Sharing towels???

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Inspired by another thread, do people actually have family towels that they share? This seems absolutely revolting to me 🤢

YABU - sharing towels is normal
YANBU - eww, everyone should have their own towel.

Interesting how things change isn’t it, growing up in the 60’s/70’s there were 5 of us, one bathroom and one shower room. Separate shower rooms were a new thing ! It never occurred to us to have 5 towels in there so we just used to share whatever was there ! As a kid we didn’t used to shower every day either, and Sunday night bath night was a thing. My sister and I used to fight to have our bath when the Top 20 countdown was on to listen to the charts on a transistor radio. Pop music was otherwise banned unfortunately. Complete with drying your hair in front of the fire.

Mr Monkey share towels, but we also share a bed and many other things (not tooth brushes obvs). It is fine. How filthy do you think the people you have chosen to live your life with are?

I swear half of mumsnet is in danger of going full Howard Hughes at some point.

Guests of course get their own towels for the durarion of their stay.

Sorry, I lost myself in a wave of nostalgia there didn’t I !

Meh. We’re a family of 5 and use whatever towel is hanging on the towel rail. I clean my three small children at the same time (share a bath) and then use one or two towels to dry them (depending on how wet it gets. They get into clean clothes/pyjamas and everyone’s happy.

I do a load of washing everyday for clothes and linens, I also work full time and clean and maintain a large home (3 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms to clean - I have no spare time). I don’t have the time to be cleaning multiple towels constantly or trying to remember who’s is who’s. Nor do I want to run the tumble dryer too much.

When we dry ourselves, we’re already clean. I don’t mind what others do but I assure you, my family aren’t dirty or smelly. It’s absolutely fine to do either option and live a happy healthy life.

I have 5 bath towels, each a different colour, the 5 people in my house know their colour and use their own bath towel (which is changed weekly). I can’t bear the thought of sharing - I commented on the last thread about this - would you really wear someone else’s knickers or socks even if they’d just worn them briefly straight after their bath? Just no, not for me. (But I don’t care what anyone else does in their own home, and if I stay at a friends I take my own towel to cut down their washing/ environmental impact).

Let’s be clear. Anyone who uses a hotel towel, goes to a friends and uses a towel ‘shares’ a washed towel. Totally normal and not gross.

sharing used towels at home. I’d not use my husbands towel on purpose, but there have been times I’ve jumped in the bath and forgot to get a new towel put out the airing cupboard. So I’ve used his. He’s only used it when he’s had a scrub. It’s not that gross, considering we share bed sheets and that’s of course not the most intimate thing… he’s not a stranger that might have a manky disease or possibly doesn’t wash himself properly - I know he
does! Same with my kids. I’d happily wrap them in my towel - my daughter often uses my towel at swimming, cos she drops hers on the floor! But I birthed them, I also wipe their bums and clean their snot… a towel isn’t going to phase me.

We share towels, kids have their own for baths etc. Don't really see the issue, like someone said they are used for drying clean bodies?! Not sure how much washing people can be doing if they are changing them every couple of days!

And that was half a century ago or are you still stuck there?

Sharing a used towel is grim.
Putting dirty damp towels in the dryer to freshen up is also grim.

I’d use any towel that was clean but I actually have a few sets of my own bath sheets and hand towels for my hair that are nice a soft and pink! DH has bath towels
I get a bit funny about hand towels in bathrooms when I have to go to someone’s house and they don’t have a separate bathroom.

and in my own house now we have down stairs shower room instead of just a loo!

Do you mean sharing a towel someone else has used to dry themselves (minging) or having a cupboard with the same pattern/colour of towel that people chose and have for their sole use? (Not minging)
Hand towels? Bath towels? Beach towels?

Presuming this thread is about using one towl between people…..

Absolutely not - why would I want to dry my face on a towl that my husband has used to dry his arse / balls?

You shouldn’t share a towel if it’s damp or used, because towels can harbour bacteria, fungi, and viruses. Sharing towels increases the risk of spreading skin infections or even body odour.

We each have a clean towl which get washed once a week at 60 degrees.

You’d find me and my son revolting then.
Or maybe you wouldn’t because to look at us you’d never know I (sit down, wait for it) dried my clean body with the same towel that my son used to dry his clean body.

When we only had one bathroom we used separate towels.
We now have separate bathrooms (which is great😆).
All towels are washed together (do a towel wash a couple of times a week) and clean towels come from a single cupboard.

@NorthernSpirit ummm do you not have separate face and hand towels? By your view it is surely just as unacceptable to dry your face with a towel you have used to dry your own arse on?

I also don't know what people are doing to bath towels to make them so dirty. Me, I use one for about 3 mins or so to dry my clean body.

Also how do you "spread body odour" by using a towel to dry your clean body? Do you people no know how to wash properly or something? People on hear are nuts.

It's so weird to me that people would have their husbands cock in their mouth but think sharing a towel with him or using his toothbrush is disgustingly hideous. I can't get my head around it.

I don't understand the hysteria over the idea of using the same towel as your SO. You use a towel when you're literally at the cleanest you'll ever be, fresh out of a shower. What's the issue?

Like you'll share bodily fluids with these people but not a towel?

Op not back but I’d hope they don’t mean it’s disgusting to use a towel that has since been washed?!

Shared as a kid in the 70s and 80s. Have 2 sets of my own, and have for years. Meant that they didn't end up disappearing into my daughter's room, or get used for dyeing/bleaching hair, or anything else 4 teens would have used them for. Only my eldest lad is still at home, and still got separate.

Exactly, it's most odd.

Maybe everyone has really filthy husbands who can't work out how to clean their bums properly.

I hope you don't ever snog him then, fuck knows what you'd catch from his saliva if you did. You'd have bad breath and mouth ulcers before you know it.

Does everyone have colour coded towels or labels on them or something? We have 2 colourful older towels that the kids use somewhat interchangeably as they often bathe together too. Apart from that we have 2 sets of bath sheets and smaller towels for hair etc that me and my dh share. One set is usually in use at any one time - and the other in the wash. No I don’t want to use a towel to dry my face that my dh has used on his body, but that’s why we both use 2 towels per wash - a body and a face/hair one.

Given that I share my bed and have sex with him, I can’t find it in me to get worked up over a towel that dries his clean body and is washed regularly. At a pinch, I’ll also use the ones my kids use, because they’re my kids and we’re generally all fairly clean!

That is beyond rank- whoever would fo this?

People use mine after me because I'm the only one who hangs it up so it's dry and they think it's clean and use it while the others moulder on floors. DS2 just used the one I hung up last night
So I don't share but they're using mine - whether they know or not I don't know

I live with just husband now, and we have two towels out and both use whichever one is dry (after use they get hung across the landing stairs rail to dry, then put back in bathroom when dry. They get washed regularly obviously. When son comes home he has his own, although growing up he was a group towel user! Just make sure they are dried and aired between uses. Wouldn't share a toothbrush though!

@FartyAnimal this is what we do. I make sure they’re dry and washed regularly, beyond that, I don’t have the inclination to keep track of whose is whose. But no, no sharing toothbrushes obvs. I also use a clean flannel every day and that I won’t share either. Same with dh and the kids.