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?

We just use towels, it comes from years back with no drier and thick mats either on airers or worst radiators.

And I am usually the second showerer and I find no problem with the wetness of my mat

This is hilarious, balancing on one foot drying feet in bath so the bath mat doesn't get wet . Do people really do this

I might try to ring him out awesomeness

Isn't the purpose of a bath mat to have somewhere to put your wet feet?

I always get straight on to the mat. Drying your feet while standing in the wet shower is like trying to get sand off your feet while standing on the beach.

It's there to dry your feet as you step out of the shower... Sorry!

Isn't the purpose of a bath mat to have somewhere to put your wet feet?

no, the purpose is not to get frozen feet and to stop yourself from doing a feet-in-the-air slapstick fall.

Standing on one leg in a slippery bath to dry your feet, just so you don't put a wet foot on the bath mat?

When I was a child my dad used to yell at us for leaving wet footprints on the bathmat. Even then I thought "but that's what it's for! "
Now I get out of the bath and slap my wet feet on it joyfully because I can

I agree with you OP but I think we are both being unreasonable.
I really hate the wet bath mat that my DP leaves me. I've said in the past can you not get the bath mat so wet but I know this sounds unreasonable - as this is what they're for!

I step on to the bottom edge of my towel from the shower so always dry my feer first before the rest of my body and then the bath mat doesn't get wet.

YABU, that's what bathmats are for! So what if it gets soggy, it dries.

But if you dry yourselves off in the shower, don't you get pubes everywhere?

I step out. wet onto the bathmat. And we change them once a week or so, and hang them up between uses so they don't stay soggy. They're the towel type ones, not the really shaggy ones. If it was a shaggy one then I would find it really gross!

Only problem we've had is that a mouse got in the house and made it his business to climb up onto the bathmat and shit on it.

I do what your DP does.
My DP agrees with you though.

But if you dry yourselves off in the shower, don't you get pubes everywhere?

just in the shower. so they can be hosed away.

anyway. I have to dry myself in the shower before I open the curtain or I get c-c-c-cold.

My DH is the same. I just cannot understand how he gets the whole (small) bathroom so soaking wet. It's not just just the bath mat, but the floor too and not just a few drops, but proper puddles
When I use the shower, the only wet you'll see is 2 slightly wet footprints.
I also don't understand how he gets his towels as soaking wet as he does either. He produces 2 soaking wet towels vs my 1 slightly damp towel...

Well fuck me. I thought DH was the only one who farted around balancing on one leg drying every nook and cranny so as not to wet the sacred bathmat.

Now it appears there are others who do this bizarre ritual. Why?

A bathmat is to keep the floor dry, not the frigging bathmat.

Me and DS get out if shower and bath, wet. Stand on bath mat, dry ourselves.

YABU. The drill here is: switch off shower (over bath) or pull plug and wait till bath is almost drained. While still standing in bath, grab towelling robe (and turban if hair was washed) from door hook, and put on. Grab towel and sling over shoulders. Step out onto absorbent bathmat, then into mule slippers placed right in front of mat. Tidy up (including hanging mat up to dry) then move to bedroom to dry off and dress.

Result - no wet bathrom. Mat dries on rail, is replaced and washed regularly.

I think there's a lot to be said about bathroom configurations

Have shower.
Step out onto bathmat.
Dry self with towel.
I've just done it , rather simple really.

Minisoks has it.

Squeeze out flannel, quickly rub of excess, step out onto mat to dry off properly.

No sopping wet anything.

No bath mat here.