Bathroom towels. Aibu?

[Lou780]

How does everyone handle bathroom towels? Does everyone in family have their own towel? Or do you all share whatever towels are in the bathroom?

I rub my fairy and bum with the towel to make sure it's proper dry

But your fairy is clean after the shower so why would that make the towel mucky enough to need a wash?

Towels coded with a coloured hanging ribbon. We each have our own set. All towels washed twice weekly.
Hand towels in lavatories and kitchen changed daily if used.
Guest towels (apart from children’s) colour coded too.
Pool and beach towels brightly coloured.
Dog has microfibre towels.

Share, way too lazy to have individual ones

Shared, washed every other day, guests have their own.

On holiday, in a hotel we re-use (there’s usually a sign saying leave on floor if you want replaced).

In self-catering, we wash our own in the provided washer dryer as and when we feel the need.

I'm not a germaphobe just don't like the fact I rub my fairy and bum with the towel to make sure it's proper dry

You shouldn't take your fairy in the shower, their wings get ruined really easily. If you do I think you should give her her own towel.

Separate bath towels and flanels, share hand ones. All changed regularly and given hot pre wash.

Purple, how do you put up with a husband who only showers once a week? We aren't living in post war Britain with rationing. Everyone has plenty of hot water now.

We all have our own bath towels, share a hand towel, they get washed once a week. I think it depends on the climatewhere you live really, though? Where I live it's very dry (not UK) but if you live in a damp or humid climate they'll need washing more often.

I don't really have a system.
I just wash a towel if it looks like it needs it, and flannels more often.

Oyster 😂
Oh gawd the I smoke a 100 fags,bottle feed and share a towel which my DH wipes his hairy arse on and we are NEVER ill brigade have arrived .
Holy shitballs Impetigo would go round like no ones business !

We take a bath sheet from the cupboard ( no colour coding for us) the first one that comes to hand. Keep the towel, hang it over the radiator in our rooms, until it needs changed which is entirely up to the individual but normally once a week. Share a hand towel in the bathroom. Was tempted to say we changed the towels once every few months just to get mntrs going ballistic

@Oysterbabe 😂😂😂

@FleetwoodStorms it doesn't it's just the thought of knowing what I've done with that towel to me it's dirty and also to me it's like getting out the bath and putting clean knickers on then wearing them the next morning just wouldn't do it

I just provide a large pile of towels in the family bathroom. Once a towel has been used it is placed on the heated radiator to dry. It's up to the individual whether they use a new one or reuse one. No towel is likely to be used more than twice.
We do have a body dryer as our bathroom is also fitted out as a care suite for my son but we don't tend to wipe intimate areas with towels anyway, they dry pretty well on their own.

I have a bit of a towel obsession. We have loads and they're in the bathroom cupboard in size order with hand towels on the right and bath towels/sheets and beach towels on the left, also try to colour order where possible. I do have diagnosed OCD and one of my issues is with order so I know that this is not normal. Drives my family crazy.

Dp and I use the colour towels. Dc have their own character towels and we share a hand towel which is changed daily.
All towels are washed after one day.

I realise how unusual that is after reading this thread and feel embarassed now.
To me it's normal. I do have a lot of washing as adopt the same principle with most of our clothes too.

Runs and hides >>>>

All the towels in the bathroom are up for grabs, they are all black and white ones but they used to me just for me/dh
Handtowels hang on the sink and I put a fresh one up most days.

Each child has their own towels, and that is the best way to stop the towels going missing/being left in a festering pile as they soon realise that using a stinky damp towel is Not Much Fun. They have/had towel stands in their rooms, and we have a large towel radiator in the bathroom. I leave a laundry basket under the sink for any towels to be washed,

I tend to use a towel a couple of times, as pp said, wrapped about me as I waft about means they don't get as wet or dirty as dh's....he seems to hold water like a damp anorak and any he has used are far too wet just to need airing off!

All towels washed at 60, and out on the line, or tumbled if weather is bad.

A 30 wash for towels is really just minging!

@SooticaTheWitchesCat... exactly this

No wonder the planet is under duress burning fossil fuels for electricity like nobody's business. All this ridiculous washing of towels. I am not a green warrior by any means but starting to appreciate there are the wastrels and the stoics. Drying yourself with a new towel everyday does not make you cleaner or a better person.

@FlamingGalar

Shared towels in our house but once used they are then used a couple times by the same person ( dried in that persons bedroom and then bought back to bathroom for subsequent uses if that makes sense). I have a basket of rolled up clean towels in each bathroom for everyone to help themselves to when needed.

This ^ in our household too. I have enough bath sheets that we never go short.

We al share but now I'm thinking about having individual ones!

@GrassIsntGreener don't, such a waste

We just use whatever. I have some favourites and some I never use. We dry them over the bannister then I wash them after every few uses.

We just share and they get washed after 1 or 2 uses.

Obvs guests/fancy guests get a nice posh pile to themselves.

I think some people are still at cross purposes. Some of the sharers actually mean they all use the same towel someone else has used without washing in between, some mean that all the household towels are fair game for everyone, but not that they share used ones. I think the first type of sharing is a very unpleasant prospect, but can't see why every member of the family needs an exclusive set either, seems excessive.

Ours are washed once a week but to all those self righteous posters who are condemning those who wash them more often- I hoe you don't eat meat or drive a diesel as you are doing far far more damage than anyone washing towels too frequently.