Do you have your own towel?

Dirk Diggler · 30 Mar 2016 at 02:11

At work, I share towels with around 400 other people. Same with bed sheets.

FoxEye · 30 Mar 2016 at 02:12

robfosters said:
Own towels. I detest the thought I could be wiping my face on a towel that's been up someone's crack a short while earlier.

Hmm I guess you guys don't have bath towels and general towels?

I mean, you wouldn't wipe your ass with a general towel, which is for hands and stuff.

And if you're wiping your ass with your towel, it's after having a shower/bath, so you'd be using a bath towel.

I think perhaps this is a problem of insufficient towel diversity.

ThePirateHulk · 30 Mar 2016 at 02:39

FoxEye said:
Depends what he means by a "single use". Whichever towel I use to dry myself after a shower goes in teh next wash, because it's completely sopping wet and no use to anyone as a drying instrument

So I guess that's "single use".

Isn't that normal?

No, it isn't normal IMO.

You hang it up to dry after use and then it's ready for the next time you need it.

Washing a towel after every use is hugely wasteful.

Mark A · 30 Mar 2016 at 02:42

I have been using shared towels for the last 30 odd years and am still alive. Although saying that they do usually get chucked in the wash basket after a use, so probably dont get used twice by different people, but there isnt a towel designated to a certain person, you just grab one from the towel rad.

itchy · 30 Mar 2016 at 02:42

Own towel! Seriously? :eek:

I have had many sweaty flannels and BO towels on my face, just a part of life.

I am very hygienic by the way.

teenwolf · 30 Mar 2016 at 03:23

A good shimmy between the legs bum crack n all, then put the towel back on the radiator for the next user.
This is normal right ?

mccarf · 30 Mar 2016 at 04:20

I take a towel from the clean towel pile then keep it in my bedroom after I've used it so that nobody else can use it. Everyone else in the house does the same thing with their own towels. After I decide it needs to go in the wash I'll put it in the basket and get a new towel.

Malevolence · 30 Mar 2016 at 05:11

SexyGreyFox said:
Do you have your own towel?

Of course I do, a towel is just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry.

I don't only have just the one either, I have a multitude of towels. Get me, I'm loaded.

Efour · 30 Mar 2016 at 05:24

Don't use a towel. I use toilet rolls. Get through quite a few.

Spacedeck · 30 Mar 2016 at 06:41

ThePirateHulk said:
No, it isn't normal IMO.

You hang it up to dry after use and then it's ready for the next time you need it.

Washing a towel after every use is hugely wasteful.

To who? If you are going to be generally washing some dirty laundry, why is it such an issue to just wash a used towel along with them? The same for washing a bunch of towels at the end of every month.

You aren't exactly using more water than the next guy. I don't see the issue and personally I like my towels clean and fresh.

HEADRAT · 30 Mar 2016 at 06:46

I have a my own towel, my wife calls it the "dog towel".

I like my towels old/worn and scratchy, none of that "soft towel" rubbish

Haggisman · 30 Mar 2016 at 06:51

adolf hamster said:
We have out own, colour coded, towels for the same reason we have our own colour coded toothbrushes.

That reason is called hygene

You do know it's not normal to try and dry the inside of your mouth after a shower... Right?

Schizo · 30 Mar 2016 at 07:00

Separate towel,hand towel,flannel.

The only thing i share in the bathroom is the toilet and shower and sink.

Cosimo · 30 Mar 2016 at 07:06

Two towels each in our home.

Hades · 30 Mar 2016 at 07:44

Malevolence said:
Of course I do, a towel is just about the most massively useful thing any interstellar Hitchhiker can carry.

If you’ve never been through a matter transference beam before, you’ve probably lost some salt and protein. The beer you had should’ve cushioned your system a bit. How are you feeling?*

easyrider · 30 Mar 2016 at 07:52

SexyGreyFox said:
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.

I just look at the state of dust under your desk and nothing surprises me. :eek:

SexyGreyFox · 30 Mar 2016 at 07:54

easyrider said:
I just look at the state of dust under your desk and nothing surprises me.

How did you fail to see I use the black towels and nobody else does?
Wake up.

However talking about the old days back in late 50s early 60s we had a tin bath in front of the fire.
Every Sunday it was filled up once, I got in first and when I'd finished my Mum would get in and we she had finished my Dad got in.
Before that I got washed standing up in the sink.

easyrider · 30 Mar 2016 at 07:58

SexyGreyFox said:
How did you fail to see I use the black towels and nobody else does?
Wake up.

However talking about the old days back in late 50s early 60s we had a tin bath in front of the fire.
Every Sunday it was filled up once, I got in first and when I'd finished my Mum would get in and we she had finished my Dad got in.
Before that I got washed standing up in the sink.

You use black towels...!

Minging ! :eek:

Haze · 30 Mar 2016 at 08:03

yuk, different towels

spoffle · 30 Mar 2016 at 08:03

tres said:
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!

In a bath, you aren't bathing in your own filth at all. It's a stupid notion that people regurgitate without really thinking about it.