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AIBU?

Beach towels used in the bathroom

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mrsruffallo · 15/08/2015 18:51

AIBU? Recently returned from our Corsica holiday. Before we went I invested in some lovely beach towels. DH keeps using them in the bathroom and hanging them on the towel rack. AIBU to be irritated?

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DoJo · 15/08/2015 18:57

YABU - a towel is a towel is a towel. If they are so lovely, why keep them shut up in the airing cupboard for 50 weeks a year instead of getting them out and using them?!

Littlefluffyclouds81 · 15/08/2015 18:58

Umm, towels are towels aren't they? Maybe he really enjoyed his holiday and wants to feel like he's still there.

I just grab the first clean towel I see...one of my favourites is a universal studios beach towel that my parents got me when I was 10. It's had 24 years of service and still does the job.

I'm guessing maybe my house doesn't look like your house.

Sighing · 15/08/2015 18:58

They are towels. Do you intend to use them for two weeks a year?

overthemill · 15/08/2015 18:58

I always use beach towels - nice size, colourful and great quality. And they don't get used enough to 'save' them for best!

scarletforya · 15/08/2015 19:00

Huh?

People save beach towels for the beach?

verystressedmum · 15/08/2015 19:00

If you put them away in a cupboard he won't be able to use them

WorraLiberty · 15/08/2015 19:00

I prefer a beach towel. Mainly because I get hair dye on my plain towels, even weeks after I've dyed my hair.

WorraLiberty · 15/08/2015 19:02

If you put them away in a cupboard he won't be able to use them

Why not?

Unless the OP has husband proof cupboard locks?

DirtyMugPolice · 15/08/2015 19:02

Yabu. Beach towels are always massive so a bonus for drying yo self covering a fat arse

malovitt · 15/08/2015 19:02

My beach towels live in the loft for 50 weeks per year.
They're too garish for the bathroom.
If I leave them in the cupboard they get used and I don't like it.
So, I'm with you, OP.

ScarlettDarling · 15/08/2015 19:02

I don't have beach towels in the bathroom because I like things to match.

But my kids take them swimming, so they get plenty of use.

mrsruffallo · 15/08/2015 19:03

Is it just me then?
I always save them for holidays and for the children's swimming lessons as they are lovely, big and colourful and I would never use bath towels for swimming.

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poocatcherchampion · 15/08/2015 19:03

How dreadful

Seriously tho, that wouldn't happen here.

KumiOri · 15/08/2015 19:03

yabu
towel is towel, no?

Zeitgeistic · 15/08/2015 19:04

I generally save beach towels for the beach or swimming. It would irritate me a bit if someone were to put them to general bathroom use. I would never say anything though as I do realise I'm being a bit precious and rediculous.

mrsruffallo · 15/08/2015 19:04

They are put in the airing cupboard, not the towel cupboard in the bathroom.

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MrsGentlyBenevolent · 15/08/2015 19:04

Hmm, we always saved beach towels for beach and swimming lessons/going to the pool. Then again, I was never a few mins away from one or the other. If they're rarely used otherwise, then yabu. Towels are meant to be used.

cathcustard · 15/08/2015 19:04

YANBU.
Beach towels should go in the airing cupboard and only come out for holidays and days at the beach.
They should not be used indiscriminately and left on the bathroom floor, the end of a bed or a mouldy gym bag DS are you reading?.
That way they last for 20+ years and be hopelessly old fashioned for ever.

OOAOML · 15/08/2015 19:05

Are beach towels different fabric/size? Or is the only difference the colours and patterns? Disclaimer: we have no beach towels and don't have beach holidays so there may be whole categories of towel that I am not familiar with.

nicestrongtea · 15/08/2015 19:05

OP that's nearly as bad, but not quite, as using bathroom towels on the beach< shudder>
Seriously your only option is to hide them or LTB !

TheCrowFromBelow · 15/08/2015 19:07

I love using my beach towels. Bath towels are just too small. Nothing matches here!

mrsruffallo · 15/08/2015 19:08

YY bathroom towels on the beach or for swimming do make me cringe. Nice to know I am not alone.

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Soundofsettling · 15/08/2015 19:12

YANBU!! Horrible thin nasty velour that doesn't absorb properly vs fluffy absorbent Turkish loop.

A beach towel is not a bath towel.

DoJo · 15/08/2015 19:12

I take bathroom towels swimming as it seems silly to wash a towel after one use when I could take towels that have already been in service and then wash them. Because this seems like an eminently sensible system, and one which is likely to single-handedly save the planet, I'm afraid YAstillBU as far as I'm concerned.

littlejohnnydory · 15/08/2015 19:13

YABU and a bit bonkers. Towels are towels here.

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