Why would an employer expect you to use their communal bathroom hand towel?

[Anonymous]

I wash everything regularly. Paper towels are wasteful.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting for the poster who uses three paper towels folded up every day in the shower instead of a washcloth. She's been here before...[/quoted]

Here I am! I now use four folded sheets.

For what?

Use Instead of wash cloths and then wash tub with them
Dry and toss in paper recycling.

[Anonymous]

It's normal in a family home to use a small hand towel (to be changed out frequently). If that makes you squeamish because of germs and you share the family bathroom, why not take out your own personal one from the family's linen closet and wash it with the children's clothes?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Very few people have paper towels in their own home for hand drying purposes. Among other things, it's really environmentally unfriendly. Perhaps you can ask for your own hand towel (or bring your own) and wash it weekly?

I have Bounty paper towels in every bathroom and kitchen. Paper towels are clean and go in paper recycling. Communal hand towels, whether in kitchen or bathroom, are gross and disgusting. I actually saw someone blow their nose on one. Yuck!

OP, I would just bring my own roll of paper towels.

Paper towels cannot be recycled.

Get some hand sanitizer to use after you touch the towel.

Thanks for killing our planet with your daily run to Costco for the 500 paper towels you waste a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Very few people have paper towels in their own home for hand drying purposes. Among other things, it's really environmentally unfriendly. Perhaps you can ask for your own hand towel (or bring your own) and wash it weekly?

I have Bounty paper towels in every bathroom and kitchen. Paper towels are clean and go in paper recycling. Communal hand towels, whether in kitchen or bathroom, are gross and disgusting. I actually saw someone blow their nose on one. Yuck!

OP, I would just bring my own roll of paper towels.

Paper towels cannot be recycled.

Get some hand sanitizer to use after you touch the towel.

Thanks for killing our planet with your daily run to Costco for the 500 paper towels you waste a day.

Paper most certainly can be recycled
Disposable diapers, however, ate a different story.

[Anonymous]

Paper towels are wasteful. We assume anyone washing their hands is using soap. Thus, towels are clean. They are changed out twice a week. If you're more anal than that, bring your own towel from home each day.

[Anonymous]

You are a freak, OP. Of course you are expected to use the guest towel - like everyone else. Stop being such a weirdo. You touch everything in the house that the parents and kids touch with significantly dirtier hands than those that have just washed them.

Be more worried about the DB not washing his hands after he takes a huge poop in that bathroom and them opens the door... Or the kid who just got back from a toddler class and wants to cuddle with you and he has head lice... Or when you have to cover your own mouth to protect your charge from a sneeze as you are changing a poop diaper...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are a freak, OP. Of course you are expected to use the guest towel - like everyone else. Stop being such a weirdo. You touch everything in the house that the parents and kids touch with significantly dirtier hands than those that have just washed them.

Be more worried about the DB not washing his hands after he takes a huge poop in that bathroom and them opens the door... Or the kid who just got back from a toddler class and wants to cuddle with you and he has head lice... Or when you have to cover your own mouth to protect your charge from a sneeze as you are changing a poop diaper...

That’s why you sneeze into your elbow...

[Anonymous]

My nanny uses the communal towel. There is a separat towel for toddler dd hung at her level. The towel gets washed frequently. There are fabric kitchen towels the nanny uses as well. That’s how I grew up and my whole family has them in the bathrooms. There are places out in the world where people don’t have paper towels in their homes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My nanny uses the communal towel. There is a separat towel for toddler dd hung at her level. The towel gets washed frequently. There are fabric kitchen towels the nanny uses as well. That’s how I grew up and my whole family has them in the bathrooms. There are places out in the world where people don’t have paper towels in their homes!

I have never been to someone's home where they put out paper towels. You use the hand towel, which is washed relatively frequently. If it bothers you, bring your own towel. And get help for your germaphobia.

[Anonymous]

What a bizarre thread.

I use the hand towels. NF has 4 bathrooms, and the bathroom I use is rarely used by anyone else. I also have the ability to replace the hand towel.

Mountains out of molehills.

[Anonymous]

Enjoy your allergies and autoimmune disease, OP

[Anonymous]

This is the craziest thing I've ever read here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the craziest thing I've ever read here.

Curious what The American Academy of Pediatricians would have to say about sharing hand towels with household employees. Please name one single physician who thinks it's a good idea.

[Anonymous]

no, paper towels can not be recycled. they are already degraded, like plastic bags, and are garbage after you use them-just FYI.
i just replace them frequently and wash them with the kids clothes, as has been suggested. it's really a big deal. use a paper towel if it's going to ruin your day, but yes, it is wasteful and environmentally unfriendly.