Do you take the little hotel soaps?

[ImarriedGrumpy]

When I was a kid, my dad traveled a fair amount for business, and he always brought home all the hotel "freebies". These showed up, wrapped, in our Christmas stockings each year! It became a major joke in our family, so four years ago when my brother had been travelling a lot for his job, he saved up every single hotel "freebie" he could get his hands on and ended up with a very large box filled with hotel soaps, shampoos, mending kits, lotions, etc. Us kids all got together and we spent a few hours wrapping each one of those items, then putting groups of them into boxes and wrapping the boxes. Dad's stocking on Christmas morning was overflowing with the travel items, and at least half of the presents for him under the tree were boxs of the travel stuff! He laughed so hard he was crying by the end of it.

I think he donated it all to a homeless shelter the following week, but a few items are getting recirculated through the family each Christmas.

I keep the nicer stuff (bath & body works from one hotel, Aveda from another) for our guests and make a basket with toiletries, towels, a local map, some snacks, etc. for anyone who stays with us. The rest of the soaps, shampoos, etc. I donate to either the homeless shelter or the women's shelter.

 

[MdmMim]

I take the soaps and shampoo and donate them to a homeless shelter. The people who staff the shelter are absolutely delighted when they see the Mickeys on them!! They are very much appreciated.

 

[Carl]

I take the soap from Disney and then take it with me on my Europe trips. The hotels in Europe do not provide soap.

 

[puffkin]

I give the mickey soaps and shampoos to my nieces. They look forward to them when we return from our trips.

I don't bother taking things from other hotels unless it is something I will use.

 

[Disney Doll]

I take all the little toiletry items and donate them to the local homeless shelter.

 

[MoniqueU]

If I am in a suite or something and the toiletries are quite an upgrade. Just the standard everyday soap that places like Hilton hand out, ummm no. I am lucky I have gotten to stay in some nice suites out in Vegas thanks to the the casino comp system so I have gotten some nice things including a loofah!!

 

[VSL]

While I was looking online for suggestions, I found this and thought I'd share.

http://hulia.haifa.ac.il/Eng/soap.html

Snopes says it never happened, but I think it's funny, and a good example of the frustrations of communication...or lack thereof!

 

[HOGFAN]

we give them to a church who in turn gives them to the homeless.

 

[dmslush]

We love getting things like that at the domestic violence shelter where I work. I like picking out the disney ones and saving those for the kids. It just lights up their face to get soap from mickey's house!