One of the best things about the holidays is certainly the opportunity to connect with friends and family. During the holidays, one’s home can be very busy place, and preparing for holiday guests should happen weeks before, not the night before like we sometimes like to (time to wash sheets, pronto!) We just had 7 extra people in our house for a weekend recently and I loved it – and this was before I put out my holiday hand towels and cutesy soap dispensers! Oh I can’t wait for holiday guests!
While decorating for the holidays, my friends at P&G have some great product ideas to help your holiday guests feel more at home in your home, and I love their tips! Here are some places you can help your guests feel more holiday cheer:
1. The Bedroom: Sprinkle Downy Unstopables into your laundry to ensure sheets smell fresh and clean for their entire stay – adding a touch of luxury to their sleep! To be sure your guests feel relaxed place a Febreze Sugared Cranberry Candle on their bedside table – the aroma is certain to put them at ease!
2. The Kitchen: Swap out your favourite scented suds for Dawn Hand Renewal with Olay, so when the guests offer to help with dishes (an offer I always accept!) they get a nice little hand treatment too. Oh, and Tide-To-Go Pens are great for keeping on hand in the kitchen drawer, since there’s where food mishaps happen, to help your guests quickly clean up and avoid a stain.
3. The Bathroom: Travel sized portions of body wash, face cream, shampoo and conditioner are the perfect items to keep in the full bathroom for your overnight guests. As these products are often the first items forgotten when packing, guests will not have to worry when they see Olay Body Wash and Olay Regenerist waiting for them by the bathroom sink. In the shower, add a couple shampoo and conditioner options (confession: I love using new hair products when visiting someone else, and seeing what they like to use)! With Pantene Smooth, your guests will have hair that stays super-sleek for up to 72 hours and, with Pantene Volume, guests who suffer from flat hair will experience 24-hour volume to get them through that holiday party!
Last but not least, remember: before the doorbell rings, spray the house with Febreze Frosted Pine Air Effects. You may be noseblind to your home smell, but guests are not! I love that tip! I love/need a fresh, clean smelling house so Febreze is always a favorite product here!
To help you prep your home for the holidays, we have a fantastic Holiday Host prize package to give away (ARV $40). Items included in the prize package:
- Downy Unstopables – $9.99
- Tide-To-Go – $4.89
- Olay Body Wash 50 mL – Sample Size
- Olay Regenerist Sachets – Sample Size
- Pantene Smooth Shampoo 50 mL – $1.49
- Pantene Smooth Conditioner 50 mL – $1.49
- Pantene Volume Shampoo 50 mL – $1.49
- Pantene Volume Conditioner 50 mL – $1.49
- Febreze Sugared Cranberry Candle – $7.98
- Febreze Frosted Pine Air Effects – $4.79
- Dawn Hand Renewal – $3.99
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I always spray a nice scented febreze around the house before guests come over.
I will Sprinkle Downy Unstopables into my laundry.
I like to get the guest room all freshened up with freshly washed linens and bathroom towels, I like to leave candles and matches in the room and keep a can of febreeze in the washroom, I like to have it so they feel at home and comfortable!!
What a great group of suggestions! I love for over night guests having travel size lotions and shamppos there for them to use. Also spraying some Frebreeze is always a great tip just before company comes in the door. I also like to make gingerbread or boil cinnamon for great scents!
Putting travel size items in the bathroom for our overnight guests! Never even thought of doing that!
Great suggestions! Great prize! Great if I win!
I like the idea to “Sprinkle Downy Unstopables into your laundry to ensure sheets smell fresh and clean for their entire stay – adding a touch of luxury to their sleep!” I love fresh smelling sheets and I know my company would enjoy that too!
Always have an inviting scent in our house when we have guests coming over 🙂
I love the tip to have Travel sized portions of body wash, face cream, shampoo and conditioner
also to have some nice scents especially for when they first walk in the door
I like to make baskets with travel sized portions of body wash, face cream, shampoo and conditioner.
the travel shampoo and conditioner Id have it on their pillow as a gift with chocolate I usually do that for guests makes them feel like you really want them there.
Fresh sheets and towels and a lovely scented candle!
I always stock up the guest bathroom with soap, body wash, shampoo etc. I tend to have the same house guests over time, so I learn what they like/need and stock based on that.
Its always nice to have samples in the bathroom for guests spending the night, and the unstoppables will be lovely to make our guest lines smelling lovely while they are here. This is a fabulous group of prizes, oh and I think I would be the one to enjoy the festive candle.
I always make sure I have travel sized bathroom products on hand in case guests forget anything.
Febreze Sugared Cranberry Candle is one thing I would use to make guests feel at home.
All the suggestions are great.I like the Swap out your favourite scented suds for Dawn Hand Renewal with Olay.Maybe then they will offer to help 😉
Great tips! I like the idea of leaving a stocked guest bathroom!
We just redecorated our guest bedroom.
the awesome candles going, and this year the first person that asks, “can I help you with anything?” I am taking them up on the offer
We wash all the linens & towels & clean the junk off the spare bed!
I like the suggestion to sprinkle the downy unstopables for fresh smelling sheets.
That’s a great idea to have a little goody bag of travel sized items for them.
geting the house in perfect order for them
My quest get a nice Epsom salt tenion tamer bath with the perfect mix of essestial oil. Yes, they stay the night because we live far. So we spa spoil them .
I keep a few travel size products on hand for company to use. I always have tooth brushes, too.
Air freshener all around the place, and freshly cleaned linens
The Tide on the go. For someone like me always getting stains on something.
Clean towels, stacked and waiting for them ready to go in the morning.
I do the towels and bedding with downy unstoppables before guests come. I normally offer shampoo etc butI’ve never thought of just putting it out for the guests. I also only buy proper facial tissue when I’ll be having guests and I make sure there is a box of it in the guest room and common area
My wife likes to fatten up our holiday guests, so she likes to bake cookies for them and have them packaged up and ready for them to eat when they get to their room.
I don’t usually have overnight guest but I leave lots of hand towels out when people come over
I love the idea of having a nice detergent! I will definitely be shopping for a nice soap like the Dawn Hand Renewal with Olay!
I’m going to put out Travel sized products for my company.
I will be putting a Febreze candle on the night stand in the guest room
I put out travel sized toiletries in the bathroom.
I really like the idea of a nice little travel size everything basket just in case, but my best tip for making people feel at home is feeding them and giving them coffee.
I think the atmosphere makes them feel welcome – decorations, music playing, good food…. (and the cheeky side says the addition of some holiday ‘cheer’ to the eggnog 😉 )
I keep a basket of travel size toiletries,etc (everything that I take when travelling) as well a new toothbrushes & razors in the guest room. Also put headphones in the room so they can watch movies, etc without worrying about disturbing others.
I like to leave out the travel sized toiletries for guests!!
I will be Sprinkling Downy Unstopables into our laundry to have fresh smelling sheets.
Food
i like the idea of the travel sized portions of body wash, etc, but I would put them initially in their room
I like to have travel sized toiletries for guests.. I love decorating and hosting guests.. so fun
I have a basket in the guest bathroom filled with all my samples that I receive such as shampoo , conditioner , perfume, face creams, moisturizer and even little toothpastes. I make sure to tell them to feel free to use whatever they need or just want to try.
fresh towels and sheets
I will be putting travel size items in the bathroom for overnight guests.
I always have a little basket of travel sized shampoo, conditioner,body wash, a guest sized soap & a couple of aspirins,tylenol, tums,and an antacid, bandaid, shower cap, & a few q-tips & a shower cap, travel sized mouthwash, toothpaste & a 1 use razor.
I put the basket on the night table & they can use whatever.
I’ve often had a guest thank me for including a certain item they forgot to pack & it was in there. Usually it was for the disposable razor or a Tylenol or antacid or something.
This one would be perfect: with Pantene Smooth my guests will have hair that stays super-sleek for up to 72 hours.
Christmas scented candles and warm blankets.
Our guest room has been a catch all, so to make them feel more comfortable I will be cleaning it out!
I love the kitchen tip!! We always have someone who offers to do dishes, or just goes right in and starts lol. The soap is something I never would have thought to change up for guests.
Lots of baking – nothing like the smell of freshly baked cookies when you walk into someone else’s home!
Sprinkle Downy Unstopables into your laundry to ensure sheets smell fresh and clean for their entire stay
I like to put candles with matches in their room as well as bottled water by the bedside.
I always Febreeze the snot out of my house before guests show up. I have dogs and I am pretty sure I a scent blind to them now but thats no reason guests should suffer!
I always decorate for my guests.
lots of great ideas! I think I must do the following one… before the doorbell rings, spray the house with Febreze Frosted Pine Air Effects. having 3 cats with the litter box in the house I must freshen the house before guests arrive!
Light some candles and have their room smelling great.
We always put out Holiday treats for our guests
I will be using the bathroom ideas of travel sized portions for my overnight guests.
They all would certainly be useful during the holidays.
I actually do all of your suggestions year round. However, I realized after reading your post I need to resupply my bathroom.
I like the idea of washing with Downy Unstopables to make everything smell fresh.
I would love to wash all the cuddle blankets and pillows on the sofas in Downy Unstoppables! Make it feel homey and christmas-y
little baskets filled with travel sized items for our guests.
I use the downy unstoppables in the bedding, makes the room smell fresh too
I sprinkle Downy Unstoppables in my laundry.
I like to have fresh flowers in the house when we have guests.
Cheers.
we have guest slippers!
I leave a little guest bag on their pillow, toothbrush, floss, washcloth, soap, etc,
I make slippers for them to use at my house and keep
I love the idea of putting out travel sized toiletries for the guests! I will be doing that this year.
I always have a stock pile of travel/sample size items for the bathroom….
I’m going to get a Tide-to-Go to keep handy. Not just for clothes but for my tablecloths as well.
Spray a nice holiday scented febreeze
I spray the house with Febreze and have Febreze noticeables plugged in so my house smells nice for guests
When I’m having my turkey dinner for friends and family, I make sure to ask if there’s any special requests from the guests. Whether it’s soda, alcohol, etc. I’ve learnt lots from the past years such as one needs garlic on the turkey, another doesn’t eat margarine but only butter, to someone who can’t have whole cranberry sauce and needs the jellied only…I need new friends and family! lol 🙂
Making sure we have fresh clean towels and well stocked toiletries
I love the idea of using travel size products for over night guests… I have a ton too
travel size bathroom products
I try to have their favourite drinks available.
I like to freshen up with clean sheets and towels
I’m not expecting any guests this holiday but if I was I’d leave out sample sizes of shampoo and conditioner in the bathroom.
I’ve left travel size products in the bathroom for the guests. In fact, I just did that for our daughter’s wedding. With people coming and going from our home, and naturally, things are forgotten, this idea was well received.
Febreze Sugared Cranberry Candle would make the house smell nice
I was a quest once for a couple weeks and they left me a basket of snacks out in my room which they topped off regularly. I thought that was a lovely idea…
preparing for holiday guests should happen weeks before
Downy Unstopables in my laundry.
I make sure there is plenty of food
Clean bedding smelling like Unstopables, plenty of food and drink
I make sure there is lots of different foods for everyone to enjoy
I love to fill my house with candles!
I like to put small size products and soaps in the bathroom for guests.
We keep lots of blankets handy
for the kids…..personalized gingerbread people
Have their favorite chocolates on their bedside table.
We will put a candle by there bedside for a homey touch
I must grab the new Dawn with Olay…..for my guests of course 😉
I like your idea of using travel size bath & beauty items for guests.
I put candles in he bedroom and in the bathroom to create a cozy space.
We keep all the travel size shampoos, conditioners, body washes in a jar in the guest room so that guests can help themselves to anything they may have forgotten
Travel sized products are such an amazing treat.
I put the trial size toiletries and clean towels in the bathroom.
Having the Tide To Go pen handy is a good idea!
I will Sprinkle Downy Unstopables into my laundry.
We like to put out Christmas scented candles
I love filling the house with festive scents from Scentsy.
I serve them a nice holiday drink
Bought new linens and towels for our family visiting in the summer!
I also make sure that I keep a well-stocked guest bathroom and bedroom in case people forgot things.
I already do keep my house smelling good, use downy unstoppables in the laundry (got some as a sample and am hooked lol), and keep travel size at the ready (as well as new toothbrushes, always have at least 2 kicking around just incase). I do like the idea of the tide pens and using the dishsoap with olay, definitely going to start keeping these on hand. Thanks for the great tips 🙂
I usually light up a candle.
I put scented candles everywhere
I am going to spend less time in the kitchen and more time with them!
I always make sure i use unstopables in the laundry ,,so the sheets and blankets smell awesome , put a scented candle on the night stand and spray the bedroom with febreze 🙂
I love the use of travel size portions for guests. What they don’t use, they can take with them!
These are lovely tips to remember.I will be sure to Sprinkle Downy Unstoppables into my laundry.I love having fresh smelling sheets.
I like the idea of keeping the Tide to Go pens on hand — I’m going to definitely do this.
spraying air freshners and placing candles
I love the tide to go pens very handy !
I spray febreze around the house before guests come
I love the idea of doing the travel sized items in the bathroom because they are the items most forgotten!
I love making the guest bath and bedroom really comfortable and clean with warm blankets, tissue on their nightstand, soap, shampoo and toiletries provided.
I think the Tide to go pen is a great idea to have on hand.
Use Febreze Frosted Pine Air Effects
Provide their own toiletries.
I make sure my home is nice and clean, smells good and beds are made with clean sheets and a nice soft comfy duvet. I like to leave a little basket filled with goodies on their nightstand.