I can't be the only person who does this...

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Help settle something for DH & me. DH is laughing at me again (before anyone jumps on accusing DH of emotionally abusing me - this is lighthearted!) because when I get out of the shower or bath I like to sit wrapped in my towel until I'm dry. I hate rubbing myself dry with a towel and would rather sit for 10mins until I dry naturally. DH thinks I am utterly odd for doing this and thinks that everyone else in the world dries themselves with a towel "the normal way".

Tell me I'm not alone in this!

I generally shower in the evenings so I always air dry - I shower, wrap up in a towel and go up to my bedroom. I then spend a lovely 20/30 minutes just relaxing on my bed, maybe watching a bit of telly or reading my book before slipping in to toasty PJs (that have been warming on the radiator while I relaxed) and getting in to bed.

if I need to shower in the morning it's usually more of a rush so I usually have a quick rub down with a towel to get rid of most of the water before I get out of the shower but then I wrap up in my towel and spend a few minutes airdrying while I get everything sorted for the day - fix my hair, chuck a load of washing in etc

I like to dry off naturally too. Pre baby I loved having a leisurely long shower then sitting on the bed reading or watching tv for a good half hour before getting dressed. My DH however, dries off in the bathroom which I think is madness as surely you can’t get dry in a steamy bathroom?

You're not alone. I do this too.

I think you all must have very warm homes? If you tried to dry naturally in my house you would be waiting a long time, you'd bloody freeze!
I have to dry while still in the shower, its too cold to get out wet.

Snap mscherry! Towel on, dressing gown over top, do my makeup, dry my hair, towel off and get dressed.

I feel that for the most part this seems to be a female thing. A few posters have mentioned their DH/DPs drip drying, but the majority seem to suggest their male OHs towel dry while they sit to dry.

My DH also manages to rub off a great many hairs in the process of towel drying which he then needs to pick up off the bathroom floor. I feel that air/drip/naturally-drying would result in less hair-loss and therefore less cleaning up afterwards

as we dont use central heating i like to wrap up come downstairs for a warm and dry by fire my skin is too sensitive to be rubbed

I do this and stay wrapped in the towel while blow drying my hair. If it is a quick shower without hair washing then I just dry quickly with the towel. I do prefer to air dry though!

I do that. I sit on my bed and take ten minutes on my phone to just chill out.

Do all you air driers have to do creases with a towel (arse crack, under boobs etc) - how do they adequately air dry?! How can you not feel dry after rubbing with a towel

DH has always done this but I'm a fairly recent convert. Hadn't realised how much I hated drying with a towel until I stopped! I do other stuff while I dry (although I don't bother with a towel, just wander round in the buff til I air dry) moisturise my face, comb my hair etc so the times not wasted and I'm not bored. My skin seems to be getting more sensitive and itchy as I get older so i can do without aggravating it uneccessarily

I sit on the bed to air dry. Read my book, play on my phone, sometimes have a nice cosy catnap.

FWIW my thermostat is set to 15, so my house is not Sahara-like. You carry the residual heat from the shower, your own body heat helps dry, and the towel gets the drips as you put it on. Plus I run warm.

I never rub. I sit in towel for the best part of an hour doing hair and makeup before getting dressed so I’m fully dry by that time.

I do it too! I can’t be bothered to carefully dry individual toes like the DH does.

I'm the same but while im drying I'm normally doing my hair and then makeup and by the 20 mins that takes I'm dry

Have been known to dry myself with a hairdryer before.

I do your version if I've had a bath. Usually because the water is so hot I'm practically cooking :)

The 'regular' version if I've had a shower and need to get ready.

I have come back to say I have NEVER had athletes foot, or any damp cracks and am an confirmed wafter/air dryer/NON towel rubber!

and yes...out of shower, wrap in towel and or robe, then there.s plenty to be doing until I am dry...face cream, teeth, lenses, jewels on, sort laundry into piles, hide dh's socks, faff about shaking bed clothes about....all sorts of things to do!

Me too! Only bits I actively dry are armpits and bits down there. Everywhere else just dries as I sit wrapped in as towel or bathrobe for 10 minutes while I sort my extremely annoying and uncooperative hair out.

I wrap myself in towel, dressing gown over the top to hold towel on and sit down to do my make up.

You are right!

I don't do it, nor does DH, but I have seen a few people do it, and it's not rare.

I am a "drip dryer". I agree that swimming is crap as i still feel damp after rubbing dry.
My DH rubs himself dry and thinks I'm mad and lazy with it too. Nothing like a good sit in a towel

think you all must have very warm homes?

Well yes, as it happens, I do have a warm home. Isn't that relatively normal though?

If you moisturize your body, when do you put the lotion on? Does drip drying eliminate the need for moisturizer?

I do this too. I'll have a cuppa and sit wrapped up in my towel for a good 15 mins or so.
I love to swim but hate the getting dry and dressed but afterwards!

I rub my arms and legs and let my torso dry wrapped in a towel