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 😅

I always ask my host if they’d like me to strip the bed. Mostly they say no thanks.

I do too and was taught it's good manners. Perhaps I better stop.

I don't ever drool and don't normally sweat (unless I am ill with a fever) in my sleep and I am sure most people don't! Do you drool and sweat and as a result change your bedding every single night?

I always ask people not to. I don’t want a backlog of stuff in the laundry so want to do it when the laundry is free of dirty clothes.

I ask first - a friend I stay with regularly isn't in the best of health, and stripping the bed can be exhausting if you've no energy

My cat loves the spare bed and so it's a hairy mess. Therefore I only change the covers on the day a guest arrives and shut the door

Problem sorted. Thank you! I can't believe the drama over this.

I dislike it when guests strip the bed. I prefer if they just leave it on the bed and let me deal with it all myself.

I know most people prefer if guests strip the beds so when I'm a guest at someone else's home I usually ask which they prefer.

It is very considerate and helpful of a visitor to strip the bed before they leave. I don’t make the guest bed up until the day before the next person arrives otherwise all the dust is laying on the clean sheets and pillow cases for what could be a month or more.

I’ve been brought up to believe that stripping the bed as a guest is like lacing your cutlery after eating - ie a given! And that it’s incredibly rude not to strip the bed as a guest. Well this thread is an eye opener 😂 I thought everyone did it.

I find it very strange you were planning on sleeping on sheets used by someone else.. bit gross op! Why wouldn’t you just put new sheets & bedspread on??

This. On a related note, I hate when people put used crockery etc in the sink as it inevitably ends up as a watery mess that I have to empty to go into the dishwasher or use the sink. Just put it on the draining board or worktop above the dishwasher FFS.

If you'd done this in my house I would assume you'd soiled the sheets and were embarrassed about it.

I always check with the host. If it’s family or one girlfriend that has slept in the bed I would be quite happy for us to sleep in the bed for a night or two especially if it then needs changing for guests a few days later.

I always strip.the bed too, but I also hoover around, touch up any painting on the skirting boards, give all the toilets a good scrub, cut the grass / jetwash the patio, clean the windows, and feed the cat.

Consequently I'm constantly being invited to stay at peoples houses, to be honest it's all become a bit of a chore - literally.

My thoughts too. Planning to nap in the spare room where someone else has just slept is bizarre to me. This place never fails to amaze me!

I never strip the bed, I just make it neatly. After all, the host might not be doing the washing that day.

Me too, I’d also be very annoyed, I may have been planning other laundry first and now had to deal with drying th4 sheets first.

Would no one here share a bed with their sister? I’d happily share with mine and would sleep in a bed she’d previously slept the night in too. I wouldn’t do that with everyone but family and close friends, fine. Does nobody here who has said sleeping on someone else’s bed without clean sheets is ‘rancid’ ever share a bed with a partner or family member?

Yep annoys me too. Our cats shed a lot of hair and sleep on the spare bed and it's way easier to get the hair off the duvet cover and then wash it rather than the mattress. Plus I think it looks neater with the covers on and I don't feel obliged to straightaway put clean ones on

Yes but I’d not chose to do it rather than sleep in my own bed, mere feet away.

If it’s close family, and only one or two nights anyway, I’d be annoyed, too - I often use that bed so that my up-and-down nights don’t disturb dh.

But people do usually ask.

Unless you know this friend extremely well, that is very rude, annoying and possibly dangerous. How do you know which programme they use for that bedding? How do you know there isn't a problem with the washing machine which might lead to a flooded kitchen/power outage/house fire? Leave other people's appliances alone. Absolutely not your place to decide when the laundry gets done.

I always fold down the duvet to bottom of bed and put pillows on top when im leaving. And tidy round

Yes it's annoying. I might want to leave the spare room looking tidy, to save myself the immediate work, and strip and wash the bed before the next guests arrive.

I prefer people not to strip the bed, or ask, because I usually have an overflowing dirty laundry basket and don’t want to have a load of bedding to wash when it’s not a priority. I’ll strip the bed before we next have guests, and when I’m on top of the laundry!