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What Sort of 'Treasure' Have You Discovered Left Behind in a Hotel Room?

August 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM | by | Comment (1)

LifeHacker Australia recently rounded up the Three Bs of hotel room treasures--places where you can typically find the things that guests have left behind, even after they've checked out and the rooms have been cleaned. So, where can you find all sorts of hotel room "treasure"? Bathroom Ledges, Bibles and Between Mattresses.

Apparently, bathroom ledges is where many folks leave their wedding rings, particularly slimy silly business travelers who want to conceal their marital status while on trips. Folks supposedly leave money in the bible as either a way to reward acts of faith or discourage thieves from stealing money out of a bible.

Lastly, folks leave stuff in-between mattresses, particularly pornography and Lifehacker mentions its usually airline pilots who have a sort of "library" of this naughty reading material at their crashpad hotels. Ewww.

Ok. Now, maybe folks Down Under do it differently in hotels but you can sure as hell bet your bottom dollar that we will never, ever search in between the mattresses for "treasure." Besides, most of the hotel beds these days are too heavy to even lift.

Second, the whole money in the bible is an urban legend designed to get you to look for the bible everytime you're in a hotel room. And lastly, while it's no secret that affairs happen on business trips, why would you want to search for someone's wedding ring and then keep it? Obviously, that ring's already got some bad luck attached to it. You taking it would be even worse.

That said, we have found a few stray items left behind during our recent hotel stays. Under the bed is a sure place to find strange things and the drawers of the bathroom vanities always yield something (dirty Q-tip anyone?) but we do believe in karma. If we ever did find something special--be it a wedding ring, a camera or even a phone charger or a book--we'd take it down to the front desk for Lost and Found. Except maybe a wad of money. That we might struggle with.

Tell us: what sort of "treasure" have you found left behind in hotel rooms?

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Stray Pills

Earlier this year I found a lone Viagra pill on the marble floor of a hotel suite's walk-in closet. Gr-o-ss. (Although the rest of the suite was sparkling clean.) I couldn't stop thinking about the rich old man who must have been in the room before me.

Perhaps if I was a dude I might have thought, "Free Viagra: score!" but instead I picked it up with a tissue, careful not to touch it, and tossed it in the trash.

MsRebecca on August 13, 2009 at 10:13 AM #Permalink

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