Do you have your own towel?

A little debate that has come up.
There's quite a few young people in the house, age 22 to 32, and they are debating using towels in the bathroom.
Some of them just pick a towel up but others have their own individual towels.
I'm pretty sure when I lived at my parents we just picked up what towel was there but in my house we have our own.
It's something I've never thought about but apparently I use the black towels and nobody else does, my wife has red and my eldest uses white.
My eldest finds it abhorrent that she could be wiping her bits when I've wiped my bits with the same towel.

Over to you OCUK.

Most definitely have your own! Even after a bath, you're not completely clean. You're bathing in your own filth, and then it gets wiped off on a towel. The thought of a communal towel is horrendous!

Communal hand towel, separate bath towels.

I use a towel, wife uses a different one, daughter has a different towel, hangin on back of bedoom doors in prep for trip to the shower, after shower dumped in wash basket, and towel on door replaced.

All towel related wisdom is contained in the pages of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Own towel until washed, right? Surely. Though my sister believes that a towel can only be used once before being washed. Surely this isn't a done thing?

I live on my own, so own towel. Simple.

People share towels?

We just pick a towel from the pile. They always get washed after a single use at the 60 degrees and the proper cycle. So they should be pretty much clean come the next time they are used.

satchef1 said:

People share towels?

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Ewwww

A single towel in the household for all purposes.

Savages!

A towel each like normal rational decent human beings

bayo000 said:

Communal hand towel, separate bath towels.

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Correct. Mostly so you always have a dry towel. I don't care which towel I get when it comes out of the wash (although I do have a slight preference since some are getting a bit old), but once it's mine, it's mine. Then I don't have to worry about grabbing a damp towel off the rack. Not a hygiene thing for me as it's just me and the missus, but if it wasn't family I'd find it a bit wierd if we all shared towels.

I have my own towel, it's bigger than everyone else's as my family aren't as tall as I am

I have had my own towel since I was a teen

I don't really want to dry with one that has been used by somebody else no matter how close they are to me

Spacedeck said:

We just pick a towel from the pile. They always get washed after a single use at the 60 degrees and the proper cycle. So they should be pretty much clean come the next time they are used.

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Why?

Seems very wasteful.

Own towels.

I have my own 4 towels.

Amp34 said:

Why?

Seems very wasteful.

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Because they have been in contact with the body and I don't know what may be left behind if they aren't washed properly. I just like making sure they get done.

We have amassed a large stock of towels, so may as well use them all.

People really wash a towel after 1 use? After coming out a shower, assuming you've had a good scrub you're mostly clean anyway and just wiping away clean water...

I take 2 showers a day and wash the towels (3) every 3-4 days.