To put a lock on the Hot Press?????

[Indulgingmum]

We have 4 kids, my teenage son and daughter shower at least once a day. On training days which are three times a week they shower twice. My daughter uses 3, yes 3 towels for each shower. One for her hair, one wrapped around her and one over her shoulders. Despite me asking repeatedly that they use the towels more than once, they continue to dump wet towels on the floor and so need new ones each time they shower. I don't have time to chase after them to hang towels to dry and come the winter it will be a nightmare trying to dry all those towels! So my suggestion, is to put a lock on the door of the hot press, which is where we keep the clean towels. Is that unreasonable????

DID THEY LEAVE THE IMMERSION ON?

Haha Maud I think tbh if my mam had get way that would be the sole reason to put a lock on the hot press! Merely touching the immersion.

Even now my step dad and youngest sister are scared of touching the thing! Leaving it on longer than an hour is a punishable offence.

It's an irish mammy thing!

I only clicked on this thread to see if people would understand the term hot press

Also, a press is not just used in this context. Any cupboard is a press - you put your messages away in the kitchen presses.

Also, whoever mentioned it, Hot Press Magazine is still going!

When they leave the wet towels on the floor or wherever, you put them in their bed! Or on top of their favourite clothes before they are going out etc. Get evil.

And feck yeah, shouldn't the hot press already be locked, sure isn't the immersion in there?

Messages = shopping

Thanks howtorebuild I just thought I'd drop that in to see if anyone picked it up

All our towels are colour coded and my children know that if they leave them in a stinky wet pile that's where they'll pick them up from next time. Or if I see the towels on the floor they'll get ticked off and still have to reuse them.

Yes to putting wet towels in their beds and pulling the duvet over them!

Buy your dd some microfibre turbans off Amazon for her hair. They are brilliant and much better than towels.

Otherwise - yes, I agree with you that teenagers and towel use is a pain.

Towelling robes in different colours and hooks above the radiator in the bathroom can also reduce towel use.

Laughing away to myself here the husband thinks I'm a right eejit! I am not totally mad. My weins don't know how to use the immersion! Christ the night is be bankrupt if they knew that are secret.

In my in-laws' old house in Scotland they had cupboards called presses where sheets and towels are stored.

In parts of Scotland any cupboard is a 'press' my gran used it. There was a hall press and a kitchen press.

My immersion isn't nicely hidden in the hot press, it is on the wall of the utility room where any passing savage can abuse it!

We built our house and the architect wanted to put the hot water tank in the attic. Builder was scandalised that there would be no portal for slightly warmed towels and sheets, and actually moved a wall so the tank could heat the hot press. He also put our boiler in a wee room of its own with rails everywhere "for your drying".

Our builder has 4 teenaged daughters.

We are from and live in NI, knew immediately when I clicked on this one there would be lots of 'what's a hot press' posts lol, when I lived in England took a while to get used to calling it an airing cupboard!

Our airing cupboard has a dual identity as a hot press. DH and I bickering away the early years of our relationship on that terminology.

My friend from NI was showing me around her new home and I commented that she had a hot press. She was thrilled that I knew what it was as no one else had heard the phrase. I guessed that she was more likely to say it than airing cupboard.

Colour coded towels sounds like a good plan.

Aww I remember "messages" from living in the highlands. First few times I heard it I was

Tell the kids you have worms so they have to use their own designated towels or they'll get em too.

Our towels get washed once a week. If they're wet you hang them on the airer or clothes line or over bannister. We have a combiboiler so towels are just kept folded in the bathroom in cabinets. No-one chucks towels on the floor and lives!