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During the holiday season millions of Americans travel to spend time and celebrate with loved ones, and that often means staying together under one roof. Many prefer spending the night with family over staying at a hotel, and hosts are happy to have them, up until a point. According to a new survey, guests overstay their welcome after six days.
Any longer than that and hosts are ready for their house guests to go, finds the poll of 2-thousand U.S. adults. If their guest isn’t packing up past the six-day mark, a third of people start dropping hints that it’s time to go. But some aren’t so subtle, as 22% admit they’ll flat out tell a guest they’ve overstayed and need to leave.
- There are some exceptions to this rule, depending on who the guest is. People welcome their own children to stay with them for 10 days and their parents can stay for eight days before it starts to become an imposition.
- As for in-laws and other family members, they’re encouraged to go after five days.
- Despite guests potentially overstaying their welcome, nearly half (46%) want to be the house that everyone comes to for holiday gatherings.
- A quarter (24%) confess they have a “friendly rivalry” with another relative over wanting to be the person hosting for the holidays and 78% believe they’re winning.
- But for some folks, a lack of space is keeping them from easily hosting loved ones, including four in 10 respondents who don’t have a guest room.
- More than half (56%) of those without one say their overnight guest sleeps on the couch, but 18% actually give up their own bed for guests.
- Nearly two-thirds (65%) of those who have a guest room plan to fix it up before holiday guests arrive. They want to make improvements including buying new bedding (46%), redecorating (45%) or even buying a new guest room mattress (39%) to make sure their guests are as comfy as possible.
- People acknowledge that hosting can be a lot of work, but 55% say all that effort is absolutely worth it.
Source: Talker