Dh wiping dirty mouth on towel aibu?

[mintyrage]

Ok, I have namechanged as I have told dh that I am going to ask this question.

My dh brushes his teeth, gets lots of toothpaste round his mouth and then wipes it on a towel.
I have asked him many many times to wash his face and then just dry it on the towel.

Who is being unreasonable?

Ew. He is. Who wants to use a towel that's got someone else's dried old toothpaste smeared on it?! Unless it's his own towel...

Does this really warrant a thread?!

No, just the towel that is in the bathroom for everyone to dry their hands on!!

Your DH.

Wash your mouth and then pat dry with a towel.

My OH does this too! Drives me mad!

I change the small towel in the bathroom daily, but only just before it's my turn to use it.

He IBU. He's obviously at the sink anyway, he should rinse his face before he dries it!

@GreatDuckCookery looks like it does

Tell him to get his own towel, and not to use the communal one.

On the bright side, he is cleaning his teeth. So he can't be all bad.

Wouldn’t bother me. But then I use the hand towel for face drying and wrapping my hair up.

May I suggest using the towel to wipe something suspect looking like chocolate..or marmite. It may cure him of his disgusting habit.

Ps if my husband still did it even after me mentioning it I would be fuming.

Why would he want to wipe his face on the towel that everyone uses after they've used the loo. Gross

Meh. Have a towel each.

@nowifi I didn't realise there would be others who truly felt my pain!!

@garbagegirl I have asked him so many tines not to do it, drives me potty!!

I feel your pain. I showed the thread to DH and he denies that he has ever done this.

@GreatDuckCookery something doesn't have to be breaking news to warrant a thread.

Of course not 9am but there's breaking news and there's threads like this.

@GreatDuckCookery this is aibu, I was asking if i, or my dh, am unreasonable. It is a bit of fun, and once he reads the thread he might stop doing it (I know he won't stop, I'm fooling myself)

What's a towel for if it's not for drying your face? I wouldnt have any issues with this. It always puzzles me when people complain about sharing towels with their nearest and dearest. Presumably you share more intimate things than toothpaste.

Sorry OP. Ok fwiw I would give him his own towel.
Life's too short.

@Bestseller he isn't drying a clean face though, he is wiping toothpaste from his face onto the towel.

Yes, toothpaste. There's nothing offensive about toothpaste

No I wouldn't care. It must be a bit stressful to live with some who has such different standards. An ongoing source of strife.

I do this, as do the DCs. Cannot see the issue. Towel gets changed regularly.

It will bleach the colour out of your towel. Unless it’s a white towel.