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.

Yes and no, I think it’s grim. I have my own towel, which I guard very closely. Dh and the dc seem to cycle through a week mostly using the same towel, despite all my efforts press nice fresh towels into their hands.

Even worse, said towel, which starts to smell mouldy, mostly lives on the floor of the bathroom wedged between the toilet and the wall between uses because that’s they all drop it. I honestly don’t know how I’ve ended up related to these people.

Just as bad, when we have houseguests, BIL and SIL for example, Dh gives them one towel. We have a whole f-ing stack of nice clean towels (as evidenced above). They are adults. Give them each a towel! It’s very weird.

DP and I share, DC have their own towels which are usually discarded on their bedroom floors. Towel is literally used to wrap around your body for one minute, we don't wipe our bum cracks with them.

Even more horrifyingly, we only wash them once a week!

Totally agree. I live alone now but when my son stays he grabs any towel to dry his hair and body after a shower.

I pushed him out of my vagina and fed him from my breast - I really cant get worked up about him using my towel to dry his clean hair and body

Possibly a bit stuck ! But no, own towels and daily showers here now. I even have a hairdryer 🤣

I put out communal towels for anyone to use, but in practise I have my own and DD has her own so DH has the communal ones to himself usually. Hand towels are shared, but changed daily. As above body (bath) towel not used for face (small) towel for face/hair. But no one will die if they use the wrong towel. We are all clean by definition having just got out of the bath/shower at the point of using the towels anyway. Wouldn't use a nasty cold damp towel though.

I always have my own towel.My DC is older now but have their own towels ,colour coded and from different stores, as white and grey seem to be popular here! I breastfed my DS until over a year old and he was a velcro baby .However as a strapping lad with a GF I think its just more hygenic. My DH had a verruca and I would not want that transferred!

We keep bath towels separate - I always seem to have infected cysts, thrush etc. which I don't want to pass onto DH. Hand towels are for general use.

I live alone.
I have a hand towel on the sink normal.
My bath towels are washed after every use.
If i have any one stay they can use any clean towels and straight in the wash afterwards.
I wont just air them out or use it again it has to be washed.
My bedding is changed every 5 days.

Dh has 2 of his own, ds has 2 of his own. They are band towels /football /novelty ones. I have a huge bath sheet which is mine. We all have another towel for hair /hand (any towel) which is ours until washed. Ds went through a stage of using our towels and we'd find them slung wetly across the radiator! Really annoying but he has stopped it now. We also have a collection of other towels which are anyone's in use until washed again.

Having a set of towels that anyone can take a clean one from - perfectly normal I think (though at home we have our own towels in different colours as DD likes that best).

Using a damp (or dry!) towel someone else has already used - definitely not, IMO! I don’t want to be drying my face on the same patch of towel where DP has just dried his bum!

We all share towels. Never been a problem.

(Oh and with both DP and DD it’s not just the use of the towel for drying the body, it’s the fact that both of them seem to be incapable of hanging a towel up or keeping it clean, so they tend to drop them on floors/leave them damp to get damp-smelling and so on.

I would baulk at using a damp towel that had been left on the bathroom floor for two days, but DP doesn’t care. You never know where his towel might have been. No thanks! And DD is just as likely to have used hers to clean up some paint or the cat’s feet or something gross, so she’s hardly better…)

me and DP share towels accidentally sometimes but we couldn't give a toss, if you are happy to have sex with your partner and share body fluids, then how can you be funny about sharing a towel. You are clean anyway when you use it.

When I was younger we just took any towel but they'd be washed after each use. Now I have my own family we have our own towels, but unless they're particularly sodden or dirty we air them after use so they don't get washed every time.

You do realise people use towels when they are clean? It's weird to be disgusted by sharing with your own family . We have lots of identical towels in the cupboard. After you've used one you can hang it in the towel rail or put in wash if you think it needs it . Everybody welcome to grab a towel from the rail or a fresh one from the cupboard. Once a week I wash any towels left out in bathroom. New ones left for guests on their beds.

It's amazing what the throes of passion can make people overlook 😂

I only take one towel to the beach for both my children and they both use it, the other choice is to bring another and carry it themselves, guess what they’d rather do?

This is what we do too.

DH and I share towels, yes! I mean, he regularly licks my bumhole, so why on earth would it matter!!

I suppose it depends how much work you want to give yourself/ give to the household washer and dryer person.

You can be “clean” and still have contagious cold sores/shingles/verrucas/hand warts/fungal infections/impetigo/athlete’s foot/ringworm/molluscum/hand, foot and mouth/threadworms etc etc etc. so what’s the point of everyone bleating “but you’re clean when you use them to dry your body”? We all know you’re not really that clean, nobody has autoclaved you in the shower!

Anyone who has a primary school kid doesn’t always want to pick up the things they get from school like threadworms and verrucas and so on, and neither do I particularly want to dry my face where someone’s feet or arse have been.

Have our own towels and they are washed regularly. I certainly don’t take a clean one each time I shower.

have communal hand towels itms

We have a pile of clean towels. Each of us takes one/some as needed. No-one uses a towel that someone else has already used since it was washed, but no one has dedicated towels.

Nothing wrong with this - the towels are done on a hot wash in the machine. Perfectly sanitary.

This is a genuine question, if I use the towel my husband has used to dry his clean body and he uses the one I have used to dry my clean body what are the actual risks? what will happen to us? Now if either of us had a communicable disease then we may stick to our own towels but if generally healthy I have no idea what the issue may be. We've been doing it for about 28 years I reckon and I am still waiting for the thing!

Ah you answered my question, that's never happened to us in 28 years, never passed anything on apart from colds and that will not be towels I wager, that's airborne. Are we medical anomalies? I'm off to contact The Lancet.