Do you have a separate towel?

[Flower777]

My husband is using my en suite this week because we have a guest. Every morning he uses ‘my’ towel which obviously means it’s wet when I want to use it which is irritating.

I just told him that I was annoyed that he just uses ‘my’ towel and he said ‘it’s a family towel. I don’t think people have separate his and hers towels’

Surely they do? I thought it was basic good hygiene practice to have a designated towel?

I know, I know, first world problem! But This has come up before and it pisses me off when he takes my towel!

We don't have separate colour coded towels for each person or anything, but we do all use separate towels. Except for the hand towels hanging in the bathroom - those do get shared, but I wash them often. Guests get given a set of nice, different coloured towels, but that's because my mother bought me a couple of nice sets but in the wrong colour, so I don't use them day to day.

Yep. We have separate towels.

I grew up with communal towels and thought nothing of it. But now it makes me a little queasy.

Yes separate towels.
Same colour but hang up in different places.

Of course. Everybody in our family has their own towels.
Indeed, even growing up back in the dark ages (one bath at the weekend, etc etc) everybody had their own towels. It isn't a new thing, or even a MN thing

Ok now I'm worried @Aquilla am I seeing my children up for a lifetime of traumatic memories.

We need new towels I'm now thinking I should be colour coding everyone's??

Another adulting fail 🤦‍♀️

We don't have separate towels in our family but we do have quite a lot of them so I never use anyone else's damp one. We have a drawer of 'family' flannels too but they're only used once and only for faces.

Having said all that, I'm getting my own towels because I'm sick of walking into teenagers bedrooms and seeing towels all over the floor. I'm going to hide them.

Yes, how else would I ensure that DH hasn't dried his bottom on the face part of my towel?

We all have separate towels although DH and I have the same colour as I tend to switch colours in our en suite regularly (I am very jealous of you getting the en suite to yourself), DD always wants pink in her bathroom and DS couldn't care less what colour he ends up with!

I have learnt something from mumsnet yet again. We do have separate towels at my husbands insistence and on the rare times I use his because I've forgotten to bring mine in hes got a bit upset. I always thought he was being a bit precious but now I know he's the normal one I'll try not to use his towel 😋

Colour coding helps, op. There are five of us and males use blue/dark towels, females stick with pink/red - cuts down dramatically on confusion!

We have separate towels because we use separate bathrooms. Mine’s the en suite and DH has the other bathroom.

Why not just store them in different places? Mine are in our room - I like to walk in there to get dressed and h’s is in the bathroom as that’s where he likes to dress. The kids have towels in their favourite colours.

No we don't use separate towels. Two adults, four kids but we have about 6 towels in use so it's not the same one repeatedly used and they're washed about once a week.

I don't think it's unhygienic as we're a family.

Not really, 2 matching bath towels on the rail. First person uses either. Second person uses the dry one. Change towels twice a week so chances are that one of us uses the one the other one used previously.

Kids have their own bathroom and own towels.

The towel rail is tiny unfortunately. Only room for one.

Family of 4 here, 2 adults and 2 children, and we share towels . We usually have about 6 towels on the go and just grab a dry one.

I honestly don't get the squeamishness on here about sharing towels. They only ever get used on freshly-cleaned bodies... and with people who you share your home, bed, body with.

The folks who wash their towels after every use will be along soon...

We all have our own bath towels, I have a separate face towel, & we share a hand towel. One on radiator in bathroom, one on landing radiator, one on a shelf with a rail at the edge. Small towels on a separate rail. I hated sharing a bath towel when I was a child.

Our family have always had separate towels. It wouldn't occur to me to share. It's a bit like asking me if I share my used tampons with my sister if it hasn't been used to capacity.

VladmirsPoutine fuck me that is funny.

DH and I have a selection of sharing towels and have even shared the same electric toothbrush on many an occasion - we are quite manky in that respect but visitors are always given two clean towels each when they stay as I'm also a bit Hyacinth.

Identical to @mynameiscalypso. The kids and guest towels are colour coded too

we dont have designated colours, but once a clean towel is used it is that persons towel for the next few uses until washed.
i always use 3 towels, a bath 'sheet' to wrap around my body a medium towel wrapped around my shoulders and another medium towel for when i was my hair.... sometimes i even put my towel dressing gown over the top too

Separate towels here. We have our own colours to avoid any confusion.

also if hes using your towel you want to check hes not using your loofer/sponge OP!

I have a family hand towel then we have a towel each, I also dry my face with a clean flannel as I dont want even my own body dryings on my face :)

Definitely separate. It wouldn’t bother dh to use mine, but it would bother me to use his, amd if he used mine I’d get a fresh one