunately not flannel / face cloth related... We had DH's family with us for Christmas - 12 of us in total including 4 young kids. We'd planned for an earlier meal but pushed it back to 4pm because BiL's husband wanted to spend the Christmas Eve and the following morning at his parents.

By 4pm there was no sign of BIL & husband and they were not answering their phones. We delayed plating up but by 4:30pm we had to serve. 15 mins later they finally arrived but sat in the car on the drive for ages.

When they eventually came in, neither said hello, BIL's husband had a face like thunder, and he didn't respond to the kids saying Merry Christmas. BIL eventually tried to make some conversation at the table but his husband ate the whole meal in silence apart from commenting that it was rude that the kids (all under 10!) had got down from the table already.

He was a complete energy vampire, with BIL trying to make excuses for him and the only reason I didn't say anything was from concern for MIL. They later handed over a carrier bag containing an unwrapped (and age inappropriate) present to each child and he literally didn't even look up from his phone.

It was honestly so rude I almost couldn't believe it was happening. They left less than 2 hours after they arrived, taking the unopened cheap bottle of fizz they'd brought. BIL has since told DH that husband had been refusing to leave his parents house because he didn't feel welcome at our house. Of course, he's now ensured that's true!

You def get them in the hotels we use! I always add them to the towel stack for our guests.

Edit to say I was clearly late to this 🥱

We've got young grandchildren and it's a standing joke that they always save a poo up for Nanna's house. After they'd left on Christmas day, we found a "floater" in each toilet! I text DD and said the children needed toilet flushing lessons from Father Christmas

Enough with the flannels!!! No one cares!!!!

I get the spilling would be annoying but it’s super uptight not to allow adults to bring drinks in to a tv room. I just wouldn’t have guests in your case. Nor would I visit someone regularly who was that anal.