Although I don't use housekeeping every day, I do take the freebies and they build up over time, especially the lotion which we never use. The Albany teacher's union collects these and distributes them to organizations that can use them. Women's shelters commonly can use them for women who arrive on the spur of the moment and without their toiletries.
One of the reasons these small freebies build is that I don't like the idea of throwing out a bar of soap I have barely used. So I wrap it in a bit of plastic (like those coverings that protect drinking cups) and unwrap them at the next hotel. Since I travel single, soap lasts a long while. So even when I don't use housekeeping for a two night stay in Vegas, I generally take away quite a few soaps.
Actually, I am doing that this morning.
My wife and I left a Comfort Inn near Charlotte and slept last night in a Best Western in Shippensburg Pa. coming up for snowbirding in Florida. We will leave here with another bar and with little bottles even though we have stayed only one night.
I tip whenever housekeeping cleans up after me, but not if I just ask for an extra washcloth in the hallway. I don't see the two as really much connected. the freebies come out of the casino budget. The tips go into the pocket of hard working people.
Perhaps I should not think so much about waste when I stay at Harrah's CET places, because they have turned our old soaps into much needed charity.
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