Bathmats!!!!

[Frogers]

I am of the opinion that you should dry you feet before placing your feet on the bathmat.

DP seeks to think the bathmat is there to partially dry his feet and then splodge around the rest of the bathroom leaving it soaking.

Give him his due he drys the floor (with his towel but that's another thread) but if I'm second in when I step out the shower it's onto a soggy cold bathmat.

Who is being unreasonable here?

[minatiae]

I get out of the bath or shower and then dry myself. Never occurred to me to dry myself while still in the bath or shower

To me the only purpose of the bathmat is to stand on while drying yourself

[nooka]

Perhaps there is a definitional issue here? My bathmat is essentially a small thick towel. It gets hung up after every use (does not live on the floor and isn't decorative) and dries quickly. Goes in the wash with the towels once a week. To overcome my wet dh issue I have a personal bathmat which matches my towels. Over time we evolved to an even better solution. dh and ds use the shower over the bath and dd and me use the shower in a separate room. dd has other faults but not the water all over the floor one

I don't live in the UK but my bathmat is fairly similar to this one from John Lewis

Perhaps the I must dry my feet before stepping on the bathmat have mats more like this one which looks to me like a bit of carpet.

On a side note I am now ridiculously excited to discover that John Lewis delivers to my country

[MyMorningHasBroken]

Wet room - no bathmat needed

[PitchFork]

but my bathmat isn't made out of towel?
it's made out of rug (sort of)

[Eolian]

Bathmats are there to step on with wet feet so you don't get the rest of the bathroom wet. Then hang up bath mat to dry. If the bath mat was designed just to protect your poor precious feet from touching the cold floor, it wouldn't be made out of TOWEL.

[Shodan]

I employ two different methods:

1. After a bath, I do the same as you, OP- dry one foot (and leg up to knee), step onto bathmat, dry other foot (on side of bath). Then towel mostly dry, put on bath robe, wrap hair in towel.
   
   
2. After a shower, sort of swoosh most of the water from my body with my hands, then towel dry, then step onto bathmat. All that's left on my feet leaves two faint footprints on the mat, which dries very quickly.
   
   However. DS1 seems to employ the following method:
   
   Have bath. Collect as much water as possible on body, then lurch out of bath in the general direction of the bathmat. Faff for a bit, then shake self vigorously in manner of dog to ensure that all walls, the floor and the ceiling are soaked. Use two towels to mop off one square inch of water, then liberally disperse the remainder on the floor. At the end of the process the bathmat should squelch, there should be puddles on the bathroom floor and wet footprints on the carpeted landing. Bonus points are awarded if one's mother enters the bathroom immediately afterwards in socks.
   
   I might look into a massive air drier, capable of drying even such a messy bugger...

[Chopstick17]

Bath mat is for stepping onto on exiting the shower. I then dry my feet while standing gone it. I'm done with the thick, plush looking bath mats because they take an age to dry out. Got a great one from Ikea that dries very quickly .

[MarklahMarklah]

The bath mat is to step out of the bath onto. That's what we use ours for.
Once baths have been had (or rather, showers) all towels and bath mats are air-dried. They all get washed together.

[Louise2092]

My partners solution to this:
Huge rug (as in living room rug) on the bathroom floor. He gets out at the end of the bath (away from the shower head) and i get out at the warm end onto a dry rug.

Thought a fluffy rug in the bathroom was weird at first but it seems to do the trick plus the floor is never cold anymore cause the rug covers 98% of it.

[ffon]

My children soak the bathmat and the bathroom but I think this is because the shower is over the bath with a small glass door that only stops water at one end of the bath. Vigorous washing of any kind sends water all over the bathroom.

I've been reminded to change bath mat though, thank you.

[mathanxiety]

The bath mat is for standing on while you dry. You should stand on it while drying and not wander around the bathroom until you're dry. That way you confine drips to the bath mat and keep the floor dry and safe. Then you hang up your bathmat and let it dry.

If your DH has a head of hair then it's possible he is managing to soak the bathmat by simply not squeezing out his hair while still in the shower, or combing it.

I told the DDs to squeeze their hair out properly before stepping onto the bath mat and it wasn't perpetually soaking after that.

Or does he rub drops of water off himself by hand instead of just towelling off?

[Ohyesiam]

I step straight onto the mat, it's quite fluffy and seems to cope. Also DP showers in the morning and ,I wait to the evening

[Willow2016]

"A tub mat or bath mat is usually an extension of a towel program, and used specifically right outside the tub to absorb water following a shower or bath."

Why would you dry before getting out the shower??? Isnt that what a bath mat is for, to step on when you get out the shower so you dont step out and soak the floor/slip on your butt? Then you can get dry? I couldnt be bothered with all that faffing while still in the shower, couldnt reach the towels anyway! Horses for courses.

Mind you my kids can use that and still flood the damm bathroom, cos they are too lazy to dry before leaving the bathroom and just drip all over it!

[BananaThePoet]

We have a wetroom and the water doesn't stay in the shower area anyway so a bathmat would be useless.
We get dry and then sweep the water back to the drain hole and then dry our feet on the towel outside the bathroom. I never go into the bathroom without wearing slippers or sandals as it is very likely to be damp in there shortly after being used.
The floor is all non-slip which does what it says wet or otherwise.

[minipie]

YABU

It goes like this:
Turn off shower and drip dry for a few seconds
Step onto bathmat
Reach for towel (not reachable from shower in our bathroom - shower door is a long way from any wall or rail)
Dry self then wrap towel around body
Walk off bathmat, feet are pretty much dry by now so no wet footprints

[Confusednotcom]

I have an ikea bath mat and step on it with wet feet but it dries itself quickly. Gets washed about weekly. I don't know how I'd dry my feet first, as the rest of my body is still damp and all the water runs south; the bath or shower floor is obvs wet and would be slippy.

[blitheringbuzzards1234]

I agree with you OP. I also dry myself all over with a wrung out flannel before using the towel as it stops it from getting over-wet (a habit from old camping days) and I do the same with my feet. We're all different.

[NorthernOwl]

This is is a pet hate of mine too! I always make sure that I dry myself down before I step out onto the map, but the other half soaks the place. I know people are wondering what the point of the bath mat is. I don't mind it getting a little wet, it's there to protect the floor after all, but it's when they absolutely soak it when they could dry off a little first.

It makes it worse that we live in a new build and for some weird reason the developers decided to put carpets in both bathrooms. Eventually, we're going to rip them out, but for now, the other half is always getting the carpet yet too. Carpets in bathrooms are the worst idea ever.

[Nanny51]

This one of the funniests post I've seen!! BATHMATS are for getting out of the BATH!?! Or you would drip water onto floor ( or carpet in my case) drying feet before stepping out is mad, and I am anal about feet being dried on towels.. I insist on them being put in wash after feet rub down ..ugh! But that's another post!! Ladies if you want a pretty dry mat for show then thats cool too, but you would have to have two then!!! Poor daddies, we are so horrible to them 😃😃😃😃

[anonymousbird]

toppling over...

[anonymousbird]

YABU!

Fluffy mat is to dry your feet! It then hangs up with towels on rail to dry for next shower, so not wet for long. I've never even thought about not getting the mat wet... how odd to risk topping over to dry your feet before leaving the shower!

[itstimeforchange]

What would you do if you only had a bath (like we do)? Wait ages for the water to go out before getting out, so that you could dry your feet first and save the precious bath mat?

Fwiw I think your DH is being totally U getting water everywhere, but to me a bath mat is for standing on straight out of the bath/shower. I wipe excess water off my feet using the top of the side of the bath but then straight onto the mat. It gets hung up after, and washed when necessary.

I absolutely hate it when I go on holiday to a self-catering place and there's no mat of any description. What am I supposed to do - step straight out onto the slippy floor?! And even if I dried my feet it'd still be cold and possibly splashed by water and therefore unsafe...

[Notmuchtosay1]

Good job OP's husband isn't in our house as the bathroom has a carpet. After 22 years the carpet has definitely seen better days though.

[Xmasbaby11]

What's the point of a bath mat if your feet are already dry? I'd dry myself off loosely but I can't see the point in putting towels on the floor to step onto. The bath mat is essentially a towel that lives on the floor, after all.

[surreygoldfish]

Ha ha so glad this happens in order households. YANBU although the wet bathroom gives me the rage more. I do step onto bath mat but also have towels immediately to hand. DH manages to puddle water everywhere - gives me the rage, particularly when I go back in with socks/ tights on which then get all wet. DH also thinks I am being unreasonable and that gives me the range more!