What's your hand towel solution at a big party?

[Anonymous]

We use the Kleenex disposable hand towels with the stainless steel cover.

[Anonymous]

Roll of paper towels

[Anonymous]

Thanks all, this is op and responses are helpful and make me feel like i'm not in crazy land.

The kleenex box i got at Target does NOT look the same as the one that comes up when you google it. It says "Hand Towels" in big letters on the perforated part that you tear out to access the towel dispenser. Then it has a super small "hand towel" sign in the lower right corner. So really not obviously a hand towel. And unfortunately both our downstairs baths are old school 5x8 original bath size, so we didn't have room for bars - just hooks. So we can't use the kleenex boxes as designed to put on a bar upside down.

There's no way DH and I can commit to change out cloth towels all night; with almost 100 people, DH making mixed drinks all night, and otherwise just attending to guests, and we'll both be drinking - too much to remember.

So i think i will stick with the disposible plan and just make sure to hide the cloth towels and hope people get the message. Hiding the cloth towel is the only thing I've failed to do in past years, so hopefully that will nudge folks in the right direction. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Who are you people even using the bathroom at a party! I stay for an hour to two tops and wouldn’t do it. I also dont use towels. Wash and shake off my hands.

[Anonymous]

Kleenex makes two kinds of hand towels the odd shape that you can lay on the towel rack and remove all other towels and just have that. It can also "stand" on a counter. And a second type one that looks like a tissue box that you can't possibly miss:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kleenex-Pop-up-Hand-Towel-Box/976886977

Have nothing else available as its unsanitary and gross for 100+ people to use. How is a white towel "yellowed" immediately?! Nasty!! That let's you know that's not working. Only use disposable. A lot of people will quietly judge anyone who has guests over without disposable hand towels. Don't be that person!

[Anonymous]

A friend has printed disposable hand towels (of their home) and a nice trash can just below it. There are no other towels in the powder room. I've never seen these not used.

I buy nice (but not nearly as fancy) disposable hand towels on Amazon, put them in a holder, with a small trash can directly below the holder. Same, I've never had people not use them.

Perhaps the key is to not give people a choice, and having a little trash can directly below the holder.

[Anonymous]

Remove all regular towels from the bathroom.

I use the kleenex hand towels.

I just found that they make covers for them
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cover+for+kleenex+hand+towel+box&hvadid=777133681840&hvdev=c&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9007769&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=11944344252146605437--&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11944344252146605437&hvtargid=kwd-957033724283&hydadcr=11720_13622253&mcid=5dce9588d24e3082924dbcc9e083ba1e&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_1ihu4ha4vg_e

[Anonymous]

Every guest should receive one hand towel when they arrive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're having a big holiday party next weekend. With kids, expect somewhere from 60-90 people. Not catered, not formal, but we live in a really nice house and do it up really nicely -- DH and I both love to entertain.

Every year that we throw this party, i struggle with the best solution of hand drying towels in the bathroom. When i was a lot younger and we'd throw a party with 20 friends, I wouldn't even think about it -- and i remember being surprised and mildly guilty-feeling at the end of the night when I noticed that everyone just had to use the cloth hand towel that was already in our bathroom day to day, because by the end of the night it would be soaking wet and (if it was white) kind of yellowing. Gross.

Over the years, i've tried different solutions. The one that makes the most sense to me is disposable "cloth" towels like they have in nicer restaurants and i would put them in a non-disposable holder I got on amazon designed for this purpose. I used to be able to get those disposable clothes at Target or the grocery store, but they don't carry them anymore. But in any event, even when i put them out, people seemed confused by their purpose and they got less use than i expected.

Stores near me do carry a Kleenex branded version of "hand towels" - but you have to use them in the Kleenex box they come in; if you pull out the whole wad, they are an awkward size and don't fit anywhere else and won't stand up on their own. So then you have a Kleenex branded (ugly) box in your bathroom, that doesn't obviously say "Hand Towel" on it. So when i've used that approach.... poor guests end up not knowing it's hand towels, and at the end of the night i find that like 2 of the kleenex towels have been used, and the full sized bath towel is sopping wet. So poor guests have been thinking they need to use the full sized bath towel.

Long story short: All the disposable solutions i've tried, at the end of the night it seems most people are still just using the same non-disposable hand towel. Which to me seems gross, but maybe it's fine?

If i have 100 people using my bathroom next weekend, what's the best way to give them a hygienic, user friendly, and obvious hand drying approach?

Will people not know where to throw out the disposable ones? Regardless what is used, one of you should make reminders to check in on that wash room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are you people even using the bathroom at a party! I stay for an hour to two tops and wouldn’t do it. I also dont use towels. Wash and shake off my hands.

Last time OP here to post.... because this post was dumb. Maybe your parties suck. Our parties are pretty popular. People start showing up at 7, and last people are leaving usually around 2-3am. There's a LOT of food, a LOT of drink, and a lot of bathroom use!! This is not your grandma's boring party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who are you people even using the bathroom at a party! I stay for an hour to two tops and wouldn’t do it. I also dont use towels. Wash and shake off my hands.

Last time OP here to post.... because this post was dumb. Maybe your parties suck. Our parties are pretty popular. People start showing up at 7, and last people are leaving usually around 2-3am. There's a LOT of food, a LOT of drink, and a lot of bathroom use!! This is not your grandma's boring party.

What makes grandma's party boring?

[Anonymous]

Poor grandma. Nobody wants to use her monogrammed disposable hand towels at her party.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kleenex makes two kinds of hand towels the odd shape that you can lay on the towel rack and remove all other towels and just have that. It can also "stand" on a counter. And a second type one that looks like a tissue box that you can't possibly miss:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Kleenex-Pop-up-Hand-Towel-Box/976886977

Have nothing else available as its unsanitary and gross for 100+ people to use. How is a white towel "yellowed" immediately?! Nasty!! That let's you know that's not working. Only use disposable. A lot of people will quietly judge anyone who has guests over without disposable hand towels. Don't be that person!

+1. This is the one I mentioned earlier that has a stainless steel cover. Looks nice and easy to wipe clean.

https://www.amazon.com/Kleenex-Stainless-Countertop-POP-UP-Towels/dp/B0040ZOEQW/ref=mp_s_a_1_12?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.wwODJTYGwgyw_qf-wyr0ZgzA3gHEXOTk7QkNOk_NlrPAu1m5HMHt_XbaglgvfU2NPLro2pbamuUZLlwNlyHiaIaMLzsxOLEkt-deEEZYRS-vo1NuEVAv9fxJmcIOEzxkdwuxWYPjIJYoofpTk5ZdfwTCeIZL-ruIQupIzc5QB_MJmpRNjsQpwQ0T85w2I94NVxNpI_HKc0Jo07jBTxzSig.WhUBbnauzsMPhpwTqjQ0TF2NlsiFr9L79k76KFBs1no&dib_tag=se&keywords=kleenex+hand+towel+dispenser&qid=1765649125&sr=8-12#immersive-view_1765655383059

[Anonymous]

I use the disposable ones and have a nice rattan container for them. Like this:

[Anonymous]

Ever since COVID, I've been using napkins like these, which I have in a basket:

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I don't put out a hand towel, so there's no option to use one.