[Magdalen] how long have I been hanging around with you folks

[Lynn Ronkainen]

In the Houston area many churches make shoebox 'presents' at Christmas for the Seafarers Center at the port of Houston which include socks, snacks and 'hotel toiletries' collected from parishioners - many of whom in this area travel for business so the donations are plentiful. Collections of the same are always welcome at the many shelters here also. 
Lynn

On Jan 23, 2017, at 4:02 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

The stuff they have in the rooms is bought in bulk.  It's certainly not a
great expense. Obviously a bathrobe is going to be different. Towels also
can be a bit pricey, but the original stuff we were talking about -- it's
nickel and dine stuff.

Bottom line, if it's put out in the room, it is expected that guests will
use it.  Whining about how people take what is put out for them -- to, uh,
take -- sorry, not sympathetic.  If the B n B man doesn't want guests to
take the stuff, he could just put out a sign that guests can ask for soap
at the desk (or whatever passes for a desk in his operation) if they need
it.  Guests may look on that as a bit cheap (which of course it is), but
you do what you gotta do...

I've never heard of anyone taking soaps and shampoo and giving it to
shelters.  That's kind of a novel idea, I must admit, but I've never heard
of it elsewhere.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

>> On 22/01/2017 03:11, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>> 
>> I believe we were talking about shampoo and soap.  As I was wondering, if
>> you use it at all, of what possible use would it be to leave the remainder
>> there?  I would assume that it would be a kindness to take your used items
>> with you, but perhaps I am wrong.
>> 
> 
> On my recent trip to the USA one hotel had a notice in the bathroom saying
> that soap that was left would be processed and donated to the homeless.
> Personally I unwrap only one bar per hotel stay, leave toiletries I have
> not touched but take the ones I have part-used. One hotel quoted the price
> of a bathrobe if you wanted to take it while an economy one said that
> because their towels were so popular with guests they would assume ones
> that disappeared were being bought, and quoted the prices they would charge
> for them.
> 
> Roger
>