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?

A 30 wash for towels is really just minging!

Why? I assume washing powder is used. That'll do the trick.

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

I love how towels can get to diesel and meat. So if we all ate plants, the planet would thrive?? Go on spell that logic out to me again. Diesel, so inform me how much worse that is than electric or petrol? And no I don't hoe anything.

Fleetwoodstorms. I suspect like a lot of people as referenced on this thread we've not computing that towels are drying clean bodies so in theory need washing a lot less than one seems to think.

Or they struggle to get them dry so they start to smell.

I wash my hands a lot in the kitchen so the towel gets damp quickly, plus used to mop up counter and floor spillages, and any number of other things.

We each have our own towel for bathing but shared hand towels. Kids bath towels changed every 2-3 along with hand towels, adults bath towels probablywashed 1-2 times per week

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We all have our own - hot wash every 2 days.

We share, sounds a bit pain in the arsey to have individual ones to me. Mind, I know the kids wouldn't stick to theirs and DH would 'forget' or whatever so maybe if your house is more organised than mine it works

Why do you ask OP?

We share towels. Probably there will be three or four on the go, and go on the banister or radiator to dry between uses. Anyone uses any that are dry, or semi-dry. I probably wash them on a 60 degree wash every 10 days or so.
Any visitors get their own pile of special towels which get washed after their visit.

All have our own bath towels here. DH dries himself vigorously, there's no way I'd want to use his. We tend to hang them in the same place, so no mixing up. Shared hand towels. Do them all on a hot wash weekly along with dish cloths, tea towels etc.

I seem to visit houses a few times a year where I use the toilet, wash my hands, only to discover there's no obvious hand towel and it appears that they all share a towel. At my cousin's house they've always had several hand towels, making me think they get used at as actual towels. Honestly I frequently dry my hands with tp, requiring a 2nd flush.

We have our own marked by them being different colours. Always have always will. No one ever shares. I don’t know how it started but now just total habit

I wash them twice a week or so
On HOT too!

Bat why is it pain in the arsey?
DH dark grey, DS pale grey ,DD white,me pale pink fluffy
How is that difficult ?

I would find it revolting to share towels.
I cant believe people actually do this !

Towels coded with a coloured hanging ribbon

MN is a parallel universe sometimes.

Share towels, washed when needed, don't keep track of how often, both still alive and well.

DH and I share a bath towel and hand towel and twoDCs have same in their bathroom although both will often use ours if they use our shower.

They get washed once a week.

why is it pain in the arsey?

Well it would be for me as basically, noone would stick to it and I feel t would be just another thing that people think I 'nag' about when I remind them for the 25th time that the blue towel is theirs, not the green. Or something

I don't see how its revolting to share towels. Assuming people was themselves properly I really don't see the big deal. You are a drying your clean body. Not sharing a towel to like, wipe your arses after a shite or something.

We share all towels but not between uses if that makes sense.

I’m quite shocked that people are sharing them tbh. I’d probably happily share with the kids if I had to but my partner can be quite vigorous with his drying and I just imagine all these skin cells all over it. Yuck.

Cupboard full of towels. Take then as needed and they're washed after use.

Bathroom has hand towels on the rack to use as needed.

Help yourself from the household pile and keep it for yourself for a week or whatever. Hang it on the ladder radiator but also towel stands in bedrooms. Single hand towel in bathroom, kitchen and utility room; get changed as required. Pile of flannels which get chucked into a net bag on the back of the bathroom door after use to be washed whenever I do the towels, same with the crocheted cotton pads I use instead of cotton wool which have their own net bag.

Shared hand towels. We all have our own bath towels. I don't want to wipe my face on a towel that's been around someone else's genitals. My own are fine though.

Oh yeah, and they're supposed to be drying clean bodies but I'm not convinced that my kids are as clean as I'd like them to be after a shower.

Well this thread has been an eye opener. I have Turkish towels, bought abroad and only ever used as beach towels/sunbed covers etc. I love a thin towel and hate fluffy towels. Had never realised their use as day to day bath towels. Where have I been !? What an imagination fail. Thanks pp.

We all share. They get washed once a week or so.