Every bl***y cupboard!

We want people to feel at home and for that reason we don’t have signs and stickers everywhere!

Nothing annoys me more than a CAUTION WATER MAY BE HOT sign.
Of course it may be hot it’s the hot tap.

This wasn’t a case of accidentally putting things back incorrectly this was a case of someone deciding to totally rearrange cupboards and drawers!

I’m not raging over this just a bit bewildered and irritated.

It’s just a bit of fun to get others opinions.

Crazy, I know
BUT, after we had new kitchen fitted few years ago, it was driving me insane that every time my husband unloaded the dishwasher or cooked a meal, he rarely put items back in correct cupboard/drawer.
So, I stuck freezer labels on inside of each cupboard door/drawer and wrote on what went inside.
I thought he would be annoyed but he thought it was great idea

Grannybags I do a dishwasher load too.
If there are just two of us in (say) a house for 8 I might just wash half and then only use those.

What suits one family may not work for another. Eg I am not very tall, so the things I use most are on the lowest shelf of wall cupboards. In a holiday let I leave them handy.
If your cleaners don’t put everything back in your chosen order, then there will be a cumulative effect.

As for pictures, cushions etc being moved around, does it really matter? If you don’t check it every changeover, you can’t be surprised if things are not where you left them months ago.

Surely the worst thing is if people have trashed the place, left stains or not reported breakages? ( My daughter runs two holiday lets, one next door to her, so these stories sound familiar. )

Granmarderby10

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

They often just feel "grubby".
I think people handle them with "products" on their hands.
You can often see dust inside which doesn't look good.

The ones at the gym, in holiday lets, in hotels... no not for me. In hotels etc put them away somewhere along with the bedspreads (!)

Maybe it wasn’t about rearrange it Katie but just putting things back after washing them without thinking as long as they were back and in one piece

Is it really a big problem I thought the post was going to say things were all broken and missing !!!

Kate1949

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

No, I wouldn't either, Kate.

We find it difficult to remember just what went where in a holiday rental, we do try our best, my OH has OCD around cleanliness so at least we know we always leave a holiday rental cleaner than when we arrived.
Perhaps a rudimentary list attached to a wall in the kitchen could outline where everything goes. We’d be glad of it.

BlueBelle

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 !!!’

The guests don’t clean!
We have a company do that.
In good order meant nothing broken or stolen.

MissAdventure

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

And mine 😁

I thought at first the last occupants might have left all the cupboards and drawers empty!

"A place for everything and everything in its place"

When we first moved in here, just before Christmas many years ago with small children, boxes got unpacked very rapidly and things didn't get placed in the most ergonomic way in the kitchen and, mostly, that's where they've remained.
When I have my new kitchen I'm going to place items as ergonomically as possible and woe betide anyone who relocates even a teaspoon!

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

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!

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

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?

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?

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.

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.

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

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) 🤣🤣🤣

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 !!!’

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.

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

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.

“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.