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

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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??

She is a bit rapunzel-esque tilder , very long (bum length) hair. not five towels worth though

don't fanny around with my backside

Eight of various sizes . I know - fuming!!!!

She is wrapping these bath towels about four times round her size 8 self meanwhile leaving me a handtowel to shimmy across the landing with like some kind of flannel-y burlesque show barely covering my bits !!!

I remember an epic interrail tour with my sister.
we had 1 (one) handtowel between us as we only had a normal eastpack backpack each.
and only one change of knickers.

Am not looking forward to the teenage years. Eight towels. My kids will be gutted. I don't have eight spare towels!

I need to domesticate my lot now. Good luck slow!

I would make her launder the towels then I would absolutely ration her towels after that. I am shocked. FIVe? How is she even that soaked? Did she drop them in the bath?

God only knows wilting I suspect she sloshes that much water on the floor that she uses them to mop up - then just leaves them. Grrr.

I have two towels, body and hair, dp has one.

I wash them now and then. Maybe once a month if I'm feeling enthusiastic. Certainly not daily, nor weekly.

Dss leaves his on his bathroom floor but as he is the only one who uses the towel or the bathroom I don't care. His problem if he gets crabs.

I'm not sure you can get crabs from a bath towel....can you??

Not if the towel is only left on the floor... people usually get crabs from um, sex. 🤔

I agree about giving her one towel per week. She has already used the next five weeks' worth of towels once, so she will have to wait six weeks for a clean towel. And if it doesn't work, tell her that she will be cutting her hair so she needs fewer towels in future in general!

With an infected person, of course...

Ah is this morphing into a how often do you change your towel thread

I use the force personally

I am one with the towels

I sense when they need washing

Seriously though. Make her wash them and get them dry. How will she ever understand why you are so pissed off otherwise?

Before I had a child my towel (yes, singular) was positively crispy before it had a wash

Eight towels?

Ye gods, and I thought I was hard done by! DS would leave his towels (one bath sheet, one hand towel for his head) on his bedroom floor every feckin' morning and I got fed up moaning at him so did pretty much what you're planning to do OP. Handed him two bath towels and told him they were the only ones he could use and he was welcome to leave them on his bedroom floor and let them get smelly. Took a few weeks but he got the point.

I could be certain my DS had bathed, the pyramid of damp towels were proof. Grrr.. Such a waste. No amount of 'words' made a difference

No, of course you can't get drabs from bath towels. I was joking.
As long as no one has athletes foot, thrush, conjunctivitis or impetigo there is really no need to keep washing stuff all the time.

Crabs, not drabs. Whatever they are you still don't get them off towels.

I found buying cheap very thin towels the answer to my teen teenage daughters obsession with clean towels every day, it really made life so much easier, can get loads in the machine and drying time is so much quicker, keep your lovely thick bathshhets well out of their way !

I use a towel a week, exH had a bit of a towel stealing habit so we used to get through loads, I do not do shared towels!

I would buy her two towels of new colour - possibly her favourite colour if I was feeling kind. This is her whole towel allowance, forever. She can wash/dry/reuse from here on out - if her towel is wet on the bedroom floor, then she can shake dry, reuse the wet towel or whatever NOT MY PROBLEM.

If she every uses a towel of someone else for drying herself or the bathroom floor suitable punishment would ensue - money, no wifi, no lifts to things - something that inconveniences her like she has inconvenienced someone else.

May require towels not to be kept in bathroom until new routine takes hold. Remove her sense of entitlement, teach her the basic life skill of laundry, and some respect for the family.

I remember my mum going apeshit at me for leaving my wet towels on the floor then just getting new ones out for next time.

My 12 year old brain just hadn't thought about the consequences of what I was doing ie making loads of extra work for my mum by only using towels once and using 2 or 3 every time.

Anyway my talking to worked and I started reusing my towels. I did my own laundry or at least own sorting of washing from 13.

We change and wash our towels roughly weekly unless there's a very good reason to do it more often. I baulk at the idea of washing all towels daily, what a wasteful attitude, and we already have tonnes of washing to do.

You frequent towel washers must have massive houses to hang/store them, and loads of time to wash them. We simply could not sustain a 7 towel a week habit (28 in total) let alone 8 a day.

My water bill/electricity bill/our planet can't cope with me changing towels everyday. Once a week here. That's because, presumably, we actually wash ourselves in the shower/bath and thus don't get the towels filthy each time we use them I had no idea it was such a novel concept!