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.

Well, something that smells bad isn't actually more ok than something slimey. If you've got either, you need to wash them. The smell is basically to do with germs building up.

Yabu.

We have them and they go in the washing machine to get cleaned properly.

I also have loads of the net things which get well rinsed after being used and then hung up to dry off the shower.

I despair at the amount of things people aren't meant to use and the infrequncy of their use before washing.

I'm amazed some people ever leave the house with the daily washing and cleaning of household items.

'To consider flannels, fucking revolting' - that looks better to me, no? (comma or no comma?)

No comma.

130 posts about flannels. Rock and roll.

I love a flannel too. Great for a was down, like others I work from the top down and only used once before washing.

Yabu
I bought about 20 in one go and we have a use once then wash policy. They're great for washing the kids!

I must get my eyes fixed,,,,I thought that said 'flannel sucking' revolting (some children like to suck an old cloth)/flannel type thingy) but using a flannel is ok to wash ...a scrunchy doesn't quite wash well on the face in the shower.

I think this is what Americans call a 'washcloth', isn't it?

brought up with them but they were hung up to dry after each use. Because excessive washing is two fingers up to the planet and those precious kids of yours that will be left with it.

Pictish not Scotland, but only a few miles away really - the bit of N Ireland that's closest to Scotland

I use an oil cleansing balm to wash my face very evening and the only thing ygats going to remove that properly is a flannel. There's the added bonus that it acts as a gentle exfoliator at the same time. A hot flannel over your face at the end of a long day feels wonderful.

And yes I use a fresh one each day. They're cheap so I have lots of them and they're tiny so easy to throw into the wash.

Flannel wash is what I do on non shower days I am vile and only shower every other day

Flannel is always put in the wash after use though..... I know exactly where it has been!!!

All the people that only use soap (and hands) - I can't help but think of that Friends episode:

Joey: but we can use the same soap?

Chandler: Because soap is soap. It’s self cleansing!

Joey: Alright, well next time you take a shower, think about the last thing I wash and the first thing you wash.

No, really cannot get het up about flannel usage . Am a bit astounded that people use them for any thing other than wiping their faces though , do people really clean their undercarriages with one ? It is a facecloth surely ?

I suspect the humble rank flannel is responsible for the excellent and highly tuned immune response system in the populace at large.

Flannels are for kids to wash their own faces with. Fresh one for each child used in the morning and left for use before meals or if they're grubby. Stops the kids dripping water onto the floor.
Cheap, cheerful and replaced frequently. Old ones are used as cleaning cloths.

frumpet I top and tail with mine! Nowt wrong with washing your face then cleaning your nethers with the same cloth. They all get washed afterwards anyway.

Flannels are manky.
They're are a throwback from when people didn't bath very often ,so they would have a 'wash down' with a flannel at a sink.
One flannel would be dunked in a half-filled basin of water and used for face, sweaty pits and groin.
Grim on so many levels.
(and that practice that some women had of spitting on a hanky and wiping round their child's mouth is beyond grim)
If you have a decent shower then there's no need to use one nowadays.

Good riddance to the 'good ole days I say'

Facecloths are only used for that purpose in this household bettyberry If you come to stay can you bring your own

frumpet I would anyway. Last thing I want is to leave my pubes in a bar of soap that being reason no 23 to own a flannel

PS I will bring my own soap.

OMG - I have a flannel and a toilet brush

Oh oh. Was there a thread on toilet brushes? Are they evil/rank?

Reminds me of a documentary I saw about SAS training and how to utilise a towel so you weren't wiping your face with the bit you cleaned your groin crevices with

If you can throw in a bottle of wine bettyberry you are welcome here any time