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!

The thought of other people's 'bits' being dried on the same towel as I'm using makes me gag!

But you out

Sorry- but to be blunt, if you have kids with someone you’ve had close encounters with their bits on a regular basis

I don’t use a sponge but I feel like that is a whole other thread!!!

For me it’s not so much his bits it’s more that I don’t want to have to go and get one from the cupboard because he has used the one that I got from the cupboard!

Anyway he has agreed to mend his ways.

Teenage ds's who enthusiastically dry balls and bums.
My own towel lives in my bedroom.
If other family members are not so clued up, too bad.

I don't understand this. Would you dry yourself with someone elses underwear? No - then why with their towel?! It's been all over and in their crevices...

If you have kids you know they bring unwanted guests home all the time, nursery is an especially clever sort of germ factory! This has nothing to do with proximity to bits and everything to do with basic hygiene.

For anyone doubting the basics of separate towels (aside from the obvious topntail issue) look up verrucas, fungal infections (athlete's foot, thrush), headlice, scabies, conjunctivitis, that should do to get you started!

While we are on the subject, close the lid before you flush.

'Anyway, he has agreed to mend his ways'. 😂

Separate towels here. No colour differential, but they're kept in a certain place on the towel rail, so there's no need to guess which is which.

I always use a clean towel but DH will grab one that I or DS have just used. I don't mind if he does that. It all goes in the wash then as DSs are so disgusting, constantly bringing home gross stuff.

Everyone has their own towels - bath, flannel, hair - as needed.
Everyone has their own swimming/beach towel.

When DH’s 4 friends stayed over 2 nights, not one towel was used between them. Not one of the stinky sods bothered to shower. 🤮

They all had an ensuite too.

We have separate bath towels and separate hand towels. I also put all towels in the wash if a visitor uses the bathroom rather than explain the strict towel rules I have... I do realise I’m probably taking it too far.

No we don't have separate towels. I would never cross my mind to do so.

We have one large bath sheet in the bathroom. Whoever showers first uses it and then puts it on the radiator for the second person. It is never that wet anyway. How can people talk about soaking wet towels?

There is a shared hand towel and another towel which I use for my hair (wash it every day).

Every 3 days the towels are changed

I didn't even know this was a thing Me and DP just use the same towels but we have around 4 on the go (either wet or dry over the doors) that we've previously used so never use a wet towel and then they'll all go in to the wash on a weekly basis and new ones will be used

No assigned towels. Two adults four kids, about four big towels and three little ones which is enough for us all to have a dry one. All towels replaced once a week. We don’t get sick and have clear skin and put out guest towels so I have a clear conscience. I might feel more squeamish about it once the kids hit puberty.

I would never never never put my toilet brush in the dishwasher though- that tread still makes me shudder- so I’m not as bad as some.

My dp does use a towel instead of a bath mat, that does freak me out

I would never use a towel that someone else has just used, how would you dry yourself on a damp towel? Would he be happy to use the wet towel if he had showered second?

I'm pleased he has agreed to mend his ways. Hope he is making a suitable brew in penance.

We do not have colour coded towels but we all use separate ones. We use small towels (apart from dd who usually takes the largest bath sheet possible )

We use the towels only once and then wash. Each towel is only about the 3rd of the size of a bath sheet so in my mind it's the same as using a big towel 3 times and then washing

All joking aside, speak up, does have a point. Those things can be transmitted through sharing towels.

StBernard, I wouldn't say a towel used by us after a shower is even really damp. Maybe it's because we have really large bath sheets? Can't stand supposed bath towels that you can't wrap round yourself.

Has anyone watched there dh actually dry themselves? Might just be mine but he literally rubs his genitalia on the towel to dry, his pubic hair become loose and stick to the towel. Just how can anyone be ok with using the same towel for themselves? He also used them on his feet and he has verruccas. I dry my face with my towel. If I used his towel on my face after he rubbed his feet...
Unless your dh/dp are just wrapping the towels around themselves but not using them to rub down their bodies?

I usually roughly dry myself off on a small towel, then put my towelling dressing gown on.

Refusing to share a towel with someone you're shagging seems a bit neurotic to me.

I mean usually we have several in the bathroom so that we can each use a dry one but I don't keep track of whose is whose.