Yup, I often receive vacation photos from my hosts. Friendly.
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More than a dozen photos of people I don’t know, why? I think it is crazy. One photo maybe, being social. But when it gets to be half a dozen a day, that is strange.
Wow, thanks for reassuring me that I’m not the only person in the world who avoids bottled water whenever remotely possible! I’m on a sit now where the tap water is absolutely fine. Yet they have several crates of bottled stuff stacked high in the cellar… Why???
Haha. Perhaps I’m just extra-organized extra likely to forget things when tired, but Every Single Thing that I pack goes on a list – checked off when it goes into the bag, checked off again when I pack to leave. A habit sitters might want to adopt so as not to lose belongings.
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Agree about uncomfortable pillows being trouble, although I’d never have room for one in a suitcase. I’ll take one if driving. Otherwise, I’ve used folded towels and sweatshirts when the provided pillows have been far too big and floofy.
My “little irritation” is lack of cooking utensils. There will be like 2 giant pots, no little saucepans, no little pyrex type dishes to heat things up in… don’t people COOK??? This seems particularly funny to me, that this would be an irritant, because I absolutely do not consider myself “a cook”, I don’t like doing it, I do it because I have to eat… but I do miss having my own selection of pots/pans/etc.
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Maybe they microwave everything?
This cracks me up. I think a salad spinner is a kitchen essential. I’m relieved that as an HO, I have one. And sharp knives : )
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I’m confused. You feel the need to replace toilet paper you’ve used? I would never think a sitter had to do that.
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I sat for a single guy and he was limited on cooking stuff. Plates, glasses. But it was a luxury apt building that had free glass of wine daily in the top floor lounge, free flavored seltzer machine, pool table. Pool – which was cold, but weather nice enought to tan – and I did take a dip. So since I travel with back up items, no issue for me.
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In light of the other issues that you have encountered on your sits, this really seems benign. I would interpret it as a friendly gesture like @Maggie8K and @Happypets. Certainly not crazy or strange.
Have you been making any positive comments on the pictures? Doing so may encourage the HO to continue sending
I do not comment on them at all. So what do you think now? I find it strange. I would not send pictures of my family and friends on vacation to my dog sitter, who I actually knew very well, let alone a stranger. Where you get strange. I am a stranger to her.
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I have also had HO send me snaps from their holiday - the views and occasionally family etc. I think it’s just people being friendly and making a connection. I have no problem with it at all, in fact it shows me that the HO see me as more than hired help, and trying to bond a little.
I have become quite good friends with several HOs over the years, and have exchanged messages out-of-sit time, gone out for lunch, and stayed at their houses if I am in town.
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Yep, best to make no comment at all. This is the same one who made no offer of a glass of wine when she poured one for herself? Her friendliness pendulum swings to the extremes
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Or maybe she’s just mean and trying to make the sitter jealous! 
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@janepell
ha! Love that. Yes, no salad spinner is like no toaster or microwave or even mixing bowl. I don’t get it. I have to waste so many paper towels to dry wet lettuce when there isn’t a spinner and even then, it’s still soggy - yuck.
I used to travel with my beloved Cutco knife everywhere but it was tragically confiscated in Spain as I was boarding a train and although we had already ridden trains in Spain with my knife, at one station they had a security check and although it was sheathed in a hard plastic cover, they confiscated it. I was crushed. 
About salad spinning, maybe useful in a pinch:
I randomly saw this approach as a tip on social media.
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I think this discussion has influenced me into buying a salad spinner 
in the meantime I’ll be trying that plastic bag tip at home. I hope the neighbours don’t think I’m odd as I twirl my bag in the garden!
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yes, same one. So she did not consider me a friend to offer a glass of wine, but feels friendly enough to send me a dozen pictures of her holiday with extended family. That is strange MaggieUU
We are full time travelers now, but when we had a home base, I had at least a dozen kitchen towels, all the same kind, and a similar number of dish cloths so that I never ran out of clean ones. I’ve bought a package of new kitchen towels for AirBnBs before while traveling.
Maybe she became friendly when she saw you’re not a threat to her wine, you had your own 
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