Fresh bedding for a guest staying one night? Do I bother?

System

Fresh sheets before he stays and after he goes and vacuum the mattress .:)

melanzana

Far too caring when it comes to youngsters. A bed is a bed to them.

We were all young once and I can tell you that there is NO WAY I would sort out a bed for son or daughters' friends. That would be their problem.

Surely that is OK.

happyandcontented

melanzana wrote: »

Far too caring when it comes to youngsters. A bed is a bed to them.

We were all young once and I can tell you that there is NO WAY I would sort out a bed for son or daughters' friends. That would be their problem.

Surely that is OK.

Well, if they are staying in my home they are a guest, regardless of whose friend they actually are, so I would sort it out. If you wouldn't that is up to you.

As an aside, can you be too caring?;)

MandM90

DS1 is presumably 20+years old if DS2 is at uni?

If he's ably bodied, I'd be asking him to sort it out for his own guest. Either way...I'd not be bothering with ironing the sheets. But I'm slovenly like that

melanzana

happyandcontented wrote: »

Well, if they are staying in my home they are a guest, regardless of whose friend they actually are, so I would sort it out. If you wouldn't that is up to you.

As an aside, can you be too caring?;)

Why would your child not look after his/her guest in your home, well WRT to beds anyway. I think they don't give a sh as long as they have somewhere to crash, they don't care. And you can be as sniffy as you wish, but that is the reality with young uns now, and probably always was! Think back....

Food is the key here. I have no problem leaving out lots of grub to be cooked, but I will not be bed maker or cook either.

When they do surface and have cooked, burnt whatever, I always have a bit of a laugh with them. But they just want to be with each other. As we all did.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

No. Get them slaughtered and let them sleep on the sofa!

happyandcontented

melanzana wrote: »

Why would your child not look after his/her guest in your home, well WRT to beds anyway. I think they don't give a sh as long as they have somewhere to crash, they don't care. And you can be as sniffy as you wish, but that is the reality with young uns now, and probably always was! Think back....

Food is the key here. I have no problem leaving out lots of grub to be cooked, but I will not be bed maker or cook either.

When they do surface and have cooked, burnt whatever, I always have a bit of a laugh with them. But they just want to be with each other. As we all did.

Not being sniffy at all, you seemed to be doing that with those who said they would simply change a bed...it really is no big deal. Earlier in the thread, I also said that he probably wouldn't care, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done though.

moneyistooshorttomention

Re the hotel bedding question - I have had an episode abroad on holiday where I realised some of the bedding wasnt clean.

I was not popular with the hotel - when I just took it off the bed and headed straight down to Reception in front of everyone and plonked said dirty bedding down on them and requested fresh bedding:rotfl:. They told me off bigtime for embarrassing them - well they brought it on themselves:rotfl:

Re sheets for guests in my place - nope I don't iron them - but they are always clean. Reason being - I don't iron sheets for myself either - and they look perfectly okay to me and ironing them doesnt seem to make much difference anyway. So - just whipped off the bed, the bed is aired for a few hours, clean sheets back on the bed and job done imo.

melanzana

happyandcontented wrote: »

Not being sniffy at all, you seemed to be doing that with those who said they would simply change a bed...it really is no big deal. Earlier in the thread, I also said that he probably wouldn't care, doesn't mean it shouldn't be done though.

No worries, but realistically why should I change the bed, I would leave that to others. But I bet they wouldn't bother TBH. That was my point.

As long as there is food galore they don't care :rotfl:

You get to that stage eventually. I am not a slave nor a bed changer for anyone. I will cook for everyone though, but if they are still in bed, and miss the food, that's their problem!

lessonlearned

My eldest son used to have his mates round for sleepovers......they all slept in the lounge. Some had sleeping bags, some just dossed down on the wooden floor using their sweaters or my cushions as a pillow ......some stripped down to t-shirts and boxers, some just slept in their clothes.

The one thing I will say is that nine teenage or twenty something testerone fuelled males sure do stink!!! :eek::rotfl:

They eat like horses too.

As Melanzana says just feed em and they are happy. I got t them to fling the windows and patio doors open :rotfl: and didn’t enter the lounge for a couple of hours. Job done.

A decade later they are still mates, some married with their own kids and they often reminisce about those sleepovers.