following on from display bath towels

I would love to be a two kitchener. ?

Guilty hand up here too.

I have some Jo Malone stuff that has become for display only. Actually, it's fcuking dear to have as ornamanets, so I'm going to start using it.

I recently made a giant leap when I told MrA to use the Molton Brown stuff that I had on display. MasterA (totally going to be gay) will only have a bath in either Molton Brown Blissful Templetree, Philosophy Hot Chocolate or Ren Morroccan Rose bath oil.

I don;t have display towels though. I don't have skanky towels.

My kitchen has a jar of Nigella Lawson blue & cream chocolate eggs. I nearly killed MrA when he opened them to taste them.

Oh and I've remembered, one of H's firends had a display cooker, he never ever cooked but got a fancy new kitchen with built in cooker and it still had bits of cardboard in the rack bits inside when he sold the place. He also had display saucepans (stainless steel looking) that sat on top. I think he sold them with the apartment.

[aside] I checked my display towels and they have moved since the picture. The greys are where the greens were and vica versa, ribbon though is obviously still attached ?

MA, I started using mine on KJB's Life's Too Short Day and felt much better for it.

I had forgotten about my display pasta, my mum still has it in a jar in her kitchen, complete with my note on top of the pasta inside the jar saying "do not use" ? Oh dear.

For those who do have display items - do you ever use them? only they'll go off, which seems such a criminal waste of good products. I found a philosophy hand cream that had passed its sell by date and smelled funny last night and nearly cried!

btw all of you who believe Pans doesn't have display stuff - she's telling fibs. her whole house is like a show home and full of display stuff. towels, tea towels, the Molton Brown, crockery, those faux bottles of champagne... she even has a display cat* have you seen them? they look like stuffed cats that someone's sat on. A bit like these.

http://www.sourcingmap.com/white-furry-***-cat-gifts-decoration-ornament-stuffed-toy-p-19029.html

and a display child. she has an Anne Geddes egg which she sits Noah in. she glues him in so he can't run away and spoil the effect.

* My mother in law has one of the cats of which I speak. It's hideous. She bought a rabbit version for my ex SIL as well.

Genius!!

I also have quite a few display shoes including ones I will never wear because they don't fit but I don't want to sell them, I am slowly getting rid of them and trying to wear the ones that do fit though.

I actually have a display house. I don't live in it and only visitors are allowed in. Myself, Mr I and the child all live in the (single) shed.

I have display cobwebs. I like to show off the good work of Boris, who lives in the corner of the bathroom.

Can you believe hitched starred out the word pus$y in that URL? ?

I don't know if I have display towels as such, but when we have people coming, I do have nicer newer fluffy grey towels that I put out instead of our older ones (not that they are manky or anything). Again, don't have display products, but I keep all my Jo Malone stuff and a candle I light when in the bath sometimes on the windowsill, so people probably think that I am displaying them.

Mind you, I was told I was weird for having handwash and hand cream in the bathroom for guests - probably am.

MrsB, my late Grandma had one of those cats and a yorkshire terrier from the same range. ?

The MIL has a display Rayburn in her kitchen. She used it once to cook a 'roast dinner' in, but after we ate the over cooked beef and still frozen oven chips* she bought a table-top plug in oven/grill and uses that along with the microwave. Hhmm, how I look forward to sunday lunch visits at chez MIL.

The rayburn isn't even used to heat water or the house - the solar panels do the water and the wood burning stove heats the one room she uses.

* let's not even go there

This thread has so brightened up my dull rainy morning!

No dsiplay items in my bathroom either. Unless you're loaded manhattan apartments are functional - there's not enough room for pretty! Actualy thinking about it the only peopel who've even been in our aprtment since we moved there in October are H , me and the maintenance guy so no need for guest anything!

I love threads like this, I feel so normal in comparison - and if I'm not the norm, then I bl00dy well ought to be! ?

Still, one part of me thinks, what kind of society are we that people will buy a second cooker just for appearances? I can't get my head around that at all.

Actually, this has really got me to thinking re my "display" Jo Malone.

If someone asked me to spend the guts of £200 on 4 ornaments for my bathroom, I'd tell them they were nuts. But, effectively, that's what I'm doing. And I'm mental for doing it.

I bought it becaue I love it, so I'm going to use it all tonight. Well, use some of each of them, not use it all up - that would be even more nuts.

I feel all empowered.

<I am woman, hear me roar>

I keeo guest tampons in the bathroom, just in case anyone gets caught short... mine live upstairs, but I always have an extra box in there so people dont have to ask for them

And where do you keep them? Are they sitting out or in a cupboard? I'd never dream of looking in someone's bathroom cabinet - you never know what you might find!

I think you just help yourself MH if they are there, I certainly have in the past! I'm sure any host would rather me take a sanitary towel from their bathroom than leave blood on their sofa! I think it's a great idea and one I might adopt when we have her own place, I think I'd put them in a nice little basket. ?

No to display products, or towels. In fact at the moment a display towel in this house is probably one that isn't covered with puke, p1ss or sh1t. Not that I have low standards or anything. (Ignores fact I have just noticed large patch of vomit on one of our lovely living room cushions)

Heck, if I started bleeding at someone's house and was unprepared, I would have to look in their cabinet!

Hahaha!!!

They are just out on a shelf, I would hope that people would just help themselves to them rather than bleed on the sofas!

Maybe I should put a lable on saying "please use me"?? ?

Mildred they are brillant!

Are they real though? I am the sort of idiot that would buy them to look pretty!

This is Hitched, it should really be a "display Mooncup" you know ?

? at Mildred Hubble being too laydeelike to leave tampons etc in the bathroom. I used to be like that, but for the last nearly 6 weeks I've had open packets of mattress stylee fanny pads lying around the bog for all and sundry to see when they come to visit. I've got absolutely no shame any more ?

How about display condoms in case your visitors get overcome with passion? Would also save you having to wash the (display) sheets after they'd left ?

Well I wouldn't leave a mooncup out (I'd hope guests wouldn't want to use that ? but 2 or 3 tampons/sanitary towels in a little basket wouldn't be too bad! It's not always friends who might need them.

Loving the display tampons.

Hitched has ruined me. We recently re-did our bathroom, and I found myself suggesting 'display towels'. I would like to think with irony, but... ? I never would have thought of them / heard of them without Hitched. In friend's houses now, I find myself thinking - oooh, that's a display product!

Brilliant!!! You have made me smile like the Joker!

I never thought of leaving tampons or pads for guest use, but I do always have a box of panty liners in the bathroom which someone could, I suppose, help themself to if they needed.

I also have a box of those purple scented bags for tampon or towel disposal - I'd rather guests used one rather than put their used sanitary products in my bin unwrapped or block my toilet with them.

Gawd Roobarb, you've just reminded me of the display used condom and wrapper sitting on the top in the bathroom bin at my BiL's house. They invited us round as he was going to propose to her so we were all there and her parents/brother. ??

Ew, now a display used condom is just a step too far ?

Am also loving "display pasta" btw ?

I love the image of someone coming and seeing a basket full of condoms and tampons, they'd be wondering what on earth you had planned for them.

My sister has display herbs. She decided to grow them after seeing ours and now lovingly tends her coriander, basil and thyme plants. I asked the other day while i was there if she noticed much difference in the taste between her home-grown herbs and supermarket bought - she looked at me, ashamed, and admitted she'd never used them... and probably never would.

Hmm, I have a relationship with my parents where they can crack jokes about my sex life (and I theirs) although not very often! I wouldn't want my dad to have to poke past my tampons to get to the loo roll though (and i keep condoms in the bedroom, not the bathroom!)

I did get a bit of a fright the other day when i entered my 18-year-old brother's bedroom to find him and his girlfriend watching TV... atop that TV was a bottle of 'minty tingling' lube. Yuuuuck!