to want DH not use a tea towel to wipe a spillage

[lottytheladybird]

DS spills his cup of water and DH grabs a tea towel to mop the spilled water off our tiled kitchen floor. I ask DH to use the old rag reserved for such purposes. DH thinks that I'm being fussy, as he thinks that the tea towel can just go in the wash and will be fine. I think it's a bit disgusting to use a cloth that you use to dry clean dishes with to then wipe the floor with, even if you can then just put it in the washing machine. What do you think? Was I being unreasonable to ask DH to use the floor rag to clean up the spillage and not the tea towel? (DH actually asked me, a long time ago, if we could have a separate cloth for wiping the floor with if necessary, so I don't know why DH got annoyed with me when I reminded him where said cloth lives.)

[justanuthermanicmumsday]

i dont think youre being unreasonable. everything has its purpose and tea towels are for dishes not the floor. but then i am a bit of a freak. in cash n carries you can get these cheap jumbo blue or white rolls sort of tissue that some dispensers use in public toilets. cheaper than kitchen rolls. we get a box of those last for half the year . i use that for kids spilling things on the floor or if theyre sick whilst eating, then mop it later when kids are out the way.

i would be miffed only because mil behaves strange she copies whatever we do. so if she saw my husband wipe a spillage with a tea towel shed do the same only she would just hang it back up in the kitchen. she has very poor hygiene she wouldnt see the big deal i dont know if its dimentia or just her personality. so i couldn't over look it. he used a sponge once in a rush. next day i see mil wiping something off floor with sponge i use to clean counter tops with. i was disgusted i threw it away and started cleaning my counter tops again lool

[squoosh]

YABU

All I seem to read here lately are the outraged bleats of people whose partner doesn't share their same exacting standards when it comes to cloths, towels etc. They get washed, what the hell does it matter??!!

So many people with cleaning 'issues' on this forum. Focus your mind on something worth worrying about.

Gah.

[justanuthermanicmumsday]

lol yes i admit i have a problem with the thought of germs but that started when i was 11 i cant stop it. ok i wouldnt freak out but i would have to be vocal simply because i dont want mil copying said behaviour then leaving tea towel for me to use none the wiser.

[Oblomov]

Karma

[MrsOakenshield]

I use tea towels for floor spillages, they then go in a 95% wash, along with other towels and cloths. I have a trillion tea towels, though, so never any danger of running out.

[CoffeeandScones]

I do this all the time, annoys my DW no end. I maintain, if I've spilt a cup of TEA, the perfect tool to clear it up is a TEA towel.

This falls on deaf ears...

[ZingWantsCake]

another non-problem so YABU
I agree with squoosh

[Trills]

YABU.

Once washed it will be just as clean as it always was.

Ditto for plates licked by dogs.

[KarmaBiatch]

Oh no Trills.. no no no!! Can't stand people who let their dogs lick their plates, even if the dogs mouths have been proven to be cleaner than a toilet bowl.. ewwwwww!

[Trills]

But then you wash the plate...

[Viviennemary]

I don't think I'm very fussy but I'd be annoyed about this too. Tea towels are not for wiping floors that's a floor cloth.

[BackforGood]

YANBU - I'm certainly not in the houseproud / fussy mare category, but you don't want tea towels being used for anything other than drying the dishes. Cloths / rags are for wiping surfaces as well as the floor.

[HappyMummyOfOne]

YABU, just wash it. Other than a sponge for dishes and a bathroom one i hate cloths and use kitchen roll as much as possible. Less things hanging around and less washing.

[Nagoo]

YABU using kitchen towel is wasteful. Also my teatowels NEVER see dish-drying action. Drying up is one job that nature will do for you. Take advantage of this.

[GaryBuseysTeeth]

Yabu

If you find that disgusting, just think of all the times you've used a towel to dry your face that DH has previously used to dry his big hairy man arse with.

[lurkingaround]

YANBU.

Shoes pick up all sorts of organisms (TB, E. Coli etc). These are very often NOT killed/washed away in your average clothes wash. If you ALWAYS boilwash your teatowels, fair enough(ish).
If you don't, then NO.

Any environmental health officers around?

[samandi]

Seems a bit daft to me to use a tea towel to wipe up spillages and then put it straight in the wash. But then maybe those people don't spill as much as I do over the course of a couple of days ...

[WafflyVersatile]

I probably spill drinks about as often as my tea towel should be getting washed anyway.

[WafflyVersatile]

Also I rarely use my tea towel to dry dishes anyway.

[usualsuspect]

An environmental health officer would tell you not to use tea towels to dry your pots.

Air drying is much more hygenic.

That's why my draining board is always full of pots.

[stooshe]

YANBU.I'm with you OP. Different cloths for different purposes.

As for GlaitkitFizzog...a floor is a floor a dish is a dish. Why does a floor have to be filthy (as implied by you) to worry about cross contamination by using a tea towel for wiping up any and any old mess?

[MrsOakenshield]

honestly, I wonder how my household survives.

I rarely wash the floors.
I hoover sporadically.
I don't wash towels after every wash.
In fact, I don't do much washing at all.
I don't change the bedding terribly often either.
I use tea towels to wipe up floor spillages.
Oh, and I have 2 cats.

And yet, somehow, here we are with nothing much more than colds to bother us. Tis a miracle, clearly.

[TheSunTheMoonTheTruth]

What is this 'drying dishes with tea towels' business anyway?

[MotherofDragons82]

Who dries dishes? Isn't that what the draining board is for?
Tea towels are used for mopping up spillages.
Kitchen towel is used primarily for holding buttery toast, to eat while driving to work.
HTH.

[MrsOakenshield]

sometimes, stupidly, we generate more washing up than will fit on the drainer. It's excessively annoying, as we then have to Dry Up.

Also, occasionally, I have a fit of tidiness and want everything cleared away immediately. It lasts about half a day and then it's back to normal.