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

[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.

We have a lot of parties, and I can tell you that people stay for more than two hours and they use the powder room. I don't expect guests to "shake their hands," so I provide towels for them.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for disposables with no cloth towels to confuse anybody. Make sure to use and crumple up a couple of the paper ones and dispose of in trash can before the party starts so it’s clear.

[Anonymous]

I also vote disposable towels. Be careful though if lots of kids — we had a big party and multiple kids apparently flushed down those thick disposable hand towels and we had a huge plumbing situation

[Anonymous]

Set some timers and switch the hand towel a few times. Just have them folded under the sink ready to go. You should do this anyway so you can check the condition of the sink, toilet and TP. Have Clorox wipes handy too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Pp again. You want the ultra soft Kleenex hand towels.

[Anonymous]

I assign 1 person bathroom duty and they replace the hand towel, the tea light candle and ensue there is toilet paper on the hour.

I have 2 bathrooms guest will use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Set some timers and switch the hand towel a few times. Just have them folded under the sink ready to go. You should do this anyway so you can check the condition of the sink, toilet and TP. Have Clorox wipes handy too.

Cloth hand towels are unsanitary especially in flu/covid/norovirus season unless you have a clean one for each person. The alternative to paper is to buy a lot of white washcloths and have your guests throw them in a basket/hamper to be washed in bleach later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I also vote disposable towels. Be careful though if lots of kids — we had a big party and multiple kids apparently flushed down those thick disposable hand towels and we had a huge plumbing situation

+1 I put a Please Do Not Flush sign in front of the towels.

[Anonymous]

It’s fairly common for people to have paper towels on a nice stand in the powder room…because nobody uses the germy hand towels. Put out dial soap (hand pump), purell, and hand lotion.

The disposable “hand towel” napkins inevitably overflow the trash basket (and some moron will flush one).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Set some timers and switch the hand towel a few times. Just have them folded under the sink ready to go. You should do this anyway so you can check the condition of the sink, toilet and TP. Have Clorox wipes handy too.

Cloth hand towels are unsanitary especially in flu/covid/norovirus season unless you have a clean one for each person. The alternative to paper is to buy a lot of white washcloths and have your guests throw them in a basket/hamper to be washed in bleach later.

I’ve literally never used disposable hand towels at a house party for someone under the age of 80.

[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.

This might be the weirdest thing I’ve read on DCUM. You only stay an hour or 2 so you don’t have to use the bathroom? What if you are having a good time?

[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?

Disposables that you buy from Homegoods, Homesense or Amazon.

[Anonymous]

Put out disposables. Use one and crumple it then throw it in the garbage, as a model. Or just put out a little sign that says “hand towels” or something.

[Anonymous]

I am just now seeing a link to the Kleenex hand towels. It looks like Kleenex. No wonder people are all using the same regular towel.

Get a tray and a stack of individual disposable towels. The ones a PP links to with initials is good. Or the kind that have a pattern on them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use these - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV9TLN9T?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_3&th=1

I would laugh so hard if I saw these in someone’s bathroom. Bougie AF.