Sharing towels???

We have always had our own towels, since our dc were small. We don't wash them after every use and I don't want to dry my face with a towel one of my adult dc have dried their arse with.

I cannot think of anything worse than sharing a ( used ) towel with anyone else

I think you may lack imagination. 🤣
So (as an example) you'd rather have a week of D&V than use someone else's towel?

I cannot think of anything worse than sharing a ( used ) towel with anyone else or picking up a damp towel off of the bathroom floor and having to reuse it.

We all have a clean bath towel, face towel and flannel each day and everyone has 7 each of the above in their own distinctive colour sets- it just makes sorting laundry easier.

Bathroom hand towels are changed daily and bath mats every other day.

Also all have 3 beach and swim towels each.

I do a towel wash every other day.

I find that really gross. I wouldn't dry my naked body with a towel someone else had used.

We still do 🤣

Indeed… you would potentially catch those things from your partner simply by sharing a bed, having sex and doing the washing up together. You are more at risk when your children are small of catching stuff from handling their nappies/wiping bums, cleaning up sick and washing their soiled clothes than you are from using a towel they used earlier. Unless you wear a hazmat suit when at home of course.

Some people on this (and the other) thread seem a bit OCD to me.

Ah you answered my question, that's never happened to us in 28 years, never passed anything on apart from colds and that will not be towels I wager, that's airborne. Are we medical anomalies? I'm off to contact The Lancet.

This is a genuine question, if I use the towel my husband has used to dry his clean body and he uses the one I have used to dry my clean body what are the actual risks? what will happen to us? Now if either of us had a communicable disease then we may stick to our own towels but if generally healthy I have no idea what the issue may be. We've been doing it for about 28 years I reckon and I am still waiting for the thing!

We have a pile of clean towels. Each of us takes one/some as needed. No-one uses a towel that someone else has already used since it was washed, but no one has dedicated towels.

Nothing wrong with this - the towels are done on a hot wash in the machine. Perfectly sanitary.

Have our own towels and they are washed regularly. I certainly don’t take a clean one each time I shower.

have communal hand towels itms

You can be “clean” and still have contagious cold sores/shingles/verrucas/hand warts/fungal infections/impetigo/athlete’s foot/ringworm/molluscum/hand, foot and mouth/threadworms etc etc etc. so what’s the point of everyone bleating “but you’re clean when you use them to dry your body”? We all know you’re not really that clean, nobody has autoclaved you in the shower!

Anyone who has a primary school kid doesn’t always want to pick up the things they get from school like threadworms and verrucas and so on, and neither do I particularly want to dry my face where someone’s feet or arse have been.

I suppose it depends how much work you want to give yourself/ give to the household washer and dryer person.

DH and I share towels, yes! I mean, he regularly licks my bumhole, so why on earth would it matter!!

This is what we do too.

I only take one towel to the beach for both my children and they both use it, the other choice is to bring another and carry it themselves, guess what they’d rather do?

It's amazing what the throes of passion can make people overlook 😂

You do realise people use towels when they are clean? It's weird to be disgusted by sharing with your own family . We have lots of identical towels in the cupboard. After you've used one you can hang it in the towel rail or put in wash if you think it needs it . Everybody welcome to grab a towel from the rail or a fresh one from the cupboard. Once a week I wash any towels left out in bathroom. New ones left for guests on their beds.

When I was younger we just took any towel but they'd be washed after each use. Now I have my own family we have our own towels, but unless they're particularly sodden or dirty we air them after use so they don't get washed every time.

me and DP share towels accidentally sometimes but we couldn't give a toss, if you are happy to have sex with your partner and share body fluids, then how can you be funny about sharing a towel. You are clean anyway when you use it.

(Oh and with both DP and DD it’s not just the use of the towel for drying the body, it’s the fact that both of them seem to be incapable of hanging a towel up or keeping it clean, so they tend to drop them on floors/leave them damp to get damp-smelling and so on.

I would baulk at using a damp towel that had been left on the bathroom floor for two days, but DP doesn’t care. You never know where his towel might have been. No thanks! And DD is just as likely to have used hers to clean up some paint or the cat’s feet or something gross, so she’s hardly better…)

We all share towels. Never been a problem.

Having a set of towels that anyone can take a clean one from - perfectly normal I think (though at home we have our own towels in different colours as DD likes that best).

Using a damp (or dry!) towel someone else has already used - definitely not, IMO! I don’t want to be drying my face on the same patch of towel where DP has just dried his bum!

Dh has 2 of his own, ds has 2 of his own. They are band towels /football /novelty ones. I have a huge bath sheet which is mine. We all have another towel for hair /hand (any towel) which is ours until washed. Ds went through a stage of using our towels and we'd find them slung wetly across the radiator! Really annoying but he has stopped it now. We also have a collection of other towels which are anyone's in use until washed again.

I live alone.
I have a hand towel on the sink normal.
My bath towels are washed after every use.
If i have any one stay they can use any clean towels and straight in the wash afterwards.
I wont just air them out or use it again it has to be washed.
My bedding is changed every 5 days.

We keep bath towels separate - I always seem to have infected cysts, thrush etc. which I don't want to pass onto DH. Hand towels are for general use.