AIBU to issue my 14yo DD with ONE bath towel for the week to teach her lesson

[Slowdecrease]

I went out for a couple of hours last night to visit a friend. My DD said she was going to give herself a pamper night. When I came back DD was in her bedroom and on the bathroom floor were four, that's FOUR wet scrumpled bath towels (freshly washed yesterday). My face felt hot. I went into my bedroom and there on the floor in front of my bedroom mirror, was a further wet, scrumpled bath towel. My face was now purple, my eyes were starting to blur with blind fury!!! Five freshly washed towels left wet and scrumpled on the floor. She does this EVERY TIME she has a bath (though five is a record it's normally one or two).

AIBU to issue her one towel for the week (and hide all the others) so she learns to use it, put it on the radiator if it's usuable again the next morning or put it in the wash bin? Yes I know by the end of the week it will be minging but to prove a point that other people live in this house and would like a dry towel occasionally without washing the whole lot every single day, is this a fair and good way of teaching a selfish 14 yo a lesson??

[magratvonlipwig]

We use one each for a week. We don't share towels and we hang up our own for 're use tomorrow.rationing is NOT unreasonable.

Also ask her to help with laundry.

[fj3568]

We are a family of three and use one large towel each per week plus 2 hand towels. I'm clean getting out of the shower and don't fanny around with my backside I just wrap myself and trot about and am dry in a minute.

[magratvonlipwig]

And ps if bottom is damp id use loo paper to dry it not the towel.

[AlMinzerAndHisPyramidOfDogs]

yep - turn off that fuckin' wifi. that'll teach her.

[thebestfurchinchilla]

Just had a shower and for the first time found myself analysing what I actually do after reading this thread. I pat all over, I pat my bum cheeks, there is no spreading of cheeks that bit just...well...dries on its own! I wrapped the towel around me, cleaned my teeth, put on my towelling robe and hey I'm dry!

[pearlylum]

I like to give my arse a rub with a towel. By bum cheeks don't tend to gape apart, so ain't gonna dry without help.
I use a hand towel to dry after a shower, that gets used once.

[diddl]

"It's clearly a teenage girl thing."

That's an insult to teenage girls!

How did she manage to use so many towels?

I absolutely cannot figure it out at all-and neither can my teenage daughter!

[CurlyWurly09]

Bit confused about the bumhole-drying here, too.

My daughter has her own two towels that I rotate every week, she's only 6 so I'll hang hers up to dry for next time. Wondering if I'll find a bundle of damp towels in a few years and fondly remember the MN post about arsehole drying.

[mathanxiety]

Teach her to use the washing machine, though you may well be just kicking your problem on -- when I first taught DD1 I would find she had washed something ridiculous like three pairs of socks.

Thebest and KinkyAfro -- same here. It's all self drying, as far as I am concerned.

[WanderingTrolley1]

I can barely get my teenage son to (wash and use) one towel...

[ample]

I have just spurted wine everywhere all over my lovely new lounge rug and up my nose. Thank you very much. Dirty bottoms, dry arses.... and this isn't even the baby & toddler board. Love it
Please continue.

No, slow, YANBU

[pasanda]

I have just done this with my ds (15) and dd (12)

For me, it's not that I used to wash them more than once a week anyway. It's more that if they can't be bothered to hang up their towel after use, then they will have to use a musty, damp towel the next day... and smell!

I have hidden most of the other towels in my room. Unfortunately, I also have twin dd's who are only 8 so I give them a bit more leeway and hang theirs up for them, and the older two always seem to find those.

Nothing works!!

I am forever hanging up damp towels!!!

[nightpiano]

Every day, when my boys get out of the shower, they wrap their damp towels around their damp shoulders like superhero capes and chase each other around the kitchen table. The towels get pretty grubby. I am looking forward to washing fewer towels as they get older, but the superhero thing is cute.

We use camping towels all the time, even at home. Is that lazy of me? They are lightweight and dry ever so quickly.

[pearlylum]

pasanda- how many damp towels do you hang up a day?

[tibbawyrots]

We have one bath towel, one hair towel each per week. Hand towels in the bathroom/kitchen are changed twice a week.

[eurochick]

Think of the environment - the waste water, the power needed to run the washer and dryer. I am frankly appalled that people are so wasteful.

[Slowdecrease]

I'm glad I brought bumholes to the fore on AIBU so to speak

[Cliffdiver]

She could have used 4 like this:

1 towel for standing on when she got out bath

1 towel for body

1 towel for hair

1 towel to sit on whilst drying hair (if not dressed)

The fifth... No idea

Agree it's totally excessive.

DH and I have shared towels before.

[pearlylum]

At least if she used 5 towels then you can be sure they are not going to need washed, just dried and re-used. I have around 15 bath towels in the house, Some drying, some in the laundry cupboard, some being laundered.

[Slowdecrease]

She's a berk. But I love her. Four hours without WiFi - half an hour for every towel on the floor - I found another THREE in her bedroom!!! Seems to have had some kind of effect... We shall see

[Slowdecrease]

It's the not hanging them to dry after that's the problem. It makes me crazy

[tilder]

I love these threads. Some posters must have enormous water/electric/gas bills. If I changed our towels daily that's another 10 loads of washing a week!

I'm struggling to think how anyone can use five towels. Unless she got in and out of the bath. Or has rapunzel hair.

[cardibach]

I think we solved the one, use only issue on another thread a while ago. One-users also tended to have a fear of flannels/bath scrunched, simply putting shower gel on with hands and rinsing off. They then said towels used once smelt 'biscuity'. We decided it was to do with not really removing dirt or dead skin cells in the shower so getting them on the towel instead of just clean water.
Wash properly. Dry clean body. Reuse towel next time.

[cardibach]

Ignore my typos.

[MrsHathaway]

EIGHT IN TOTAL?!

I'm not even sure I own eight bath sheets. Six probably but eight?