AIBU to say the washing sheets/towels and toilet brushes argument may have been solved...?

[WineAndTiramisu]

Saw this today and immediately thought of all the arguments on here over the years about washing towels, bed sheets and the horror of toilet brushes!

amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/21/self.html

I'm definitely more dirty than the cleaners verdicts!

'I'm not a germaphobe but....', is kinda the equivalent to 'I'm not a racist but'....face it, if you wash towels after every use you're a germaphobe

These threads are reliably hilarious.

Bringing god into it always adds that special something I feel.

This thread has made me realise how many bonkers people are out there! It has really opened my eyes, totally bizarre!

Thanks incredibly

face it, if you wash towels after every use you're a germaphobe

^official diagnosis right there. I reckon that’s excatly what the GP will say when I tell her I was towels daily. She’ll recognise the symptoms immediately and cry “you’re a germaphobe!”

Which is absolutely nothing at all like being a fucking racist for crying out loud. What is wrong with you?

The mould thing is a just a fact it does mot mean that I am a nutter, I am just stating a fact

Not

Now that someone has declared that God is interested in towels, I'm formally seeking an alliance with @ILoveMaxBondi. We may not agree on towel usage (in fact, we would radically disagree), but I'd rather have a chum with a sense of humour any day.

Before this thread turns even nastier to Maxi let's please leave it here.
Otherwise I'll pray to St Anthony to find a load of spiders to dark everyone's washing

I've been washing towels only very occasionally for the past few decades and it has never made me or my children ill. What are people frightened of??!!

All this talk of laundry is making me confused as there is another thread I'm on about an ironing board that has vanished into thin air : www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3513499-AIBU-to-ask-you-to-explain-missing-ironing-board?pg=1&order=

Posters have suggested that the op pray to St Anthony to find her lost ironing board. Hence me mentioning him on here.

Nah, sorry, washing after every use is neurotic and wasteful. No benefits whatsoever- cos if there were, loads of us on this thread would be dead from under washing, as it were.
It's your preference, fine, but it's unnecessary and environmentally unfriendly.

@ILoveMaxBondi round of applause for you! You've handled yourself brilliantly. Like pp says, we drastically disagree on towel usage but you've made several very well made points and inspired me to wash my towels last night

thank you bianca.

and inspired me to wash my towels last night

my plan for world domination begins to take shape.

Northern I will give you wasteful, unnecessary and environmentally unfriendly (so are your laundry habits BTW, whatever they are) but neurotic? No.

I quite like the idea of only drying off with a handtowel if it weren't for my hair.

I sit on the jacuzzi seat in the bath after the shower as it is for a couple of minutes, and think a handtowel would take off the rest just fine (I like to airdry on the bed in summer).

But then I have taken the environmental step recently of stopping using soap or shower gel, so I'll probably get burned as a witch.

(For those curious, my routine is shampoo and conditioner in the shower, with face scrub 2-3 times a week. I use hand soap still, and deodorant, but in the shower just give myself a good scrub with a flannel soapless. No smell, no dirt, and no suds down the drain.)

Yet again we hear the "You don't live in a Yurt, walk everywhere and wash in the river so you can't criticise my washing my towels every day" argument. If you can call it an argument. The OP obviously doesn't give a toss about the environment and, yes, is neurotic about hygiene. And why she uses a full size towel but won't allow a teenager to deserves a while other thread. I predict some interesting family dynamics in the future.

Demented pixie..... Exactly..

What the hell are you on about, tonsilss?

I think tonsils is a bit confused.

Tonsilss it’s not the OP that uses hand towels it is another poster, and to be fair to her she practices what she preaches so uses a hand towel as well, not just her children.

Ilovemaxi - I never said it was like being a racist. You misread my post.

Reading comprehension, C-

You likened someone (me!) saying they weren’t a germaphobe to someone who is a racist. That’s nasty.

What they meant is when people say ‘I’m not x but.......’ followed by an example of the very thing they said they weren’t.
I’m not being funny but......
I’m not afraid of spiders but......
I’m not a clean freak but...........

They weren’t likening towel washing to racism.

Chester I know exactly what they meant, and they could have used any of those phrases you used and more but no, they chose to liken it to being a racist. Low.