There are two kinds of people in the world…
those who use a washcloth and those who don’t.
I am the latter.
If you are one of the washcloth people, you just audibly gasped in horror and then looked up to the upper right corner of my blog and muttered, “but she looks so clean in pictures.”
I know you people.
I married one.
Washcloth people are passionate about their
washcloth-loving ways. They have an elaborate system of cleanliness that often includes more than one cloth…
maybe even a loofah.
They see the non-users as un-enlightened, un-informed, un-washed.
Yes, I said it.
You washcloth people look at the rest of us as the unwashed masses.
How can you get clean?
What do you have against the washcloth?
Why even bother taking a bath?
It is a choice. I don’t feel like I need to defend it. I don’t need to be confined by a small square of terry cloth.
Because I have been in charge of the baths of minors within the household, all three of my boys bathe sans-cloth.
They will have to attend years of bathing regression therapy to overcome my shortcomings.
Last week we were on vacation. In a nice hotel. Surrounded by lots of linens.
Blog-Stedman had bath duty with Rhett(5) several nights in a row. I didn’t even consider the possible side-effects when I agreed to this arrangement until last night when I helped Rhett with his bath for the first time back at home.
Mommy, I need one of those little towels that you get wet to scrub my face and the inside of both of my ears.
A washcloth?
Yes.
Now he is one of
them.
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The bipolar cat with two names
I don’t use a washcloth for myself, but I use one on JDaniel. I am not sure why.
It is funny how we end up doing things that we have no reasoning behind…
We’re all pouf users here. Washcloths are counter wipers in our house!
PS- It’s wicked hilarious that there is a pajama jeans ad at the bottom of your blog! Oh the irony!
you fancy pouf-ers.
Hey, I make good money off that ad! hahaha.
I like the scrubby. Or as other call it the Poof. I was never one to figure out the washcloth.
I’m in the no washcloth camp, though I was raised better than that, as my mom would say. My skin feels drier after using a waashcloth, so I stick with body wash & my hands. DH is a washcloth person (coincidentally he does not do the laundry) and since the bathing of the boys fell to him most of the time, they are also washcloth people.
Lazy washcloth people too. Not one of the males in the house remembers to hang the thing up to dry when they are done. They leave it in a a crumpled ball in the bottom of the tub almost every time.
I refuse to touch it.
ugh. I HATE the crumpled mass at the drain.
LOL I had no idea there were non-washcloth people either until I married one! But then again, I use a nylon bath puff, not a washcloth, so does that make me a non-washcloth person too? Or am I some kind of hybrid in the middle?
I think you are just a fancy washcloth person. hahaha.
Now maybe you could say I go both ways…cuz I’ll use a washcloth to wash my face at night but never in the shower…hmmm…
That kinda makes sense…a place and time for washcloths?
This is so funny. We had a big debate about this on a Girls’ Trip this summer. When I said I didn’t use a loofah, my friend looked at me and said, “What do you use??? Your HAND????” She was horrified.
I’ve forwarded this link to the group so they can see it’s not only me. =0)
I LOVE that I can give you some credibility with those washcloth people…well, maybe! haha.
I’m a plastic smooshie thing for myself, but for the kids, I’m usually no-washcloth.
see, you are just fancy.
I am anti-washcloth. My children are pro-washcloth. I hate the way the washcloths have to hang for DAYS to dry out. I hate the way they begin to STINK after being wet for DAYS. I think of washcloths as little GERM and MILDEW catchers (don’t get me started on sponges (gak!). I do, however, like the poofs (sp?). They are full of holes so all the nasties rinse away and they dry very quickly- they never get stinky. This is a big ISSUE in our house.
I think that is my biggest issue with the washcloth…how nasty and unsanitary it is. If you are changing them each time then I take back that statement.
ewww. ewww… ewww.. So how eactly do you get the dirt off.. Especially with boys.. not only do we use a scrubby thing. but I scrub I mean like Elbow grease type scrub my boys down..
but then again.. they are MY boys
sandpaper?