Do you do these things for your guests?

[Loyaltotheoil]

Hi there! Just wondering, if you were hosting guests (family or close friends) for a few days, would you do these things?

• Hanging and folding their laundry
• Baking things they requested aside from the 3 meals a day (for example making crepes or baking a cake if they requested it for a snack)
• Buttering their toast, or would you just put everything on the table for them to do?

Thank you!

No!

Hard no, especially to buttering their toast. Unless they are 3, then yes to toast and still no to other demands

I would say generally no, but I can see some circumstances where I might do all of them!

Buttering their toast??

No I am absolutely not doing any of their laundry
They might get a cake if I’m in the mood for baking but I don’t take requests! Otherwise I’ll show them where the biscuit tin lives.
They can butter their own fecking toast!!!

I can’t imagine any guest I’ve ever had requesting a home baked cake!

I’d offer to throw clothing in with ours if I’m doing a load. I know how very grateful I was when we were abroad for four weeks as students and stayed three days with DH’s aunt who commandeered all our dirty clothing so we had enough clean for the rest of the trip.

What? Weird! I might make them something I know they like but as part of the usual offering - I can’t imagine anyone asking if I’d bake them a cake! And finding laundry - that’s very personal I don’t want anyone touching mine so I won’t touch theirs. And buttering toast? What are they, 3??

Thank you for your answer.
would that include just the washing or hanging/drying and folding?

Why would an adult butter another adult's toast?
Why would anyone hang and fold laundry for guests staying for a few days?
If a guest of mine, provided with three meals a day, demanded I make them pancakes or baked a cake, for a snack, I'd whow them where the flour, butter, eggs were.

They sound unbelievably ill mannered.

No

No unless it was my kids

No

Whats your take then op?

Absolutely no to any of the above

It would depend who it was. Either sets of in-laws yes as they are all elderly and lovely and would/do do the same for us. Anyone else absolutely not.

Why would an adult guest be requesting home baking?

Ha-ha-ha (No)

Yes, no odds to me if I throw a few things in the drier or over the airer. I don’t iron though, so if they wanted ironing done they’d have to ask DH (who does occasionally wield one).

I might have baked something I know they particularly liked for them in anticipation of their stay if I had time and fancied baking.

I'm not doing guest's laundry unless there are some exceptional circumstances, resulting in them having nothing clean to wear. Maybe if their suitcase fell in the river as they took it out of their car boot? They should bring enough clothes for their stay and take them home to wash

Depending on who was staying, I'd tell them to help themselves to toast and cereal whenever they surfaced or I'd make a cooked breakfast and serve it at the table. Any toast would be served dry with the butter dish and marmalade next to it

Thank you everyone.

my brother in law expects me to make him pancakes (heavily pregnant and tired too!), and iron, hang his clothes and fold them up in piles (I had thrown his clothes in the wash with ours). He also expects me to butter his toast, one time I did it he complained there was too much butter and requested I take some off, I feel like a massive fool now.

Tell BIL - as my mum used to say ‘what did your last slave die of?’

He’s taking the piss - lazy entitled shitbag

I would never make heavily pregnant tired pancakes. They don't sound very nice at all - probably too doughy. Although I might make them for your BIL, he sounds like a doughy git

Don't invite him round again, he's a shit.

That made me laugh 😂😂

That’s ridiculous op, absolutely taking the piss. Why is your DH allowing this?

He wasn’t around, he’s working

He is extremely nice to everyone else, very shy and introverted. With me he’s the complete opposite, it makes me think I’m the problem..