How many uses can a man find for a clean tea towel?

Perhaps these “rogue” dh’s misbehave as a way of being banned from the kitchen. Wouldn’t put it past them.

grumppa

I only use tea towels for drying the washing up. Am I some kind of a freak?

No indeed, you are a good man.My DH will ask for a cloth for any other purpose, then it can be either washed or thrown away.
I do not think it a matter of the sexes here, but each different person having a different character.

Thought of this thread last night when OH kicked the dog’s water bowl and I handed him the tea towel I was using to soak up the water. It did go straight in the washing machine

I wish I was still yummy though when we landed at this house my next-door neighbour asked me what I was doing with a yummy mummy car, the old mini is still going strong.
Thanks for your support.
Dh knows what I wrote and actually added a few I hadn't said, the mucous made me laugh he hasn't confessed to that one yet.

Oops Yammy not Yummy !

Yummy intended this as a light hearted thread and it is .

I'm not the only one who has found tea towels covered in mud , oil and paint .

And here's another mucous from nose blowing .

They all go in the wash with bleach and Dettol .
I hide my best ones .

Dishwasher has a dry feature, I use far less water in the dishwasher than faffing around with dishes after meals. No tea towels, just a stack of kitchen terry towels for hands and spills. Domestos washed.

Nightsky2

MawtheMerrier

grumppa

Now that's what I call sexism!

Hear, hear!
Are people saying women never grab the nearest thing or do any of these things?
(I don’t think DH was ever guilty of the above while he was alive either )
But as an aside, I do dislike this jokey “men are so useless” type of generalisation. It’s like saying women can’t park, or Essex girls wear white stilettos and blondes are dim.

I don’t like this thread either

Well try and get it taken down then,I certainly did after what was said about it by grumpa and maw,unfortunately, they took no notice of me.
It also seems to ring a bell with a lot of people. It was meant light-hearted and thank you, everyone, who has taken it as it was meant to be. You seem to see it far more for what it was meant than a sexist attitude towards men in general.
Are we now going to have "Tea towel man ", instead of "Workington man", which in fact nearly hits the spot?

MawtheMerrier

grumppa

Now that's what I call sexism!

Hear, hear!
Are people saying women never grab the nearest thing or do any of these things?
(I don’t think DH was ever guilty of the above while he was alive either )
But as an aside, I do dislike this jokey “men are so useless” type of generalisation. It’s like saying women can’t park, or Essex girls wear white stilettos and blondes are dim.

I don’t like this thread either

Blossoming - you seldom go into the kitchen? How have you wangled that?

Ours disappear!
But, now I have learned if there are no clean ones, none to be found in a clean wash pile just waiting to be put away......check behind his sofa!!
Yup. He'll be cooking or washing up, go to his sofa for a rest (COPD) & instead of just leaving them where you'd expect, like on the bench, over a unit door or over the back of a dining chair, he'll carry it to his sofa, put his arm across the back of the sofa while still holding the towel. Let go as he shuffles about or picks up th remote. Eventually go back to his task, without the towel which has somehow slipped behind the sofa and then get a fresh one out as he can't remember where the 1st one is....and the cycle continues!
I have tried and tried and tried to get him out of this habit. Hints will be very much appreciated!!

Not all at once, I hope!

Callistemon21

Anrol

Sadly my OH doesn’t know what a t-towel is.
Lovely man, useless at “womens” work, unless specifically asked and if it’s drying up, his answer will be; I’ll just leave it here to dry.

Leaving it to dry is probably safer from a health point of view, Anrol, if the state of tea towels on this thread is anything to go by!

Absolutely right! It was something our Control of Infection Dept in the hospital was pretty hot on. Tea towels were banned in ward kitchens

I dont think any of my tea towels actually get used to dry dishes, they are all just general purpose jack of all trades

The man In my house uses the tea towel to wipe excess oil of his bike , clean spills off the floor and wipe his face ! He seems to n e untrainable .

We don't have tea towels. Dishwasher - Eco programme - here....for now at least... Used to be drip dry after wash and rinse in boiling hot water. I've always been suspicious of tea towels....

Anrol

Sadly my OH doesn’t know what a t-towel is.
Lovely man, useless at “womens” work, unless specifically asked and if it’s drying up, his answer will be; I’ll just leave it here to dry.

Leaving it to dry is probably safer from a health point of view, Anrol, if the state of tea towels on this thread is anything to go by!

My ex used to tie a tea towel round his head like Rambo if he was cooking, as he got all agitated and sweaty.

My DH is guilty of many of those 'tea towel crimes' Yammy, and so am I occasionally. But we're still alive and neither of us has ever suffered from food poisoning.

I always keep two tea towels in the kitchen, a fluffy towelling one for drying hands and a smooth linen/cotton one for drying dishes etc. Not that we hand-dry very often. Used cups or glasses are rinsed out and left to dry on the drainer, everything else goes in the dishwasher. All used tea towels, whatever they've been used for, are hot washed every week.

Sadly my OH doesn’t know what a t-towel is.
Lovely man, useless at “womens” work, unless specifically asked and if it’s drying up, his answer will be; I’ll just leave it here to dry.

My DH is an angler. He steals my tea towels and takes them with him to use for wiping the fish slime off his hands if he catches anything. I refuse to have them back, but he then steals another one if he can't find what he's done with the ones that he's already nicked!

Drying the dogs.

mine considered new clean tea-towels are for wiping paint brushes!

Philippa111

I must be a man!! I do quite a few of those things..lol!

Definitely wouldn't be awarded a Domestic Goddess crown!!

Tea towels in my house quickly descend into other cloths. But in any case I never dry dishes !!

Exactly.
I boil wash mine so they are always clean but may be a bit stained from the other stuff I use them for. Of course not being DH, lol, if I use one for something like mopping up a spill on the floor it goes straight in the laundry bin. DH

We were recently in holiday and the cottage had two tea towels for us -one was pristine white so I hid it away!!

#floor cloth!!! Edit tool pleeeeeease