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??

I'm in awe of those who wash towels after every use. You must be constantly doing rounds of laundry!

Once a week here. DH has his towel and I have mine. I dry off whilst standing on the bathmat then use the towel to wrap my hair in.

One towel and she can learn how to wash the used ones. Leaving the wet towels on the floor bothers me too. Is she used to a maid service? As for the discussions on how often a towel is used...get a life! Your OCD is showing.. Washing a towel after single use is ott and kills the towels.

We have our own towels here, different colours & no swapping!

DH - 2 x charcoal extra-large bath sheets (he's large & hairy - takes more drying)
Me - 2 x mink bath sheets (I'm smaller & much less hairy )

these are used in the ensuite - we don't bother with extra hand towels in there but do use bathmats

DS - 2 x blue/brown striped bath sheets, 2 x plain brown bath towel (for hair) 2 x blue/brown striped hand towel

he uses the family bathroom

All changed weekly, the spares being kept int he airing cupboard. Everyone hangs their own towel up themselves I'm not bloody doing it - they know that & if damp towels loll about on the floor getting all nasty then tough!

Also have various towels in various other colours for guests & the downstairs loo. DS has a couple of sets of older towels that will be going to Uni with him.

FWIW I sometimes dry my actual clean bum hole on my towelling dressing gown, if the towel hasn't dried it adequately

So I had a shower this morning and tried to do what all you eco conscious water savers do, ie just wrap towel around and potter about, drying my hair and applying makeup etc and then hey presto I've drip dried. Only I didn't. I still felt damp and couldn't avoid drying both front and back bums thoroughly with the towel.
Apparently I don't drop dry efficiently.

Euch!!!Please no more detail papa !!!

Surely if you're drying your arse with the towel it's one use only?

Depends - are you talking about drying the cheeks or a full on butt floss?

I shower almost every day and wash my hair twice a week. I have one white bath sheet and one black towelling turban. I hang both up to dry after use. I launder the bath sheet about once a month and the turban about once every 3 months.

Even on the day I put the white towel into the wash (with my bedding, which I change once a month) it looks and smells perfectly clean.

As others have said, you get out of the shower CLEAN so how can your towels get so dirty they need laundering every time?

I don't even use a bath sheet. I give my hair a quick scrub with my hair so it doesn't drip down my back, then turn it round so the dryer side is near my body and get the main bits of water off, then redo my hair so it is even dryer. I then put on my terry toweling dressing gown and within a minute or two I'm totally dry. Total dryng time about 30 seconds. How long does it take you once use towel people?

I mean I just use a normal size towel rather than a huge bath sheet.

Depends - are you talking about drying the cheeks or a full on butt floss?

I was reading this thread yesterday on the bus, and realised once again, how many topics mumsnet makes me ponder over.
I think I'm in the drying the (clean) cheeks group. And I don't wash towels after a single use.

I dry my arse, feet and body with the middle part of the towel and my face with the end parts. I try and remember to change once a week and hang on a rail in between my about 3 showers a week.

My house is a home where people are free to use bath towels without restriction and then they hang them up to dty afterwards.Am I odd?

@Kitkat1968 and then they hang them up to dty afterwards

That's the issue. 5 towels and not one hung up to dry :)

jenny *suitable punishment would ensue - money, no wifi, no lifts to things - something that inconveniences her like she has inconvenienced someone else."

Tell me you are not serious.

To use a fucking towel?
Can I ask you do you have teenagers?

No kitcat1968, you are not odd, you are what the rest of us aspire to .

I'm curious to know how many people bum-floss now

I have never wiped my arse with a towel! It just dries as a stand around with the towel on lol

Wiping - no
Dabbing - yes

I have a big sticking-out bum & would wait for a week for it to dry naturally

If she's 14 and knows how to dirty that many towels at once, she sure as hell knows how to work the buttons on a washing-machine and dryer...

One towel at a time here which lasts a week or so.
Not even sure why people need a second towel just for their hair. Can you not use the same one?

I am always in awe of people who change towels daily, I can never work out how on earth they cope with the wash load (unless they farm them out to the laundrette or something).

Five of us in our house - bath sheets for DH and I, normal bath towels for DC, plus three hand towels (for 2 bathrooms and downstairs loo). It takes 3/4 washes to get all the towels clean, as the washing machine (even a large drum capacity one) could not take that number of towels in one go.

So if I changed towels every day I'd be doing 3 extra washes on top of normal clothes, bedding etc.

I would need to become full time laundry woman!

Never mind the ocd hygiene and wastefulness/planet trashing of it. How, literally how do you find the time?

In answer to the op-yes one towel for the week, one towel only, totally reasonable!

I can't believe how many neurotic people there are out there! As if you'll get some nasty disease from using a towel more than once.

We all have a bath towel each, DD and I have a hair towel turban thingy each. One bath mat, which gets hung up to dry after every shower/bath. All are washed at the weekend (on a boil wash - v important). There's absolutely no need to use towels more than that. As long as they dry between uses.

And 3 showers a day? Really?? There does seem to be a culture of being "over clean" now, what with "no touch" handwash (WTF is that all about??) and anti-bacterial cleaners and no shoes in the house etc etc. No wonder people are suffering so badly with allergies; they're not getting a chance to build up any immunity.

Rant over. As you were.

I too am I awe at the amount of washing people do. I genuinely don't have time to wash towels daily on top of usually washing.
It should be compulsory on threads like these for people to who are stainf how often they wash stuff, to also say how many hours they work as well. Between me and my husband we work around 80hours per week and have 2 preschoolers. Definitely no time for daily washing of towels.

Well I'm lucky as the machine does the washing for me, I'm not spending hours kneeling by a river beating it with rocks! It takes minutes to chuck a load on and absolutely zero effort on my part to either wash or dry it.