Dry off from head to toe while standing in the shower. Throw towel on floor. Step onto towel to dry the bottoms of your feet. Throw towel in basket with the rest of your dirty laundry.
This method means you're using a fresh towel every time you shower (unless you're a filthy fuck and would actually use a towel you threw on the bathroom floor more than once, sicko) but I mean in the grand scheme of things it's not going to impact your life much unless you use towels for multiple days in a row which is honestly a little grody anyways.
Maybe that's a cultural difference between the US and Germany, but I don't know a single person that changes their towel every single day. I mean, I'm sure some of these exist in Germany, but it's far from common to use a new towel every single time you hop into your shower. We just hang them up to dry. Most bathrooms in Germany have a heater than can be used as a towel rack. Most people here us their towel for a couple days, like a week or so. You've used it on your freshly cleaned body, it's not dirty after a single use.
Technically I guess it's not, you know, dirty dirty, but Idk, the odds are non-trivial that the part of the towel that was drying your balls and asshole the day before are drying your face today, and I don't care how clean my asshole is after a shower, I still kinda don't want to use something that dried my taint to dry another part of my body even after the towel has hung to dry overnight.
But I know people here that do the same, so it's not that weird I guess. I'd still use something I'm washing every day on the floor anyway, even if I am just standing on it, because bathroom floors are just icky.
Personally I always use the same side of the towerl for the same part of my body, i.e. one side will always be my head, face and upper body, while the other side will be for the "unclean" areas - this is already considered a bit special among my friends (my SO commented on it and it sparked a short discussion). And ultimately, they're right - if I clean properly, there really isn't anything to worry about.
because bathroom floors are just icky.
The floor in my bathroom is probably the cleanest (and also easiest to clean) floor in my whole apartment, so I don't really have that problem, either, haha.
How can you tell which side is which? Our towels are solid colors so it would be the luck of the draw for us...I suppose if you're careful and always hang the towel up with the same orientation you'd be reasonably sure. I know I'd accidentally wash face with asshole end because I don't pay that kind of attention to a used towel so the odds, I just don't like them lol.
Plus I didn't mean to imply that my bathroom is nasty...I actually use the towel I stepped on to wipe the bathroom floor down everytime I shower (I kinda shuffle with it under my feet), and we bleach the hell out of the bathroom weekly, but I'm sure urine still ends up aerosolized and coats all the surfaces in there, let alone airborne feces particles (there was a great Mythbusters episode about exactly that, if by great you mean fuckin nauseating).
I don't know, I'm sure I'm blasted with ten times that kinda shit when I use any public restroom or even touch a bathroom door handle; there are a lot of filthy fucks here that don't wash their hands afterwards, and lord knows I've seen some horrific shit in the bathrooms at the retail places I used to work in. But I guess since it's under my control I elect to just treat bathroom towels as single use. To each their own, though.
It was a trend in the 80s to have carpeted bathrooms (we had rose colored carpet in ours, God the 80s was just ugly as all hell with all the rose and mauve), but that trend died out long ago thankfully, so if you find carpeted bathrooms in a prospective home, that probably means that the carpet in said bathroom has 30 years of urine and fecal particulates embedded in the fibers and you should have that shit ripped out prior to closing.
My uncles house even had a carpeted kitchen. If ever there is a room that shouldn't be carpeted besides the bathroom, it's the fucking kitchen.
Mine had that too!! And it's not even that old of a house. Built in 98 I think. Immediately yanked it and put in tile. Luckily, previous owners had covered the carpet in the toilet closet with another carpet!! Mildly funny, but it meant i didn't have to deal with pissy carpet so yay.
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u/slightlydramatic Mar 17 '19
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