Bath towels - how many do normal people have?

[UsedtobeFeckless]

What's a sane towel total? One per each, two, twenty? I'm purging the pit of despair that is the airing cupboard and I've found the motherload, towel-wise ... How many do l chuck? My mum never throws anything out until it actually disintegrates and my sister has two so l've got no basis for comparison ... Help?

[Ameliablue]

Bath sheets are extra large towels.

[stuckinthehouse]

wtf are bath sheets?

[StarsAndStripes18]

2 adults and 5 children.

17 beach towels/bath sheets.
24 (ish) hand towels.
3 bathrooms.

7 kitchen towels (not tea towels).

[Verbena37]

Kids have about 4 bath towels each .
Have a nice set of two bath and two hand for guest room
DH and I have about 10/12.
Lots of hand towels, distinguished by colour for kitchen, loo, bathroom and our en suite.
Oh and I've got a couple of really pretty ones to use as shower mats to stand on instead of shower mats.

[shinyredbus]

10 bath towels between 2 adults, 1 toddler and 1 baby.

[theclick]

Two in rotation (one in laundry while other used or in linen cupboard) and a hair towel as I don't use the same towel for body and hair.

[LakieLady]

We have:

4 x bath sheet + hand towel each (2 of us) in the current bathroom colour scheme

6 x bath sheet + hand towels in the previous bathroom colour scheme, now used for overnight guests

about 10 bath sheet/hand towel odds and sods for using at the beach, taking camping etc

and loads of old grotty ones that have been demoted to dog towels

[NotMeNoNo]

Moving house. Have kept two best/matching bath and hand towels an two bed sets per person, plus few neutral spares. So liberating! !

[ephemeralfairy]

I've got three naice ones that also get given to guests, I've also got a couple of beach towels that go to the gym.
Four hand towels for bathroom sink plus one old one that gets wrapped round hair after shower.
DP has two disgusting towels that I never touch.

[YellowCrocus]

Minimal, I think!
About 6 bath sheets.
2 bath towels.
2 hand towels.
A hair dye towel and a couple of sports towels.

[DandelionAndBedrock]

backforgood hence why I said "assuming not" .

I didn't mean throw them out then buy more! I meant if you regret your decision, you can always buy more in the future.

[ExplodedCloud]

Umm. About a metre in height. Plus the mucky towels in the utility room.

[WashBasketsAreUs]

3 bath sheets,2 bath towels and 4 hand towels in the same colour for the upstairs bathroom plus 3 bath mats.
3 bath towels 2 hand towels and 2 bath mats in the same colour (but different to the upstairs colour) for the downstairs shower room.
4 bath towels (2 green 2 brown) for guests plus a couple of random ones.
I have NEVER had matching towels so when we did this house up I got matching ones, so grown up!
Oh and also 2 matching hand towels for the kitchen.
My airing cupboard has the towels folded in a certain way, in a particular order and hubby will jokingly say he's going up to rearrange the airing cupboard. He's not done it - yet. I'd LTB if he did ( taking my towels, neatly folded obvs, with me!)
I should get out more!

[anotherpoisonprince]

What is a bedroom only towel?

I have no idea. Everytime I visit my Gran she insists on giving me vast amounts of towels and linen.

[Haffiana]

TrickyD I completely agree about thin towels being far more effective than thick.

I recently found that John Lewis have a range of really old style waffle weave bath towels which have no pile at all. They are the BEST for drying bodies, and the BEST for hair because they are lovely and light. Just like Hammam towels but better at actual drying. I am going to buy some more of them and then my towel stash will need an alternate universe to fit in...

[bigbluebus]

I have far too many but was so grateful the night that our bedroom radiator sprung a leak and was emptying the entire dirty liquid content of our central heating system onto our bedroom carpet and through the ceiling below. I was able to avert complete disaster by using every single towel out of the airing cupboard whilst DH worked out how to drain the rest of the heating system!

[AStickInTime]

4 of us live here, we have 2 bath towels each (1 in use, 1 stored in that person's bedroom chest of drawers).

The children keep their used towel on their own bedroom radiator and the parents get to store theirs on the towel rail in the bathroom.

Swimming: one towel each stored in swimming bag under the stairs

About 4 hand towels stored in master bedroom with parent's towels.

[GrannyD57]

We had a good chuck out when we moved but DH snaffled some for unspecified use in the man cave. Just as well we didn't throw too many out in light of SIL's recent visit. She stayed for 4 days and we left 2 bath sheets and a hand towel in her room. She had several baths and we kept on finding towels hanging off door handles/on the floor. On the evening of day 3 she announced to her brother DH that she couldn't have a bath as she had "run out of towels". Apparently she needs 2 bath sheets after a bath (she is not a large woman) and best of all, she expected us to change all the towels, every day!

[IJustLostTheGame]

We have a cupboard full.
I was going to kon mari a load of them but then dd got a 24 hour projectile vomiting bug and I changed my mind

[RedBugMug]

2 for the dc.
about 20 hand towels
10 floortowels (slightly thicker instead of bath mats)
10 small guest towels

[Pengweng]

We have two each I think plus some smaller ones for my hair.
About 6 hand towels and then we each have a swimming towel.
Guests (my mum) just use what ever is in the cupboard.

[Kokusai]

2 bath sheets per adult used on rotation. I have two head towels used on rotation. A swim/beach towel each. About 4 guest towels. About 4 hand towels for the bathroom.

[mammyoftwo]

[TrickyD]

I have never bothered to count, but we seem to have quite a few.

My favourites are two big threadbare ones that I keep just for me. They are ancient and still have the name tapes that my mum sewed on when I took them off to university in 1963 and they were not new then.

Despite their thinness and the particularly transparent areas which I have darned, they still dry me far more efficiently than any of our fancy fluffy one which will cerainly not last anything like as long.

[LiviaDrusillaAugusta]

Three (live alone):

One that I leave on the worktop to use as an ironing board

One to sit at the base of the toilet to soak up the permanent leak

One to use