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to use a shower puff?

126 replies

mikado1 · 25/07/2015 14:35

I wash mine in the machine after every use but still I hear people saying they are disgusting/unhygienic and can't understand people using them. What is so wrong with them or is it just that some people leave the same one in shower for months on end?

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squoosh · 25/07/2015 16:21

There's a scene in Friends where Joey and Chandler realise they've been showering with a communal bar of soap.

'Think of the last thing I wash and the first thing you wash...'

clary · 25/07/2015 16:22

Oh mine's not beloved.

Doubt if teen DS uses it tho, he only has a shower as a last resort when we suggest he does exam revision/homework (as in "but I'm about to have a shower!).

clary · 25/07/2015 16:22

Squoosh "but soap's self cleaning!"

Sparklingbrook · 25/07/2015 16:22

I remember that squoosh. Also reminds me of those deeply unfunny bars of soap and towels that are half brown half white with face/arse on.

mrsdavidbowie · 25/07/2015 16:23

Wally
This was a huge hit with DS one year

to use a shower puff?
TinklyLittleLaugh · 25/07/2015 16:23

We have ours stuck to the shower screen in a little vertical line. Mine is at the top so no one elses drips on it.

Sparklingbrook · 25/07/2015 16:23

Sorry mrsd. Blush

mrsdavidbowie · 25/07/2015 16:23

Lol sparkling
Spectacular cross post Grin

ThoseAwfulCurtains · 25/07/2015 16:24

I don’t wash mine. I bin it when it's even slightly suspect but I like to give my immune system something to play with anyway.Smile

Sparklingbrook · 25/07/2015 16:24

Please say your DS is a teenager mrsd.

squoosh · 25/07/2015 16:26

Love the cross post! Grin

Sparklingbrook · 25/07/2015 16:29

I hope me and mrsd can still be friends.

WallyBantersJunkBox · 25/07/2015 16:29

But they sell them in the IKEA family section in a little colourful pack. They can't be evil if IKEA sell them. They simply can't.

Everyone knows heaven is a massive IKEA with a properly stocked warehouse that never runs out, and a 24 hour deal on the meatballs.

Hell is a massive IKEA where all the locations are incorrect and you sob uncontrollably every time you reach an empty pallet or find one box left but with the wrong colour sticker on it.

Oh no, hang on....that's Valley Park, Croydon.....

SurlyCue · 25/07/2015 16:36

I remember the first time i stayed over at an exboyfriend's house. He shared the house and bathroom with 3 others. We had a shower in the morning and he attempted to hand me the only scruffer that was in the shower Envy

mikado1 · 25/07/2015 16:37

Yes, every day I reolace with new one and then machine wash when putting on a wash! Oh I am delighted with reslonses, am definitely going to do it less often now! I didn't know they were to be washed either till I saw them jb someone's laundry and there are care instructions on the box!!

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Goshthatsspicy · 25/07/2015 16:50

I use mine in the shower, and for the toilet!
Switching back and forth.

sugar21 · 25/07/2015 16:54

Oh SurlyCue
Were all the house occupants male grins at mental picture of scruffer doing the penile shuffle not exactly a green environment.

Rafflesway · 25/07/2015 17:00

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mrsdavidbowie · 25/07/2015 17:05

sparkling of course we are!!!!
DS was 14 when I bought it for him.Smile

Pasithea · 25/07/2015 17:10

I had one swabbed as an experiment. No never ever ver no noooo nooo. Not in my world. Sponges and face cloths are also minging. I can hardly bare even to use my muslin hot cloth.

Sparklingbrook · 25/07/2015 17:10

Phew mrsd. Smile Ds1 saw the towel one and thought it was funny and wanted to buy it for his Grandad for Christmas. I had to veto it.

mrsdavidbowie · 25/07/2015 17:12

It was the highlight of Xmas.

penny13610 · 25/07/2015 17:16

mikado never let anyone who says you are disgusting get in the shower with you. Anyone who does not get in the shower with you has no need to worry about your shower habits.

SurlyCue · 25/07/2015 17:54

Oh SurlyCue
Were all the house occupants male grins at mental picture of scruffer doing the penile shuffle not exactly a green environment.

3 males, one female. She had her own en suite but all the men used the shower i was in. I asked him who owned it and he shrugged.

YeOldeTrout · 25/07/2015 17:55

I didn't know what those puffs were for Blush.