To get the bath mat wet

[LadyinRead]

Please help me settle this long running-dispute.

In my world, a bath mat is there for the purpose of dripping on after I step out of the shower/bath. So yes it gets wet. I then hang it up to dry after I'm finished standing on it.

Acoording to someone else, I am supposed to dry myself with a flannel before exiting the bath/shower so the bath mat remains dry.

No, you're very unreasonable. You towel dry before stepping onto the bath mat which is there to absorb the last vestiges of damp. A soaking bath mat is an abomination and very very wrong.

I dry the most water off in the shower with my towel then step on bath mat. (But my shower is pretty roomy, so no problem)

*the mat

My husband believes you should dry yourself with a flannel before getting out. How towel is never wet. Weirdo. Although he does acknowledge he is weird, he got it from his father who was in the navy, it’s now too ingrained to stamp out of him

I really do despair

I use a clean bath mat to step in to the shower then my husband comes in and changes it for a new one when I get out. Both go in the laundry then repeat the next day. Cleanest way IMO.

No to the flannel, but yes to wiping feet on your towel before stepping out onto the mat. Nothing worse than a thick fluffy bathmat all soggy and going mouldy between the little tufts 🤢

@ShirleyPhallus

I use a clean bath mat to step in to the shower then my husband comes in and changes it for a new one when I get out. Both go in the laundry then repeat the next day. Cleanest way IMO.

Every day? But when you get out of the shower you’re clean.

Haha I get my DC to make foot prints on the mat to save getting the floor too wet.

@ShirleyPhallus

I use a clean bath mat to step in to the shower then my husband comes in and changes it for a new one when I get out. Both go in the laundry then repeat the next day. Cleanest way IMO.

You’re going to get slaughtered! this is MN- you’re only allowed to change your towel annually, bath mats are never to be changed!

No need for a flannel. I finish shower, grab my towel, dry myself, wrap my hair up and then step onto the mat once I’m dry. DD does it differently and I hate getting in after her. She showers and walks straight onto the bathmat which is then soaked mainly from her dripping hair for ages so nobody can use it.

Your partner sounds v annoying

Ha ha! We had the same “discussion” in our house many mokns ago. I was bemused by the notation it wasn’t ok to get a bath mat wet and said we would just have to agree to disagree .

Of course you dry your feet off before stepping out onto the mat, it's common courtesy (and a good exercise in balance). My DH and youngest child both neglect to do this resulting in an unpleasantly moist stepping out experience and, over time, a warping of the floor beneath the mat. No idea how a flannel would be involved, though, that's too complicated.

I have the same argument with my Dh. We are both correct.

He’s wrong, but he could start a thread about how some annoying person he knows thinks flannels are for washing their face, when naturally everyone knows they are for drying yourself to preserve the bath mat.

yabu
it's for stepping on after you have dried yourself.

surely otherwise it's unpleasantly cold and damp for the following person.

But how do you manage to keep the flannel dry? Surely you're not getting the flannel wet, are you?

I don't mind the soggy mat DD leaves - on the floor! - after a shower (we're working on squeezing the excess moisture from her hair before leaving the cubicle but I take umbrage at the rest of the floor being soaking wet!

Ah, op are you in a really bad abusive relationship? It would seem so?

If you're the last one using the mat, then step on it with wet feet all you want, but if other people use the bath/shower after you then leave it dry for them. It's horrible, stepping onto a dripping bath mat.

You’re going to get slaughtered! this is MN- you’re only allowed to change your towel annually, bath mats are never to be changed!

And @MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry is the weirdo who bleaches everything in her house as soon as she uses it. See, we can all do hyperbole.

Of course you don't need a fresh bath mat every time. It's stupid and terrible for the environment.

imo the bath mat is there so I don't have to step onto a cold tile floor.

@Ohyesiam

He’s wrong, but he could start a thread about how some annoying person he knows thinks flannels are for washing their face, when naturally everyone knows they are for drying yourself to preserve the bath mat.

Or, you could start a thread about how surely everyone uses a baby Muslin to dry yourself in order to preserve the flannel that you have to use to keep the bath mat dry…

Your bath mat has one job - to catch the drops as you step out of the bath/shower.

If you dry yourself before exiting, you are depriving a good mat of its sole purpose!