All you people who use a washcloth in the shower

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m on team bar soap/no washcloth/no top sheet, so am ignorant to the ways of the washcloth. But we have some washcloths and I was always taught growing up to give houseguests one towel, one hand towel, and one washcloth. Sounds like from this thread that washcloths are usually only used once. If that’s the case, should I be giving houseguests a bunch of washcloths? Like one for every day they are visiting?

I'd supply with one of each and then have a basket of them available (in guest room? under sink?) so they know where to get more if needed.

[Anonymous]

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.

I have a loofa mitt and once a month I put it in dishwasher to clean.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Wait sorry, are you saying you clean the counters with paper towels when you have guests?

[Anonymous]

I do know that I pretty much think about it every time I get in the shower since watching an episode of a sitcom that I think was called The Neighbors (??) where they made a deal about how white people shower and how black people shower when the white neighbor was using the black neighbor's shower and was offered a wash cloth and when she was coming out she was all like "huh, who knew?"

And yet somehow I still haven't incorporated that.

I do think about it because my DIL is from Africa and although her visa hasn't come through I have started to notice things like she's very into exfoliating (instagram and tick tock) and I guess it's like the reverse of white people getting sunburned and having to put on sunscreen the whiter you are, dead skin on their pigment actually really does look like ash. We all take care of our skin in different ways.

I always hope I talk about these things in respectful ways and I apologize every time if I messed something up

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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??

Nobody uses bars of soap anymore, dummy.

Sure they do, silly! Check out the selection at Costco, Amazon, CVS and your local supermarket. Handmade soaps are very popular.

I use bar soap every single day.

The body washes were a watered down waste of money.

And add to the plastic mess in the world.

[Anonymous]

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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 mom grew up in a farmhouse with no indoor plumbing. She bathed once a week, with water brought in from the pump and heated on the stove. She used/uses a washcloth.

I think maybe it has something to do with growing up poor where you take a bath with a low amount of water rather than a shower with tons of running water.

[Anonymous]

We used washcloths for face only when I was a kid. Washed them with towels.
You scrub your anus with a washcloth? Yikes.

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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??

It is 2025.

I don’t think a lot of people are still using BARS of soap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in a rental apartment and do not have a washer or dryer either in my unit nor a community one on-site so every wknd I have to trek to my local laundromat + wash/dry all my clothes there.

I personally do not find it more problematic that I have to wash washcloths since they generally do not take up extra space.

I only use 1 a day though in my morning shower - at night I just cleanse my face w/my hands.

I also own about 25 washcloths so I have plenty to last me an entire wk > or even more if for some reason I cannot make it to the laundromat.

You use a new one every day?

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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??

It is 2025.

I don’t think a lot of people are still using BARS of soap.

I use bars of soap. The bar of soap lives in a hanging pouch that suds up well in the shower. The pouch is reusable.

I also use cloth napkins and washcloths.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have always (since childhood) used a washcloth when I shower or bathe.

I cannot feel clean 🧼 if I only use my hands to clean myself….
A washcloth IS soft & it makes me just feel cleaner overall after bathing…..

It bothers my sensitive skin and dries it out. Here's something all dcum will think gross - I don't use soap either because it dries my skin. I use shampoo on my hair and the suds that come off that I use to clean my body. I do wash my hands often and they are dry and aged, despite always using moisturizer.

Switch to oil

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We used washcloths for face only when I was a kid. Washed them with towels.
You scrub your anus with a washcloth? Yikes.

What do you scrub yours with?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We used washcloths for face only when I was a kid. Washed them with towels.
You scrub your anus with a washcloth? Yikes.

What do you scrub yours with?

The butt bar or a sudsy hand. I wipe carefully and use Huggies water wipes after defecation so there aren't brown chunks, lol.

[Anonymous]

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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.

I love you

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