Beach towels used in the bathroom

[mrsruffallo]

AIBU? Recently returned from our Corsica holiday. Before we went I invested in some lovely beach towels. DH keeps using them in the bathroom and hanging them on the towel rack. AIBU to be irritated?

Agree mrsruffallo

I'd take a gift of towels which clashed with my colour-scheme as an act of aggression.

Anyone who gave me a gift which was not white would be swiftly de-friended.

This is why I hate gifts. And friends.

I was reading this thread with mild amusement until I realised that DP uses a Coca-Cola beach towel most of the time. I'm so used to it I just think of it as a towel now. I'll agree it's a bit... bright.

YABU YOUR dh doesnt understand the concept so why introduce them and with rules?

accept he cant get it - your anal and either hide them away or let him use them.

''YABU YOUR dh doesnt understand the concept''

It's not a hard concept to grasp really is it? That's why we had a conversation about it

I'd like to share my beach towel obsession.

I always buy these: Pelle Vavare.

They are for beach towel ponces.

People started sniggering and I got very offended until someone gently pointed out that the towels looked lovely but they were laughing at the name.

I agree, OP, beach towels are not the same as other towels.

Every towel has a place wink

maidofstars

Beach towels are for the beach or I let the kids take them swimming not for the bath room. They wouldn't match ????

pmsl-love that, limited!

Never heard of hammam towels I'm expecting you could feed a family for a week for the cost of them

Only if it was a magic chicken bulked out with lentils, I paid £15 for 3.

Those Bastad towels are fucking lovely .

Do you buy them in the UK limited or Sweden?

Notso- very brave admitting you spend a fiver each on towels. Await the ' you can feed a family of 12 for a month' type comments.

DH gets them through work WorkToLive. You can get them online.

I've just looked on their own website. I don't think they make them in Sweden any more. I'm now not sure they're poncey enough for me . Though the quality is still very lovely.

I got a bedspread, duvet, sheets and pillow cases, towels and a bath robe from the Descamps discount shop in Bicester 11 years ago.

The robe is so heavy I can only wear it in the winter.

The towels are still soft and absorbent but a little bit thin now. The only pulls on them are from where the cat pulls them off the radiator to sleep on them.

Everything else looks fine. I was very lucky because I didn't like anything else in Bicester and was feeling a bit desperate until I found the Descamps shop.

WTF is a beach towel? Don't you just take your normal towels? Maybe I just have shit towels.

I've now read the word towel so often that it has lost all meaning. Aargh.

I LOVE beach towels though, sorry OP! I have terrible kitschy vulgar taste in home decor and love flamingos and hot pink and leopard print and all that sort of awfulness so buy beach towels specifically to use in the bathroom. I don't go to beaches very often so I'd be otherwise unable to justify buying them in all their gaudy flamingos drinking cocktails in front of an ombre sunset glory.

"WTF is a beach towel"

Its a specific ,thick, velourish heavy towel, usually in bright or dark colours used at the beach/pool.
It can be used to lie on or to snag a sun lounger

The thought of taking bathroom towels to the beach makes me feel a bit weird. It would be like wearing your underwear instead of a swimming costume- wrong.

We still have the beach towels we bought on honeymoon. Mine was blue with fish and his was purple with fruit.

We haven't used them for years and DH, who is more practical than me, would probably tear them up for rags if he didn't know better.

Even though they've been washed they still smell of holidays

Lovely on a beach towel but not so good on a bath towel.

Whispers to chrome I do that too. We don't own a beach towel. In fact I shouldn't be on MN at all as I don't have a tumble drier, a dish washer, a heated towel rail, a utility room,a downstairs loo, an ensuite or a MIL( thankfully - well, not since she died)
I do, however, have a loo brush!

I don't have any of those things either dementedma.

Including the loo brush.

We swim every week so we use the beach towels for that. If we didn't then they would be used in the bathroom.

I have a MIL Demented but not the rest of the list.

YANBU: swimming towels are for swimming. Ours are either in our swimming bags or in a drawer downstairs.

I can absolutely rely on the rest of the family not to be able to locate this drawer, even though it or the one above or below has been the swimming towel drawer for ooh, five or six years.

Some of you are just wrong .

Beach towels are brightly coloured and used for the beach. Swimming pool at a push.

Bath towels are plain and used in the bathroom.

I don't think I would cope well with being the only member of the family who knew where the towels were. After all, the late Douglas Adams taught us that everyone should know where their towel is

This towel thing is out of control now. I now want Hamman towels even though I don't think they look very nice or especially functional .