Towels

[silver73]

Hi

I'd love to hear how you organise towels. I'm just about to replace all of mine.

Do you have a different coloured bath towel/hair towel for each member of the family or have all the towels the same colour to match the bathroom?

Thanks

Colours per bathroom here have fun!

Colours per bathroom, size per person here!

All towels the same colour, and used once then washed.

Towels the same colour here too, but hung to dry in specific places so the current user knows which one is theirs

Then they are washed on 60 degrees as is bedding.

one colour per dc (3 for 2 bale at M&S, lucky I have 3 dc!). Same colour for dh and me, but different place so don't muddle up.

Same as Heylittlelady, then rolled up and put in a cupboard like in a hair salon to give the illusion of an organised space!

lol - we do that too BB! Nice clean new towels all rolled up and looking fab at the start of the week, a pile of damp mouldering material on the bathroom floor by the end of the week

We hang ours in different places too so we know whose is whose in my last house I had a great wall mounted rack thing for rolling the spare towels and storing them, loved it crazy how much joy you get from seeing them neat like that

"All towels the same colour, and used once then washed."
used once?! How dirty are you? Surely this is not the greenest solution?

To actually answer the question, I've always loved the idea of having different colours for each member of the family and guests, but it will sadly be a long long time before we have the budget for it.

we use towels for 3 weeks each in this house

cos we get out of the shower clean

We all have our own towel (large bath sheet) in a different colour. They are washed once a week on a 60 wash.

The hand towels in the downstairs loo and kitchen are washed a lot more often as the kids tend to leave more muck on them than goes down the sink.

We share germs and towels. We're a caring sharing kinda family. But we own about fifty towels in various sizes and colours. The cats have their own towels though for their weekly showers.

Really surprised at the poster who washes towels after every use.

With the exception of DH who can't rinse we are all clean by the time we use the towel.

So how environmental are you ? Plus washing at 60 degrees?

Ha ha sounds like we only have one towel....

Organise towels?
I just pick up any old towel from the floor when I need one and have no idea how often they are washed if at all

We do have differnt colours for guest towels - for my shame I have to admit to different colour towels for each guest room as well

Complete mishmash of towel shapes, sizes and colours here, I'm afraid. They get washed, um, when they start to smell . Sometimes sooner, if the weather's good and I can dry them outside (we don't have a tumble dryer). I'm just about to retire a couple of towels - one was DH's when he was at school (still has his name tag on), so is at least 20 years old, and the other I was given by my gran to take to University, so at least 20 years old, and it wasn't new when she gave it to me . We do have newer towels - these are extreme examples, honest!

I used to be married to someone who thought stiff sheets were ones that had done their bit and should be given a wash (usually after six months or so). Apparently human sweat is an excellent replacement for laundry starch .

But I think some of you are taking towel etiquette a tad too far.

We have individual towelling dressing gowns and hand towels which are shared.

well, when we first got married, we had some white towels. these now look a little 'loved'. , but suit upstairs bathroom which dd uses.
we also have really old ones for 'dirty jobs', e.g. mopping up spillages on the floor. some of these date back to the 1960s.
we have big, don't match anything swimming towels, which people have given us as presents.
we then bought a set of blue towels which went well with our bathroom in our old house. not quite so loved as the white, but still fit the upstairs bathroom for dd.
when we redid the bathroom in our last house we changed the colour, but the blue towels were only 5 yrs old, so we continued using them. when we put the hous on the market we bought ONE towel that suited the new bathroom, and hung it decoratively for when we had viewings!
in our new house, the one green towel fits the bathroom dh & I use, none of them fit the 'restroom' that visitors use, all of the white & blue fit dd's room, and we have about 30 truly ancient mismatching, threadbare towels, and the odd swimming towels. I can't bring myself to throw out any of the older, but not yet destroyed, but if we were fussy about colours, dd would have about 15 towels, visitors none, dh & I share a hand towel, and more towels than you could imagine for dirty jobs.

I think I need to rationalise my towel situation

lol kickassangel . Apparently if you want to get rid of towels, pet sanctuaries are often grateful for them. Presumably not completely threadbare ones though.

Different coloured towels for each person (and theoretically matching flannels, but it never quite seems to work out like that). Plus a random selection of old towels aquired over the years for use in moments of stress and some rather tasteful pink ones bought cheap recently to reduce the number cat hairs on the settee.
I am not sure that our bathroom is an identifiable colour that one could match towels to - unless there is a company out there that makes sludge coloured towels with added spiders webs

Takver - I went googling for a spider web towel, without much success, (that link's not a message from me to you, by the way ) but now I've freaked myself out with the other pictures of spiders that came up .

Thanks so much for all your replies. Probably will go for towels to match the bathroom....Anyone know where you can get reasonable priced Egyptian cotton towels?

11 years ago I bought an Egyptian cotton duvet set that still looks new so well worth the investment

dunelm mill do nice ones.