Flannels

[HTFB]

They keep falling apart. The cloth weakens, the tufts fall off, they fall into holes under their own weight.

Once on a time my drawer held nasty fluffless cloths that had worn flat and grey with the years. Now I'm lucky if I get a couple of months out of them. Or the kids'. Maybe soap has changed.

Or is it just me?

[Cudzoziemiec]

Face flannels or cricket flannels? Or "talks in depth about something else as a distraction"?

[rafletcher]

Just you. My flannels last a good long time.

[Basil]

Just you. My flannels last a good long time.

+1

[rogerzilla]

Aren't they just bacteria farms?

[Jaded]

Aren't they just bacteria farms?

They are if you let them be.

Mine seems to do OK. The white ones benefit from me going to a posh hotel and absent-mindedly taking the wrong one home.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Aren't they just bacteria farms?

They are if you let them be.

Mine seems to do OK. The white ones benefit from me going to a posh hotel and absent-mindedly taking the wrong one home.

Wouldn't it be cheaper just to buy new ones?

[Nuncio]

Depends what else he absent-mindedly takes home with him from the hotel.

[Cudzoziemiec]

I think Jaded visits posh hotels with Flatus, to get the special flannels after they've been used by Rogerzilla.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Anyway, serious answer. No, not noticed this. Maybe thinner cloth?

[ian]

Am I the only one who had to google to find out that flannels were the thing my grandparents used. I thought this was a reference to grungecore.

[hellymedic]

D found a somewhat threadbare pale blue flannel abandoned with other litter earlier in the week.
It's been washed and will join our pile of cleaning rags.

My flannels seem to last OK.
The thin, cheap ones I bought from discount shoppes were handy personal wipers when I did Audaxes and now serve as evaporative coolers on heatwave nights.
Used to keep one for face and one for saddle area, making sure I couldn't confuse them.

D uses a flannel in the bath. I don't.

[Lightning Phil]

Am I the only one who had to google to find out that flannels were the thing my grandparents used. I thought this was a reference to grungecore.

I suppose if you are in your twenties or younger, you might not know what a flannel is.

[hellymedic]

Have these been renamed 'facecloths'?

[Jurek]

Am I the only one who had to google to find out that flannels were the thing my grandparents used. I thought this was a reference to grungecore.

I suppose if you are in your twenties or younger, you might not know what a flannel is.

I've never used a flannel in all my life.
I can think of few things less hygienic.

[Wowbagger]

Have these been renamed 'facecloths'?

That's the northern name from them, in my experience, i.e. Jan's family.

HTFB: High Tension Flannel Buster?

[hellymedic]

Have these been renamed 'facecloths'?

Looked at John Lewis website.

Seem to offer VERY few face cloths or flannels, though still have some.

They've dropped out of fashion.

We never had them at home, though my paternal grandmother used them to Mum's quiet disdain.

They're as unhygienic as you let them become; probably acceptable if hot rinsed, well-wrung and dried out between uses, or laundered every time.

[Jurek]

It's funny how things vary from place to place.
When I lived in Greece, my ex was managing holiday lets.
She had occasion to ask the owner of the lets to supply some plugs for the bathroom wash basins as such a request had been made by a number of UK guests.
The request was met with horror of the 'Why on earth would you do this?' variety.
I confess to  never having deployed the plug in a bathroom wash basin.
In Greece or anywhere else.

[hellymedic]

Some of us hand-wash our clothing or swimwear in the basins, even if we're not flannel users.

[Jurek]

Some of us hand-wash our clothing or swimwear in the basins, even if we're not flannel users.

Strikes me as a good reason for not using the plug when I'm washing my face after someone has been laundering their keks in the basin.

[ian]

Am I the only one who had to google to find out that flannels were the thing my grandparents used. I thought this was a reference to grungecore.

I suppose if you are in your twenties or younger, you might not know what a flannel is.

I've never used a flannel in all my life.
I can think of few things less hygienic.

Indeed. My grandparents used them, but they thought having two baths a week was decadent and generally kept it to Sunday evening only.

[T42]

Flannels were what I wore to school once I got too big for short trousers.  Now I'm imagining turning up for Assembly dressed in a facecloth.

[citoyen]

Depends what else he absent-mindedly takes home with him from the hotel.

“That’s strange - my flannel seems to have turned into a trouser press”

[rafletcher]

Am I the only one who had to google to find out that flannels were the thing my grandparents used. I thought this was a reference to grungecore.

I suppose if you are in your twenties or younger, you might not know what a flannel is.

I've never used a flannel in all my life.
I can think of few things less hygienic.

Do you dry any part of yourself on towels by any chance, or use a cloth in the kitchen when cooking etc. etc. - without laundering or disposing of them every time they're used?

I've used a flannel / facecloth every morning for at least 60 years (and yes, they get laundered occasionally) with zero ill effects. I prefer to wipe the shaving debris off my face than splash water everywhere. But as a nation we seem to have got (over) sensitive to dirt and possible bugs <shrugs>.

[perpetual dan]

I use a plug in the sink when shaving, to save running the hot tap for ages. I’ve washed my face already, so it’s not particularly dirty. And yes, I rinse the sink after.

I use hands rather than a flannel to wash my face, though the rest of the household uses a fresh flannel most days. I suppose I’d use one if I was washing armpits at the sink rather than in a shower.