There certainly isn’t a lot of space for guests, but I really appreciate it when people trek up here for a visit. So, we bought an Aero-bed that we store in a closet, have a sofa that is deep enough to sleep on (we are replacing it with another deep sofa shortly), and we have a trunk television stand so that we can store our pillows and blankets out of sight.

In the bathroom, we generally have extra toiletries on hand because well teenagers (of which we have one) tend to invite their friends over regularly and overuse goods.

Here’s a list of things people seem to forget or need:
-sanitary napkins or tampons
-dental floss
-toothpaste
-q-tips
-cottons
-band-aids
-asperin, Motrin, or Tylenol
-saline for contacts
-toothbrush
-comb

Mi apartamento es su apartamento

For couples or longer term guests, we move our boys twin beds together, attach a giant elastic around them to hold them in place, put down a king sized featherbed and make the bed up. They have their own bathroom which is off limits to them normally so it’s stocked and ready to go and is clean as nobody ever uses it except company. The linens for this room are kept in the master closet as we have a king bed in there, too, and it’s easier to keep all the linens in one place. Under the sink in the boys’/guest bath is another ziplock bag with toiletries.

It makes life very easy to do it this way. I change out the toiletries every Christmas when we go to the beach. I use what’s left and restock when we return.

Sheet sets can go into one of the pillow cases and be stored between mattress and box spring (if you’re really short on space). Why waste plastic bags?

Speaking of ziplock bags, my partner and I recently went through all of our random wires, cords, cables, strange electronics, old phones, etc that we had collected in shopping bags. We coiled them individually and put each in a plastic ziplock and labelled them. The mystery ones we put ?s on and plan to ask electronic savvy relatives what they are for and if we can chuck them.