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!

I'm honestly the filthiest minger but towels get put in laundry basket after one shower. They've been rubbed round bums and genitals for goodness sake. Hand towels are washed every 3 or 4 days. Four of us here, currently.

Oh crikey, we live in complete chaos in this house - towels jumbled up, any old colour, anyone uses whatever. If we have guests, we do it nicely and they have their own so I suppose that's something!

your dh ibu
did he never had to deal with molloscum contagiosum or threadworms?

No, we just have towels hung up in each bathroom and use whatever, I wash them on rotation.

Well, my DC have managed to get well into their primary school years and none of us have ever had nits, worms or conjunctivitis.

Yes, I would dry myself with someone else's CLEAN pants if no towel was available. Bath towels do get rubbed on bits, but surely those bits are nice and clean at the time??

And I don't really see the problem with using a towel that someone's used as a bath mat either - as long as it's not sopping wet - surely it's just been stood on with CLEAN wet feet on a presumably reasonably unfilthy bathroom floor?

The only time that I get anal about 'family' towels is on the rare occasion that there's a tummy bug in the house.

Mind you, we share a flannel too... though it only gets used to wash faces (as far as I'm aware!).

Definitely not. I share body fluids with him, I’m sure my immunity can cope with sharing a towel.

We’ve just got a puppy, when she gets to the stage where she has mucky paws and/or needs a bath she’ll have her own towel but that’s it.

My towel isn’t that wet after I’ve used it but dh’s is. I assume because he also dries his hair with it whereas I use a separate hair towel and also he has a hairy body which traps water and I don’t. Well, I have pubes but blokes are generally hairy all over aren’t they. I couldn’t dry myself on his used towel whereas theoretically he could on mine.

But yes like a pp I dry my face using a clean dry flannel. I don’t want (even clean freshly washed) minge or bumhole microbes on my face thanks.

We had separate towels when I was a child in the 80s so it’s not a new OTT 21st century idea.

And I’m more than happy to shag dh but I don’t want to risk drying my face on a bit of towel where he’s dried his arsehole. I’m not sure that makes me neurotic

We don't have different coloured towels but have separate hooks over the door so don't share towels.

I use a separate towel for my face and hair though. Because I don't want to dry my face with a bit of towel I dried even my own arsehole with yesterday.

Kids have their own towels since the first time they got worms but DH and I share. I can't imagine I'll catch anything from a towel that I wouldn't get by shagging him and sleeping wrapped round him, and he doesn't rub his arsehole on the towel.

I used to be an archaeologist a long time ago though and it gives you a certain perspective (both in terms of working conditions and in terms of historical living conditions).

I don't think I've ever rubbed a towel on my arsehole.

Guests get their own towels but the rest of us share. They're washed frequently and bodies that have been dried on them are fresh out of a shower or bath so I'm not bothered from a hygiene point of view. Clearly we're slovenly in this house!

We have a linen closet with loads of towels - anyone can take any they like but while using them, it’s a towel per person. Otherwise not hygienic. Even within families things could get passed around (molluscum being one). DH learned this the hard way when our DS had impetigo as a child. No one shares the same towel in our house with the only exception being the one in the downstairs loo for drying hands.

Yep I feel it’s unhygienic not to. Didn’t have as a child 🤮

We have towels in the en-suite and if they are dry they get used by who ever , that said I do a towel wash every other day at least . Dd gets clean towels out each time she showers / baths . When ds is here I don’t put towels out in his bathroom as he puts anything that’s out in the wash and starts with fresh ones whether they are unused or not .

I don't think I'd mind if DP grabbed my towel used it, but then got me a fresh one out. It's not so much the thought of his bits on the towel then going on my face (as let's face it we've done much worse ) but using a wet towel is horrible and doesn't get you dry.

Seems there is a solution for the sharers. Also people do very weird things with towels. Clearly I have far too much time on my hands today!

No, a collection in the bathroom which get washed whenever I think about it. I do have a couple of separate decent guest towels for visitors.

My mother had towels for the whole fam to use (6 of us) and not only did we all use them she never washed them either!now we all have our own towels and I wash mine after every use (which I know is odd but I can’t bear to use a ‘dirty’ towel) xxx

Wait what? No you just use a clean towel 🤨

No we don't have separate towels.. there's just towels on hooks and we use whichever we want.

I'm surprised by the number of people who have separate towels tbh.

Shuddering at the thought of not having separate towels. Ewwwwwwwwww!

I do not want to be sharing my towel with ANYONE.

I don't terribly like using the hand towel at other people's houses either - they are rampant with germs. Warm & damp and probably used as nose wipes by the DC. I usually shake my hands dry and wipe them on my own clothes (cos I'm so stylish).

We have different towels. The DC have their own bathroom and DH uses the main bathroom, while I use the ensuite so there's never any kind of crossover. I'd never use a towel after someone else had, though, because it's a bit vile.

100% separate towels! You can use any towel (except my Cath Kidston one) but you get your towel out and you stick with it until you put it in the wash. You do not use the other person's towel!