How many towels

[SupermarketSecrets]

Hi all,
We’re about to buy some new towels! Exciting stuff, just wondered how many bath sheets/hand towels/hair towels you all have per person. We have so many random ones, it's time to get all new and matching we're currently a family of 5, hopefully 6 soon😊

There's only DH and I and we use 2 towels each in rotation.
I'd like to say we only have those 4 towels but there's about 20 in the airing cupboard!

My next purchase is new towels and I plan on only buying white ones that can be added to/replaced as needed and all the mismatched ones can be binned.

@youmakemydreamscometrue

There's only DH and I and we use 2 towels each in rotation. I'd like to say we only have those 4 towels but there's about 20 in the airing cupboard!

My next purchase is new towels and I plan on only buying white ones that can be added to/replaced as needed and all the mismatched ones can be binned.

Thanks for your reply, seems like we've got the same plan! Just not sure whether one or 2 per person

I suppose it depends how often they'll be washed (hot topic on MN I know) and if you have a tumble drier.

Depends how much room you have. And how often you wash them. And how you are able to dry them.

A guess: Two to three sets per person. Plus guest set if you have visitors.

Plus keep old ones for emergencies

We have mismatched ones no actual sets.

Me and Partner have about 3 each.

FIL has about 30.... and sometimes they are all dirty, god knows what he does to them 🤷🏻‍♀️😱

We have 4 big bath towels each plus 6 spare and about 8 miss matched ones.

Three bath towels so there's one in use, one in the wash and a spare. I have those microfiber hair wrap towels for hair.

About 6 good hand towels and some smaller face towels. A few older ones I've kept as spare.

Have colour coded ones for each family member.
You'll use more hand towels than bath sheets.

1 set to use, 1 set for washing, on rotation. 1 spare set for up to 2 guests, but if there were 4 guests they would use our rotation towels.

@dudsville

1 set to use, 1 set for washing, on rotation. 1 spare set for up to 2 guests, but if there were 4 guests they would use our rotation towels.

Great suggestion, thank you!

@KirstenBlest

Have colour coded ones for each family member. You'll use more hand towels than bath sheets.

We tried the colour coded system before but doesn't work well anymore unfortunately. Will definitely need more hand towels yes

@youmakemydreamscometrue

There's only DH and I and we use 2 towels each in rotation. I'd like to say we only have those 4 towels but there's about 20 in the airing cupboard!

My next purchase is new towels and I plan on only buying white ones that can be added to/replaced as needed and all the mismatched ones can be binned.

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Old towels are handy for all kinds of things you won't want to use your nice ones for

We have 2 each, colour coded for each member of the family. 4 guest towels. 6 hand towels.

It’s brilliant- no more piles of towels left all over - I always know who has left their towel on the floor!

Thank you everyone for your replies! We do have a tumble dryer.

A set of each for use, one in the wash and one in the cupboard. Different colours, same style.

And a gazillion mismatched crappy swimming / beach / dog towels.

2 of each "type" (so one to use and one to be washing/drying). So everyone had two bath towels (there's 4 of us), there are two hand towels for each bathroom etc, then about 6 for guests? Oh and everyone has a towel to take swimming, and there's 6 Turkish towels for holidays... and a random selection of those hair turban things. Possibly some old ones knocking about that avoided the last towel-cul...