Guest etiquette- towels

[Anonymous]

I ruined some washcloths years ago with acne cleanser. The bleach marks didn't show up immediately. I noticed when I pulled them out of the dryer after laundering. I ruined a bunch of them before realizing what I'd done.

I highly doubt your guests were aware they'd damaged your towels.

[Anonymous]

Yep I had a guy I was dating destroy 2 towels and a hand towel with benzoyl peroxide. I was so upset. They were expensive towels that were monogrammed as a housewarming present to me. I broke up with him mostly because of this (he also wasn’t very interesting).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ruined some washcloths years ago with acne cleanser. The bleach marks didn't show up immediately. I noticed when I pulled them out of the dryer after laundering. I ruined a bunch of them before realizing what I'd done.

I highly doubt your guests were aware they'd damaged your towels.

+1
The damage from this kind of stuff doesn't always show up right away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had family friends staying with us; apparently their teens use some kind of body wash that completely destroyed an entire set of towels.

of course, my husband put the “good” towels from our wedding out which is his fault, not theirs, but still a little bit more annoying.

This is my question— if you were the parents of said teens, wouldn’t you have asked “hey, our kids use something that will destroy colored towels, do you have any white ones?” Or given a heads up ahead of time? Idk. It feels like basic thoughtfulness to me but I also don’t have teens so maybe I’m expecting too much.

OMG it's just towels. I get it, they were your "good towels", but what were you saving them for exactly? They're meant to be used, use them! And please don't saying anything to your friends about this, it will only make you look like a cheap psycho.

Also, no I have no idea what my 20 year uses on his face and I'm certainly not going to come armed with an ingredient list every time we travel somewhere to let others know what chemicals are in the products we're currently using.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s peroxide.

They made a mistake because they’re teens. It’s not poor etiquette to make a mistake. At most, the parents should send you some new towels. But to me that would be totally unnecessary and I would make clear as the host that sh$t happens and it’s no big deal.

Honestly OP this is just kind of the destiny of towels, even nice ones from your wedding. Some of them live to become old and infirm. Some of them go out in a blaze of Clearasil glory, sacrificed to the War on Backne. They’re all rags in the end.

One of the best responses I've seen on DCUM! Thanks for making me chuckle.

[Anonymous]

I doubt they knew it. Teens probably didn't notice; parents didn't inspect teens' towels after use.

But you should definitely tell them you are ticked off and why. That way they'll never stay with you again, which is best for all parties.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s peroxide.

They made a mistake because they’re teens. It’s not poor etiquette to make a mistake. At most, the parents should send you some new towels. But to me that would be totally unnecessary and I would make clear as the host that sh$t happens and it’s no big deal.

Honestly OP this is just kind of the destiny of towels, even nice ones from your wedding. Some of them live to become old and infirm. Some of them go out in a blaze of Clearasil glory, sacrificed to the War on Backne. They’re all rags in the end.

One of the best responses I've seen on DCUM! Thanks for making me chuckle.

Agree, this made my day!

[Anonymous]

Colored towels are pretty tacky so they likely have white towels at home and would not have known and likely didn’t notice

[Anonymous]

Lol....OP is not coming back to this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s peroxide.

They made a mistake because they’re teens. It’s not poor etiquette to make a mistake. At most, the parents should send you some new towels. But to me that would be totally unnecessary and I would make clear as the host that sh$t happens and it’s no big deal.

Honestly OP this is just kind of the destiny of towels, even nice ones from your wedding. Some of them live to become old and infirm. Some of them go out in a blaze of Clearasil glory, sacrificed to the War on Backne. They’re all rags in the end.

One of the best responses I've seen on DCUM! Thanks for making me chuckle.

+1. Funny and wise--well done!

[Anonymous]

No one did anything wrong but you probably want to switch to bleachable towels in the future since it could be makeup, grease or an ink accident next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s peroxide.

They made a mistake because they’re teens. It’s not poor etiquette to make a mistake. At most, the parents should send you some new towels. But to me that would be totally unnecessary and I would make clear as the host that sh$t happens and it’s no big deal.

Honestly OP this is just kind of the destiny of towels, even nice ones from your wedding. Some of them live to become old and infirm. Some of them go out in a blaze of Clearasil glory, sacrificed to the War on Backne. They’re all rags in the end.

DCUM Perfection. 10 out of 10.

[Anonymous]

Who cares about towels getting ruined? If you really care this much about towels then the solution is to use guest towels you *don't* care about, not to act shocked that your guests didn't treat your towels as a precious family heirloom.

Also, yes, if they knew they were damaged they should probably have apologized (to which you should have said "oh don't worry about it, not a big deal" if you are a decent person), but what makes you think even the teens knew, let alone the parents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s peroxide.

They made a mistake because they’re teens. It’s not poor etiquette to make a mistake. At most, the parents should send you some new towels. But to me that would be totally unnecessary and I would make clear as the host that sh$t happens and it’s no big deal.

Honestly OP this is just kind of the destiny of towels, even nice ones from your wedding. Some of them live to become old and infirm. Some of them go out in a blaze of Clearasil glory, sacrificed to the War on Backne. They’re all rags in the end.

We still have one towel that was a wedding gift. We have been married 41 years. It is certainly not one of our nicer towels after all these years, LOL. It is one of those towels that gets used for drying off the wet dog, drying off muddy feet, etc.

[Anonymous]

Since Covid I don’t save anything for “best”. Next pull out your wedding china and freaking USE IT. you’re welcome.