Ross friends im fine meme8/14/2023 Snacks/Breakfast in the common space: YES, within reason ![]() If you use a lot of notepads, go for this one. I’m pretty sure hotels want you to take this stuff as advertisement, honestly. I’m talking shampoo, conditioners, lotions, soaps, shower caps, the single-use cotton ball/Qtip packages, if applicable, etc. Unless you’re super environmentally conscious and always pack your stuff in reusable containers…which is also cool…this is A-OK. They are always TSA size-approved and easy to toss if for some reason TSA tells you to slim down your liquid collection. Travel toiletries are awesome to keep and use on future trips. Travel-sized toiletries in the hotel bathroom: YES So let’s talk about what I think you can guiltlessly take from your hotel and what you can’t. I think the hotel intended to only offer them with checkin, but they never declined giving us one or two each day, so whatever. I was once with a group who semi-abused the mimosa/champagne offering at the front dest of a super nice hotel we booked for a bachelorette party, and that I would say was borderline. That said, Ross takes things much, much further than I’d recommend. There’s absolutely no reason why you can’t take your basic toiletry allotment with you when you go. They happily provide you toiletries daily! They’re included in the cost of the room. I occasionally see “controversy” as to whether it’s appropriate to take hotel toiletries you haven’t used or letting the hotel staff bring you extra toiletries daily and take them all at the end. ![]() Related: How I Got Paid for a $1400+ Flight on American Airlines I wouldn’t go as far as Ross by any means, but there are DEFINITELY items in a hotel you’re welcome to take because they come with the price of the room, and gosh darn it, you probably paid good money for that room (unless you travel hacked!). But what about Ross’ theory that most things in a hotel are fair game as long as they can be used up? It’s one of my favorite scenes because it plays so well to both Ross’s and Chandler’s characters. The bit continues with them differentiating between stealing (salt shakers) and not stealing (salt), stealing (remote control) and not stealing (batteries). We’ll put a pin in that idea for a second. “You have to find the line between stealing and taking what the hotel owes you.” Ross teaches Chandler about his trick of taking everything possible in the hotel room and the common areas and asking for all items from the hotel’s forgotten items list (razors, toothbrushes, etc).Ĭhandler gets into the game and returns with some great items (USA Today, two apples - “Nice! We’re only 4 apples short of a bushel!” squeals Ross), but the record scratches when Chandler reveals salt and pepper shakers. This is a recurrent subplot in several episodes, but the centerpiece of “The One With Rachel’s Dream,” in which Chandler books an expensive surprise weekend for Monica in Vermont, but she can’t go…leaving Chandler to take Ross to the fancypants bed-and-breakfast. One of Ross’s “things” is that he enthusiastically loads up on hotel toiletries and other “free” items in hotel rooms. You paid for those hotel toiletries - take ‘em His storyline is primarily about failed relationships, neurotic paranoia, obnoxious quirkiness, and his parents’ unrealistic obsession with him as their golden child compared to Monica, the one they kind of wish they’d never birthed (can you tell Ross isn’t my *favorite* character?!)…Ross does have some fantastic storylines and hilarious moments, though, so let’s get to it and review what he might be able to teach us about money. Ross is an enthusiastic paleontologist who is a year older than most of the Friends gang, and Monica’s older brother. ![]() Here are links to the other Friends’s posts in case you missed them! Rachel | Joey | Monica | Chandler | Phoebe Ross Geller That said, he’s got a couple of great things I can use as financial analogies (and the first one was the inspiration for this piece. I’m going to be honest with you - I don’t really enjoy Ross very much and I found it really hard to write his piece compared to some of the other characters. ![]() Rachel was up first, and now it’s time for her favorite/least favorite friend, Ross. I’ve split this into a series of posts over the next few days, one for each Friend. As it happens, the Friends dealt with money in their lives and with each other quite often! And not always very well… I have SO many ideas for content, but it’s difficult to put pen to paper sometimes!Īnyway, I was thinking about my previous post about Minimalism in which I mention “everyone should have a Monica Closet,” and I thought about all the other things Friends characters taught me about money. Turns out Blogtober was a lot easier said than done, even if you’re only shooting for 13 posts in 31 days.
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