Arks
Well-known member
- Joined
- May 22, 2010
- Messages
- 6,460
- Reaction score
- 579
Often when I'm flipping a room it's tempting to see extra pillows neatly stacked aside and say to myself, those are still clean, I won't bother to strip them and wash them.
But I ALWAYS do, because of a childhood lesson learned well:
My great grandmother often rubbed liniment, a balm with a Vicks-like smell, on her sore muscles and achy arthritic joints. One summer after I'd been away at Boy Scout camp for a week, I returned home and at bedtime climbed into my bed and immediately smelled liniment. I headed straight to my mother, wagged my finger, and said, not in a quiet voice, "Has grandma been sleeping in my bed????"
Sure enough, my mother said grandma had only been there one night so she didn't see any reason to wash the sheets. Well I sure did see a reason! Yuck!
So believe me, everything on my guest beds gets washed after each checkout, even if they don't look like they need it, because when a guest crawls into bed you can bet their noses haven't yet gone to sleep!
But I ALWAYS do, because of a childhood lesson learned well:
My great grandmother often rubbed liniment, a balm with a Vicks-like smell, on her sore muscles and achy arthritic joints. One summer after I'd been away at Boy Scout camp for a week, I returned home and at bedtime climbed into my bed and immediately smelled liniment. I headed straight to my mother, wagged my finger, and said, not in a quiet voice, "Has grandma been sleeping in my bed????"
Sure enough, my mother said grandma had only been there one night so she didn't see any reason to wash the sheets. Well I sure did see a reason! Yuck!
So believe me, everything on my guest beds gets washed after each checkout, even if they don't look like they need it, because when a guest crawls into bed you can bet their noses haven't yet gone to sleep!
