All you people who use a washcloth in the shower

[Anonymous]

If I were really wealthy with staff to handle everything, I would use them. As it is, I get really grossed out by wet towels around my house and I know my kids would reuse them, also gross. So I don’t use them and am raising my kids not to either! Slightly better are the towel shaped plastic scrub things. But they’re plastic and also get gross, just not immediately.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better than using one of those bath pouf things? That's what I always use...

Yes, cotton wash cloths and a gentle bar soap are far better than rubbing plastic mesh all over your body with hydrocarbon soap poured from a plastic container.

[Anonymous]

I grew using washcloths but this was because my parents both grew up on farms with outhouses, so, they only took baths once per week.

If you only bathe once per week, you have to use a washcloth every day for sponge baths.

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Anonymous wrote:This is how we convert you to our team. First we hire you to housesit, and then we put out a tempting pile of washcloths.

Before you know it, you’re one of us, randomly evangelizing about washcloths on the internet.

Here's what I wonder: I grew up in a home with a washer and dryer - why didn't I get taught to use washcloths in the shower by my parents? Is it because one of them grew up in an apartment where they had to pay to use the washing machine?

My parents weren’t washcloth people and grew up with easy access to laundry and doing lots of it (farms, babies, factory work, etc).

It’s cultural- I didn’t understand washcloths until I saw other people had them in college. If we got a towel set that came with washcloths when I was a kid, they just sat in the linen closet forever. My mom still washes her face by just splashing water around like she’s in a face wash commercial or auditioning to be a seal, and then she wipes it up off the floor and counter with a towel she keeps expressly for that purpose.

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Anonymous wrote:This is how we convert you to our team. First we hire you to housesit, and then we put out a tempting pile of washcloths.

Before you know it, you’re one of us, randomly evangelizing about washcloths on the internet.

Here's what I wonder: I grew up in a home with a washer and dryer - why didn't I get taught to use washcloths in the shower by my parents? Is it because one of them grew up in an apartment where they had to pay to use the washing machine?

I was trained to use them as a child. As an adult I've abandoned the pointless practice and didn't impart this wisdom to my children either.

To the washcloth evangelist - Maybe I should become a born-again washcloth user?

You can always come back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You...do not have a washing machine? Do you live in a shelter? And you are house sitting? What app are you on?

What a rude thing to say. A lot of apartments don’t have washers and dryers in each unit. And if someone were living in a shelter, do you really need to poke fun of them? Wtf, not having a washer and dryer equates to being unhoused, and being unhoused is now an insult we toss around to make fun of people with less privilege? This place is bananas sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Every day a new washcloth?

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It’s a pain to wash a million cloths daily. Snd they wear out faster then hard to find matching.
Seriously disgusting are those who reuse their washcloths without matching wash/dry.

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better than using one of those bath pouf things? That's what I always use...

I’m sorry, but how are you washing that pouf between uses? Soaking in bleach? I dated a guy and when I saw the obviously reused (unclean) pouf in his bathroom it was a deal breaker. Bleh. He said he had skin issues, well yeah it’s from your nasty pouf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is how we convert you to our team. First we hire you to housesit, and then we put out a tempting pile of washcloths.

Before you know it, you’re one of us, randomly evangelizing about washcloths on the internet.

Thank you for this laugh - I’m having a stressful day and needed this!

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Anonymous wrote:Is it better than using one of those bath pouf things? That's what I always use...

I’m sorry, but how are you washing that pouf between uses? Soaking in bleach? I dated a guy and when I saw the obviously reused (unclean) pouf in his bathroom it was a deal breaker. Bleh. He said he had skin issues, well yeah it’s from your nasty pouf

we throw ours in the wash but not after every use. it dries quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every day a new washcloth?

Every use. Wash face? New washcloth. Wash face after work? New washcloth. Shower? New washcloth.

We keep a little plastic laundry basket from the dollar store in the bathroom for used ones. No big deal.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a pain to wash a million cloths daily. Snd they wear out faster then hard to find matching.
Seriously disgusting are those who reuse their washcloths without matching wash/dry.

I buy a few big packs of white ones every year when Macy’s has a linen sale. Dingy ones become cleaning rags (unless company is over, we do all our kitchen wipe-down and stuff with rags instead of paper towels). All of my towels are white so I can brighten them with Biz or bleach them if they look really sad.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I need a lesson on wash cloths. How do you use them? Do you just wash your face with them outside the shower? Do you use them in the shower? Can you use them to wipe your body? Do you put soap on them and then wash your body? Do you put soap on your body and then scrub it with a wash cloth? Someone mentioned wiping your butt with them - is that really something? Please walk me through your wash cloth routine!

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Anonymous wrote:I was housesitting last week in a home that has a washing machine and a lot of washcloths. So I thought of you and tried it. It made my skin SO much softer! If I had a washing machine I'd TOTALLY incorporate washcloths into my showers at home. You were all right.

You brought your own soap when housesitting?

No???

You used someone else’s bar of soap??

I assumed body wash, not bar soap. Do people use bar soap anymore? I don't think I've seen it in years!

Bar soap is a little more efficient. It comes in a paper box.

Packaging is better for the environment, too. Paper box is compostable. Plastic bottles of body wash not so much.

My problem with bar soap is that I have to throw out the last 20% because it breaks and becomes much harder to use. It's also impossible to scrub all of the deodorant off. I prefer a loofah and body wash.

with bar soap you can use that last 20%. Just wet the top of a new bar, then place last 20% of old bar, let it dry and you have combined two soaps into one