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Do you take home things from a hotel?

Such as:
Packets of sugar
Pens and notepads

I heard people taking home towels. That's crazy.

What stuff do you take home? We're at a hotel checking out today and I'm gonna take home this 20ml tube of body lotion because it smells really good.😁
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FreddieUK · 70-79, M
Generally I don't steal. These days the hotels I stay in don't seem to go for the small toiletries/soaps which clearly wouldn't be used again and were fine to take away. There seems to be liquid soap and shampoo dispensers by the hand basin and in the shower, which cuts down on the use of plastics. That's a good thing. As for the other things mentioned, for me, with the possible exception of the pens, I would be very hesitant to remove anything which isn't marked 'complimentary'.
4meAndyou · F
I always take the tiny little shampoo and conditioner bottles, since I've paid for them anyway. Sometimes I will take the tiny little soap from the sink area if it is still wrapped. I also take the candies from the pillows if they are wrapped, because I don't eat them on site, AND I always considered them paid for by the hefty tip I would leave for housekeeping.

If you take anything else at all, it is very low, trashy behavior.
4meAndyou · F
@FreddieUK I will tell YOU, since we have the same standards, that I grew up traveling with my mother and paternal Grandmother, who embarrassed me enormously where ever we would go.

My mother would open up her huge purse and dump in packets of sugar, and jelly, and even BUTTER from our restaurant table, while my grandmother, (back in the days when smoking was allowed in restaurants), would open up HER purse and steal the ashtrays...usually those marked with the name of the restaurant and the town and state in which it was located. THOSE were her "souvenirs". The matches she took were complimentary.

My grandmother actually STOLE petrified wood from the Petrified forest...which just shocked me.
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@4meAndyou It's good that you didn't inherit the kleptomaniac streak. I wonder how you managed to develop a more moral approach to life with such bad examples? Perhaps a good moral education at school.
4meAndyou · F
@FreddieUK I was deeply impressed by the nuns at my religious lessons. They were very sweet...and I admired them very much. But I was also extremely rebellious, and contrary. Whatever my mother was, I wanted to be the opposite. Perhaps those two things worked together for my salvation! 🤣🤣🤣
dareme · 36-40, MVIP
I usually take shower gels, soaps or toilet rolls. Never took towels.
But lately I've been staying at holiday flats, so I can use their washing machine and carry less clothes when travelling. I've never taken anything from the holiday flats and I always clean them before leaving.
All the stuff in there is for you, the pens, the paper to write on. The pillows and bedding are not. Nor are the towels, but soap and such you can have. Cleaning ladies just replace anything missing.
Also not allowed to take the cleaning ladies or any of the other staff, or their cars.
Markmywurdz · 56-60, M
@JamesBugman I might take the cleaning lady if she was young and hot
ZulXeroth · 31-35, M
I definitely took home a robe, slippers (3 sets actually), and like 12 Occitane soap bars (they cleaned the room 2* daily and I realised if I just put the bar in my bag they would replace it and I would just do it again)
GunFinger · F
@ZulXeroth robes are not complimentary items. I don't get those.
ZulXeroth · 31-35, M
@GunFinger Wellllll, no, but there was rather a lot of confusion over who was staying in what rooms, and nobody got charged for them, soooo.....
SunshineGirl · 36-40, F
Once on a work trip the convenor got us to stick our hands in the air and we could only lower them when we had not removed an item he mentioned from our common hotel 🥺

I can never resist pens and notepads.
Elessar · 31-35, M
Nope. On the other hand the last hotel I stayed up gifted me a bottle of Chianti when I left (:
FreddieUK · 70-79, M
@Elessar Was that because they were pleased to see the back of you or because they hope you'll come back? 🤔
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
I’ve taken mini body lotions in the past . Left a few towels on the beach too.
Jenny1234 · 56-60, F
I always take the toiletries and donate them to a women’s shelter as they ask for them
Jenny1234 · 56-60, F
@Thrust I never use the bedspreads! I watched a documentary about hotel rooms! 🤮
Jenny1234 · 56-60, F
@RosaMarie oh the fighting part was meant for thrust lol

I’m not sure if all women’s shelters take the hotel toiletries or if it’s just this one particular shelter, but definitely ask!!
Thrust · 56-60, M
@Jenny1234

Jenny Jen, do you have access to the Nat Geo Channel? There’s a bio on tonight aboot the Toronto Airport. Top to bottom including luggage searches which are always amusing 👍
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
I almost never stay at hotels but if I did, mini soaps and mini shower gels/shampoo bottles. I reuse them as travel bottles.
SW-User
@CrazyMusicLover and the comfy slippers ?
CrazyMusicLover · 31-35
@SW-User I've never taken those, personally.
Gusman · 61-69, M
Only the small shampoo bottles.
If I am paying $200 a night, then I paid for those.🙂
GunFinger · F
@Gusman that's what I thought. The shampoos and conditioners here are bolted to the wall!😂 I think they just refill them.
Gusman · 61-69, M
@GunFinger I have come across that at one motel here. Dirty blighters 🤣
GnomeyGee · 41-45, M
Yep especially pens
GnomeyGee · 41-45, M
@GunFinger They have scented notepads??
GunFinger · F
@GnomeyGee the pens, silly! If thr notepad was weed scented you'd take it home. Right?🤣
GnomeyGee · 41-45, M
@GunFinger Oh, yeah I knew that!! 😬 You know I would! In a heartbeat 🤣🤣
Just the pictures on the walls but only if they match my home decor.
RosaMarie · 46-50, F
@OlderSometimesWiser I vote this BC.
If it's in the same country I'll take the soaps and oil tubes. If it's overseas, it's not worth it unless it's fancy lol
Thevy29 · 41-45, M
Yeah, but a shot of penicillin from the Doctor fixed that.
BuzzedLightyear · 61-69, M
I take the housekeeper home...
I wouldn't dare taking towels, but consumables like small soap bottles? Absolutely!
RosaMarie · 46-50, F
Sure, everything I brought to the hotel.
SW-User
I wish i beds could fit in purse
@SW-User Bedbugs are free, take as many of those as you like.. in fact, don't even think about it since they are coming along anyway. ;)
pdockal · 56-60, M
Id have to stay in a hotel to take anything
Noooo.. I don't bother with any of them, maybe a pen ended up in my bag, but that's about it
Cowboybob · M
Sometimes notepads, but nothing else
JustEd · 41-45, M
Anything not bolted down is fair game.
GunFinger · F
@JustEd like the couch?🤣
JustEd · 41-45, M
@GunFinger I won’t even sit on those. Do you have any idea the nasty things done on them
wildbill83 · 41-45, M
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@Degbeme Haha yea, I have hotel soaps and shampoos in bags around the house from 40 years ago. Never use them.
ShenaniganFoodie · 36-40, M
I rarely take the Blondes home.

Redheads are the best
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empanadas · 31-35, M

 
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