What, some people only stand one way in the shower? I rotate! It gets the spray on every side of me.
I put the toilet paper with the unroll on the outside, furthest from the wall, of course. Makes it easier to grab. (I might reconsider this if there was a cat or small child in the house.)
And I take my shoes off upon entering the house. Except that I’m a slob, so sometimes in dry weather I don’t.
lovely pallor here. i use them more like a towel than a wash thing. they are the right size for drying face or feet, or if caught in a downpour (easy to carry in a bag). perfect for water ride dry off at an amusement park. to cool off (very cold water, back of the neck) or help with headache or fever. or warm up hands or feet in winter (they do tend to cool off quickly).
i don’t like the clingy wet feeling in the shower.
White. No washcloth. Can’t see any use for them. I’m willing to bet that there isn’t a bit of quantifiable difference in how clean you get. It’s just a time consuming extra step that can easily be eliminated. Using a washcloth in the shower is like eating french fries with a fork.
I have a carousel floor in my shower. You just hop in the shower, set the timer for 10 minutes and push ‘Start’.
I am. It’s really true. I’m so goddamned white that if you threw me into a roomful of bleached flour I’d disappear. I mean, we are talking whitebread white. -snerk-
What a question. Yes, I use a washcloth and yet I am very very very almost certainly certain that I use it because I was taught by my atrociously white parents that the use of a washcloth facilitated in the removal of both exteriorly acquired dirt and the sloughing off of dead skin cells. It was presented to me in my formative years as a part of normal appropriate hygiene. Not sure if it’s racially motivated or not.
Similarly, my white brother and some cousins use them as well. It may be of interest that my other cousins who are half-white and half-black also use them. At least in my home. Then again, maybe they were bowing to the intense unspoken racial pressures and in their own home, wouldn’t rub their bodies with a washcloth if their lives counted on it. Dunno. I can ask them the next time I talk to them.
I dont’ just use a washcloth. I use a dishrag/washcloth sold only in Asian markets. It is without doubt the finest yet cheapest washcloth on the planet. It never frays, or wears away. It is very abrasive and feels amazing when I wash, because it makes my skin ( as previously mentioned, my appallingly white skin ) glimmer and shimmer and glow and stuff. I LIKE the way it makes me feel.
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Yeah, but when they’re slathered with gravy or coney island sauce, you’re going to use your fingers? When I don’t use a cloth, I feel oily afterwards, especially in the face. The friction the cloth provides rapidly and in great, vast areas is much, much more efficient than trying to use soap alone.
White here, and I always use a wash cloth in the shower. Rubbing a bar of soap, or my bare hands, on my body does not slough off dead cells like a cloth can, nor does it invigorate me like a cloth can. It just leaves a lot of hair on the bar of soap.
You British and Aussies who refer to a “flannel” — is this literally made of flannel cloth? I’ve never seen a wash cloth made of flannel in the U.S. Virtually all bathroom towels here (and we have piles of them, so we get a fresh one every shower) are made of terry cloth.
Two data points:
Me, white, no washcloth.
Husband, black, washcloth.
Hadn’t thought about it before, but now maybe I will.
White, British, no flannel.
The feeling of cleanness I get from a shower is more dependant on the temperature of the water and the soap / gel used than what I use to spread the suds around. I’m also pretty fussy about deodorant ingredients, but that’s getting really off-topic so I’ll stop.
To be honest, I’d rather use something more like the dishcloths I use at work (ie. something with texture). I’ve had hasty washes in the sink with a towel, and the feeling of the terry cloth is slightly unpleasant.
After reading this thread, I purchased a 4 pack of washcloths. I tried one. It sucked. What do you do with the washcloth when you are pouring shampoo? Blech. Anyone in the market for 3 unused washcloths?
Uh, hang it on the ring or the wash cloth holder (like a short tower bar). You mean that not every bathroom has these?
In the shower? I’ll have to check, but if there is one there I think I woulda figured out that I could hang the thing there. There are shelves for soap/shampoo/ conditioner/whatever. Where do you washcloth users find the room? Do spouses share washcloths?
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You wring out the used washcloth, so that it isn’t dripping wet, and you hang it on the towel bar if there’s not a separate washcloth hanger. When it’s dry, if you don’t want to re-use it, you put it where you put the other laundry.
I imagine some spouses use each others’ washcloths and some don’t. But IMHO you can’t really get clean without one.
–Gag-- I’d guess not. I know not in my home. We all have our washcloths. Wife doesn’t use one. Kids do. I use my Uuber-Scratchy one.
Where to hang it when shampooing? Over the water spout, of course. 
No washcloth (unless I’m staying in a hotel or someone else’s home who offers them). Shower brush. Nylon bristles. Long handle. There are parts of my body that won’t be reached if I don’t…
Ah, the real reason. Wouldn’t have guessed it in a thousand years, like so many real reasons. And I’m speaking as one whose job it is to never give real reasons. Just what you can get away with. Which, given how lazy and dumb most people (especially journalists are) is a lot.
Thanks for busting my ignorance. You’re going to straight on to my burgeoning buddy list.
When you are washing your hair, and if you don’t have a towel rack or hook in the shower, you can hang the wash cloth on the handle to the shower door, or the faucet or knobs of the bath tub, or on the edge of the bath tub.
Now, I’ll ask again, since no one has answered: to those Brits, Irish, and Aussies who referred to a wash cloth as a “flannel” — are yours really made of flannel cloth? I’d be surprised if they are because the knap of flannel would be reduced to nothing fairly quickly if used to scrub.
I used to just drop it on the floor. It didn’t kill me. You spend all your time in the shower rubbing soap on the thing anyway.
I can’t believe this thread has reached three pages.
No idea. BUT, what I want to know is why you guys ‘scrub’ with anything but a scrubbing brush. Remember them? They left your skin raw. Washcloths/flannels are ‘rubbed’.
Sheesh, 3 pages and all this baloney floating around.
scrub
Function: verb
transitive senses
1 a (1) : to clean with hard rubbing : SCOUR (2) : to remove by scrubbing b : to subject to friction : RUB
2 : WASH
3 : CANCEL, ELIMINATE
intransitive senses
1 : to use hard rubbing in cleaning
2 : to prepare for surgery by scrubbing oneself