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 yes. My mum, died aged 90, forbade flannels.

Clean yourself with your hands and soap and water or with cleanser and disposal cotton wool.

I used them for my contact lenses. Love mine. (Got a spotty blue, white cath kidson one)

A comma trouble? I'm not exactly a grammar perfectionist, but a comma would make the sentence grammatically incorrect, surely?

More interesting than the conversation at hand is who are these OPs who start these kind of threads then bugger off? It's the second one today that I'm aware of.

I have no opinion on flannels. I don't care whether other people use them or not.

But I'm mightily sick and tired of all these goady, bunfighty threads being started by idiots who never come back

Bore the fuck off to some other website you tedious, tiresome asshats.

Flannels AKA washcloths are essential for proper face-washing, and a new one should be used each and every time.

I wouldn't want to use one on my body as they're so absorbent - I use hands for bits and a bath puff for everything else. This works very well for me.

YABVU. I love a good flannel and I have about 30 in lots of different colours, wash after every use.

we love flannels in this house and have LOADS of them. I use a fresh one every time I wah my face. great exfoliating properties and they're great for the kids faces too. I wash them in a hot wash with some napisan to disinfect them. yabu.

I love them. (Although they're always referred to as a facecloth in my part of the world). Have loads and loads of them. I wring them out really well in very hot water and use them no more than twice before washing. Would be lost without them.

I have loads and use them for everything - I even keep very old ones for mopping up little spills. I am always horrified at how liberally people use baby wipes for hands and faces at home when a flannel would do - so expensive and not very eco.

Flannels washed after every use = fine, they exfoliate as well as wash, all good.

Flannels not washed after every use = bleurgh n said flannels hung/folded in bathroom r just beyond bleurgh!

Therefore yabu & yanbu .

I just went to have my dinner, Whisk. Not that I've really got anything to add at this stage tbh. In keeping with all AIBUs since time immemorial, I have no intention of changing my mind. About anything. Ever.

This thread is very weird to me. Nobody in Scotland uses the word flannel, it makes me feel a bit yucky and icky.

I only use a flannel for my face and clean it every day or so, depending on if I forget or not.

I love these threads though. People are so hysterical about their hygiene. "Fucking revolting"?? Really?

Flannel for face, hands for everything else. It all gets washed while you're in the bath/shower. TBH, I tend to use my flannel to get water dripping from my hair out of my eyes and off my face, and that's about it. Face washing occurs athe basin with running water and using hands.

My mum had one for her face and another for her bits. The latter was changed every day. Nothing wrong with that.

treaclesoda we call it a facecloth too. Are you in Scotland by any chance?

Mine are always white but so are my towels. I am a huge fan of the bleach boil wash.
(I am also well aware I have a towel issue )

We have loads of them. Clean one every time we wash! Otherwise yes it's grim. A sponge is horrid, shower flower things are useless!

I'm in scotland and to be fair I call it a facecloth but sometimes people get confused with a muslin type facecloth which is different. Obviously.
We have a facecloth drawer. Ikea ones are a bit scratchy but they do the job. Primark ones are a good shout.

Sponges give me the pip. Bleurgh!

I use them for DS in the morning, (he has a bath every night), and if I'm staying over at my mum's, cos I get up too early for work to disturb her sleep by having a shower. But I put them in the wash after every use, so I doubt that this is disgusting
The reason I use them in the morning is they get me properly clean, bits and all.

All of you flannel lovers who wash them after one use...how much fucking laundry do you do????? There are five of us. Of we reached used 3 flannels a day that would be 15 a day which would be - counts on fingers - ONE HUNDRED FLANNELS to launder every week!!!!!! Add to that the clean pjs every night - 35 pairs - and say, 2 towels each person day which makes 70 towels.... Jesus ! Now I understand the ridiculous laundry threads. Keeping going, that would also be 35 pairs of knickers and boxers ( OK, agree with this one, am not a complete trollop), 35 pairs of socks plus sports socks, and tights.
And then we have bedding. Even is done weekly that would be 5 duvet covers, 5 sheets, 10 pillow cases. 7 tea towels.
And then....we have clothes.....
Don't you have anything else to do?

There are 4 of us and I work FT.
Laundry is the least of my problems.
I quite enjoy it.
2 loads a day, more for bed linen at weekends.
Especially if I can get the washing out, that is always a good day.

I have approximately twelvty hundred flannels. I use them a couple of times a week on my face, and most days on my legs and bikini line to stop ingrowing hairs. Single use, squeeze out, dry off overnight and chuck in the wash.

If I use one in the bath, I use it to clean down the bath, taps and tiles afterwards.

I love flannels, because when you're in John Lewis and see a gorgeous range of expensive towels that you don't need and can't afford, you can just have a little smidgen of it by buying a flannel, and then keep it to look at and feel ridiculously happy for £2.99.