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!

This is the kind of thread that makes MN so entertaining. So batshit.

I never feel 100% dry from just towelling off, I need to get out the steamy bathroom and air dry a bit too. Don’t the hand-towellers feel like this?

And you know you could use a big towel, washed less often to have the same environmental impact?

Feel very sorry for the 13 year old who is starting to develop a man’s body and still having to dry himself with a towel the size of a postage stamp

Didnt mention washing it daily.

No, but your reason for using hand towels is that you can wash them after each use but taking longer to create a load.
Alternatively you could use bigger towels and wash them less frequently.
And if you are so upset about the water etc used to make fabric softener why aren’t you equally bothered by the water etc used to make all the towels you use?

Feel very sorry for the 13 year old who is starting to develop a man’s body and still having to dry himself with a towel the size of a postage stamp

Who is that?

No, but your reason for using hand towels is that you can wash them after each use but taking longer to create a load.
Alternatively you could use bigger towels and wash them less frequently.

Why is one better than the other when the outcome is the same?

And if you are so upset about the water etc used to make fabric softener why aren’t you equally bothered by the water etc used to make all the towels you use?

I was making a point. You use unnecessary fabric softener, which requires lots of water and energy to create, air miles to get it to your house and puts chemicals into environment. And yet you think you’re well placed to criticise anyone else’s necessary water use. Glass houses and stones. Why is your unnecessary damage to the environment fine but mine isn’t?

May why do you wash towels after every use, and why doesn't the teenage boy count, does he not wash?

If there is 5 of you that must be an extra load of washing every day. Can you not see that is why people don't wash towels after every use. Also the fact that they don't need washing after every use. They are drying you after you have had a bath/shower, so you should be clean.

Do you wash all clothes are single use, not talking underwear here, but trousers, jumpers etc? Bedclothes?

I have waterproof sheets. Didn't know you could get pillow protectors. Will definitely look into that.

You can. I used to sell them in a homewares store I worked in.

Who is that?

Your son. Who, by your own admission, would prefer a normal size towel but instead has a mother who weirdly withholds proper sized bath towels.

Have you ever asked him “DS, would you prefer a large towel and I’ll wash it once a week or hand towels washed each day”?

ILove you appear to be waaaay over invested in defending yourself in this thread, it's hilarious.

And I don't use fabric softener btw and I use Smol because it contains less chemicals. I might chuck my bath sheet in the wash at the weekend, must be a couple of weeks since it's been for a spin

You use unnecessary fabric softener, which requires lots of water and energy to create, air miles to get it to your house and puts chemicals into environment.

You use unnecessary towels which requires lots of water and energy to create, air miles to get it to your house.
Everything is chemicals.

Now... Who drinks bottled water?

What I don't understand is why you don't wash your hand towels once a week. That would be really environmentally friendly.

Brave there Lweji

Your son. Who, by your own admission, would prefer a normal size towel but instead has a mother who weirdly withholds proper sized bath towels.

He has a hand towel. (Sometimes a larger one if there’s some in the hot press or if he takes one off the banister that was drying overnight.) Not a postage stamp.

Have you ever asked him “DS, would you prefer a large towel and I’ll wash it once a week or hand towels washed each day”?

I’ve just asked him

His response: what do you mean?
Me: would you rather have a fresh hand towel every day or have a large towel and wash it once a week?
Him: so I’d be using the same towel every day?
Me: yes, but it would be a big towel instead of a hand towel.
Him: eww. No thanks.

you appear to be waaaay over invested in defending yourself in this thread, it's hilarious.

Oh, I wonder why. Are the accusations of me being insane, mad, neurotic, also hilarious?

You use unnecessary towels which requires lots of water and energy to create, air miles to get it to your house.
Everything is chemicals.

Yes so we’re both as bad as each other. Aren’t we?

So you have passed on your bad habit of washing towels every day on to your son. Maybe you should ask what he thinks the environmental impact is on washing towels every day

Yes my evil plan to brainwash children into using clean towels has worked. Next up- world domination.

No I actually think it's quite disturbing that you've passed this on to your son. Maybe you should seek some counselling for your issues...

Yep, i’ll do just that 😂

It’s an actual other world here. Not reflective of real life at all.

Only on MN is a clean towel “skanky” (logic behind that one?) and indicative of mental illness.

I would have thought in the real world most people do not wash towels daily

If that’s what it pleases you go think then go ahead, you can even pretend I don’t wash them daily if it makes your days a bit easier to get through.

ILove the lady further up that has said her daily bed changing is a mental illness andshes under treatment for it means what exactly? She realises itsan issue and has sort treatment. Not laughed about it trying to make out it's normal...

Ffs my iPad is trying to make me look illiterate 🙄

the lady further up that has said her daily bed changing is a mental illness andshes under treatment for it means what exactly?

Her daily bed changing is not a mental illness. It is a symptom of a mental illness. Someone else with the same illness as that poster will have different symptoms. I’m also not sure what your point is, I don’t change my bed daily. But yet I have been called mad, insane, neurotic and probably more that I can’t be bothered to scroll back and look for.

Having a clean towel to dry yourself after a shower is perfectly normal. Do you seriously think if I went to my GP and asked for help because I use a fresh towel daily she would refer me on for counselling? Really? Answer that honestly.

I suspect you probably have more issues but I won't speculate.

And no having a clean towel every day is not normal after a shower, not remotely normal. And I say that as someone who's been previously diagnosed with ocd.

I'm reading this thread lying on my bed wrapped in a fresh bath sheet with my hair in a fresh turbaned bath towel after a lovely hot bath trying to figure out how I'd manage only using one hand towel 😱

Disclaimer: I will air these towels & use them for my shower tomorrow morning.