Is it horribly rude and unsanitary to have two subsequent guests use the same set of sheets?
We are empty-nesters who always seem to have a guest stopping by for a night. I love having guests. What I don’t love is stripping and making the beds!
Do I need to provide each guest with a new set of sheets? Guests are sometimes cousins, if that makes a difference.Are you asking if being cousins makes your guests less likely to think “Ew!” when they open the bed to used sheets? Miss Manners doubts that. But being cousins does make a difference in that you are probably on more informal terms with them than you would be with an unrelated, infrequent guest. You can therefore leave a set of fresh sheets in their room the day before they depart and say, “Would you mind changing the bed before you leave?”My father has passed, and we received many condolence messages, memorial donations, meal deliveries, flowers and assistance in other ways.
My dad, sister and I share a last name, but my mother’s is different. I will be writing the thank-you cards on behalf of the three of us. What is the best way to sign them? My name first? My mother’s? We can’t sign with “the Smith family,” as my mom is not a Smith, so to speak.Generally, there is only one signature to a letter, and others are included by preceding it with something like “Charlotte and Kevin join me in thanking you for ...
However, Miss Manners will allow you to shorten this by identifying all of you as “the family of the late Horace Smith.”Dear Abby: I’m upset my girlfriend is going to be in a wedding for her ex’s cousinIf you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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