to expect clean sheets if invited to stay?

[baggyoldcow]

How would you handle this?
You are invited by a friend to stay at their house, "please stay, please stay, we've plenty of room etc, etc". That's very kind of them, of course. So you go, and then they put you in the spare bedroom where the bed has clearly been slept in by someone else and the sheets not changed.
This has happened to us a couple of times (not with the same hosts). I find it very odd as I would never invite someone to stay if I didn't have the time or energy or inclination to offer them a clean bed!
Is it unreasonable to feel put out by this, given they are putting us up?
Is it unreasonable to say something? (Any suggestions as to what?)
Is it unreasonable to wash the sheets oneself while hosts are out?!

[AngelsLieToKeepControl]

I stayed for one night, I was staying because I was visiting a relative in hospital and had nowhere else to go, it was quite far away from where I live, if I had known what it was like I would never have gone.

I literally sat up all night, I spent the whole time imagining (although I might not have imagined it) things scuttling around and thinking I had bugs hopping on me.

They keep asking me to visit with the kids now, I keep politely declining. I genuinely don't think they see anything wrong with where they live. It really surprised me because their car is always immaculate and they are always really well turned out too.

[areyoutheregoditsmemargaret]

Fur coat and nae knickers as my Scottish mum would say

[HectorVector]

Eurgh I don't understand people like this. It's basic cleanliness and being a good host. No one wants to sleep in someone else's sheets (even if it was only 1 night).

[Pobblewhohasnotoes]

Angels that is vile.

I always clean the house and change sheets before anyone stays. I'm a bit funny about it, I hate it if people stay and it's not clean! My mil thinks I'm daft.

[TotallyBenHanscom]

Ugh. The smell of someone's hairspray (or worse, greasy scalp) on the pillow, the dead skin, the pubes, sweat, bogies, dribble. Yuck yuck yuck.

We have two sets of guests that stay frequently, and I have a different set of duvet/pillows for each of them. I do this because I know that I personally wouldn't want to sleep under a duvet that had been regularly shagged under/on! The guests in question, a couple, come for the weekend on a monthly basis. I'm assuming that at some point they have done the deed in the spare room.

I always make of point of assuring everyone that stays over that there is clean linen and towels in their room.

However, I haven't always been able to guarantee that there is definitely not a stiff dead mouse under the bed! (cats)

[DialsMavis]

Euggghhhh I have left sheets on for MIL before, when lovely clean SIL (her daughter) has slept i there for one night. But that's about the limit

[DonkeysDontRideBicycles]

I stayed somewhere where this happened, I was fooled into thinking all was well because of the chocolate on the (as it transpired, unchanged) pillow. Nice touch but sadly overshadowed by the long dark hairs on the bedding.

[ancelynthecraven]

Stayed at a friends house and the place was a pit. Hair brushes on work surfaces in the kitchen had head lice on them. Cat food all over the wet room. Dead fleas in the bed we were supposed to sleep in.
My husband was ashamed of the place and his friend really embarrassed.
His wife seemed really proud of the fact that she was a slattern.
I had a detol bath when I got home.

[WillieWaggledagger]

yanbu

agree with trills though - i had my mum staying one night and then a few days later my dad (they are a couple but were staying overnight at mine on their own for work trips). i put clean sheets on for mum, and then just washed the pillow cases for dad and aired the bed in between. they share a bed normally so this i think is fine. would never do this for non-related guests or after people staying longer than 1-2 nights

[DorisShutt]

Urgh. Sounds horrible to me.

Having said that, BIL stayed at his parents the night before getting married (ex-SIL was staying in their house), we had booked a hotel as their house is tiny.

The night of the wedding we went back to PIL's and DMIL went to go change the bed - at 2am; we told her to stop and just crashed out.

[ImaginativeNewName]

I wouldn't really care if if was just somewhere to crash for the night. Then again I have slept in cars, on manky student sofas, I'm not a fussy sleeper and shouldn't be listened to.

[fromparistoberlin]

ewwwww

I have a mate that does this, I ALWAYS take a spare sheet and pillow case when I sat :-)

[tolittletoolate]

My Mum stayed with my sister a while ago and was given a bed to sleep in that had no sheets at all, just a bare mattress!!
Needless to say she hasn't stayed there again.

[Asteria]

I usually leave sheets on until just before guests come to stay, just in case it is the same person coming back! My DH also often ends up in the spare bed if he has had a bout of insomnia and doesn't want me to murder him wake up because he is thrashing about. I'm not going to put fresh sheets on every time he goes in there, but guests get the full pressed linen treatment!!

I once found a massive black pube in a bed I was staying in, I felt grubby for the rest of my stay.

[doodlyfiddly]

Some people really surprise you don't they? This also happened to us - 'please stay, please stay' etc. until we caved.

We were given the bedroom of their 15 yr old son and, it was only as we got into the bed, that the rankness of teenage boy (still don't want to think about what else) leapt up to greet us. YUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

[sandfrog]

YANBU at all.

[baggyoldcow]

ha ha good to hear I'm not alone! I love the dettol bath idea ancelyn

Just remembered that when I was about 10 we went to stay at someone's house while they were away for a week. I was put in the kid's bed and it had pee in it! It was still damp! Ugh.

Amazing the way people you think you know operate.

[SatinSandals]

It has never happened to me so I am not sure how I would handle it. I can't imagine it happening.

[UnicornsNotRiddenByGrownUps]

Anything other than changing the sheets is just utterly rank!

[whois]

I don't totally see the problem with leaving the sheets if there's been one guest one night - in pjs and after a shower, how much damage can they really do to the sheets?

[drspouse]

I do the same as Asteria as my mum comes more often than anyone else.

She is here at the moment but a friend was here on Tuesday and my dad 10 days before that. It is definitely DH's turn to change the sheets now.

[BikeRunSki]

FiL used to stay for a night or two every week or two. I didn't always change the sheets every time he slept in the spare bed. Although I did if someone else was coming in between FiL visits !

[TheAlyssWithTheMewlingQuim]

Sometimes if I've had my friend over one night and then my mum over the next, I ask her if she minds slightly used sheets. Normally she's fine with it, but I'm always willing to change them if that's what she wants.

[daisychain01]

Rank

The smell ~ ~ ~

Heave

[JapaneseMargaret]

Sometimes if I've had my friend over one night and then my mum over the next, I ask her if she minds slightly used sheets. Normally she's fine with it, but I'm always willing to change them if that's what she wants.

Normally she's fine with it. So sometimes she's not?

Surely, on that basis, she's really not fine with it, and is only being polite when she says she doesn't mind...?