Every bl***y cupboard!

Sorry, I had to laugh, sago! I think the answer to your question at the end is probably: Everybody! Having lived most of my life with what are nowadays called "neurodiverse" creatures – especially with respect to home orderliness – I'm beginning to think the orderly among us are a rare breed.

Not that you'd know an orderly person lived in our house but I do try. DD2 calls it 'organised chaos'.

Hope the sorting out wasn't too onerous.

I reorganise- but try to put things back afterwards.

PS. I hate hairdryers (especially if others have used them). I would probably hidden them too!

I don't think I'd like mugs in a drawer either! "Bits" can fall into a drawer...

I will try to watch what I do with stuff in my booked holiday let in the summer..

At least it was left nicely (other than the cupboards)!

Well, yes and no. I'd probably feel the same in your shoes but on the other hand, if one person got things out and others put things away, how do they know where they came from in the first place?

And to be realistic, some people are just not bothered. For some, as long as they've put things away somewhere, they're not going to lose any sleep if it was the wrong place.

I think this is just one of the hazards of holiday home ownership. I'd be more outraged if things disappeared rather than being in the wrong place.

I am loving this thread Sago
Thank you for raising a smile!

I suppose they rearrange ‘your’ preferences to suit theirs is all. At least after several months it was neat & tidy (so good folk). And maybe if you don’t have a cafetière there and someone wanted one well how kind of them to leave it behind in case anyone else would like to use it. I think you’re being too picky.

Thankfully we gave up our holiday let at the beginning of Oct. And now have a long term tenant in there.

As it turned out, with a poorly husband in hospital, this seems to have been the right decision. No way could I have found time to clean it every weekend.

We used to get people moving chairs to different rooms, swapping cushions and rearranging pictures!

This reminds me of when we stayed in a holiday cottage many years ago where there was a Polaroid photo stuck to every drawer and cupboard showing what lived in each one! We made sure to comply!

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My take on it is, that if visitors are paying good money for my holiday property as a "home from home", then I guess they can do what they like during their stay to suit their lifestyle. Though it's good if they remember to put it all back. Sometimes I even agree with their new placings of things!

“Who goes to a holiday let and rearranges the cupboards?”

Every woman and quite a few men!.
We stay in quite a few apart apartments each year, it’s something of an adventure finding everything. They are placed where the previous occupant thinks is logical.

The main thing that bugs me is that the owner has fitted the apartment with the latest devices, which looks nice but you gave to find the instruction book just to turn the cooker on, even the toaster.

Bellasnana

This reminds me of when we stayed in a holiday cottage many years ago where there was a Polaroid photo stuck to every drawer and cupboard showing what lived in each one! We made sure to comply!

We did have a list on the inside of the cupboards once in Italy.

We never went back even though it was perfect in every other way and had the most beautiful garden and pool. It was strangely rather stressful to not feel like you could fully inhabit the space.

My mum would probably have lined the drawers, given the odd area a lick of paint, and cleaned the windows, too.

Kitchen cupboards are arranged to facilitate easy access to essential items for cookery. Not everyone's needs are the same. As long as the items are clean , does it matter?
I thought you would be talking about an infestation or supplies of rotting food. That would be a problem.

Haha MissA
my first thought how lucky are some to have a holiday home to let, my second thought was how nice that they cleaned it and left it in good order, and my third ‘ what a crime !!!’

Oh dear, I am rather OCD when it comes to everything having its own place

I automatically put things back where I found them after use (even hairdryers, clothes brushes in hotels)

The only time we struggle with this is when we go to Centre Parc’s with all the family. We stay in several lodges/houses side by side due to there being over twenty of us.

With children and adults going from lodge to lodge with plates, glasses etc, it is normally a mad rush on the last morning to ensure everything is back where it should be (sometimes this includes duvets and pillows if the GC have gone for a sleepover with their cousins) 🤣🤣🤣

Just me then. I wouldn't dream of rearranging things in someone else's property.

I tend to reorganise the kitchen cupboards.

We stayed for 3 weeks in Cyprus, the tea towels were in the cupboard over the sink, along with odds and ends (egg cups and coffee filters) and the cups and glasses were across the other side of the large kitchen in a low cupboard behind some saucepans! Too right I reorganised it, I didn’t return it all back in their odd places either.

I think it’s the’I can’t be bothered to do it properly’ people. My DH is a bit like that. Put it in the nearest cupboard, even though he knows everything has its place . Grrrr.

My sons and their friend’s have a lot of short breaks in holiday lets, I know for a fact that they save up all the chores and washing up for the duration of the stay until the last moment. A legacy from student days 🤢
The chances of them knowing, or caring, where to replace kitchen stuff would be very low!

If you haven’t been to your property for months I’m not surprised that things have changed. How many people have you had there?

Isn’t it the responsibility of the cleaners to check that all is as it should be when they go in to clean between stays?

NotSpaghetti I am curious to know why you hate using hair dryers after others have used them🤔

Ha ha this made me smile 😁

We stay in several holiday lets a year and the first thing we do is put all the mugs, plates etc that we are likely to use in the dishwasher so we know they are clean... fussy I know!

We move other things out of the cupboards and put all the clean items together, so they don't get muddled up.

I do try and remember where everything went and put it back before we leave though!

Perhaps everyone who stayed left just a couple of things out of place, and it's a cumulative affect. (effect? Happy to be corrected)