Find it annoying when guests strip bed!

[Finlesswonder]

Sis came to stay with me last night and this morning she stripped the bed, I totally get its trying to he helpful but I was planning on napping on that bed this afternoon 😅

The last time my mum stayed she stripped the bed and put the bedding in the washing machine and I was inwardly annoyed because I had no intention of washing them right that day...

She was trying to be helpful though so I didn't say anything.

Oh no I can’t leave the bedsheets on, what if I made it dirty and don’t want them to see 🤢let alone nap on.

I absolutely can’t share bedsheets!

If I knew that they were clean it honestly wouldn’t bother me.
I’m also not going to be sleeping in the sheets as my guests? I’d wash the sheets when I have another guest stay over but I wouldn’t want to wash sheets that I’d only washed a couple of days ago.

People do it maybe because they’ve stained it?

I just tell my guests not to and I love it when they leave the bed as well made as when they arrived, even if I do then strip the beds anyway.

People honestly find it "so disgusting" to sleep in a bed after someone they know well had been in it for a few nights? It's her sister. I'd sleep in a bed after my sister. I'd sleep in a bed with my sister. Or my parents. Or a good friend. If they'd been sleeping in it for weeks on end then no I'd rather not.
Obviously I wouldn't want to stay in a hotel room where the sheets haven't been changed because I don't know who's been in there or what they've been doing. But my sister who kipped over for a night or two I honestly wouldn't even think twice about it. I might just turn the pillow over on case she'd drooled on it.
There's a huge difference between a stranger and a family member/ friend.

It’s the sweat!!! And discharge! and… ugh! What if they’ve had sex?

Napping in a bed that your sister has slept in for one night is totally normal! My sister (pre husband) used to sleep in my bed with me when she came to stay. She's my sister ffs, we shared a room growing up. I don't feel the urge to wash everything she's touched as soon as she leaves.

Yes. Or the people who aren’t going to wash the bedlinen for a few days, but somehow cannot abide the look of an unmade bed, but are somehow unable to remake the bed with different linen if it’s that unbearable.

I’ve never had a guest strip the bed before leaving and I’ve never done it if I’ve stayed somewhere. I’d be a bit baffled if a guest left and I found the bed stripped! I personally find that a really strange thing to do.

I hate it because it immediately gives me more washing to do.

i’d rather they left it on, and let me wait until I have done my priority laundry and it’s a good dry day for sheets!

But surely if you had the choice you would nap in your own bed? The op is bypassing her own bed to sleep in the spare bed and it's that which is weird imo

Stripping a guest bed in a private house is weird. Do they think they are in a holiday cottage? Why do they think a host/friend/family want a mess in the guest bedroom to deal with? Just make the bed and leave it tidy like you got when you arrived

I just love how 50%of the thread is completely baffled by the other 50% of the thread and vice versa. Really enjoying it 😀

Absolutely this

Do people not having a laundry pile? Why do you have to wash the sheets straight away if they've been stripped? Can't they just wait in the pile until laundry day?

Not yuck

I don’t have a pile

i have a basket which is pretty large but a king size full set of bedding just fills it up

I’d rather my showered guest left their one nightly slept in bedding neatly on the bed, rather than ripping it off and filling up my laundry basket

i don’t tend to have mates that are so filthy I need to wash and disinfect everything after they leave

Yes this. I stripped a bed once to find a stained mattress so I remade it

That’s exactly it.

When I lived in a flat, the washing machine was in the kitchen and no, I didn't have a laundry pile! Washing went straight into the machine.
If a guest had stripped their bedding, it would have been sitting on the kitchen floor!

Exactly, surely the only places mattresses are 100% pristine are hotels

I also prefer guests not to strip the bed but it is a hangover from when we had a cat - he was a long hair who malted and would always sneak in to the spare bedroom if he could (he'd probably have been able to break into Fort Knox!) - so I hated the idea of the cat getting on the "bare" mattress and pillows etc so always kept it made up - it meant if guests stripped it, I had to remake it then strip it and wash it again the day before / day of guests arriving so I was doing the work twice.

Since the cat died about 2 years ago I've still never gotten out of the habit and I like knowing the bed is fresh for guests.

I do always offer when we stay places but follow the hosts requests

saves me a job.. always change the bedding after i have visitors... you could alwasy have your nap after you put clean bedding on

What are all you filthy bints doing at night - rendering the sheets vomit worthy?

Do you sit on the same sofa as other people?
Worse - do you sit on the same toilet as other people?

What is it, exactly that makes the sheets of a once slept in bed so disgusting? Assuming the guest wasn't participating in a massive naked, body fluid filled orgy, I think it's ok to nap in a bed used by a family member.

The hysteria on this thread is bizarre and perhaps reflective of what some people do in their own beds - naked sleeping/sheet butt floss???