Need help clearing up a disgusting habit

[Goldfish35]

Hello all,

I just wanted to clear up something with my SO. Is it normal to mop up water from the bathroom floor using a bath towel, then continue using it without washing it?

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Look forward to your replies.

Simply, just have a towel each. Then you can each do what you like with your own towel including how often you wash it etc.

Ugh, no. If you’re going to reuse it, hang it up to air. If you’re going to wash it mop the floor first.

No its not at all, and I'm certainly not a clean towel every shower person!

Just to be clear when I say bath towel I mean the actual towel which is used to dry one self's after a shower.

Thanks for the replies

I wouldn't, I use the bath mat to mop up the floor. I wouldn't use the towel because the toilet is right there and probably pee splashes

Ew no. Use the bath mat... maybe you need to buy a bigger more absorbent one if there's loads of water on the floor to mop up. Because I would use my towel myself but then I'd wash it. I couldn't stand a wet bathroom floor I'd rather do lots of washing! :)

If you keep a clean bathroom I wouldn't be disgusted. Your towel your rules. But this is the job of the bathmat.

It's not as things should be but among family I can't see the harm.

There's no point having separate towels, how do you make sure none of the "disgusting" people use yours?

What are you going to catch from a SO's towel that you wouldn't from sharing a bed with them?

Assuming the towel's washed fairly regularly and hung up to dry after mopping the floor, what's it going to be infected with?

Why is there water on the floor? Who is kicking the water about the bathroom?

In this house we have bathmats but each bathroom also has a very dark grey hand towel which is used to scoosh over the floor to catch any fine spray post shower (and to dry off chrome fittings to avoid water marks). The very dark grey was chosen because nobody would ever use such a colour to dry themselves with - DH has blue stripy, I have brown stripy, Ds has blue, DD has teal. Hand towels are white and hang on towel rings next to basins. Guest towels are a light grey or peach.
The 'scooshing' towels are hung over the edge of radiator in the 3 bathrooms and laundered on a weekend morning.
You just need your system.

No that's quite nasty

No point having separate towels?! So the last person to have a shower has to use a soggy towel to dry themself? You shouldn't share towels - they should be hung up to dry out between uses and washed after a week's use. As for the original question, if it's clean water and the bathroom is clean, not a big deal, but isn't that what a bathmat is for?

You shouldn't share towels - they should be hung up to dry out between uses and washed after a week's use

A week? Na man a week isn't good for a towel, 2 uses max. If that.

Yuck at shared towels.

Op, no it is not normal to clean the floor with a towel that you are going to dry yourself on. Please tell your SO this.

I like the grey towel idea. I use manky old flannels for wiping splashes. I don't like sharing towels either. I use mine for everything apart from drying my bottom and feet but DP uses his all over, so separate is better.
Bathmat on floor.

People are grim

We have a towel each and have a hook each on the back of the airing cupboard door where they all live. Dry, warm and washed whenever the user puts it in the basket.

Also yuck at shared towels.
We also have a special mopper upper towel for just this purpose.

No way would we share towels. My DH had an annoying habit of leaving his wet towel on the bedroom floor and then using my nice dry one - so I bought us different colour ones. Each family member has their own colour.
Btw - we use a bathmat too but the seal has gone on our shower door so we also have an old towel to hand to mop up the puddle. I wouldn’t use the same towel for the floor as my body.

No OP just no - it's wrong on many levels

Washing towels after only two uses is environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary.

Lots of things are environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary. I’ll bet you do some of them wow

Washing towels after only two uses is environmentally unfriendly and unnecessary

Aye because how often I wash my towels is really going to impact the environment while we have cars, private jets, air travel.......

I wash my towel each time I use it would never dream of sharing or using it twice. and I'm a common north London girl

Probably, but you dry yourself when you are clean so the issue with them is bacteria growth when they are damp or wet.