Q: For a weekend visit with my family or friends, should I bring my own soap, shampoo, conditioner, and loofah? Sometimes I feel funny dipping into my host’s bath products.
A: Next time, bring your own. Although many hotels supply shampoos and shower stuff, people shouldn’t be expected to do the same in their own homes. A good host tries to make guests feel comfortable, but providing toiletries – other than bath soap – is beyond the call. If you forget to bring along toothpaste or shampoo, it’s acceptable to ask your host for some of hers. But don’t assume you can help yourself. A thoughtful guest doesn’t dip in.
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I would like to know how to handle a guest (brother-in-law) that burps and passes gas whenever he feels like it. I know it’s natural but come on, who wants to be subjected to that?
On the flip side of the travel toiletries issue I want to share this:
One of our friends does this for people who stay at their house and we thought it was really very cool…what they did was they had a few baskets set in both the guest room and the guest bathroom. They had filled these baskets full with travel sized toiletries and much more. There were a large variety of items like several mini lotions, shampoo’s, soaps, new toothbrushes and mini toothpastes, mouthwash, travel size Q-tips, cotton balls, mouthwash, sample sized perfumes and a small amount of new travel size makeup, new wash clothes rolled up. They actually even had a couple of bottles of water and some small packages of chocolates and nuts. There wasn’t one thing we would have needed had we not brought a thing with us. We just thought it was the coolest thing.
We totally stole the idea and now do it four our house guests – who have all commented about the neat idea. One of my friends said it was like having their own hotel/mini bar experience. And really, it was not at all hard to put together and was not expensive to do either.