When DH & I had our bathroom renovated last year, we decided to buy new towels. One colour for him, one colour for me, one colour for guests. We did this as previously when all towels were the same colour, we'd forget who had been using which towel hung on the bathroom radiator. Not a problem really if just I & my husband were at home but neither of us liked the idea of using a towel used by our guests and vice versa.
Every time my parents visit i put out fresh guest towels on their bed for them to use but instead, every time, they go into our airing cupboard & help themselves to the towels in the colour my husband & I use, leaving them on the bathroom radiator after use meaning when we go into the bathroom, we don't know whose towel is whose & we have to get yet more clean towels out for use (call me precious but I don't want to use a towel my dad has used to dry his bits on!!)
Even worse, my dad has a nasty habit of just grabbing whatever used towel is drying on the bathroom radiator when he is in there which I don't understand and find a bit gross. I tell them every time that I've left them clean towels on the bed and every time I'm ignored. Maybe I'm just being a bit control freakish over this but I know it pisses my husband off that he can't even have his own towel in his own house & I think the whole thing is just a bit unhygienic.
I know in the grand scheme of things this is a non-issue but it annoys me that they don't listen and disregard my wishes in my own home. I wouldn't dream of doing it in their house. So now I'm wondering AIBU to buy them a set of towels with dad's name & mum's name in big letters all over them to keep at my house in the hope they finally get the message and stop using my towels??
My parents are great & I love them very much, I just don't get why they can't use our perfectly clean, soft and lovely guest towels. Am I missing something?!