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.

Nothing to add apart from every time this thread pops up on active, I read it as "AIBU to consider flannel sucking revolting"

wash facecloths after ONE USE??
Do you all work in a coal mine?

To not feel that sorry?

Acquaintance from College died suddenly, FB full of posts/comments about how "quirky" and "charming" his "sometimes controversial opinions" were and how they loved him anyway.

Guy was a far-right, raging, fundamentalist bigot. Example - 'gay people should not be allowed citizen rights because those who commit armed robbery, which overall does less harm to soceity, forfeit theirs'.

I've kept schtum, don't want to say anything I'll regret, but f*ck it, I'm not saying I'm sorry and what a nice guy he was really.

Flame away, I'm a heartless bitch no doubt.

Shoot misfired, mods please delete, dunno what happened there, meant to start new thread

Toconclude YANBU!

This sure is a first-world problem. You use a square of fabric with soap on it to cleanse a part of your body that is not, by any global standard, even actually dirty, then spread it out to dry for re-use later.
If you find that in any way revolting, it suggests the kind of germ-phobia Howard Hughes suffered from.
Treatment is available.

And, since this is now a multi-purpose thread, toconclude, I don't think you are unreasonable at all. In your place, if I had to turn up to the funeral and actually talk to people about him, I'd be tempted to add a comment along the lines of "He and I rarely saw eye to eye about anything!", maybe adding RIP (Roast In Purgatory) as a sweetener, just so no-one is expecting a gushing eulogy from you. If not, I think you're right to say nothing at all. I wish I followed my own advice.

Off the back of this thread, today I have cut up and rehemmed one of DS's muslins (he has really outgrown them, so a couple begining resued is sensible).

We are definitely a use once then wash household. They go on the side of the bath at first, but only so they don't fester damply in the wash basket. Otherwise there is the hassle of working out whose flannel is whose, and a flannel each for a whole week is less volume in the washing machine than a single towel, so its hardly a major environmental hazzard.

Am only very slightly reconsidering my position. MrL thinks (after 35 years he felt he had to tell me) that lobbing the teatowels in the washing machine every day is a bit extravagant now we've gone on to a water meter.
WELL MATEY, I'm the freak'n' ex-FT teacher round here. I don't tell you how to wash your paintbrushes, do I? Teatowels are germheaven! Full of food waste and room temperature. Flannels aren't, unless, and this is the point I'm prepared to concede, if your daily toil involves sewers, bottom-wiping or MRSA cleansing.
If you've sat in an office all day, then no, you're still Howard Hughes.

Inspired by this thread, as an experiment I dug out a flannel from depths of the airing cupboard this morning to do a 'body wash by the sink' thing as I was a bit short of time for a shower. My observations:

Pros: (1) Exfoliating effect (2) Quick way of getting clean

Cons: (1) I was left with soap all over me. How do you rinse it off????? Said flannel is already all soapy so that doesn't work.
(2) Drips of water left on the floor by the sink, annoying DH
(3) Used flannel now has to lie around the bathroom looking unsightly till dry enough to put into laundry basket

Hm not convinced!

We use one but wash with every use

We use flannels for hands and face for the kids after meals. They get washed after every use.

We also use white flannels (so they don't get muddled with hands/face ones) for DD's bum at nappy changes. They get thrown in the nappy bucket and boil washed - load in there now. I bet the thought of poo-covered flannels is really making you reconsider your apogee of grim being the ones in the shower, right? I hasten to add that we never use one more than once before washing, if that makes it any better...?

I don't use anything but hands in the shower, though.

Can't be arsed to read 14 pages of whether or not flannels or nice or not as it's 1am in the morning.
However, here what the heck is wrong with the flannels? As long as they're regularly washed, what's the problem?!
I'd far rather a clean flannel than a wipe laden with chemicals or a quick splash of the tap with water and hands and nothing else.

From here to maternity, I don't know how old you are but if you'd been brought up in the 50s, apart from the once a week bath, you are describing the daily ablutions of pretty much everyone. Should the need arise for you, you remove the soap from the flannel by rinsing it in the sink.

I was left with soap all over me. How do you rinse it off????? Said flannel is already all soapy so that doesn't work.

How is your flannel soapy? Surely you rinse that in the sink as you go along?!
(Didn't grow up in the 50's but was born in the 70s.)

I wouldn't say flannels are revolting but I couldn't eat a whole one.

Before I read this thread it wouldn't even have occurred to me to use a flannel.

If you shower everyday why would you need to.

I don't wash my face either - what's the point? (Though I don't wear make-up)

They're definitely facecloths here too.

I buy the packs of 10 from Ikea and use them for baby/child cleanup after meals, they go in the wash after use.

DH likes a sponge to wash the DC (all under 6), but I've recently starred using a facecloth because the sponge sitting around festering was bothering me.

I'm a shower every morning person, towels changed 1-2 times a week for full disclosure.

I'm quite tempted to take a facecloth into my shower for a scrub now. Used once only of course....

I couldn't type flannel.in my post. It just looks wrong.

I also don't wear make up so just use facial wash in the shower.

"wash facecloths after ONE USE??
Do you all work in a coal mine?"

Exactly. I use a flannel with a hot cloth cleanser on my face only. I then wash it out with a bit of soap and leave it to dry on the heated towel rail ready for the next use. It gets properly washed in the washing machine every time I do a light/white wash.

I'm surprised that in 2015 people do strip washes unless there is a water shortage or the house doesn't have a shower. It is much quicker to jump under the shower, assuming you have one.

I can't balance safely in a shower, and climbing in and out is difficult (in bath setup). Also, changing habits of a lifetime.
I don't work in a coal mine - but my dad did! Seriously, tho, the concern is germs, not dirt. I'm not going to wash my face today with the cloth I washed other bits with yesterday!

fromheretomaternity "Used flannel now has to lie around the bathroom looking unsightly till dry enough to put into laundry basket"

Then don't! Use it, and then fling it in the washing machine to be combined with the next wash!! That's what I do - it's no hardship.

I love a warm flannel over my face, it's like being licked by a big friendly dog :)