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

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Poll started 11 August 2014
What have you taken from a hotel room?
Many see a hotel room as a free-for-all. They don’t just use things while they’re there – once they leave, they take all they can, sometimes crossing the border of legality.
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Words, words, they're all we have to go by!.
(Pity they are mangled by this autocorrect!)
However, pillows, TVs etc - that's stealing part of the hotel furnishings - they're not consumable items. The hotel would expect to launder the sheets,towels bathrobe and reuse them.
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...
The biscuits, shampoo, tea/coffee and single use slippers are provided to you as part of the price, saying that is stealing is like saying taking a free breakfast included in the price is stealing food, it isn't.
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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!)
In the hotel I worked in last we lost 3 king sized mattresses!!!