Your worst "surprise" that you found after houseguests leave...

[chilling in muscadine]

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I wish I had known a address of my two houseguest to box up the empty extra large bottle of baby oil, plus enclose a cleaning bill for the damage they did to all my spare bedroom furniture. Some people. uug!

When I first found oil on the cat I should have went right then and investigated.

 

[Wildsky]

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I mean, what is UP with people throwing crap in the tater bin??? DUH, it says "T-A-T-E-R-S" plain as very day on the lid, not "T-R-A-S-H"!!!

The little girl was only 2 I doubt she could read that.

 

[Jolyn]

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How rude!!!

I would have said something about that!

 

[Jolyn]

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I mean, what is UP with people throwing crap in the tater bin??? DUH, it says "T-A-T-E-R-S" plain as very day on the lid, not "T-R-A-S-H"!!!

The little girl was only 2 I doubt she could read that.

I think EllyMae was talking about the original posters post. Haha!!

 

[maplesky7]

Once upon a time I had a friend over and I swore he smelled like erasers...

When he left, my towels smelled like erasors and the blue towel was bleached and turned a weird peach...I think it was acne medicine or something....

but darn...my towels!

me,
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[daygrower]

WOW , we are so blessed all of our guests have treated our house and us with respect. I can't imagine having some of that stuff happening. Fun to read though

 

[tazcat70]

Well not a house guest story, but after reading some, I had to share a story.

We were helping my sister move, and my husband was carrying out the bedside table, and a weird noise started. My husband opened the drawer to find out what was going on and it seems the jostling started a huge purple entertainment device and it was on high speed.

 

[djackjr]

 

[JennsPeeps]

"Mommy, what's that?"

"Um... it's an ear cleaner:."

"That's a big ear cleaner."

"Yes, it certainly is!"

(courtesy of the movie "Parenthood")

 

[Rosalind]

A couple of my relatives like to "help me clean." My house is not a sty, it's always sorta tidy, but they have OCD problems or something and compulsively clean.

This year, they've thrown away as garbage three seed-saving projects and a binder full of clipped recipes (irreplaceable of course) because they could not conceive of why I might have dried up old vegetables in a dish on the back countertop, and the binder apparently had only ONE large label on it that said "Recipes! Bon Appetit!" and when one of them opened it, there were "just a bunch of old newspaper clippings and notecards in it." They did not understand why buying me a new cookbook from Williams-Sonoma really was not an adequate replacement.

They've also cleaned the (granite) kitchen countertop with that wood spray wax preservative and cleaned the antique woodwork with Formula 409. I tried to make them sit down and relax, watch TV, to no avail. They tried to "help" unload DH's truck and managed to break an irreplaceable collectible he had bought as a Xmas gift for his brother. And they are both having a REALLY hard time with this idea that there are some things you cannot just buy another from the maul.

One tried to "help with the laundry" but so far has only destroyed one of DH's dress shirts and three dishtowels; then I had an excuse for them to stop "helping," so they're going home tomorrow morning.

Please, say you'll be a character witness for me...I can see the headlines now, "Murderer: They wouldn't stop touching my stuff!" At this point, I think I'd rather find the um...preservatives. At least those are a quick cleanup.