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!

It’s dead time though because I would otherwise be MNing or something to pass time while DS was in the bath.

I'd 1000000 times be MNetting than folding or gathering towels. Or reading a good book. Or chatting with DS. Or catching up with friends. Or folding other laundry. Do taxes, plan meals, think about the meaning of life. All better.

It’s dead time though because I would otherwise be MNing or something to pass time while DS was in the bath.

Mine are very small so also need me there. I use it as an opportunity for a (more elaborate than strictly necessary) skincare routine.

I can just imagine DH's face if I told him he had to dry himself with a hand towel, all 6'4'' of him, and DS who isn't much smaller.

There is a reason they are called hand towels

I'd 1000000 times be MNetting than folding or gathering towels. Or reading a good book. Or chatting with DS. Or catching up with friends. Or folding other laundry. Do taxes, plan meals, think about the meaning of life. All better.

I do chat with DS while I’m doing it. I’m right there outside the bathroom door (it’s open), I MN at various stages throughout my day when I get a quiet moment. I don’t need to fill every spare moment with MNing. I read in the evenings before bed. I catch up with friends once DS is in bed (6:30- 7:00 isn’t a great time to ring people with small children for a catch up.) I do fold laundry during that time. Taxes (yawn) is little as I have to. Plan meals takes ten minutes once a week. I do it while dinner is cooking some evening. Meaning if life- got it all sussed

There is a reason they are called hand towels

Yeah, for drying hands. And bath towels are for drying baths, right?

No-one in this house is over 5’2”. Yet.

Do none of you ever get, erm, bodily fluids on towels? When you're drying your bits? I always wash adult bath towels after one use, might recycle the kids' ones.

No. I have managed not to piss or shit on towels to date and my fanny isn’t so leaky that it can’t be trusted with a towel.

As for drying yourself with scratchy hand towels. I understand that yes you can do that, but why would you? I’m sure you could use scraps of sackcloth if you wanted to, or just hand around naked.

As for drying yourself with scratchy hand towels. I understand that yes you can do that, but why would you?

Are you asking why I dry myself with towels that haven’t been coated in fabric softener and tumble dried?

Christ mine have easily gone a month without a wash before

No. I’m asking why you use scratchy hand towels. Not the same thing.

Anyway, I use a ‘suitable for towels’ fabric softener on my bath sheets.

I don’t use scratchy hand towels.

What a waste in the production of all your unnecessary fabric softener and all those chemicals going into the water.

There is a lot of madness on this thread (even for Mumsnet!). I can understand different people being comfortable with certain levels of laundering by using a hand towel to dry yourself is a bit mad. I use a bath sheet on my body and a bath towel on my hair. Hand towels for hands only. We use our own towels (the kids sometimes share) and neither me or DP change our towels more than every few weeks. I can’t even remember the last time I changed the bedsheets. Before Xmas certainly!

Oh my, we must be buggering the environment completely as in summer we have up to 24 beds to change and towels to wash each week

Just to step away from the towel stuff for a second if I may... I don't understand why loo brushes are so hideous if you clean them regularly? How do you scrub the limey stuff at the bottom without one?

by using a hand towel to dry yourself is a bit mad.

Please explain how it is mad to use a piece of fabric that does the job and doesnt mean washing more fabric than was necessary? Please explain how it is mad to use less?

You say you don’t use ‘scratchy hand towels’ but you also say: I find “rough” towels far more efficient at getting you dry
So which is it?

Also I refuse to be lectured on the environmental impact of a cup of fabric conditioner by someone who washes towels after one use.

I have three sets of towels and wash them after about a week. I can fit both sets in one wash so I wash towels about every other week.

Because there are towels that are made for the purpose of drying bodies rather than just hands, and the mad bit is washing them every day.

I feel like I need to invite a load of you to my house and see my hand towel after I’ve dried myself. It isn’t even sopping! When I wash my hair I squeeze the water out, then squeeze it with the hand towel and there is still dry parts to dry my face and body! How wet are you people that you need so much towel fabric?

Well I don't do all that laundry for fun!

5 dc aged between 4 and 12. 4 of them in nappies at night that keep leaking and 2 toilet training.

Wash 1: one duvet
Wash 2: other duvet
Wash 3: 2 pillows
Wash 4: sheets, duvet covers, pillow cases, sometimes towels, clothes
Wash 5: sometimes I do another load of clothes.

I'm open to any suggestions on how to reduce that or of any recommendations of nappy brands that don't leak. I've tried them all I think apart from cloth nappies.

How wet are you people that you need so much towel fabric?

I’m not wet, just fat.

I'm open to any suggestions on how to reduce that

Sell some of the children?

Why do you let your children use proper towels for swimming but not for baths? Why don't you send them with hand towels?

You say you don’t use ‘scratchy hand towels’ but you also say: I find “rough” towels far more efficient at getting you dry
So which is it?

It’s rough, like I said. Not scratchy. Rough as in not fluffy soft.

Also I refuse to be lectured on the environmental impact of a cup of fabric conditioner by someone who washes towels after one use.

And vice versa

Because there are towels that are made for the purpose of drying bodies rather than just hands,

They’re all made of the same stuff, why does it matter if I use a smaller one? It gets me dry. There is no madness in using just as much as you need and no more. Surely all you “think of the environment” folk would be in support of that?

and the mad bit is washing them every day.

No that poster said it was mad to use a hand towel to dry myself. Didnt mention washing it daily.

Why do you let your children use proper towels for swimming but not for baths? Why don't you send them with hand towels?

Because they each have their own football team towel that they want to bring to lessons. DS(9) sometimes prefers his giraffe towel. The larger towels are better for getting changed under when in public. They aren’t getting changed in public when it home.

There's me and 4 children here, although ones a teenage boy so he doesn't count.

And I wash towels after every use, I thought everyone did

ellie have you got waterproof sheets and pillow protecters on all the beds?