Would you use something that had been left behind in a hotel room?

[Yetano]

Name change as I've been chatting about this today and said I'd post on here.

So we were away a couple of weeks ago. On day two, DH found a new(ish) bottle of sun cream in our very nice, but not so well cleaned or sanitised room.

We both agreed it was not something someone would come back for, like a piece of clothing, jewellery or a book.

I said I'd have just left it behind. He thinks it's a waste as it would just be thrown away and end up in landfill. He has kept it and has been using it.

I've said I don't want to use it and it's not to go near the DC.

He thinks I'm being ridiculous.

Just interested to know what others think.

The woman in Salisbury’s partner found a half used perfume in a bin.

What’s the likelihood 1 in 65 million ?

Getting in a car?? High risk.

Do people really not have any concept of risk evaluation

@MissLucyEyelesbarrow

It is item-dependent. Suncream, yes. Butt-plug no.

Butt plug was my first thought when I opened the thread too

In the past I'd never have thought twice about using it. But not since that poisoning in Salisbury when someone died after spraying herself with perfume from a bottle that someone else had found lying about.

That has put me off using second-hand toiletries to be honest.

No, I think it’s the chain of custody thing and not knowing the person who left it. The strange thing is that I go on a couple small boat holidays a year 26 pax max. They always have a basket in the common area for this kind of stuff that people leave behind, including seasick drugs (Non prescription) I’ll use that if it’s needed and handy.

There isn’t much difference rationally speaking, but a random bottle left in a hotel…nope!

No I wouldn’t. I don’t know why.

I remember my mum giving me a Dior lipstick that she found in a holiday cottage that she cleaned. She was shocked that I threw it out.

I don’t think I would, but I can’t quite articulate why.

Rationally I know there’s almost certainly nothing wrong with it, but my first reaction at the thought of rubbing a stranger’s sunscreen into my body is disgust.

I'd be more worried that housekeeping didn't notice it than I would be about using it.

I've often left bottles of suncream / shampoo / shower gel etc in hotels and assumed they're either binned or staff take them (as we did when I worked in hotels). If they were approaching expiry I'd put them in the bin myself.

@pigsDOfly

Even if he uses it, won't the bottle still go to landfill?

No I wouldn't use someone else's unwanted sun cream. Just feels a bit icky.

Of course it will 😂 Nothing eco or green about smearing on someone else's cream 🤮

@Taliskerskye

The woman in Salisbury’s partner found a half used perfume in a bin.

What’s the likelihood 1 in 65 million ?

Getting in a car?? High risk.

Do people really not have any concept of risk evaluation

I have rather good risk evaluation skills, however, I do not want to use it. If I thought there was a genuine immediate danger of death I'd have stopped DH using it.

"What!
I have never had sunscreen that doesn’t have an expiration date."

You can't comprehend that some people buy different brands to you? Shocking.

"Do people really not have any concept of risk evaluation"

You could simply decide that you don't want to do something. Nothing to do with risk evaluation. Can you comprehend that?

@uktrippin
Yes
But just realise it’s irrational totally irrational

I found a pack of knickers, M&S, black, my size, down the back of the chest of drawers in a holiday let. I think it was when we were packing to go home and I pulled the drawer out or had a feel behind it to make sure nothing of mine had fallen behind it.
I can’t remember now if they were unopened or if maybe one out of the pack of five had gone and the others were all neatly folded still. In which case I’d have washed them to make sure, but I think they were unopened.
I bet that poor woman was mystified about where her new knickers had gone!

"But just realise it’s irrational totally irrational"

It wouldn't be irrational totally irrational to not use the suncream I left behind since you'd likely get sunburn.

@Papergirl1968

I found a pack of knickers, M&S, black, my size, down the back of the chest of drawers in a holiday let. I think it was when we were packing to go home and I pulled the drawer out or had a feel behind it to make sure nothing of mine had fallen behind it. I can’t remember now if they were unopened or if maybe one out of the pack of five had gone and the others were all neatly folded still. In which case I’d have washed them to make sure, but I think they were unopened. I bet that poor woman was mystified about where her new knickers had gone!

Did you wear them?!

I did when I got home yes, Greyhound! It was a few years ago but I’m pretty sure the packet was still sealed. If it had been opened but they were still neatly folded, I’d just have washed them first to be sure. But no one uses knickers and then folds them carefully up and places them back in the packet to look like they’re brand new do they?

You can't comprehend that some people buy different brands to you? Shocking.

All cosmetics and suncream sold in the UK is required to have a ‘best before date’ or a number of months past opening shown on it. If yours doesn’t, return it.

@Papergirl1968

I did when I got home yes, Greyhound! It was a few years ago but I’m pretty sure the packet was still sealed. If it had been opened but they were still neatly folded, I’d just have washed them first to be sure. But no one uses knickers and then folds them carefully up and places them back in the packet to look like they’re brand new do they?

Fair enough

I never take home beauty products unless really expensive items
Always leave part used shampoo conditioner shower gel sun cream etc
Housekeeping team can take, bin or leave for next guests
I hate waste

No and especially not in a pandemic.

I would give the bottle a wash and use. Wouldn’t worry about it, no one is going to deliberately poison a bottle of cream for the next occupant knowing it’s likely to be chucked by housekeeping. Sun team is expensive, waste not want not

I'd use it

When I've been on holiday recently , at a 4 star hotel I will add ... lady who was leaving asked me if I'd like 3 bottles of Lancaster decent sunscreen and I said yes please !

Waste not want not

I'd be delighted to get free suncream. It's not cheap. What do you think someone would have done to it?

"All cosmetics and suncream sold in the UK is required to have a ‘best before date’ or a number of months past opening shown on it. If yours doesn’t, return it."

🤦🏽‍♀️ yes I know. But how would the person finding my open suncream know when I'd opened it if it has the shelf life on as opposed to the date?

I opened it years ago. Then found it this year in the zip of a case I hadn't used for a long time so I discarded it in the hotel room there and then.

@Taliskerskye

What do you think happened to the sun cream Someone put covid in it?? Or maybe the hiv

🙄