Organising family towels

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Trying to crack down on bath towel use after I found around 5 on my daughter's floor (son is just as bad). I would like everyone to have their own towel, use it for a reasonable period, then wash on regular basis. Rather than grab any towel, and eave them in a heap somewhere. Then I have to wash them all when I find them and my towel has vanished when I get out of the bath. How do people manage this? Do you colour code them for different people? Tag them? Have designated pegs? Kids will often go to their own rooms to dress rather than dressing in bathroom if that makes a difference. .

We each have our own colour, two sets each (hand towel and bath towel).
one in use and the other in the wash - they get swapped regularly as I just put the clean ones out and shove the dirty ones in the basket to be washed. So probably changed every 3/4 days.
If they don't hang it up on the towel radiator they don't have a dry towel as there aren't any spare (except for guests but they are in a different bathroom).

tbh DH is usually the one complaining about having to use a damp towel 🤭

Kids towels live in the main bathroom, they use one and keep it in their bedroom on one of those rack things on the radiator. When they get a clean towel the old one goes in a laundry basket in the bathroom.

DH and I have the same but ours are in the en suite.

This. When DC were little they each had different embroidery and now different colours. It works really well.

We have two each - different colour for each person. It does help!

DS has navy blue, DH has light blue and I have mid blue towels. We each have a rung on the ladder style radiator. Nobody uses each others.

Colour coded and kept on bathroom towel rails. Never any attempts to use someone else's towels as they'd all chosen their colours.

We share towels and they get hung on line or heated towel rail to dry. Washed as necessary.
Kids learn not to leave wet towels in bedrooms.

DH and I share 2 bath sheets in the same colour- we dry them over the banister DS has his own in a different colour (bright red!) He has a bath/shower every night and it lives over the banister.
If we had multiple kids I think colour coding is the way to go and dry in their room. When I was a kid we all had to use the same mostly damp gross towels in the bathroom so when I started work bought my own pink towels and kept them in my bedroom.

Don't leave piles of fresh towels for the kids to help themselves. Hide them away. Ration them. They get a fresh towel once a week when their old towel has been put in the laundry.

Keep your own towel in your bedroom so they can't use it.

I got them to bring their towels back to the bathroom by reminding them about an hour after the shower and keeping on nagging until the towels were returned.

Thanks everyone! I am very tempted by the individual colour idea but we do already have a lot of towels in similar colours. It seems you can buy Towel clips to identify them thpugh. Wonder if they are worth a try. Towel hooks in bedroom also good idea.

I don't leave piles of fresh towels out but they help themselves to mine and then it vanishes and I have to get out a new one. But guess I could have my own bedroom towel hook too (the ensuite with the big shower is off our bedroom so I tend to leave mine in there) . So having their own would hopefully eliminate this issue.

You could sew some trim on or a band across the flat bit perhaps. It doesn't need to be a lot. Or initials or coloured dots in the corners - ideally in every corner so it's easy to find.

Different colours per person here. Love it. We share all the hand towels whether they match someone's colour or not.

We have one towel each. Lives on back of bedroom door. Wash and dry same day. Hand towels are shared and each bathroom has a pile and they get thrown in daily wash.

We just recently replaced our 30+ year old towels (I had heaps in rotation of really top quality ones, now far too good for the dog, I can't bear to chuck them! ), and now everyone has their own shade of blue or purple or pink. Has cut down immensely on washing. If you already have the towels, I'd sew coloured loops on for each person. Of if you have an embroidery machine, embroider their name on