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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.

That's dumb. I'm not doing that. You can squeegee your own shower. I don't clean in hotels, and I'm not cleaning your house.

Well aren’t you a grateful houseguest. Making your host clean your filth and messes everywhere?

Apparently, pp, you caused her to lose the 5 star Michelin rating for hostesses.

Oh, but there isn't one, is there?

I suspect, though, that BKL has a tiny cadre of ladies who think and do exactly as she does so they fit right in.

There's a Ruth Rendell mystery with an OCD character who has very complicated routines to ensure she is always, always, always clean, and so is her house. Of course, she ends up being a serial killer but she actually thinks she is dispatching ghosts who are haunting her. Too bad they are actual people.

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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.

That's dumb. I'm not doing that. You can squeegee your own shower. I don't clean in hotels, and I'm not cleaning your house.

Well aren’t you a grateful houseguest. Making your host clean your filth and messes everywhere?

I'll clean up any of our messes. Water droplets in a shower aren't a mess, dumbass.

we make guests squeegee their shower walls. there are zero windows or ventilation in the inner guest room bathroom so that prevents mold and mildew. esp when both shower each day.

[Anonymous]

We make our guests clean the bathrooms as well. No one wants to see the remnants of their bowel explosions, period blood, or pee on the floor.

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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.

Now I know you're trolling.

If the guests are all on the same basic schedule it makes our visit so much more pleasant. The early risers get busy and take their showers early, get their linens and towels ready for the wash and get dressed and ready for the day - all before breakfast at 8:00. The later risers have the opportunity to sleep in a little longer. They get to the breakfast table at 8am and then have the late morning to get their showers and get ready for the day. If they then tend to stay up later than the rest of the house - that's o.k. They can go into their rooms and spend some time making their own beds with fresh sheets.

Meals are planned at scheduled times and that helps to keep us all on a similar schedule.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We make our guests clean the bathrooms as well. No one wants to see the remnants of their bowel explosions, period blood, or pee on the floor.

As a guest I always clean the bathroom(s) we use. I can't imagine leaving toothpaste in the sink, soap scum on the shower door or any other mess for our host to clean up.

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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.

That's dumb. I'm not doing that. You can squeegee your own shower. I don't clean in hotels, and I'm not cleaning your house.

Well aren’t you a grateful houseguest. Making your host clean your filth and messes everywhere?

I'll clean up any of our messes. Water droplets in a shower aren't a mess, dumbass.

we make guests squeegee their shower walls. there are zero windows or ventilation in the inner guest room bathroom so that prevents mold and mildew. esp when both shower each day.

Your problem is your bathroom, not water droplets in the shower.

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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.

Now I know you're trolling.

If the guests are all on the same basic schedule it makes our visit so much more pleasant. The early risers get busy and take their showers early, get their linens and towels ready for the wash and get dressed and ready for the day - all before breakfast at 8:00. The later risers have the opportunity to sleep in a little longer. They get to the breakfast table at 8am and then have the late morning to get their showers and get ready for the day. If they then tend to stay up later than the rest of the house - that's o.k. They can go into their rooms and spend some time making their own beds with fresh sheets.

Meals are planned at scheduled times and that helps to keep us all on a similar schedule.

What do you and your guests do between breakfast and the next meal? Do you stay at your lovely home? Go out?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Now I know you're trolling.

If the guests are all on the same basic schedule it makes our visit so much more pleasant. The early risers get busy and take their showers early, get their linens and towels ready for the wash and get dressed and ready for the day - all before breakfast at 8:00. The later risers have the opportunity to sleep in a little longer. They get to the breakfast table at 8am and then have the late morning to get their showers and get ready for the day. If they then tend to stay up later than the rest of the house - that's o.k. They can go into their rooms and spend some time making their own beds with fresh sheets.

Meals are planned at scheduled times and that helps to keep us all on a similar schedule.

What do you and your guests do between breakfast and the next meal? Do you stay at your lovely home? Go out?

Yes, on this schedule we can - all of us - be out the door together by 10. We also sometimes stay in.

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Anonymous wrote:I am interested in knowing whether this is a cultural thing among some white people. We are not white and our families keep feeding and feeding and feeding us and their guests. It would be devestatingly rude for someone to be hungry in their homes.

However, I do tell my own young kids “last call” at dinner time only, because otherwise they suddenly decide they are hungry at bedtime as a stalling technique.

I'm white and in my family growing up and in my household now when people come over the food is overflowing. Maybe it's the particular culture (Catholic vs. WASP?) you come from?

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Anonymous wrote:I am interested in knowing whether this is a cultural thing among some white people. We are not white and our families keep feeding and feeding and feeding us and their guests. It would be devestatingly rude for someone to be hungry in their homes.

However, I do tell my own young kids “last call” at dinner time only, because otherwise they suddenly decide they are hungry at bedtime as a stalling technique.

I'm white and in my family growing up and in my household now when people come over the food is overflowing. Maybe it's the particular culture (Catholic vs. WASP?) you come from?

Definitely not a south Asian thing. I wish it were. I hate having to eat nonstop when going to someone’s house. Even if you say no, they make a plate for you and basically force feed you.

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Anonymous wrote:We make our guests clean the bathrooms as well. No one wants to see the remnants of their bowel explosions, period blood, or pee on the floor.

As a guest I always clean the bathroom(s) we use. I can't imagine leaving toothpaste in the sink, soap scum on the shower door or any other mess for our host to clean up.

FILl leaves pee splatters everywhere. My husband cleans them up once they leave and it’s clear that neither FIL nor MIL care to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Now I know you're trolling.

If the guests are all on the same basic schedule it makes our visit so much more pleasant. The early risers get busy and take their showers early, get their linens and towels ready for the wash and get dressed and ready for the day - all before breakfast at 8:00. The later risers have the opportunity to sleep in a little longer. They get to the breakfast table at 8am and then have the late morning to get their showers and get ready for the day. If they then tend to stay up later than the rest of the house - that's o.k. They can go into their rooms and spend some time making their own beds with fresh sheets.

Meals are planned at scheduled times and that helps to keep us all on a similar schedule.

Jesus. Like a freaking boot camp. You could not be more controlling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Now I know you're trolling.

If the guests are all on the same basic schedule it makes our visit so much more pleasant. The early risers get busy and take their showers early, get their linens and towels ready for the wash and get dressed and ready for the day - all before breakfast at 8:00. The later risers have the opportunity to sleep in a little longer. They get to the breakfast table at 8am and then have the late morning to get their showers and get ready for the day. If they then tend to stay up later than the rest of the house - that's o.k. They can go into their rooms and spend some time making their own beds with fresh sheets.

Meals are planned at scheduled times and that helps to keep us all on a similar schedule.

What do you and your guests do between breakfast and the next meal? Do you stay at your lovely home? Go out?

So she steals the sheets to force them into remaking their bed. If they slept through breakfast and take that apple outside in the rain, she grabs the chance to snatch the sheets off the bed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Now I know you're trolling.

If the guests are all on the same basic schedule it makes our visit so much more pleasant. The early risers get busy and take their showers early, get their linens and towels ready for the wash and get dressed and ready for the day - all before breakfast at 8:00. The later risers have the opportunity to sleep in a little longer. They get to the breakfast table at 8am and then have the late morning to get their showers and get ready for the day. If they then tend to stay up later than the rest of the house - that's o.k. They can go into their rooms and spend some time making their own beds with fresh sheets.

Meals are planned at scheduled times and that helps to keep us all on a similar schedule.

What do you and your guests do between breakfast and the next meal? Do you stay at your lovely home? Go out?

So she steals the sheets to force them into remaking their bed. If they slept through breakfast and take that apple outside in the rain, she grabs the chance to snatch the sheets off the bed.

No need to be theatrical. Perhaps you should try and experience the joy of freshly laundered sheets before bellowing. An fruit is a delicious snack. Sorry it’s not as healthy as a Big Mac and large fries.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We make our guests clean the bathrooms as well. No one wants to see the remnants of their bowel explosions, period blood, or pee on the floor.

As a guest I always clean the bathroom(s) we use. I can't imagine leaving toothpaste in the sink, soap scum on the shower door or any other mess for our host to clean up.

FILl leaves pee splatters everywhere. My husband cleans them up once they leave and it’s clear that neither FIL nor MIL care to.

I never use the guest powder room bc of this type of thing. I always use a master bath when I go to someone’s home