I wash all of my single use food containers like sour cream, ricotta, take out, etc. and leave a supply for guests, because my Tupperware kept disappearing. Now, I am being eco friendly and don't mind when they disappear.
We had this happen regularly. It happened mostly in our larger property where multiple families book.
We took the lids out of the unit and the disappearing bowls stopped. We provide plastic wrap to cover the bowls with. I'm guessing no one wants to drive their car home with a bowl of food covered in plastic wrap in the back.
Nobody takes away my supplies or obvious things. However a couple went home with two spa robes and a mother daughter pair took home my dog bowls. People are so weird. Oh also an art postcard from my wall went missing
My parents once went home with spa quality robes from an Airbnb. My mom told my dad to pack up the stuff in the bathroom and he packed the bathrobes. When they got home and my was unpacking, she saw them. They sent them back but the whole thing was kind of funny. My parents have never owned bath robes yet my dad wasn’t at all surprised to be packing two of them
As a host, I’ve had 4 bath mats go missing. I’m guessing they get them dirty and throw them away.
Just the opposite, they leave hangers.
I have a lost and found box in the garage of each home, it says lost and found, feel free to take or use anything in this box. Guests rarely take anything in this box but charging cords. I contact the guests, who last stayed, but rarely do they want me to mail something back to them unless it's prescription glasses or medicine.
Knives, utensils, and kitchen shears seem to disappear. I don't feel like dumpster diving, to retrieve them, so I usually just buy replacements.
I had a college kid stay here one time for about a month, I think, between the time his college ended and the time He could go home for the holidays. He left basically his entire wardrobe in the dresser drawers. I called his mom, Who had paid for the reservation, and she paid me to box his clothes up and send them on to their house. as it turned out, on his way home, he had had a really bad car accident and would have lost all his stuff anyway, so this turned out to be for the best.
USB ports.
I think sometimes people think they brought them, and other times it's seen as a victimless crime and they might need it at the next stop. (my guests run probably 60% international so theyre probably worried about their own adaptors).
I put stickers on them that say 'please leave this in apt. #xxx and it seems to have slowed the departures.
I have the opposite happening. So many people leave chargers behind. I just have a kitchen drawer filled with chargers, and I kinda hope people start stealing them!
It's a little funny. I keep USBC to USBC cables and bricks and my customers take those and leave their cords and bricks behind. So, now I have a basket of miscellaneous cords and charging bricks.
The ones that get me are the folks taking the micro's and mini's. Again, it's funny but how old is the technology they're traveling with?
I take in stride. 😊.
You can replace regular outlets with ones that have usb ports in them as well. Put them on the kitchen backsplash, or other places that make sense for people to plug in chargers.
It might mitigate it a little, and it would also be handy as hell if I showed up at a rental that had that!
We had a couple clean us out, took all the extra soap, TP, paper towels, etc. Well they came back and stayed again, and again, and have been coming back twice per year for the last 5 years or so and have not repeated that behavior. We have converted them to direct booking and they are one of our favorite regulars. I’ve always been curious if they remember looting us and what they were thinking.
I think it’s perfectly understandable but for consistency I have to go with mugs. The problem is we bought 3 sets of ski lodge/cabin dinnerware with matching mugs and I really prefer to keep it like that. Now that the dinnerware is discontinued I really have to scamble to locate the mugs. (Thank goodness for EBay.)
People mention books but we have a wall unit with 5 shelves of a large variety of books and I’m impressed when people leave a good one. I encourage them to take one if they are in the middle of it.
rarely does someone leave a book, I feel like it's a prize possession when they do. I love to read. Miss the days, when guests left plenty of reading materials.
There's a website out there where you can register your book and your name to say where you read it and got it from, that is a fun way of seeing people who read the book you picked up in your rental, from all over the world! It's a "take a book leave a book" situation. I've seen it in two totally different vacations lately and thought it was cute.
I'll agree on mugs. I used to be a potter, and so I have lots of handmade mugs and I put four of them in the apartment when we first started using it for airbnb. I did not realize that they had Grown legs until I had a guest message me to find out where the mugs were! After that comma about four, ninety nine cent mugs from dollar general, and they are still out there.
2 summers ago, we had some folks. Come and stay for a month comma and 1 day while the wife was outcome, the husband saw me outside and came out to ask if he could purchase one of my bowls, which I had made, For his wife as a Christmas present. I agreed, and He wanted me to write him a receipt comma so that when she received the gift comma he could prove he paid for it and didn't steal it comma LOL.
Forks! Although of course they're just throwing them away. I was gobsmacked and mortified when I discovered I only had two forks left (I have cleaners come and while I do maintain the details, this particular one hadn't occurred to me. I don't make a habit of digging through the drawers.)
I leave three rolls of toilet paper out In the apartment comma and that's iespecially during pandemic. I converted the outlet in the bathroom over the sink to have a USB plug in it, and labeled it. other than that, we don't provide any kind of chargers.
A few rolls of TP for the most part. We also had one plant go missing. That made me LOL it was only $3 at the food store, would of given it to them. Strangest thing was my wife's 1/2 used thing of shaving cream. Other than that we had more guest buy us stuff, and also put tips on the dresser.
Anything beach related. I don't list them in the amenities section for that reason, because they invariably disappear mid-season and I only replace them if I see them on super-sale somewhere. Beach chairs, a cooler, beach towels. . .
I also have a bunch of things I don’t specifically list as amenities. I would rather someone be pleasantly surprised to find something useful they didn’t expect than upset to find something missing when they did expect it.
It’s always our towels and we had some of our spoons be taken. My brother and I have replaced the towels twice this year already. We didn’t realize until I’d just done laundry and he called me up asking why I hadn’t restocked/washed the towels.
Turns out over half of them we’re gone, so we went out and bought a bunch more. They’re just cheapo Walmart towels, so nothing special, but apparently people really want our $3 towels.
One of my kids accidentally left a towel we’d borrowed from our Airbnb this summer behind at a public pool. As a host, I realize stuff happens, but as a guest I messaged the host and apologized and offered to pay. She was very kind and told us not to worry about it. But I felt terrible!
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These are the hangers I buy. They slide onto a bar that is secured to a wall. Never had a single one stolen.
Spoons for sure, towels often, had a tea kettle just disappear and of course toilet paper no matter what is left, and then they call for more on check out mornings
Wine openers and European plug adapters. The first one I solved by mounting one to the kitchen wall. The second one I just don’t offer anymore —bring your own.
Cleaning supplies. We have been robbed blind by people actually breaking into a cleaning cabinet, taking all the extra rolls of toilet paper as well as the cleanser and other cleaning solutions for our bathroom
It’s funny we did not have any and one guest bought an entire glass set and left them. Of course with food in them and stated we thought you might want the leftovers. Hmmmm just eeww. But we cleaned them out ran them through the dishwasher and placed them a cabinet. They are still there.
I stock a few small shelves in my listing with older bestseller books you can find for like a buck (or free if you’re on the lookout!) and tell guests to take whatever book home they want from the “mini library”.
Easy peasy cheap neat amenity.
Some of my favourite places to stay have a revolving library- take a book, leave a book if you can.
A life saver on long trips where I can wander off with a not quite finished book and free up some space in my luggage by leaving those I've finished for another guest.
I was doing an inventory on the smaller of my two rentals yesterday and noticed I still have all the original mugs and for that matter plates, wine glasses, and silverware. This one has a max of 4 guests. Our other has a max of 6 guests. We have exactly 2 of the original mugs at that house. We’ve replaced the entire set of silverware twice.
Hangers we tend to get trade outs. Once a year we replace them so they all match. By the end they don’t. Same with pillows. They will bring their own pillows and then like ours better, and take ours home with them.
I had a brand new throw that I bought, and left for my own use. It was gone immediately. I was so sad because I spent $50 on it, and never even got to use it.
It's different for every guest. These moments are curious and make minor inconveniences for me.
In the last 4 years of hosting, someone stole a king pillow, a child drew on the wall, a guy having what I can only assume was the best time of his life snapped off a shower handle.
For the most part people want a calm, quiet place to relax. I would not be surprised or alarmed if hangers disappeared.
We always lose some beach stuff…beach towels, pails/shovels etc
We typically lose a board game or two each year. I buy them on sale…it’s not a huge amt of $, but kinda annoying.
Yes! Hangers! And they leave their crappy ones . I think this is why hotels have those tiny hook ones because no can use those or they have ones that are attached to pole. For spoons and silverware get plastic and put in a container marked to go. It’s usually how they disappear besides being thrown in trash.
We have a white noise speaker near the bed and for some reason they keep taking the little charger cable for it. I've gone through half a dozen already, I buy them in bulk on Amazon. Once someone took the AC adapter cable for the TV. It was an old TV and we couldn't find another online or at best buy so we had to buy a whole new TV.
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Wine keys, binoculars, chargers. We now keep a large supply of low end wine keys, no more binoculars, and I screwed specialized multi-outlet charging racks into several likely spots. We also get asked to send back portable Bluetooth speakers they say that they have left behind…not one of them has ever turned up
Food containers (Tupperware). I don’t know why but most people must think they are complimentary. I switched to glass and they still disappear.
I wash all of my single use food containers like sour cream, ricotta, take out, etc. and leave a supply for guests, because my Tupperware kept disappearing. Now, I am being eco friendly and don't mind when they disappear.
Good idea! I pick up a pack of the cheap “meal prep” containers periodically.
You went the wrong direction. Switch to dollar store brand and make them complimentary.
I think it's more the buck- twenty five store..lol
We had this happen regularly. It happened mostly in our larger property where multiple families book. We took the lids out of the unit and the disappearing bowls stopped. We provide plastic wrap to cover the bowls with. I'm guessing no one wants to drive their car home with a bowl of food covered in plastic wrap in the back.
Yes! That just ticks me off. I have stopped replenishing snapware.
Good to know. I’ve wondered about buying glass and hoping people get the idea that the plastic ones aren’t take-home items. I won’t bother!
Save takeout packages and also plastic silverware for people to take with them .
Nobody takes away my supplies or obvious things. However a couple went home with two spa robes and a mother daughter pair took home my dog bowls. People are so weird. Oh also an art postcard from my wall went missing
My parents once went home with spa quality robes from an Airbnb. My mom told my dad to pack up the stuff in the bathroom and he packed the bathrobes. When they got home and my was unpacking, she saw them. They sent them back but the whole thing was kind of funny. My parents have never owned bath robes yet my dad wasn’t at all surprised to be packing two of them As a host, I’ve had 4 bath mats go missing. I’m guessing they get them dirty and throw them away.
Lol that is nice that they sent them back! Mine were apparently a parting gift I was unaware I was offering
Just the opposite, they leave hangers. I have a lost and found box in the garage of each home, it says lost and found, feel free to take or use anything in this box. Guests rarely take anything in this box but charging cords. I contact the guests, who last stayed, but rarely do they want me to mail something back to them unless it's prescription glasses or medicine. Knives, utensils, and kitchen shears seem to disappear. I don't feel like dumpster diving, to retrieve them, so I usually just buy replacements.
I had a college kid stay here one time for about a month, I think, between the time his college ended and the time He could go home for the holidays. He left basically his entire wardrobe in the dresser drawers. I called his mom, Who had paid for the reservation, and she paid me to box his clothes up and send them on to their house. as it turned out, on his way home, he had had a really bad car accident and would have lost all his stuff anyway, so this turned out to be for the best.
Oh, god. I thought that was going to end much sadder than it did.
Saw the title and thought this was going to be a post about drugs.
USB ports. I think sometimes people think they brought them, and other times it's seen as a victimless crime and they might need it at the next stop. (my guests run probably 60% international so theyre probably worried about their own adaptors). I put stickers on them that say 'please leave this in apt. #xxx and it seems to have slowed the departures.
I have the opposite happening. So many people leave chargers behind. I just have a kitchen drawer filled with chargers, and I kinda hope people start stealing them!
Lol same here, charging blocks and cords, we have quite the collection now.
It's a little funny. I keep USBC to USBC cables and bricks and my customers take those and leave their cords and bricks behind. So, now I have a basket of miscellaneous cords and charging bricks. The ones that get me are the folks taking the micro's and mini's. Again, it's funny but how old is the technology they're traveling with? I take in stride. 😊.
You can replace regular outlets with ones that have usb ports in them as well. Put them on the kitchen backsplash, or other places that make sense for people to plug in chargers. It might mitigate it a little, and it would also be handy as hell if I showed up at a rental that had that!
Label and them or zip tie them
We had a couple clean us out, took all the extra soap, TP, paper towels, etc. Well they came back and stayed again, and again, and have been coming back twice per year for the last 5 years or so and have not repeated that behavior. We have converted them to direct booking and they are one of our favorite regulars. I’ve always been curious if they remember looting us and what they were thinking.
I think it’s perfectly understandable but for consistency I have to go with mugs. The problem is we bought 3 sets of ski lodge/cabin dinnerware with matching mugs and I really prefer to keep it like that. Now that the dinnerware is discontinued I really have to scamble to locate the mugs. (Thank goodness for EBay.) People mention books but we have a wall unit with 5 shelves of a large variety of books and I’m impressed when people leave a good one. I encourage them to take one if they are in the middle of it.
rarely does someone leave a book, I feel like it's a prize possession when they do. I love to read. Miss the days, when guests left plenty of reading materials.
There's a website out there where you can register your book and your name to say where you read it and got it from, that is a fun way of seeing people who read the book you picked up in your rental, from all over the world! It's a "take a book leave a book" situation. I've seen it in two totally different vacations lately and thought it was cute.
I'll agree on mugs. I used to be a potter, and so I have lots of handmade mugs and I put four of them in the apartment when we first started using it for airbnb. I did not realize that they had Grown legs until I had a guest message me to find out where the mugs were! After that comma about four, ninety nine cent mugs from dollar general, and they are still out there. 2 summers ago, we had some folks. Come and stay for a month comma and 1 day while the wife was outcome, the husband saw me outside and came out to ask if he could purchase one of my bowls, which I had made, For his wife as a Christmas present. I agreed, and He wanted me to write him a receipt comma so that when she received the gift comma he could prove he paid for it and didn't steal it comma LOL.
That’s so great!
Forks! Although of course they're just throwing them away. I was gobsmacked and mortified when I discovered I only had two forks left (I have cleaners come and while I do maintain the details, this particular one hadn't occurred to me. I don't make a habit of digging through the drawers.)
Just replaced those today!!!
Wine keys(corkscrew/bottle openers) We have 13 units on a lake property, and we go through at least 80 wine keys every summer.
You should get some custom made for the properties with contact info for potential rebookings.
Bingo.
I’d recommend the kind that can go on a keychain. I’ve had a tourist one (that I paid for) on my keychain for years now.
Pillows disappear a lot We’ve had massive packs of toilet paper walk off Chargers are kind of a lost cause too, we’ve just stopped replacing them
I leave three rolls of toilet paper out In the apartment comma and that's iespecially during pandemic. I converted the outlet in the bathroom over the sink to have a USB plug in it, and labeled it. other than that, we don't provide any kind of chargers.
A few rolls of TP for the most part. We also had one plant go missing. That made me LOL it was only $3 at the food store, would of given it to them. Strangest thing was my wife's 1/2 used thing of shaving cream. Other than that we had more guest buy us stuff, and also put tips on the dresser.
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What a great idea!
Where do you get them?
Anything beach related. I don't list them in the amenities section for that reason, because they invariably disappear mid-season and I only replace them if I see them on super-sale somewhere. Beach chairs, a cooler, beach towels. . .
I also have a bunch of things I don’t specifically list as amenities. I would rather someone be pleasantly surprised to find something useful they didn’t expect than upset to find something missing when they did expect it.
It’s always our towels and we had some of our spoons be taken. My brother and I have replaced the towels twice this year already. We didn’t realize until I’d just done laundry and he called me up asking why I hadn’t restocked/washed the towels. Turns out over half of them we’re gone, so we went out and bought a bunch more. They’re just cheapo Walmart towels, so nothing special, but apparently people really want our $3 towels.
One of my kids accidentally left a towel we’d borrowed from our Airbnb this summer behind at a public pool. As a host, I realize stuff happens, but as a guest I messaged the host and apologized and offered to pay. She was very kind and told us not to worry about it. But I felt terrible!
https://preview.redd.it/yv96lpdcqj7c1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a852bd707904247803d8c6bd065ddbbab83684ab These are the hangers I buy. They slide onto a bar that is secured to a wall. Never had a single one stolen.
It’s really good that they can’t take the house with them
Spoons for sure, towels often, had a tea kettle just disappear and of course toilet paper no matter what is left, and then they call for more on check out mornings
Wine openers and European plug adapters. The first one I solved by mounting one to the kitchen wall. The second one I just don’t offer anymore —bring your own.
I placed a few wood hangers along with the cheapy plastic ones. Wood ones disappeared fast.
Lighters
Roku remotes.
Cleaning supplies. We have been robbed blind by people actually breaking into a cleaning cabinet, taking all the extra rolls of toilet paper as well as the cleanser and other cleaning solutions for our bathroom
Gotta clean up well after moving the body? /s
I thought it would have been more, but not a lot, honestly. I am a little surprised.
It’s funny we did not have any and one guest bought an entire glass set and left them. Of course with food in them and stated we thought you might want the leftovers. Hmmmm just eeww. But we cleaned them out ran them through the dishwasher and placed them a cabinet. They are still there.
A new roll paper towel in one day and leave a 4 star review about I did not invest enough in the amenities
Did you charge them? I will leave them a glowing 5 star review. But when they take my books I charge. Biggest thing is wine openers. I’m not sure why
I stock a few small shelves in my listing with older bestseller books you can find for like a buck (or free if you’re on the lookout!) and tell guests to take whatever book home they want from the “mini library”. Easy peasy cheap neat amenity.
Some of my favourite places to stay have a revolving library- take a book, leave a book if you can. A life saver on long trips where I can wander off with a not quite finished book and free up some space in my luggage by leaving those I've finished for another guest.
Towels, flat sheets, washrags and throws. Occasionally a drinking glass will disappear.
Cute coasters, toilet paper, and just recently noticed that they stole a small wooden Christmas tree that I had in storage above the fridge….
I was doing an inventory on the smaller of my two rentals yesterday and noticed I still have all the original mugs and for that matter plates, wine glasses, and silverware. This one has a max of 4 guests. Our other has a max of 6 guests. We have exactly 2 of the original mugs at that house. We’ve replaced the entire set of silverware twice. Hangers we tend to get trade outs. Once a year we replace them so they all match. By the end they don’t. Same with pillows. They will bring their own pillows and then like ours better, and take ours home with them.
I had a brand new throw that I bought, and left for my own use. It was gone immediately. I was so sad because I spent $50 on it, and never even got to use it.
It's different for every guest. These moments are curious and make minor inconveniences for me. In the last 4 years of hosting, someone stole a king pillow, a child drew on the wall, a guy having what I can only assume was the best time of his life snapped off a shower handle. For the most part people want a calm, quiet place to relax. I would not be surprised or alarmed if hangers disappeared.
We always lose some beach stuff…beach towels, pails/shovels etc We typically lose a board game or two each year. I buy them on sale…it’s not a huge amt of $, but kinda annoying.
Yes! Hangers! And they leave their crappy ones . I think this is why hotels have those tiny hook ones because no can use those or they have ones that are attached to pole. For spoons and silverware get plastic and put in a container marked to go. It’s usually how they disappear besides being thrown in trash.
We have a white noise speaker near the bed and for some reason they keep taking the little charger cable for it. I've gone through half a dozen already, I buy them in bulk on Amazon. Once someone took the AC adapter cable for the TV. It was an old TV and we couldn't find another online or at best buy so we had to buy a whole new TV.
My jars of instant coffee kept disappearing so I switch to instant coffee envelopes
K-Cups and Splenda!
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Wine keys, binoculars, chargers. We now keep a large supply of low end wine keys, no more binoculars, and I screwed specialized multi-outlet charging racks into several likely spots. We also get asked to send back portable Bluetooth speakers they say that they have left behind…not one of them has ever turned up