Sharing towels???

All towels are communal as in you go and get a clean one from airing cupboard - use it and keep hold of it until you decide it needs washing!
DP is a one use person, DS and I will use 2-3 times before washing
Hand towel and tea towel in kitchen are a free for all though

Sharing bathwater turns my stomach. I don't know how people can do it. All those microscopic bits of other people's shit from the anus, pubic hairs and so on. especially little kids who will piss in the bath secretly thinking it's funny.

I pushed the kids out my vagina, sharing towels is not a worry for me.

We have a few hanging up on the bannister and I just grab a dry one. Then I wash them each week.

Wait till you hear we all share bath water too 🤣

i might change my mind when they’re teenagers but they’re only small!

Totally off topic but what's with the multitude of question marks, I'm seeing this everywhere at the moment and it makes questions seem really aggressive!

As you were 😆

Guess you change your bedding daily too 🤢🤢🤢
and wash your sofa cushions weekly 🤢🤢🤢
and please tell me you don’t wear shoes in the house 🤢🤢🤢

We do the same. No-one died.

Gives a whole new interpretation of 'STD'
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I have just used the towel Mr Monkey used about 2 hours earlier before he headed off to work. I now patiently wait "shared towel death".

I feel like I’m an outlier here because we all keep our own towels until they’re washed, no communal “pick any towel from the rail” sharing. But this is mostly because it enables us to wait a good week between towel washes - everyone is happier using their “own” 6-days-old towel than someone else’s. It also means we all look after our own towels and hang them up nicely cos it’s on us if we’ve left it all crumply so it doesn’t dry out. No one just heads off to get a new one and leaves the old ones all over the place - we all just keep using them till we remember to put them in the wash and distribute a new batch.

We always shared the same towels growing up, just got a dry one from towel rail in bathroom and they were washed once a, week so when I had DC I carried on doing the same.
When my DC became teens they decided this was disgusting and we all need our own towels. Which basically means they have several towels on their bedroom floor which they've used just once then bring the all down to wash which fills the laundry basket and creates tons of washing it's a constant argument!
Me and DH still share, I've survived 50 years sharing a towels with close family members.
Clearly I give any guests their own one!

I know you can't help how you feel, but you must know this is irrational right? Please tell me you know this?

I prefer us all having our own towel, it makes sense to me for various reasons but if I get out the shower and mine isn't where it should be but somebody else's is then I'll just use that, find my own when I'm dressed and hang both up where they belong. No big deal, I'm not likely to catch anything that I won't have already caught because I've hugged someone or already know they have worms or something in which case I won't use their towel, I'll get a clean one.

I draw the line at poo stains but I've never seen one on any of our towels so I think I'm safe on the odd occasion I become a towel sharer.

Define your terms

Sharing towels could mean one clean dry towel taken from a 'shared' bank of family towels, used by a person and then put in the wash. So shared in the way that a hotel towel is 'shared' with strangers. So one towel, one use but over time multiple users.

Sharing towels could mean a single face towel hanging in the bathroom which multiple people use to dry their face before it is washed, or a single bath towel which mulitple people use to dry their genitals, arm pits etc. One towel, multiple users before a wash.

The first 'sharing' is fine and not really sharing, the second form is unhygenic and will increase the problem with headlice, thread worms or any communicable diseases.

"Nothing" so awful? Wow, I'd quite like your life!

I can't say I've ever recoiled as I use my towel from the day before. It obviously doesn't smell freshly washed but it's not filthy.

Definitely don't share towels with anybody with some contagious ailment, in that instance separate hand towels and bath towels are in place whereas normally I just have a shared hand towel and don't worry if we use each others bath towel on occasion.

These threads always bring out the hygiene freaks. The neuroticism is off the scale with some people here.

When I was younger I would use any towel no matter what. Now, I do prefer my own because I know it won't be thrown on the floor, used to wipe snot away etc. and keep it on my hook lol 😆

Do you change your bedding every day?

No-one needs a clean towel every day. You must have to do a lot of washing.

The green emojis are rather OTT IMO.

🤢🤢🤢 Never have done.. never will.
Always clean towel every day too.
Nothing as awful as having a lovely shower.. feeling great then using a towel from day before.
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Me and DP have a few on the go at once and each grab whichever is dry, then after a few days they all get washed.

We only use those ones they give you in Indian restaurants - single use, steaming straight from the microwave (?)

I don't know how you keep them seperate. I'm not washing towels after every use and if they're in the bathroom then people will use them.

What are the "risks"? You share a home with these people, kiss them, share a bed with them, look after them when they're sick, what additional risk is there from sharing a towel to make it so disgusting?

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