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.

OMG - I have a flannel and a toilet brush, will I ever be able to hold my head up in public again lol

We must be a mucky lot here up north.

Yabu, I love flannels and have got loads, including flannel wash mits.

My dc always hands and faces washed with a flannel after eating. So much more environmentally friendly than wipes.

A nice slightly old flannel is mildly exfoliating too.

Total loons, exLtEveDallas.

A clean face flannel is a very useful and hygienic thing. It need not be manky. I prefer flannels, splashing the water onto your face just gets your hair wet and causes it to run all down your neck or whatever. And if a child's face is grubby a flannel is better than just water because you can rub at the stubborn grime.

But I agree that they should always be clean and fresh, ideally one per person and changed each day.

I do the same with my tea towels and dishcloths though - I can't believe how many people keep re-using grubby, damp, skanky tea towels for days on end, and and not replacing or bleaching their dishcloths daily.

and I totally agree about a nice rough old flannel being a good exfoliator.

The world is going to hell in a hand basket because of; too much antibacterial crap; using vastly too much fossil fuel (like washing towels every time); too much modern obsession with carefulness, cleanliness and order; using things one time and throwing them away.

FFS people, what on earth do you think you can catch from a flannel? Even one used twice!!!

Best exfoliating tip... hot, damp flannel, bit of Nivea, rub on dry skin.

Without flannels you could be missing out on a whole world of wankery that is the art of face-cloth folding. There are YouTube video guides and everything.

Just imagine placing carefully folded swans next to your guest soaps and shower bonnets pinched from hotels. Twigs and pebbly shit have nothing on what you can do with bathroom stuff.

Fresh one every shower. Best exfoliator there is for sensitive skin.

also have one of those quick dry back packing ones for when I'm out - beach etc. I do love a good flannel!

We have piles of flannels. They are regularly washed. I just can't get scared of something that's only been used on my own or my children's hands / faces

My bathroom shelves would look bereft without the big, neatly folded, stack of flannels.

I am so teaching myself how to make a flannel swan.

I hate them. DH has one he uses and doesn't wash regularly. Flannels used once and washed afterwards is ok, but not wet one left hanging around for months.

Don't bother with white though, white only looks good for one wash then they look a miserable, school shirt, grey.

usual - don't stop at swans. How about 'tackling' (geddit) a vaguely phallic baby elephant or other appealing animals?

This is obviously one of threads where MN clearly divides into three groups: only one of which includes any sane rational people

Group 1:

'ALL flannels are manky and germy and disgusting! How could you ever consider using such a revolting thing?'

Group 2:

'Flannels are great. I never shower or bath, I just strip wash. I wash my face and pits first then I wipe my minge and my arsehole with a flannel and sometimes I blow my nose into it as well but I always rinse it out under warm running water and hang it up afterwards so that's okay then. It's stays good for up to a week it'll go back on my face tomorrow morning - what's the problem?'

Group 3: the sane people

'There is nothing whatsoever wrong with using a nice, fresh, clean flannel. Clean flannel = good. Dirty, smelly flannel that's been around your sweaty anus more than once already = bad.

Fucking revolting? Hardly.
Yabu. Just use your hands? Sounds shit. You need something with friction on your face, and to remove felt pen, paint, ink and probably loads of other stuff too. A flannel is ideal...hence them being a popular choice for many.

You can buy packs of 4 good, thick flannels in Ikea for a pound, so having a plentiful supply of clean ones isn't hard.
Long live the flannel. Down with just hands.

I like flannels, not for my face though. The net puff things not too keen though, can't get in the crevices and can't be rinsed properly.

I have hundreds of them BECAUSE I GET THROUGH TWO A DAY. I only really use them on my face though, I detest strip washing at the sink. I use a sponge in the shower but they get replaced very regularly as well.

Just came on to exorcise some childhood trauma. We didn't have a shower growing up, so used flannels. Same one for face, bits, arse etc. They were NEVER washed and were literally slimy. I never knew any better as that was how it had always been.

AAAAAARGH HATE FLANNELS!

Phew. Glad I got that off my chest.

just like towels, they are washed after a single use

I use a clean flannel every time mostly, but are people really washing their towels after a single use??

I read this post as 'Flannels Fucking' and wondered if this was a new type of 'doing the deed' I hadn't heard of. All for the want of a comma!

Primark not bad either.
Asda had a pack of 4 muslins for a couple of quid last week. Paid a fortune for mine in bloody Boots.

itsraining sums it up perfectly. I'm in group 3. I love a hot wet flannel on my face after cleansing at the end of the day. Feels almost spa like. Then it goes in the wash. Never bothered with a whore's bath (as my 95 year old grandmother calls them) - aka washing at the sink.

Those net things are totally disgusting though!

I've got some Ikea flannels that I bought in the early 1990s .