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.

Oh ...I have a pile of around fifteen clean flannels stacked on a bathroom shelf. One or two used a day, then laundered. NEVER used the same one two days running. I like them for my face - rest of the time, soap/hands combo fine for rest of me in either bath or shower.

I love flannels, use once, wash.
How else can you get your face nice and clean and fresh without a hot flannel?

I didn't realise people had loads of them. I like the sound of stacks of neatly folded flannels. I've only got 2. Going to start stocking up.

How can you cope with only 2 flannels? We have about 20.

The baby soft ones from the pound shop are particularly lovely for cleaning children.

Yay Norks, I am a colour-coordinated, rolled flannel pyramid maker. One pyramid in each bathroom. Basket for discarded flannels/towels.

My flannels are John Lewis though

Well, goes back to my awful childhood ... (cue sound of wailing violins). In freezing, totally unventilated bathroom/loo, just ONE towel for everyone (parents, three kids) and ONE flannel. Never, so far as I can remember, laundered (this went for bed linen too, and often us kids' underwear), until I got a bit older and realised this was just pretty grim!

Hence I'm a bit OCD about flannels, towels, sheets etc.

I hate flannels. I use my hands to wash my face and rinse in running water, lovely and fresh and clean

naboo you certainly may. I only charge £750000000 per night. It is a boutique hotel disguised as a dog filled farmhouse.

MOS in flannels QUANTITY wins over QUALITY

Agreed sharing flannels would be grim.

In our house each family member has their own stack of colour coded flannels. Should invest in shelves to display them and learn to make swans. I have to admit that I don't like excess lying out though as I fear they may get damp and dusty. Finally found my mad hw gene to join in with.

Colour coding?

White for face
Brown for feet
Green for torso, thighs and seat
And in the cupboard 'neath the stair
You'll find the red for pubic hair.

I use a flannel, but only for my face and feet. I always make sure the dog licks it clean afterwards, so it doesn't get slimy.
Can't be too careful!

I don't feel properly clean unless i have used a flannel. I loves them.

I have flannels in my towel cupboard. I notice that male members of the family don't used them.

LOL Talc

Yes OP fucking revolting! There is no place in this world for them, absolutely most gross

Do you think the hacker was a flannel salesman?

We all use them in our house but they are single use and get chucked in the wash afterwards. You can't wash your face properly with your hands. And trying to wipe a kids face without one is quite tricky.

All you people who insist the are revolting, gross and unhygienic, do you genuinely feel that even about a clean flannel used once only then laundered on a hot wash? If so then you are just plain wrong. And weird.

So you know when you put something in hot soapy water? That's what used to be called 'washing' something before washing machines were invented. So if you use a flannel or other item, eg sponge, net washing thingy to wash yourself, with soap and then you rinse the soap off with hot water, how can that thing possibly be considered 'dirty'???? You just washed it.

Also when you get out of the bath/shower you are presumably clean so why on earth would you need to wash your towel every time after using it? It has been used to soak up clean water from your clean body.

A lot of you people are really weird about 'dirt' and 'germs'. No-one in my house has every got ill yet from all the apparently disgusting and unclean practices we have (according to mumsnetters).

I remember sucking flannels in the bath as a kid.

I was a flannel sucker too

Clean flannel every day. Feel properly washed and save water.
Oh and don't drop it into the laundry basket while wet.

I don't know why I find flannels a bit manky. dh and ds2 like them. I wash them regularly.

I am enjoying this thread! As an oldie here, I remember growing up with hot running water being a scarce and expensive item, so sis and I were bathed together once a week, and a strip down wash each day, scrubbing with towelling washcloths, from the top down. I do just remember, before that, being bathed in the big belfast sink in the kitchen. I still use washcloths - good for scrubbing the muck off, exfoliating, etc - I always use them in the bath, too. (I can't balance well enough to shower.) Use once, hang over the edge of the laundry basket then a boil wash with other manky tough whites about once a week. I am amongst the ranks of those with a squillion of them, different colours for different people. Once they get a bit tatty they're relegated for diy tasks
Clean v cleanse
clean is what you do to get the dirt off - cleanse is what you do whether it's dirty or not!

Fascinated by this thread...(not in a good way..)

What are you all doing all day to get so utterly filthy & germ laden?

Alternatively; quite worried that your obsessive cleanliness stops you building up any immunities and lays you (and your DCs) open to infection from every passing germ...