Scrolling Saturday began as a way to introduce older posts that flew under the radar -- you know, posts you wrote when only your mother was reading your blog. I'm using it as a chance to dust off an old post so that I can clean up my house (or catch up on responding to comments-- whichever takes priority)
Brought to you by:
Manners and Moxie and Rock and Drool...Mom Gone Mental
Monday, May 19, 2008
My Towel is Purple
We're saving the planet.
One measly laundry load at a time.
I do not wash towels with every use-- what's the point? If you've done the job correctly in the shower or the bath, you're going to rub that soft, fluffy fabric all over your clean body, right? Hung properly, said towel dries quickly and no bacteria grows, so why can't you use it again?One measly laundry load at a time.
My sentiments exactly (and for those of you panicking and scrolling to the header, you did not accidently click on the Bonbons blog).
We all use our towels for a few days, and then they go into the wash and are replaced by new towels.
My towel is a dark rich purple. Always has been. Well, for the last three years, anyway.
However, since we moved into this house, my towel has been wet.
I get up in the morning, and my towel is wet.
I go to bed at night, my towel is still wet.
What the heck? Is it more humid here, 6 miles from our old home?
So yesterday, I pull out all of the towels from our en suite. I put a new purple towel in there and begin washing the others.
I told the Hubby that he'd need to grab a towel before he showered because I had removed the ones in the bathroom for washing. When I went in a little later, after his shower, there were no new towels and the purple one was... WET.
Well, that's almost comparable to using my toothbrush as far as I'm concerned.
The war was on.
"My towel is the purple one. Why are you using my towel?! Your towel is tan. Your towel is sometimes green, but MY towel is and has always been the purple one!"
"But it was on my towel rack".
He has a towel rack? Who assigned towel racks? In a bathroom with two racks, each holding a tan/purple combination, he assumed one rack was his and one was mine?
Men. He's got some serious issues to work through...
Shades of Hitchhikers Guide to the Glaxy here - Does hubby not know he has to carry his bath towel at all times?!
ReplyDeleteHmmm...we share a rack and have the same color towels, but have never had a problem. With towels anyway. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is some nerve using someone else's towel! Too funny. My hubs is all territorial too, but not when it comes to my stuff either. Man! Meh!
ReplyDeleteI hope he's learned his lesson. You're towel should be nice and dry for a few months at least.
ReplyDeleteToo funny. My towels are deep purple too.. but I don't mind sharing - the colour, not the towel. It's when my son leaves his towel on his bedroom floor that I wan to to.. throw in the towel. ;)
ReplyDeletelol! my husband's the same way. i felt like i was reading about my own life!!
ReplyDeleteMy hubby does that too & I can't for the life of me figure out why he doesn't use a clean towel instead of mine. Argh!
ReplyDeleteI have an award for you today on my blog, so please stop by.
I wash ours after every use. Very bad for the planet I know.
ReplyDeleteheh! (See the variation on my normal, HA?) Those men, they just have to get the rules straight, and then everything will be fine.
ReplyDeleteThat was funny. I will say, I hate the towel on the floor the most, but have threatened all of my one a day towel lovers with certain death if they do not reuse the towel. Mom of six. I get your request!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking you need to stitch the words "YOURS" and "MINE" on the towels. :)
ReplyDeleteThat was one of the first lessons of my marriage nearly 30 years ago. Towels are to be reused more than once. Growing up, you used a towel once and then it went into the dirty clothes hamper. I never realized. My poor mother. She had six children to try and stay ahead of.
ReplyDeleteI love it, and sooo empathise! We have four showers in our house, enough for everyone, eh? No. Wrong. The water pressue in MY en-suite is apparently the only one worth heading for.
ReplyDeleteHence the battering on my bedroom door every time I try to steal a lie-in. Towels? It's a free for all. Noone dries off in the bathroom, dropping their wet ones next to the mouldy bowls on the floor of their room. I HATE IT!! The times I've come a cropper, dripping and naked only to find a facecloth left in place to mop myself up with.
'Tis a wonderful thing to have kids, eh?
LOL You'll have to stitch "his" and "hers" on those towels I suppose.
ReplyDeleteIs hubby colour blind? Mine always expects his towel to be in the same place. He wouldn't notice what colour the towel is. It is amazing how unobservant he is and he would not notice 'his' and 'hers' labels.
ReplyDeleteToo funny! You have a great blog here!
ReplyDeleteThanks for coming by my blog this weekend! Its so fun to get to know other bloggers a little!
I'm pretty sure that purple shoes would do the trick too. :) Thanks for your kind words!
Funny how we can use the same towel for a few days (because clean bodies, right?) but can't share a towel with another clean body. And yet, there it is.
ReplyDeleteLOL
ReplyDelete