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Original poster

to fancy my husband just slightly less for pinching mini soaps from a hotel?

75 replies

AliceTheCamelHasGotTheHump · 09/02/2009 09:22

He had an extended work trip and ended up staying in a hotel for quite a while. When he got back he proudly presented me with a bag full of mini soaps and another of mini mouthwashes.

I don't have any moral issue with it.

It's not very sexy though, is it.

We don't even use mouthwash.

OP posts:
Drusilla · 09/02/2009 09:24

Mine has done this, but then tries to palm them off on friends when they come to stay

NoBiggyValentineItsBollox · 09/02/2009 09:24

YANBU, he should have brought you back a trouserpress and a couple of towels.

LibrasJusticeLeagueofBiscuits · 09/02/2009 09:26

Erm whilst I am firmly in the stealing the mini toiletries from a hotel camp (they are useful for when you go to a place that doesn't have toiletries). I think I would be slightly miffed if they were presented to me as a PRESENT. Did he just hand them over in a put these away manner or in a this is a present for you my darling wife (in which case myabe he is dropping a hint?)

girlandboy · 09/02/2009 09:27

Depends if they are the luxury versions or the cheap and nasty little white oblong soaps that you used to get in public toilets!

helenhismadwife · 09/02/2009 09:27

I dont mind the shampoo and body wash ones handy for when I go away for the weekend

NorbertDentressangle · 09/02/2009 09:27

Unless the soaps and mouthwash were presented to you as a Valentines gift I can't see your problem.

helenhismadwife · 09/02/2009 09:28

if they were a present I would have pointed out to him that flowers or chocolates are nicer

littlerach · 09/02/2009 09:31

Dh does thsi every week.
However, he stays in nice hotels so usually I get Molton Brown or Aveda

And not as presents, just cos he doen't use them, so gives them to me and dds.

BonsoirAnna · 09/02/2009 09:32

LOL

My DP used to do this until I told him to stop.

Original poster
AliceTheCamelHasGotTheHump · 09/02/2009 09:42

James Bond wouldn't pinch the mini toiletries.

OP posts:
BonsoirAnna · 09/02/2009 09:44

You are absolutely right, Alice.

My DP rather likes being compared to James Bond - good negotiation tactics.

NoBiggyValentineItsBollox · 09/02/2009 09:44

Ah yes "what would James Bond do?" a question we should all ask when faced with a dilemma.

Tclanger · 09/02/2009 09:54

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kiltycoldbum · 09/02/2009 09:57

mine presented me with a dressing gown a couple of weeks ago! i was secretly pleased as it was a nice one from a very nice hotel

bran · 09/02/2009 09:58

At least he was thinking of you while he was away, not just watching the porn channel or drinking himself into liver failure.

poppy34 · 09/02/2009 10:06

I tell dh that he HAS to bring them home if they are decent ones...

fanjoforthemammaries7850 · 09/02/2009 10:10

My DH does this and it makes me like him more as its very sweet!

Buda · 09/02/2009 10:10

kiltycoldbum - did he buy it or steal it? It may appear on his credit card bill if he 'stole' it!

I once went away for a weekend with a girlfriend and I had paid for the room on my credit card. She stole and ashtray from the room and I got charged! I did make sure she paid me back.

Qally · 09/02/2009 10:12

I love them, if from a nice hotel! Aveda or L'Occitane or something. They're great for the swimming-pool showers.

I fear that makes me beneath James Bond's notice.

alibubbles · 09/02/2009 10:13

My DH is in Brussels for 6 months, I am going to get very fat on the free Godiva chocolates they put in his room/ I'm not talking one or two chocs, but whole boxes. Last week was a metal tin full of chocolate beans.... yum, this week was a box of very thickly chocolate coated orange, shame I have a dodgy tum at the moment.

kiltycoldbum · 09/02/2009 10:14

it was to keep as your own personal robe at a plush hotel/spa place so i was chuffed, though it doesnt actually go over my big fat pg belly just meets in the middle, still wearing it though! we go to a certain hotel in spain that has the nicest smelling toiletries ever, i dont remember the name of them but i steal it all when we're there, i have no shame!

immediately · 09/02/2009 10:50

I would be very proud of my DH for being so resourceful.

troutpout · 09/02/2009 11:03

yanbu
Mine does it too
it's just not sexy

bigeyes · 09/02/2009 11:07

My DH did this, they are in with the price of the room and I think it is resourceful too. I took them from our wedding night hotel at the malmasion and the smell of them for weeks afterwards reminded me of my wedding day. I still have the pencil too in my keepsake box.

To be frank I wouldnt equate this with 'sexy' one way or the other, I can think of other unsexy things my DH does which are far worse than bringing you what he thought were helpful little things to have in the house.

Simplysally · 09/02/2009 11:15

Did he bring the tea and coffee sachets too?

I take them as you don't get charged any less if you don't use them. I bag any stationery or pencils too - these odds and ends are often handy on future trips (I have a 'travelling drawer' where I keep these oddments, travel plugs, passport, travel wash etc, coins for airport trollies). Makes packing easier.