More are my guests being unreasonable?

[stayathomegardener]

I run a holiday cottage in the UK, sleeps 4 and is next to our house.

Currently have two guests staying so provided the usual 4 bath sheets when they arrived yesterday.
I received this message this morning:

Hi T*,do you have some hand towels and face cloths that you could leave for us. We will leave bath towels outside for you after use for washing and return if that's ok as we use clean towels each night,thanks."

The hand towels and face cloths are not an issue I can give them some of ours and perhaps should consider providing them anyway but daily washing/drying two bath sheets is that reasonable?

For full disclosure the listing states that there is use of a washing machine next door (in our house) and I always say to guests just let me know if you would like me to put any washing on for you.
Tempted to say help yourself to it but really don't want to have to let them in here (tidy up!)
I have yet to respond...

Take the towels. Hang them to air/ dry and deliver them back neatly folded. Save the planet and your sanity.

Are people actually being serious about not using fresh towels every day?

Absolutely. No one needs fresh towels every day. It's wasteful and indulgent beyond belief.

Yes let's blame the planet being fucked on someone washing their towels shall we. Hope you're all driving electric cars.

Yes let's blame the planet being fucked on someone washing their towels shall we. Hope you're all driving electric cars.

Ah, good old deflect and attack.

I bloody well hope you walk everywhere and never fly to make up for your profligacy in all matters towels and pyjamas.

Why has blame got to come into it? Defensive much?

It’s about the cumulative effect of everybody consciously making an effort to change habits that actually have no benefit and realistic alternatives.

Washing your towels after one use as a matter of course is environmentally harmful in a number of ways (detergent is not great for the ecosystem) and is just not needed. Why continue to do it when you receive information stating the facts against it including the fact it’s utterly pointless.

Yeah we all are Pinkyy - and we wash the seat covers after every single contact with our arses, of course.

Absolutely would not be washing their bath towels every day. That is way OTT. I like leaving them a key to use the washing machine, but do you want them in your house?

Greed and over consumption

@Pinkyyy apologies in that case, my mistake

Definitely provide a hand towel. How else can someone dry their hair? I've stayed in a b&b that didn't provide one and it was a real pain.

I've never used a hand towel to dry my hair in my life. One bath towel dries everything just fine.

Yeah we all are Pinkyy - and we wash the seat covers after every single contact with our arses, of course.

What do you do with your dripping hair when you get out of the shower then?

@ChardonnaysPrettySister certainly not deflecting. Just pointing out the hypocrisy of people who are berating me for wanting clean towels whilst they are possibly driving diesel cars and the like.

You say you will put washing on for them in the advert....then complain because they want you to put washing on?

You could change your advert, but if you choose not to YABU.

I would expect hand towels

So you don't drive and fly at all?

@ChardonnaysPrettySister oh I do, but I'm not the one doing the berating.

Some people like to use face towels and hand towels. That's why they were invented. That is what they consider normal. Some people have very high standards of hygeine and feel very uncomfortable if they don't have clean towels every day, any more than they would not change their clothes every day. It may seem massively wasteful to you, but some people may think the same of many other habits that people adapt that are different from one's own. People who are cleaner or dirtier than we are are simply unreasonable. The OP offered to do washing, and is now annoyed. I don't think that's a particularly helpful attitude.

So you drive, fly, wash and bleach the fuck out of your towels and what not but then feel you can come and tell off other posters?

Ok then....

Clean towels every day? Why? Just why? Once a week in this house and even then they don’t really need it because we bath/shower every day.

I think if you are a towel fetishist, then you should bring spare ones of your own when you go on holiday or stay in hotels/serviced accommodation where you can get them changed daily.

You do not get diseases from reusing a towel.

Who have I told off? And I don't bleach my towels. All I said was that if you're going to make out that I'm single handedly killing the earth, then you must obviously be living in some sort of self built, self sufficient eco-house.

I like urbanlifes message, polite and friendly and a good compromise.

Try telling someone with an obsessive cleaning disorder to use their towels for a week. It's not a joke to have to clean everything because you're mentally compelled to do it.