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Sharing Towels. Do You?

icyfroth — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:32:12 GMT

This question came up on the breakfast show last week.

Yumi has had 3 house guests in a week.

Normally, her household of 4 often use each other's towels.

As a child, she once slept over at a friends. When she showered in the morning she asked for a towel, her host said just grab any one in the bathroom.

Sami said erk blerk, no way, you don't know if they've been wiping down below last and your'e wiping your face with it next.

Does your family share towels?

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i-need-a-martini — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:33:33 GMT

Yes of course.

When I have guests they get clean towels. Though most of the time they just use ours.

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trish7025 — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:34:15 GMT

yuck no, we have our own..

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polksaladallie — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:34:32 GMT

You sure listen to intellectual programmes.

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tasfleur — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:37:32 GMT

No, we have our own separate towels, and guests get special big fluffy white towel sets, one set for each person and then laundered and put away for the next time as soon as they leave.

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icyfroth — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:36:58 GMT

Oh and I keep our towels separate.

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icyfroth — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:38:43 GMT

I keep our good towels for visitors in the linen press for when I get visitors too, Tas.

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i-need-a-martini — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:39:29 GMT

Why would anyone in your own family need separate towel after they step out of the shower? Isn't the point of showering to clean yourself? I assume you all clean your bits as well?

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icyfroth — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:40:00 GMT

@polksaladallie wrote:
You sure listen to intellectual programmes.

I like to keep a balanced mindset.

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azureline** — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:40:29 GMT

We have our own towels, the main bathroom has different ones, the grandies have pink for girls and blue for boys.

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icyfroth — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:42:00 GMT

@i-need-a-martini wrote:
Why would anyone in your own family need separate towel after they step out of the shower? Isn't the point of showering to clean yourself? I assume you all clean your bits as well?

Agreed. Still...there's something icky about using a towel still damp from the pevious person's use.

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i-need-a-martini — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:44:53 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
@i-need-a-martini wrote:
Why would anyone in your own family need separate towel after they step out of the shower? Isn't the point of showering to clean yourself? I assume you all clean your bits as well?
Agreed. Still...there's something icky about using a towel still damp from the pevious person's use.

WE have about 4 towels going at one go so no one has to use a wet one. Not that I find it icky that it's wet but I like a dry towel particularly in winter.

But once they are dry, they're everyones.

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purplecarrot-top — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:45:42 GMT

We have our own towels. Even growing up our kids had their own.

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azureline** — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 06:58:29 GMT

Look, I don't share towels with my OH as he sometimes uses the towel to dry his hands that have not been washed properly......... I know this because his towels have to be washed after he has worked outside.....

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lis351 — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:02:14 GMT

No. Not ever or with anyone. Each person in the house has their own towel hanging up, they know which is theirs and they only use that one. I dont care how clean you are when you step out of the shower, there are things that shouldnt be shared.

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icyfroth — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:03:47 GMT

Geez yeah, OH's son was staying with us for a while, he loved to tinker with car engines. He'd come into the bathroom, wash his hand and dry them on my nice fluffy white towels.

Grrr. Black handprints.

Anyway, he moved on, but I don't have white towels anymore. They show up everything.

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*mrgrizz* — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:04:35 GMT

that is just gross

like sharing a tooth brush

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lis351 — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:05:16 GMT

that is just gross

like sharing a tooth brush

*nods*

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azureline** — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:05:21 GMT

Our kids had their own colour coded towels, it was then easier to tell them to go hang up the towel they used and left lying in a heap.... you knew who owned it, lol

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*mrgrizz* — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 07:07:37 GMT

@azureline** wrote:
Our kids had their own colour coded towels, it was then easier to tell them to go hang up the towel they used and left lying in a heap.... you knew who owned it, lol

and all these years i thought my mum was concerned about my personal hygeine