To not understand how to 'adult' in this area...

[pinkpeoniesplease]

Ok, please talk to me about..... bath towels.

Where do you store them, how do you rotate?
I don't have an airing cupboard, so you use a towel, where do you put it? It needs to dry, where do you store it? Where are your towels kept? Where do you get a fresh towel from?

I have spent waaaay too much time thinking about this so please let me know your towel routine!

Clean towels live in the airing cupboard. We have one each for daily use, me and dh have a towel rail radiator so hand ours on there oribbthe balcony to dry. Kids have hanging rails over their radiators.

Old flat didn't have airing cupboard so kept them in a chest at the foot of the bed. And dried on airers. Flat had rubish ventilation so they wouldn't ever dry and went smelly quickly. I reckon we get a week out of ours at present. The kids also have swimming towels which go straight in the wash after swimming and then back in the swimming bag when dry.

Bath sheets - dry on towel radiators and hung over the bathroom door

Spares spread across big freestanding linen cupboard on the landing and in a built in cupboard in a bedroom for the bathroom on the upper floor.

Oh and they are changed every 3-4 days

I don't keep spare towels/sheets/duvet covers/pillow slips anywhere. I have only what I use on a daily basis, wash them in the morning, by evening they are dry and can go back into use. (I do have heated towel rails which may help with the towels.)

I have one of these hotel racks to store clean towels. We have a bath towel each. A heated towel rail stores to after use. 2 hooks on back of bathroom door for the other 2. Change each week.

This
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I live with teenagers generally they are used once, abandoned on bedroom floor, when the door is empty/ floor full present for washing and moan there are no clean towels left and repeat. I have my own secret stash in room that stay in my room to dry on rad/hook between washes

Our clean towels go in a cupboard on the landing. Dirty towels are hung on a radiator to dry before going in the laundry basket for washing.

Towels in use are hung in the bathroom - my DH's go on the heated towel rail and mine goes on a hook on the back of the bathroom door because he is incapable of identifying his own towel if they are both on the towel rail and I once went to use my towel and it had skid marks . 🤮

I think the fortnightly washing one poster suggested would be at the far end of the bell shaped curve.

Hooks on wall beside tub/shower for towel in use for me in my bathroom. Change towels 2x week, put in laundry basket when dirty. Racks for towels in boys’ bathroom and hampers for used towels. They use a fresh one every shower and throw them on the floor. 😀

Oh, I hang my clean towels on a rack (no storage in there) and the other bathroom has a closet with shelves for stacks of fresh towels, and an area underneath for hampers.

Great idea

You shouldn't ever need to wash bath towels - when you get out of the bath/shower surely you're the cleanest thing in the house so the towel will only ever get cleaner when it's rubbed against you.

Surely, towels should be washed after every single use? What grubsters you lot are.

Shower screens get used to dry used shower towels in my house but I have the luxury (for the first time in my life) of my own en-suite and only one son left living with me who uses main bathroom, therefore there is enough room. I do have a heated towel rail/radiator in my en-suite but as its in the loft extension which is always warm (due to the amount of insulation building regs enforced for which I am now truly grateful as have really low bills in comparison to others on here) I never actually have it on🤷

I'm in agreement with @Minimalme
Used to have loads then we kept one each in a different colour.

We actually conducted a poll, everyone wrote down their 1st 2nd a d 3rd choices of colour, as a sealed "bid'
Everyone was given their 1st choice except one person who got their second choice.(DH, he didn't mind)

Have a really really long rail in the bathroom. Towels dry ok there.

Don't wash yhrm often as everyone sticks to their own one..should prob wash more often

The sealed bid thing was actually quite fun.maybe that says a lot about our household 🤔

@AlternativelyWired no way after every wash in my opinion...they've only got water and a few clean skin cells on..... sounds a bit heavy for the environment and pocket...

Most people I know (myself included) wash their towels every week.

Towels are kept wherever you have space! In our home it's on a cupboard in our bedroom.

When they're being used they are hanged in hooks in the bathroom, right in front of our window (so they get dryish between uses).

i have 4 identical towels (bath sheets) under the bathroom sink. dh and i share ONE towel and it's washed and dried in the drier every 2-4 days (depending on other laundry and if lovely outside will after washing hang laundry outside).
we have a good fan/vent in the bathroom as well as a window.

Towels are very unhygienic, we don’t have them. We just stand in the bath, drip until dry and then get dressed.

Anyone who washes their towels after every use will surely consider changing that as the cost of energy increases? It's an easy way to reduce your energy bills (and better for the environment).

We only own 2 bath towels between the two of us!
One is in the main bathroom, one is in our ensuite. We use one a load of times and then, when it's in the wash, grab the other.
We hang it to dry after washing and in between uses, over our landing bannister.
Queue someone saying "ewww gross, you share a towel with your husband"!

This 👆

Use for a week, dried on rail/towel radiator after each use. Then in the wash. Clean ones get rolled up and stored in the immersion cupboard.

Surely this only works if you shower/bathe at different times of the day? Or the second person uses a damp towel?

We have a cupboard in the hall upstairs which stores towels and bedding. We each have two bath sheets. We use them twice (unless dirty, e.g. period). Basically, if you take it out of the cupboard, put in on your radiator after using. If you take it off the radiator, put it in the laundry basket/machine after using.