MoneySaving Poll: What have you taken from a hotel room?

also breakfast items for later in the day (if breakfast is included)

OMG I am so shocked to see how many people steal things and so much. I had no idea things had got this bad. Quite shameful in fact.

I wonder what the responses would be like if it was broken down further by whether or not people were more likely to take stuff from hotels abroad. I tend not to stay in the type of hotels that supply toiletries etc in the UK, but when my OH and I went travelling I'm ashamed to admit to taking the toiletries and toilet roll from some of the nicer hotels we stayed in with tour groups...

I always take the toiletry samples. If I have used it at all, they can't pass it onto the next guest, so I view it as avoiding waste. However if I really like the scent, I will stick a part used bottle in my bag after the first use in the hopes that the hotel will replenish when they come to clean the room. Single use slippers are also fair game, they'll just end up in the bin otherwise!

I couldn't take anything that could be re-used, as that would feel like stealing to me, and I don't know why anyone thinks it's ok to take the TV, bed linen, pillows...

If I like the toiletries provided then I will take any unfinished bottles (assuming they are a mini size) - once opened they are only going to be thrown out, they are provided as part of the room rate.

Similarly, the hotel doesn't know, or care, whether I ate the biscuits while I was in their room, or if I save them to eat on the train home. I wouldn't consider either to be stealing.

I've taken pens on occasions when I've realised I don;t have a (working) pen on me, and sometimes by mistake when I have put one in my handbag instead of back on the desk, but I don;t think that is stealing as mostly the pens are for advertising anyway, as they are quite happy for you to take one and be displaying their logos etc.

I once accidentally stole a towel - I'd borrowed it as I was staying over at a friend's part way through my 10 day, prepaid hotel stay, and took a towel with me, didn't need it and totally forgot about it until I got home.

Seeing that some people admit to stealing duvets and pillows I am torn between wondering how anyone would thank that was OK, and wondering how, in practical terms, you would do it... maybe I travel too light, I can't imagine being able to smuggle a pillow, duvet or TV out. (although I do regret not having asked one hotel I stayed in what brand of mattress they used - If I knew, I'd buy myself one!)