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!

Just grab a fresh towel from the airing cupboard. All white towels round here

Wait what? Is this something people do?

We just have towels. Anyone can use whatever towel they like.

Never occurred to me that this was odd...

Oh hang on. I assume this is because the towels are hung back up on the towel rail to dry and be reused?

We don't do that. Towel is used then washed. So we never share a used towel. Towels are washed daily.

We just have towels and I use which ever one is dry.

We all have separate towels. We don't wash them after every use.

This thread has made me realise im a minger who doesn't have seperate towels.

We do have guest towels tho, so im not completely disgusting.

Everyone has their own towel. Come on people. This is one of the easy ones.

So if you don’t dry your arsehole with your towel so you just leave it wet then? Or do you use a hairdryer or something

do you just leave it wet

We have towels. Many many towels. We use whichever towel we find, and then it gets washed. I wouldn't use my kids damp towel. Mainly because they're never just damp, always soaking through like they've taken them in the shower with them.

We all use seperate towels. I have 3 on the go - one for body, one for face and one for hair. I'd never share. If Dh forgets to bring one into the shower he might use mine but will always replace it with a clean towel. If we were staying with relatives Dh and I might share the odd time to save on their washing but at home, never.

We only use guest/hand towels and sling them in the wash after each shower. They are only small so don't add to the washing of bath sheets really.

We have our own towels. No way would I use one my DC or OH. I have sent there pants and an smell them 😂

Separate towels for baths/showers/hair, but a shared hand towel.

And another hand towel in the kitchen. DM taught me, and her DM taught her, that you don't dry your hands on the tea-towel!

Share towels here. Always have and didn’t know it was a bad thing. However I’m happy to jump in the bath after DH has been in it so we are obviously mingers!!

Separate all the way here. I mean it’s all one supply of clean towels in the cupboard (no colour coding), but when you take one you keep it to yourself until it goes in the wash after a couple of days.

I am not convinced by people suggesting it doesn’t matter because only clean bodies are dried on them. In my life experience I have become aware that not everyone washes effectively, and it’s perfectly possible for a towel that has been used by someone after a shower to harbour traces of arse bacteria, odours etc.

Insufficient towel rail space in the bathroom means I always keep mine in my room anyway.

Shared towels here. Never knew until mn that people had individual towels.

My husband and I have separate towels in our ensuite, our eldest has her own bathroom, so she has her own towels. My youngest 3 share a bathroom with each other and I'm struggling to even get them to hang up their towels let alone use separate ones.

What! Separate towels!? Surely this isn't a thing?

We just have towels in the towel cupboard, you grab one when you need one, then it gets washed?

Mumsnet is weird!

I think washing towels after one use is weird and totally unnecessary.

Urrgh! I'm feeling a bit queasy... 🤢. Thankfully I don't share my bathroom or towels or flannels. OR toothbrush- that feels so unhygienic.

We have colour coded towels too, and separate bathrooms. I'd be quite annoyed if DH used mine, unless we only had one for some reason.

It's more that the main bathroom has one colour of towels and bathmat and handwash, and the ensuite has another. And I use the main bathroom because I prefer that shower, and DP uses the ensuite. I know it's a bit Monica Geller/Hyacinth Bucket but I don't much care. The downstairs toilet also has matching handwash and towels.

Well nobody’s died in my house from shared towel use.

We don't wash towels after every use because we don't hate the planet.