r/etiquette • u/crawlen • 7d ago
Hosting overnight guests: pillows
We have a guest room with a new queen mattress. We're on a bit of a budget since we are now living in a bigger place, have a baby, etc. We spent a lot of money on the mattress and bought a couple of extra pillows. But pillows are kind of pricey. Husband has one pillow and I have two. Then we have two guest pillows. We are now hosting my inlaws and they are complaining about the pillows... They said we should have provided two each. I had no idea and I'm embarrassed. I gave them my extra pillow since they are the guests, but that's still only three pillows on the guest bed. Did I mess up? They have never stayed overnight at our place before. Our last apartment was smaller and we only hosted friends on an air mattress...
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u/SVAuspicious 7d ago
Two each would be nice but one each is not rude. Complaining when one is a guest is rude.
I've bought some very decent pillows at Target at low prices. We bought some for our guest bed and a sofa bed. I tried them in our bed and liked them enough to replace my regular ones with more of the same. My wife has more bougie pillows she likes but I like my Target ones better.
I do a lot of offshore sailing. More than once I've used my duffle bag as a pillow so perhaps my expectations are low.