An extra pillow in the closet?

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I want to provide one extra pillow for guests. I only have 1 guest per room, but provide 2 already - a soft and a firm. My problem is how to provide it.

One thought is to put the third pillow into a closet in some sort of bag? How do i tell if it is used? Or just put a thrd pillow on the bed?

Maybe use a vaccuum extracted bag for the pillow… then when the guest uses the pillow, it will be uncompressed and obvious to me?

How do you handle this?

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I keep two extra pillows in the closet. They’re in a different color pillow case so I can differentiate them easily. Usually if guests pull them out they don’t put them away.

I like your vacuum seal idea, though!

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We have an apartment with two bedrooms. We just bought a box of “Magic Bags,” at WalMart. Six large flat bags are less than $10. We push a pillow into the bag, seal it up and put it in the closet. It is marked with a tag that has the name of the bed where it goes. When guests leave, I look at the bag to see if it has been unsealed. The pillow is all ready to pull out by the guest with the pillow case on it.

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My wife uses plastic boxes in which she stores everything we need to set up the apartment for the number of guests moving in, they have labels to tell me what is in the box.

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These bags are vacuum sealed and the sheets are color-coded. The top and bottom sheets and pillow cases for the king-size bed are white. They are striped for the queen-sized bed.
Tomorrow we are having a two hour turnaround between two sets of guests, each with four people, so this coding makes it easier for me to move the second group right in.
My wife also sewed buttons on the bottom side of the sheets so I can put that on the bottom and make the beds effortlessly.

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I don’t. Each queen bed has four pillows. I really think that’s enough. If people want something to support them when reading in bed then they can use one of the throw pillows from the sofas - although I’ve never found one on the bed so I don’t think they do.

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Yeah I don’t 4 on the bed. Usually 2 different types. I put two extra pillows of a third type in the closet but that’s it. I haven’t had people really complain or compliment one way or another on any sort of pillows that I’ve provided and I’ve probably used 20 different types by now.

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Same here though I also pop a square cushion on each side of the bed too. A few times after checkout I have found the cushions with the 2 pillows having been used as props for folk to lean against so I guess they serve their intended purpose.

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We have bed Reading Pillows, a plain cased pillow and a pillow in a sham. If that’s not enough, too bad!:wink:

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I put two pillows on the queen bed, and one pillow on each of two twin beds. People bring their own and leave them, or my pillows reproduce, because somehow, there are now 14 pillows in my house. I leave the extras up in the closet, and most people do pull a few out. I have a zippered washable case on the extras, and if they come out of the closet, I assume they’ve been used,

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I do exactly what you suggested. I provide 2 extra pillows in a compressed ziplock bag. Also included are pillow cases (folded). It’s atop a shelf in the closet; inside the transparent bag I have a piece of paper that says “2 extra pillows + pillow cases”.

I’ve had one guest use one pillow; it was on the bed, when I went to clean up. So it was pretty easy to understand what had been used and what hadn’t.

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We originally had only 2 on each queen bed and 1 on each twin bed. I had 2 different guests grab the pillows from unused beds/rooms and use them on other beds, so I went to Costco and bought a bunch more pillows. I put the extras on shelves in the closets. I like the idea of putting them in a bag to keep the dust off.

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How do you tell if they have been used?

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If they are out of the bag is the first indication.
If they are on the bed, with a pillow case on, is further evidence.

I doubt that any guest would go through the effort to remove the pillow case, and place the pillow back in the compressed ziplock bag.

I provide 4 pillows on a queen bed; and I’ve only had one set of guests use one of the extra 2 pillows (from the closet).

I do similar with a set of robes I provide, and within the bag is a note, where I ask that if they use the robes, to place them in the provided hamper for laundering.

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I have four pillows on the bed, two in cases, two in shams. There are two more on a shelf with pillow cases on them sitting on a nearby shelf. If the ones on the shelf have been moved which I determine by looking at the fold of the pillowcase I wash those pillowcases. The shams get washed every time anyway. Of the 6 pillows there are four types so hopefully everyone has one they find to be comfortable.

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I have two pillows on the bed and two additional pillows (in pillowcases) at the bottom of a luggage rack. Following a suggestion I read in a separate string here several months ago, I keep a note on top of the latter pillows asking guests to place them on the bed when they check out–if they’ve used them during their visit–as an indication that the pillowcases need to be cleaned. This set-up has worked well so far.

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I had a ‘nesting’ guest recently. She found all the extra pillows and ended up with 7 on a full size bed.