The Rudest Things You Can Do While Hosting Overnight Guests

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Etiquette coaches including Jackie Vernon-Thompson, Tami Claytor, Diane Gottsman and Jodi R.R. Smith outlined common host mistakes when putting up overnight guests, from stale sheets to hovering behavior.

Basics like clean linens, towels, soap and toilet paper are treated as non-negotiable, with Gottsman recommending hosts test their own guest bed and mattress in advance. Vernon-Thompson describes the standard as making a home function like a makeshift hotel suite.

On the social side, the experts warn against eavesdropping outside a guest's door, snapping off lights the moment they leave a room, or tidying up visibly behind them, all of which read as impatience rather than hospitality.

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None of this is complicated: wash the sheets, leave the lights on, and don't press your ear to the guest room door like you're running surveillance. It took several professional etiquette consultants to say what your grandmother would have told you for free. The real scandal here is that anyone needed it explained.

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