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If you don't have a guest or spare room..

HisBetterHalfHisBetterHalf
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where do guests sleep when they stay over?

Our spare room has been turned into a nursery for #2.  We have friends coming from NY next weekend and it just dawned on me that they won't have a room to sleep in anymore.  Is it weird to put them in the living room/family room on an air mattress?

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Re: If you don't have a guest or spare room..

  • butterbeansmamabutterbeansmama
    If we did not have a guest room and had guests coming to stay with us, we would give them our room and make room somewhere else for us (basement, livingroon, kids room, etc.).
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  • mlm1128mlm1128

    I would probably have dd sleep with us or on the pullout sofa and have them use her room since she has a full bed.  We never have overnight guests since our family and friends are all local, so we got rid of the guest room and made a den.

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  • Temp159135562506975Temp159135562506975 member

    we don't have people stay over :)  there are a lot of hotels in the area they can stay at, lol.

    let them know you don't have an extra room- and ask them what their preference is... personally as a guest i could NEVER take someone's bedroom from them- and wouldn't want to... i'd rather be on an airmattress in the living room than in someone's bed while they are on the couch, etc.

    we have a pull out sofa- so if we HAD to that is where they'd be... but thankfully we have not had any reason for overnight visitors since DS was born and the guest room went bye bye.

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  • springmomspringmom
    We would put an air?mattress?in one of the kid's rooms. ?Sometimes, we've just put DD to bed in our room and let guests sleep in her room. ?My brother crashes on the couch and sometimes, we've given up our room and crashed with the kids.
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  • grjagrja

    All our friends and family are local, so we don't have many out of town guests.

    Our finished basement/playroom has a pull out sofa bed in case someone needs to crash if they've been drinking, etc. But we never have people stay more than a night or two.

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  • ali-1411ali-1411 member

    They get a hotel.

    Unless the cheap bastards insist they can't afford it, then I have 5 people sleeping in my living room on air mattresses the three days leading up to my wedding.

    No, I'm not bitter  :)

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  • TxGalTxGal

    We have the same issue.

     We have a lot of comfortable couches in our living room and basement. We can also put a blow up mattress in the LR or basement. I am not going to encourage guests and will not move DD out of her room for the guests. 

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  • springmomspringmom
    Good grief! ?Guess I'm the only one who enjoys having people stay over :-)
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  • HisBetterHalfHisBetterHalf

    Wow, I'd never expect my OOT friends (friends from college) to stay in a hotel when they visit.  Some of the most fun we have is at night after DD goes to bed.  If they had to stay in a hotel that would take up a lot of the visit. 

    Its nothing formal, they just wanted to come and see us.  We don't have anything planned excpet for just hanging out.  I know that they would just sleep on the couch if that is all we had to offer so I'm not THAT worried about it.  I'll offer the air mattress either in the living room or in the nursery in progress.

    We have overnight guest from OOT about 5 times/year.

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  • HisBetterHalfHisBetterHalf

    imagespringmom:
    Good grief!  Guess I'm the only one who enjoys having people stay over :-)

    I love having overnight guests too!  And my friends seem to enjoy staying!

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  • butterbeansmamabutterbeansmama

    imagespringmom:
    Good grief!  Guess I'm the only one who enjoys having people stay over :-)

    Woah, hold up. I never said I didn't enjoy having guests. We have guests throughout the year - all the time! We pretty much have an open door policy. Right now we have a spare room, and we are in the process of having another one built in our basement (for when #2 ever gets conceived and born). I was just simply stating that if we did not have a spare, we would give up our room and make other arrangements "within the house" for ourselves. We have done this with dh's parents (since our guest room is upstairs and his dad has a hard time walking the stairs).

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  • springmomspringmom
    imageHisBetterHalf:

    imagespringmom:
    Good grief! ?Guess I'm the only one who enjoys having people stay over :-)

    I love having overnight guests too!? And my friends seem to enjoy staying!

    ?

    Glad I'm not the only one! ?

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  • ZenyaZenya member
    If we didn't have a guest room we'd put a mattress in DS' room and have him sleep with us.  Or they'd sleep in the living room.  I'd never want to stay in the master bedroom if I were a guest.  That is just too weird!

     

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