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To consider flannels fucking revolting

348 replies

BelfryWitch · 17/08/2015 18:09

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.

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GoooRooo · 17/08/2015 23:39

I agree my flannels stink

But I only use them for going over eyes, they stink because my husband is too stupid to not leave them in a wet festering ball.

Ew, just put it in the wash and use a clean one?

WanderWomble · 18/08/2015 00:06

I fucking love flannels. I have masses of them and they get chucked in with whichever load is going on a hot wash, even -gasp- tea towels.

howabout · 18/08/2015 00:25

YABU
Now I know why everyone showers daily and changes towels daily. Quick dip under the shower and slather shower gel over bits you think to go over with your hands does not equate to a wash in my book. As pp said soak in the bath and scrub with soapy flannel is the gold standard. (If you have the "soaking in your own dirt phobia" then rinse off with shower head, which btw is usually breeding loads of bacteria unless you milton it after every use). How do you scrub old deoderant off your pits without a flannel? I do a hot wash most days and all the flannels get chucked in with whatever the load is.
Numerous other uses for flannels in our house also.

VerityWaves · 18/08/2015 00:34

They are fantastic for washing DD in the sink. You must wash after every use though - lovely hygienic and fresh way to wash quickly. Great!

sugar21 · 18/08/2015 00:44

Ha ha ha ha Grin
I won't say what goes on in the hotel where I work. Shock

StrumpersPlunkett · 18/08/2015 00:50

Love a flannel
I have really itchy skin and a good run down in the shower feels very satisfying
We also had mini flannels to clean bums instead of baby wipes when the boys were in nappies. Brilliant at removing cleg nuts of poo

WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant · 18/08/2015 00:50

Talc
There is a great instruct able somewhere to fold a flannel (napkin?) into a penis.

StrumpersPlunkett · 18/08/2015 00:51

Rub down not run.

thornrose · 18/08/2015 00:55

Yay, flannel hate, we've all got time for that in our lives! GrinGrin

PiperChapstick · 18/08/2015 00:58

I find flannels very handy to clean round the bath when dirt builds up. That's all we use them for in our house, a flannel has never gone near anyone's face here!
I remember my nan was a flannel fanatic and they used to reek - YANBU

TheHouseOnTheLane · 18/08/2015 00:59

I use them once then wash them. For my face...a nice hot flannel with some moisturiser on it...then straight in the wash. I put them on a hot wash. Much better than hands.

fourtothedozen · 18/08/2015 07:40

I too like the texture of a flannel on my face. It is slightly exfoliating.

You don't always need a whole body shower, and some of us who are apparently so old fashioned that we sometimes do a whole body wash in a sinkful of water.

If you do wash in the sink without a flannel I don't see how you get all the soap off. If you have worked up a lather in your armpits, or indeed your groin- how do you proceed? Wet hands can't really remove much soap.

MaidOfStars · 18/08/2015 08:12

cardibach I am a flannel lover but don't use one on my fanjo (bikini line only). Not sure why, seems like it might be too rough? Anyway, I kind of scoop and swill shower water around it. I'm also a 'shower gel on the fanjo' person, it's never caused me any problem. I get a lather up on my pubes and use some of the foam to wash my labia.

And ain't that a paragraph I never thought I'd type.

Alan Clean - removal of dirt from surface. Cleanse - removal of dirt from within.

merrymouse · 18/08/2015 08:17

A flannel is just a mini towel that gets wet. How can a flannel be disgusting but a towel not?

Both towels and flannels are disgusting if you don't wash them and leave them in a wet, fetid heap, but you could say that about anything.

fourtothedozen · 18/08/2015 08:19

Not sure why a flannel on the fanjo is bad? I don't find it too rough, it's only a cotton cloth and nothing we wouldn't do to a baby after a messy nappy.

merrymouse · 18/08/2015 08:23

I think cleanse is ad speak made up to differentiate 'cleanser' as in 'cleanser and toner' from 'cleaner' as in 'harpic toilet cleaner'.

merrymouse · 18/08/2015 08:25

I don't think your insides need cleaning unless you are Gwyneth Paltrow.

MaidOfStars · 18/08/2015 08:25

Was that question to me? Not saying it's bad, I just don't do it. I am wincing at the thought of a corner catching Smile

MaidOfStars · 18/08/2015 08:26

merry
Is the phrase 'ethnic cleansing' also ad speak?

(I would put a wink but that seems very wrong after that comment)

fourtothedozen · 18/08/2015 08:26

What are your flannels made of? Hessian?

MaidOfStars · 18/08/2015 08:27

Yep, old sacking.

fourtothedozen · 18/08/2015 08:30
Grin

In that case I don't blame you for avoiding sensitive areas.

maybebabybee · 18/08/2015 08:32

Good lord, how do people find the mental energy to care about this stuff...

MaidOfStars · 18/08/2015 08:35

It also helps reduce the risk of discovering potato peelings in ones gusset.

merrymouse · 18/08/2015 08:46

Maid of stars

www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-2894,00.html

Origins of 'ethnic cleansing'.