To consider flannels fucking revolting

[BelfryWitch]

Just use your hands! What's with dragging a manky rag all over your body and face about?

Or if you absolutely must have one, then it needs washing after every use. A sopping square of material draped over the bathtub to dry is just grim.

We use flannels here, much rather that than manky sponges or net puff thing.

We use one per person in the shower or bath then chuck in the laundry. We don't get particularly dirty despite showering every 2 days so I'm not sure what's so grim about it?

I do use lots of washable products though (nappies, breast pads, wipes and fanny pads) so tbh the bathing flannels are probably the cleanest thing in my laundry basket :o

Wash only my face with a flannel in the morning. Recently had to have cold showers due to boiler breakdowns. Had to use a flannel then washed it straight after.

yanbu - I am not the best housekeeper in the world but the thought of having manky slimy bits of flannel in my bathroom is horrible. I blame my mother. YUK.

a flannel that has been used once or even 5 times, rinsed and hung to dry is not slimy. They can get slimy, though. My mum's sometimes are. bleurgh.

So

YABU to demand that everyone launder their flannels after one use.

YANBU to not like slimy flannels.

I don't think any of us flannel users keep dirty flannels for another day.

As someone upthread said knickers would be foul if we wore them for a week at a time.

That doesn't make knickers disgusting.

Same with flannels.

Hate the word flannel, it's a facecloth - for face.

it's a facecloth - for face

And when it's for a fanjo?

Flannels!!!!
I think you mean "hot cloth".

All this "hot cloth cleaning" is so poplar - its like the world was sitting around waiting for someone to say soothing words like "hot cloth cleaning" and charge £5 for .05p worth of "muslin" (the bloody thing is too lightweight to hold any any long enough to be a "hot cloth").

All this to make using a face cloth modern and acceptable to a new generation of folk all too eager to be parted from their cash.

I have memories of dreary smelly facecloths from childhood. These days you can get 4 for £1 from IKEA - I keep a drawer full, we all use a fresh one each day, and they go straight into the washing machine. And if you use it with hot water it actually stays hot for long enough to clean your face. Whats not to like?

Clunge cloth has a nice ring to it.

i love a hot flannel over the face in the bath. must be washed after each use though, and not used on body.

I like a flannel. Flannels, sponges and net things do not go slimy or smelly if they are rinsed, squeezed and either hung up or put somewhere where air can circulate round them.

*Nabootique Tue 18-Aug-15 10:51:40

I am dying at my desk reading this. Love how it has descended into a fanjo washing debate. MNers seem to love discussing fanny washing.

I bloody love a flannel. I only use them on my face. Clean one in the morning, use the same one at night, then in the wash. I use exfoliating gloves on my body and then shock hang them over the bath to dry. I also have a toilet brush, don't change my bed sheets weekly, wear jeans about 10 times before washing them and don't change my bra every day. Take THAT!*

Even the old folk I know use a different flannel on their face to their bodies.
I love a hot face cloth, it's never manky.
If it gets too dirty or picks up a stain it goes in the bin to be replaced by the next.

Sarf It's shocking, isn't it? I might get myself a Greggs sausage roll on the way home too.

I use them to take my make up off with. It gets put in the wash after I have finished using it in the evening, so I get two uses out of it but they are so big I just use the other side.

I don't use them to wash any other parts of my body. Just because I prefer to use my hands. The children don't use them either.

I have a basket of flannels rolled up next to each hand basin.
They are used as tiny towels, or emergency face wipes, or forehead cloths, or wash cloths or whatever. One use each and into the basket under the sink. The whole lot into the wash together.

Flannels are 33p each in Wilko and I have eleventysquillion (approx)

Good God Nabootique.

Err you may feel slightly more at home on Netmums? We have standards over here. Next you'll be saying that your children aren't very bright and that you don't shave all of you body hair off for fear of being 'minging'.

I use a flannel for my tits, pits n bits no I don't, I stole that from Orange Is The New Black.

We have tons of flannels and muslin cloths for face washing, and wash them regularly. They do get stinky really quickly though, and when they are they are indeed grim.

How DARE YOU! My child is a loony eccentric genius and I am as bald as a coot.

I also get my flannels from Wilko. Norks your house sounds like a boutique hotel. Can I come and stay?

That's a relief nab you may stay. I have now anti-bacced my laptop at the thought of the sausage roll

Perhaps the first thirty seconds of this can give us all some guidance:

Radegund ahh my eyes! I don't remember the canned laughter on the original though...

I didn't remember the canned laughter either Sarf ! I'm not sure I approve of it. But maybe that's another thread

It's obvious that the best use for flannels is to wash the face, whilst in the bath, then before getting out of the bath, whilst water is draining, using the soggy flannel to wipe around the edge of the baths, taps etc, removing all dusty bits thus giving the appearance of being a clean bath. Then flannel gets put in wash so will be clean for next time.
Clean face, clean bath, what's not to love about a flannel??

Oh, I hate them. You can't control them. There's no shape or structure. They just flap about.

I wash my face with my hands (can't bear the thought of scrubbing at it with a flannel) and use a bath puff or whatever they're called for the shower. They hangs on the shower fitting, so they drip dry and air out. They don't smell or go slimy.