To think you bring towels with you?

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Have a Swimming pool in the garden, so over the summer we invite dc's friends over each week and they go in the pool. Some of their friends don't bring towels, just their swimming costumes and goggles, so they then ask me to provide them one of my own towels for them. Aibu to think that you should send your child with their swimming costume AND a towel? I know you can forget but some of their friends are always not bringing a towel with them, which is adding to my washing pile. Especially love it when they leave the soaking wet towel around the garden, leaving me to go pick it up at the end of the day.

Petty thing to be annoyed about I know, but some days I have no towels left! Should stop inviting the ones who turn up with no towel!

I have a pool (not uk) and if people come over to use the pool, they either bring their own towel, use one of the not-cleaned-after-every-wash pool towels, or they sun dry. Most people sun dry. Like hell would I be issuing new towels and washing them after one use.

@AnnieOH1 Mind... blown. Just moved back to the UK from abroad and still kitting out the house. I had no idea we could pick up a ton of cheap towels at our local Ikea.

@OP: That much washing would seriously annoy me and if anyone invited me/bump to their pool, it wouldn't occur to me to NOT take a towel, even if they then provided one!

We have a pool (common in our US town) and most people know the drill and bring a towel, but I have a massive stash and can easily accommodate if someone forgets. Same with goggles—I think we have 20 pairs of the damn things.

Sometimes they bring towels but often not. My kids used to grab a stack of big towels and drag them out to the garden but I bought a stack of cheap holiday type towels which are thinner - they can all go in a single wash when they've gone home.

If it's the same kids all the time the parent probably thinks you are happy to provide so explain you would like them to bring their own towel in future. Like you I prefer people to bring them to save my laundry but I do have a stack of old ones I give out if necessary that don't necessarily get washed after every use, they dry in the sun on the pool fence.

I'm in Australia and have a pool.

We have been in this house for 5 years and usually have other kids in our pool most days over spring, summer, early autumn.

No kid has ever forgotten a towel.. Its just the norm here. They know also to dry off before coming inside. Most parents send over a plate of fruit as a thank you for putting up with all the screaming kids!