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

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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.

Hmmm, this is disconcerting. Maybe DH feels the same way about me as I always take a couple of sugar sachets from Costa etc. I never need to buy sugar as the only person who uses it is DH in coffee (and he normally drinks tea!) so the freebies accumulate and keep me going for ages. 'You've paid for them anyway...', as my thrifty mother used to say.

I love this thread! And YANBU. I hate it when my DH comes home like a conquering hero and dumps a load of shitty little packets of cheap whatnots. It makes me feel like a thieving desperate. I was amazed on Grumpy Old Women when the blonde one from 'Birds of a Feather' said she tried to nick as much as she could from hotels. Blimey - is she really that hard up?

Mini soaps and especially shampoos are quite handy for when you go away, or if you have guests over, but nicking them isn't particularly sexy, no. DH doesn't do this much, but my dad is the king of hotel room/cafe condiment trolley/airline-based theft. He never uses any of the stuff and it drives my mum mad.

When we stayed a night in a hotel on site at Centerparcs in Belgium and they made us take two rooms for two adults, a child and a baby (even though there was a pull out bed for the child) and then wanted us to pay another 10 euros for cot hire , I definately took the packs of lovely toiletries.....all four of them.....and we made sure we made a packed lunch from the breakfast that we had to pay for for a 16 week old baby!

yanbu. i would too, its very clearly my domain in our relationship.i bring back everything and even lovely containers off the plane.

i would fancy DP more for being so thrifty and thoughtful.love all the wee freebies.great for gym bag too

i was utterly delighted when dh came home with a bag of mini bottles from the hotel. Mind you, they were all L'Occitane

yes i got a big bag of molton brown and L'occitane from his travels.delightful

Do people use hard soaps any more? I only ever do in hotels. I love having the mini mouthwashes for work, if there's been a lunch and I'm all garlicky or something.

DD1 was just overjoyed when I came back from the last meeting away with two packets of shortbreads. Shortbread from London. Mmmmm

If they are nice then I positively encourage it! I take them if I'm anywhere with nice toiletries Molton Brown, Bulgari - yum!

YANBU!

This reminded me when my partner went off on a work trip for a couple of nights and left mw ith my very young baby son. When he got back he said he's got me a present and I was made up. Until he gave me it that is - the complimentary goddam sewing kit they leave in hotel rooms!!

Toiletries I don't have a problem with.

We have just spent the weekend in Paris and I put the posh lotions and shampoos in my vanity case each day so they would give us more!

Very handy for the gym!

My dh however brings home the little packets of biscuits and squirrels them away in his study drawer.

Now that is unsexy!

Molton Brown and L'occitane also sell well on Ebay.

Hilarious
Am lmao at troutpat's dh's shoe/snadal horror.

My dh is abroad a lot.He brings me some horrors.

6 sets of eyemasks,socks and earplugs
10 baseball caps with EU logo on them
Nast black diary and pen holder emblazoned with logo of German company he works for and obviously designed in 1973.

Gee, thanks.

It's been good for (non existent) my German though, using the diary.

I am hiding this thread its hardly a marraige breaker and its been going for days

Shame he didn't bring you the maid. Now that could be useful and sexy if you were in an adventurous mood.

I love all the mini shampoos, shower gels etc. i'd be made up if they were brought home for me. I love the packs of biscuits too

I often go to hotels on day courses (sadly not overnight or would be pilfering the toiletries!), and always bring spare pads of paper, pens and pencils back for the DCs! Sometimes we get little tin of mints as well, which the DC think are great. Clearly they are as mad as their mother

My nan used to save packets of sugar from caffs throughout the year so she had a stash for her summer trip to Butlins.

I like it; it's resourceful. But not particularly sexy, no.

Am also highly amused by the shoe/sandal combo

My aunt can out do your nan - she used to take:- Sugar, sauce sachets, toilet rolls, obviously anything that wasn't nailed down in her hotel rooms, napkins etc - but the clincher is - I went to bingo with her and my mum once. They served their sausage in a basket on a paper plate - So long as the plates weren't stained she would brush them off and put them in her bag - when i asked why - Ah they'll do for BBQs!!! I kid you not!

I sometimes take tartre sauce sachets as i don't like it enough to buy it! I am prone to spririting away beer glasses though (must run in the family)

My Mum used to make a point of stirring her tea in cafes/restuarants even though she doesn't take sugar in tea "to make them wash the spoons". I never figured that one out myself .

Oh I couldn't be bothered! A few are nice to have as emergencies, for guests, for gym etc, but you only need so many - especially if you're a business traveller you hardly need to take them every time do you?

YANBU.

your mum sounds even weirder than mine!!

LucyEllens... I am most amused by your aunt's antics. Did BBQ guests ever notice they were using recycled plates? She was clearly ahead of her time on that one.

Thats one way of putting it OC - She is in australia, and apparently the butchers give breast of mutton away as dog food - guess what was on her BBQ menues!!! Best part of it - she is rolling in money!

Well, no wonder with all her cash-strapping ways! She should publish a book of tips for these more frugal times.