s/o kitchen is closed

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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.

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

GTFO -- you go into someone's master bathroom when there's a guest bath provided? Wow.

[Anonymous]

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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.

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

My FIL does both of the above. We had to start locking the master bedroom as he would bypass multiple other path rooms, including the one in the guest space to do this.

[Anonymous]

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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

My FIL does both of the above. We had to start locking the master bedroom as he would bypass multiple other path rooms, including the one in the guest space to do this.

That is truly bizarre. He had access to a guest bathroom in the privacy of the guest quarters but he would enter your master bedroom, go to your master bathroom and do his business there? What a weirdo.

Call me uptight, but I do not consider my master bedroom/bath to be "common areas" of our house. That is my personal, private space and guests need to stay the heck out of it.

[Anonymous]

My parents used to close the kitchen when I was a kid and a very lucky eater so they didn't want me to not eat dinner and then snack in the evenings.

Can't imagine doing that to an adult

[Anonymous]

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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

My FIL does both of the above. We had to start locking the master bedroom as he would bypass multiple other path rooms, including the one in the guest space to do this.

That is truly bizarre. He had access to a guest bathroom in the privacy of the guest quarters but he would enter your master bedroom, go to your master bathroom and do his business there? What a weirdo.

Call me uptight, but I do not consider my master bedroom/bath to be "common areas" of our house. That is my personal, private space and guests need to stay the heck out of it.

We have a full in-law suite. So he would bring his stuff into the house, put it down there, come back to the first floor, pass the powder room, go upstairs, pass the kid bathroom, go into the master bedroom and use the toilet. The first time it happened, we were so stunned, I couldn’t even believe it happened.

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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?

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.

"Bellowing"! Ha. I hope whoever is writing this is having as much fun as I have had reading it.

[Anonymous]

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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 if someone doesn't want to change their sheets-they'd rather just sleep on the same sheets their entire stay?

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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.

Just like us Greeks.

(" 'Are you hungry?'
'Uh, no, I already ate.'
' OK, I make you something.' ")

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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

My FIL does both of the above. We had to start locking the master bedroom as he would bypass multiple other path rooms, including the one in the guest space to do this.

That is truly bizarre. He had access to a guest bathroom in the privacy of the guest quarters but he would enter your master bedroom, go to your master bathroom and do his business there? What a weirdo.

Call me uptight, but I do not consider my master bedroom/bath to be "common areas" of our house. That is my personal, private space and guests need to stay the heck out of it.

My MIL used to do this, so now we close out bedroom door as well as the master bath door, and we put a sign on the bedroom door that says "private" in pretty font. We only hang it on the door when the ILs visit.

It does keep her out.

[Anonymous]

^^^ PP here, kind of like this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

"Bellowing"! Ha. I hope whoever is writing this is having as much fun as I have had reading it.

I can't imagine the sex with imaginary BKL is anything less than a hoot and a half. "Now finish up and go make your mess in the yard. Take a delicious plum with you. DOn't come back until you're hosed down and dried off."

[Anonymous]

Actually PP, I was thinking of that Sex and the City episode where an Asian housekeeper barges in early in the morning and pulls sheets off the bed while Samantha is still in it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

GTFO -- you go into someone's master bathroom when there's a guest bath provided? Wow.

Yes. I don’t like going in a powder room or hall bathroom so everyone know I’m in the bathroom and if I pooped. I need privacy. I’m discrete. I’ve hardly ever been caught by a host

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

GTFO -- you go into someone's master bathroom when there's a guest bath provided? Wow.

Yes. I don’t like going in a powder room or hall bathroom so everyone know I’m in the bathroom and if I pooped. I need privacy. I’m discrete. I’ve hardly ever been caught by a host

I need privacy, too, and it’s my house.

You would never be invited back.

[Anonymous]

I think there are two main solutions to everything in this thread:

1. Never host overnight guests
2. Never be an overnight guest