s/o kitchen is closed

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Anonymous wrote:MiL already informed us never to have snacks in the house, FIL will hoover then all up in one afternoon. Chips, nuts, dips, cookies, cakes, pretzels - gone.

Same at her house, no snacks, only apples or oranges in order to keep FIL’s weight down. And crumbs. Constant crumbs from bags or bread or desserts on every counter and table. We come home from work and have to wipe down counters and vacuum the main floor each and every day they stay. They literally just sit in the house, eat, take a walk, and read all day.

I keep my snacks in a small train case. Shut and put away in a closet. MIL could stuff it. I’ll eat where I want.

Why the need for snacks? It boggles my mind that you need to have something to eat constantly. And you wonder why you keep gaining weight

Because there is not enough food served. Because there is no lunch at all. Breakfast and dinner only. Capish?

A train case full of snack foods? If I found something like that stashed in one of my guest bedrooms, I would toss it into the dumpster immediately. No questions asked. Do you think that your host wants to find crumbs and greasy stains all over the guest bedroom once you leave?

It is monstrously rude to a) go through your guests’ belongings and b) throw out anything you find there. If you did that to me, I would leave and not come back, but not before smearing jam and mayonnaise all over your lovely closed kitchen. Suck it, you joyless harridan.

Sorry, but nothing justifies vandalizing someone’s home. Full stop

[Anonymous]

^^No one said it was OK to make a mess or leave crumbs in your host's home. Full stop.

Bringing your own snacks does not automatically mean making a mess, do you get it?

It IS OK to bring your own food and feed yourself if your hosts are stingy, OCD and don't provide enough food.

It is not OK to make a mess of any kind in your host's home.

Stop acting like snacks automatically equals mess.

[Anonymous]

I’m dying reading this. My understanding
-one of these ladies won’t feed her guests appropriately. A teeny breakfast and dinner. Or B, L, D but absolutely no chance for snacks in between.
-I can’t tell if she either wants them or doesn’t want them to go out and get their own snacks? But if they do, she judges them slovenly because they choose a burger and ice cream?

Lady, if you would just provide some possible snacks or slightly fuller meals, that would be better than your judgment of their fast food lunch/snack.

Please provide to your guests:
Baby carrots or carrot sticks
A few servings of seasonal fruit, but apples and bananas are available most of the year
Some whole grain crackers
Trail mix
A cucumber/pepper and hummus
Cheese cubes, raisins, or almonds

^at minimum!

Then they can decide their intake for the day and won’t be forced out to fast food, unless they want to.

[Anonymous]

Burger King Lady,

What are your rules regarding overnight guests and bathing? Do you limit them to one towel visit? Must they hang it up in a particular place? The showers themselves...do you time them? Is shampoo rationed out?

I'm genuinely curious.

[Anonymous]

We visited a friend like this with the very tiny meals and the large box of wine. And asking the children to scrub the kitchen cabinets. I took that as too crazy for me and stayed in a hotel. It just wasn’t relaxing or fun having crazy following us around minding the food. We were hungry we went to a fast food place because that’s all they had out there in the country.

[Anonymous]

Our extended cheap guests even take home big containers of our nuts, food we buy at the grocery store. I go close the window because the A/C is in and there is $100 of stables they are taking home that we paid for.
Puke city.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have any of you with the stingy "kitchen is closed" relatives,
who act like pigs when they come visit you, thought to do the same thing to them when they come to your house?

Say "the kitchen is closed" after breakfast and hide your food in your bedroom so they get to experience not eating anything from breakfast to dinner unless they also go out and buy food? Did it work to break them of the rude habit?

My MIL would tell us we couldn't eat food we brought with us, to their house!! Instead they would tell us that "we have to save it for (another guest.) We continued to bring food but when MIL asked when we were serving it, I told her she would have to wait til the special guest showed up. She never did that again!

So have any of you decided to treat them like they treat you? I know.its petty and rude, but do you think it would do any good?

That's really messed up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Burger King Lady,

What are your rules regarding overnight guests and bathing? Do you limit them to one towel visit? Must they hang it up in a particular place? The showers themselves...do you time them? Is shampoo rationed out?

I'm genuinely curious.

My guests get freshly laundered sheets and towels once a day, I prefer not to give stains a chance to set in. Shampoo, conditioner, soap, body wash, shower door squeegee and spray are all provided.

I also prepare delicious, lovely (planned!) meals. My guests are hardly starving. I simply refuse to enable and clean up after gluttony.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Burger King Lady,

What are your rules regarding overnight guests and bathing? Do you limit them to one towel visit? Must they hang it up in a particular place? The showers themselves...do you time them? Is shampoo rationed out?

I'm genuinely curious.

My guests get freshly laundered sheets and towels once a day, I prefer not to give stains a chance to set in. Shampoo, conditioner, soap, body wash, shower door squeegee and spray are all provided.

I also prepare delicious, lovely (planned!) meals. My guests are hardly starving. I simply refuse to enable and clean up after gluttony.

I don't even want to think about what will happen to a guest who dares to change her child's diaper in your house. God help them.

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Anonymous wrote:is eating fruit outside some kind of regional thing? I have never heard of this practice of taking a piece of fruit from the kitchen and going outside to eat it.

It’s not a regional thing. It’s a healthy thing. Most normal and healthy people have a piece of fruit as a snack in between meals. They don’t need fatty junk food like pizzas and bigmacs in between nutritious homemade meals. People on this thread should try it.

I like how the world is fruit vs. Big Macs to you. Like there's no middle ground?

My go-to snacks (and I don't snack every day) are fruit and a small piece of cheese (GASP!) or hummus with carrots or pita chips (OMG!!!!!)

I'm sure you would survive if all you had was a banana or an apple as a snack. If you want to clean up pita chip crumbs and wash off plates and utensils after your little snack in your own home, feel free to do so. But do not assume that your hosts want to deal with crumbs and dirty dishes in their kitchens.

Grab a piece of fruit, go outside and eat it.

I always clean up after myself, crumbs, dishes and all. But perhaps you are worried your guests won't wash their dishes to your satisfaction ,with a regulation insecticide and sponge. That's totally not crazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Burger King Lady,

What are your rules regarding overnight guests and bathing? Do you limit them to one towel visit? Must they hang it up in a particular place? The showers themselves...do you time them? Is shampoo rationed out?

I'm genuinely curious.

My guests get freshly laundered sheets and towels once a day, I prefer not to give stains a chance to set in. Shampoo, conditioner, soap, body wash, shower door squeegee and spray are all provided.

I also prepare delicious, lovely (planned!) meals. My guests are hardly starving. I simply refuse to enable and clean up after gluttony.

I don't even want to think about what will happen to a guest who dares to change her child's diaper in your house. God help them.

You expect the guest to clean your shower?

[Anonymous]

Laundering sheets once a day??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Burger King Lady,

What are your rules regarding overnight guests and bathing? Do you limit them to one towel visit? Must they hang it up in a particular place? The showers themselves...do you time them? Is shampoo rationed out?

I'm genuinely curious.

My guests get freshly laundered sheets and towels once a day, I prefer not to give stains a chance to set in. Shampoo, conditioner, soap, body wash, shower door squeegee and spray are all provided.

I also prepare delicious, lovely (planned!) meals. My guests are hardly starving. I simply refuse to enable and clean up after gluttony.

I don't even want to think about what will happen to a guest who dares to change her child's diaper in your house. God help them.

You expect the guest to clean your shower?

No. I expect them to squeegee the shower door after their shower.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Burger King Lady,

What are your rules regarding overnight guests and bathing? Do you limit them to one towel visit? Must they hang it up in a particular place? The showers themselves...do you time them? Is shampoo rationed out?

I'm genuinely curious.

My guests get freshly laundered sheets and towels once a day, I prefer not to give stains a chance to set in. Shampoo, conditioner, soap, body wash, shower door squeegee and spray are all provided.

I also prepare delicious, lovely (planned!) meals. My guests are hardly starving. I simply refuse to enable and clean up after gluttony.

I don't even want to think about what will happen to a guest who dares to change her child's diaper in your house. God help them.

You expect the guest to clean your shower?

No. I expect them to squeegee the shower door after their shower.

Why not just have them shower outside?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Laundering sheets once a day??

Of course. If I get their sheets before 7:30am I will launder them and remake their bed. If I get (or go in and get) the sheets after 7:30am I will launder them but they will be responsible for remaking their own bed.

Breakfast is served promptly at 8am - not 8:30, not 9:00, not 9:30 - but 8:00am.