Join me for a riveting thread about tea towels!

[TheChosenTwo]

How many do you have? A kitchen disaster has meant dh was clearing out and removing cupboards today. I’ve had a sort through the tea towels before they all go back in (kitchen disaster is now under control) and we have got 25 - this sounds like absolutely loads and it’s probably 30 due to some probably waiting to be washed and some in the dryer.
Have you got more? Less?
If I’m wildly hoarding tea towels I’ll happily let some go but was curious as to how many you’ve all got lurking. Possibly no one will answer as let’s face it, who’s trawling their way to their kitchens now just to count tea towels…
PS, we also have a similar number of dishcloths…

Maybe 5?!!

Maybe 10/15. However I seem to hoard microfibre cloths and probably have 30+

Maybe about 15-18, without actually going go count. But we do go through a lot sometimes as we have small children that frequently spill drinks and tea towels are the best thing for mopping these up quickly. I'm hoping as they get older we can downsize our collection!

20

...in the every day basket in the kitchen.

Probably roughly 20 more that will be allowed in the kitchen when the kitchen is redone🤣🤣

24 that I used as hand towels during Covid because they were much easier to wash and the rate at which I was changing them they needed to be!! Those ones are only used for spills or carrying hot dishes that kind of thing.

Probably around a dozen, they are Halloween Christmas that kind of thing that are in the seasonal boxes.

.... I'll probably spot tomorrow a pile that I'm not thinking about right now

I have a couple of tea towels that travelled round Europe with me and a friend 30 odd years ago. They are very thin now and are perfect for covering over open dishes.🤣🤣

i'm not looking to be reformed! I'm quite happy with my tea towel situation! I'd happily buy more if I had more storage space!!

I have a set of five towelling ones in regular use and one older one spare. And five old threadbare ones under the sink for mopping up horrors.

Actually there are seven that I never use because they were souvenirs from holidays, or the ones the primary school did with the kids’ handprints or drawings.

Those kids of mine are all in their 30s and their tea towels have been rolled up unused for over 25 years!

Okay so I can probably half my pile of teatowels then 😂
and cloths, we don’t even wash anything up by hand ffs, the clothes are just for wiping sides down so they can also be culled. Definitely a job for tomorrow though, that’s enough domesticity for one day!

Loads! I get them on holiday, tackier the better 😆

About 10 in constant rotation. Loads more stuffed in drawers in the garage. So tightly stuffed that they don’t get used (bicycles etc in front of them).

A dozen or so in the kitchen though some are old and used more to mop up spills

We probably have a similar amount, neatly folded and stacked in the cupboard. Back in the day we used buy an ashtray on a foreign trip. Obviously no more. Then it was fridge magnets, and then we moved and have a built in fridge (and a huge sack of magnets in a cupboard somewhere) and teatowels are the latest thing - useful, but pretty. I had a magnificent Poldark one my auntie brought me back from Cornwall but it sadly caught on fire! I have some nice Picasso ones from Spain, Limoncello ones from Italy, tiled ones from Sicily....Makes me feel a bit old though :)

Probably 15-20, got a few more when I emptied my Granny's house after she died. I hadn't the heart to get rid of all of hers as they weren't really used, received as gifts from relatives in Scotland.

I have 15 that I don't use from when I went through a phase of collecting a tea towel from every holiday I went on as a memento.

I've got 10 (cheap ones from aldi/asda) that I use daily.

Not sure if that's worse

I keep looking at the holiday ones and wondering what to do with them because, you know, I'm not going to actually USE them as tea towels (whyyy????)

Oh god my collection number didn’t count the probably 10 I discarded before counting due to being burnt, why were they even washed and kept?! What’s wrong with me?! I don’t hoard anything else and am in fact quite the minimalist 😂

We have about 20 on regular rotation. We hot wash them with towels and we tend to change them every couple of days.

Only about 3/4. Don't use them very much at all. Don't always have one out... don't dry up as have a dishwasher and if we wash hands in the kitchen, we use kitchen roll to dry our hands

I iron mine, I have John Lewis, Any Day checked ones and a few 100% cotton (souvenir) ones .

I love an ironed teatowel.

We go through about eight a week

Maybe 6-8? I use 1-2 each day and then sling them in the washing machine to then be added to that night’s wash; they’re back in circulation by the following evening.

At least 15 I think but when I do major cooking like over Christmas I can use 6 a day easily. I wish there more of the towelling type with nice designs as all the attractive ones seem to be that thin cotton. This is an exciting thread isn't it!

Bit of a waste to use your clothes as tea towels!😁

It must be 40 at least. My mother used to give me two every Christmas, whenever we rented a UK cottage, I bought a pack of t towels because there was only on supplied. I still have the children's class portrait ones from Y1 and they are 30 and 26!

Every week about four are washed. They are folded with the rest of laundry and the clean pile lives on top of the cat tree on the landing. When I run out of clean ones, the cat tree pile is recommissioned.

Like pink lipsticks, pink nail polish, dusters and knickers, I suspect I have enough T towels to last until I'm 100.

6 - 5 white cotton glass cloths for human dishes and one slightly singed one used for cat related items.
3 old manky ones for spills
1 Anarchist tea towel from the Radical Tea Towel Company which was a present and has never been used.
https://radicalteatowel.co.uk/tea-towels/anarchism-tea-towel?searchid=389328

I always have a tea towel and a hand towel out in the kitchen. I suppose I have about 4 of each on rotation, but with the dishwasher I only use them for polishing glasses or cutlery.
But I have a glut of flannels and wash mitts (20? in use for makeup etc and 10?new) as they’re cheap to buy or make from old towels. I’m reduced to using the old ones up as dusters and schnauzer beard wipes.

I need seasonal tea towels in my life!!

We normally go through 2 a day and one dishcloth just so wet things aren’t hanging about going smelly but I also do a load of washing a day.
I’m thinking now as to what we use them for and it’s mainly to get things in and out of the oven and for drying the worktops once they’ve been wiped down with the damp dish cloth. This happens several times a day. We don’t have separate tea towels and hand towels in the kitchen, just whatever’s driest for hands!

And yes, for big cooking events loads get used (by dh, and by used from what I can see from this evening using means burning).