Household hint

[flemmings]

Never cared for facecloths. They get sopping wet, they rarely dry out properly, they go moldy in every season but winter and sometimes then, and they don't exfoliate. Scratchy Japanese bathcloths are far preferable, if you get the 'haado' version, but even the soft ones do the reverse of facecloths. (Periodically I remind myself to throw them in the laundry to get rid of Toronto's hard water deposits but that's the extent of the care.) Nonetheless the best purchase I've made recently was a bunch of violently coloured facecloths from the dollar store- because I treat them essentially as one use.

Come home sweaty from work. Don't want to undress and shower and dress again, so I remove damp tshirt, wipe down exposed skin with cool facecloth, and acquire dry top. Facecloth goes over railing in upper hallway. Later I undress, have shower, rinse out bra (a necessity in summer), towel dry and into sleep shirt: and then fetch still damp facecloth and wipe down tub walls and sink, which accumulate shocking amounts of dust and grunge on a daily basis. Put to dry over rail again, throw in laundry basket next day, wash with whatever else requires the dryer. So there you are: half washcloth and half duster, and the better part of both.

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[unnique]

The daily accumulation of dust and grime in a bathroom will never cease to frustrate me. Gets even worse when you have a laundry machine installed in the bathroom, which is the norm in flats in my neck of the woods. (I guess I should praise the stars I don't have a tumble dryer...) I swear, the dust replicates itself to grow and expand its territory.

[flemmings]

I thought it was a phenomenon confined to me. Guess it must be the moisture that makes it stick instead of blowing away as it does in other rooms. But sheesh, look at the quantity of cells I'm losing!

What kind of dryer do you have, then? I don't know any other kind.

[unnique]

Everyone I know grumble about dust and grime in the bathroom. It's a thing.

My dryer looks like this one:

If it's not raining and the wind isn't too enthusiastic, it goes on the terrace. Mostly it stays in the bathroom, though. There is space enough for it there.

[flemmings]

Things don't dry in my bathroom. That's why towels go over the stair railing post-shower.

And what do you do about sheets and duvet covers?

[unnique]

The air flow system in my flat is (hooray!) quite good, so my bathroom is well ventilated. And has floor heating, which helps _a lot_ when drying clothes. Bed textiles also dry on my racks, but no more than 3 on each rack so they stay off the floor.

[flemmings]

Floor heating! What a lovely thing to have.