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.

I would never consider using a flannel for myself but use one every night and morning for toddler ds. Each flannel gets one use and then washed, the thought of reusing a cold damp flannel that's been sitting there all day makes me want to retch. Ok, slight exaggeration but still.

I have a lot of flannels

I wash my face with them and DD's hands and face after a meal would cost a bleeding fortune in wipes if she's not getting a bath just yet. Having so many means they get used once before chucking in the wash.

What are people doing with their flannels that's so disgusting?!

Agree with PP. Sponges are beyond grim.

I suspect they are only germy if they aren't rinsed out in hot enough water and wrung out well enough.

I use a cloth to wash up - if it is rinsed in hot water and wrung out well, then dried on the draining rack, as I do, it stays fresh-smelling and clean. When dh leaves it wet, and dumps it in the centre drainer bit (can't remember what it is called), it goes grey and manky.

I used to use one to clean the DCs face after a meal, but then it was thrown straight in the washing machine.

No reusing a flannel for heavens sake!

The same with muslins for hot cleansing.

Why is a wrung out and hung to dry, regularly washed flannel 'germy'? And how do you all wash your fanjo?

I'm rather fond of them really, with brogues and a blazer.

I wouldn't use them for washing the face though. Think of all the suds in the turn-ups.

Surely they are no more 'rank' than using a towel?

My dad had never had a shower until he was over 80 and had to go in a care home. He hated it! Was used to washing himself with a flannel. Not sure why people would use them these days really.

You lot are loopy! Sure, a dirty flannel is gross, but a clean flannel? How is that gross?

What if you have no time for a shower but need to go out, how do you wash your face and oxters without a flannel in that situation?

Everything is gross, rank or vile on MN.

It's a wonder I'm still alive TBh.

I think flannels are ok and had no idea people were so germaphobic until I joined MN.

I have a lovely folded pile of flannels and muslins for removal of slap after the Cetaphil.
And just like towels, they are washed after a single use.
Not at all manky.

yabu
I use one in the shower or to wash my face.
flannel gets changed daily, they don't take up much room in the laundry.

YANBU I hate them. My mum still insists on using them with my dds when they stay at her house.

I looooove flannels and am raising my DCs to love them too. Obviously a fresh one every time you use one (morning and evening, so two a day). A nice fluffy flannel, yay! Goes in hot wash with bedding and towels. I have a whole shelf in my linen cupboard full of neatly folded flannels.

Huh? How else am I supposed to strip-wash my arse? Use the loo brush?

Oh god, it was body puffs (those mesh things) the other week. I am suffering from Failure to Care.

usual - I discovered via MN that I have committed a slatternly sin for washing pants in the same load with tea-towels.

After enjoying years of bug-free good health I now know that I have been contaminating my crockery on a daily basis and will burn in Good Housekeeping hell for all eternity. I may return to bashing my smalls on a rock down by the river bank.

How do you wash your face properly without a flannel?? I wash my face with hands and face wash, then I wash with a flannel and it ALWAYS has make up on it, even though I just washed it with hands.

They go on the radiator to dry, and the next day when I get a new one and yesterday's is dry they go in my laundry basket. All used once, washed at 90' ...how is that in any way gross?!?

The amount of wash some of you must do is mind boggling.

What you need is a nice towel to dry your bottom and pick up any bits you missed. I think there was a thread on this subject the other day...

YADNBU

I use them for scrubbing DS's muddy knees. Nowt else.

Yet another thing MN says that just makes me go eh?!

So, what do you flannelphobes use then?

Oh you would hate me. I take a clean, rinsed wet and wrung out flannel in a plastic bag out on day trips/plane journeys. I far prefer to wipe my face and hands with that if there's no immediate sink access than use a chemical smelling wipe. I wash it after the trip of course.

Me too.

And I also have little cold box in my car so I can have a wipe down with a cold wet flannel when out and about and I in the midst of a power surge

I use a flannel every day, with soap and water on my face. I then rinse it and put it on the side of the bath to dry.

I use an exfoliating sponge in the shower ever day, rinse it out and hang it off the shower to dry.

Neither is 'disgusting or germy'. You people are loons.