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.)

Drying up with rags,teatowels, cloths is really nasty!...let them air dry or get a dishwasher!
My teatowels are for looking at,covering teatrays. Others in the family do have "accidents"with them and then I wash and microwave.

YANBU it is a tea towel, not a floor cloth. Tea towels are for 'clean' things, not floor (irrespective of when you last mopped the floor).

You've made my day Usualsuspect

I'm not an environmental health officer btw.

But have had plenty of dealings with them.

YANBU. I once caught my DH using the washing up cloth to wipe his shoes before going to work. He couldn't see any problem with it. Yuk.

One of the best ways to wash your washing up clothes and sponges is to put them through the dishwasher.

Cloths not clothes

I bet there are some people in this thread who would put their husband and kids through the dishwasher if they thought they'd be allowed. For that extra squeaky clean sensation.

I don't think you are being unreasonable to ask him to use the floor cloth, but I do think you are a bit unreasonable to think it's disgusting when it all goes into the wash. I could understand if he wiped the floor and then the dishes without washing. However, this is coming from someone who will dry the floor with anything within reaching distance.

Oblomov sorry I can't link to DM.
Sounds grim though- bacterial soup!

YABU.

Anyway, I just let my drainer let it dry.

Be grateful that he grabbed the nearest available thing and mopped it up, bet he didn't think to rummage though a kitchen cupboard for the special floor cloth!

I see no problem with it being washed and returned to it's normal use. But then I'm someone who puts pet bowls in the dishwasher and I have been known to feed them in a bowl we use, wash it and then serve pudding in it at a later date!

Floor cloth?

I have a boxer dog, paper towels and a mop for anything that lands on the floor.

I just want to add that if the tea towel that's used to mop up tea spillage goes in the washing machine in the same load as pooey clothes and sicked on bedding what is the poo/sick to tea towel ratio?

*ask
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Yab(abit)u, sorry.

The only part of this which would annoy me is that the towel would then need to go in the wash. So if there's a lot of spillages (as there are at casa Clarke) then I'd never have a clean tea towel. I use them to dry my hands.
If he does it a lot maybe just bulk buy a load of tea towels so you're caught short, as it were.

Lots of tea towels = happy marriage.

And towels are all washed at a minimum of 60 degrees surely.

Delicates at 30 with a scoop of vanish extra hygiene if contents demand.

Sorry, I meant to say not caught short.

YANBU. Tea towels are for clean dishes and clean hands only. Kitchen roll is for water spillages on the floor. J cloths are for spillages on counters.

HTH

YANBU lotty, 42, gruff we were separated at birth, thank you - I'm finally vindicated after many a lively debate with DP that tea towels are for drying dishes and glasses, hand-towels are for hands (get the hint about the word HAND?) not for drying up, and neither are for pulling dishes out of the oven because they dangle in the tomato-ey lasagne sauce, then smear all over the clean dishes when drying up).

Nor are t-towels for mopping up spills off the floor, that's what the floor cloth is for, for the reason given above, the crap gets wiped back onto clean dishes - yes good for the immune system, but not very tasty!

What is so difficult about that?

I was going to post an AIBU about this, because DP does the cooking, so I'm probably branded as ungrateful, but I do the drying up and the washing (if it was left to DP he wouldn't remember to wash cloths and t-towels for 3 weeks!). A bit urgh.

YANBU...that's what a floor cloth is for.

wtf is a floor cloth?

My DH does this and it drives me potty. He uses the tea towel to wipe up crumbs or mess, then leaves in a scrunched up ball on the worktop (as he also does with ones he's just used to dry hands). Then when I need one it's Russian roulette whether I pick up a cleanish one or one full of wet gunky food. It makes me so cross!

YABU about feeling weird even after they've been washed though.

Why do you even dry the dishes in the first place?