Very random thought about guest towels

They're a thing now. I was looking at something else and saw that Party City has a wide variety of them and they're on sale.

When we had my family over for the 4th (which as I said in another post, I wish we hadn't and probably won't again), I put paper towels.  The half sheets, in a pile.   Right next to the Lysol spray, soap, Clorox wipes and hand sanitizer. 

My family never had disposable hand towels. A massage therapist I used to go to had facecloths in the bathroom to use as hand towels. That could work in your house if didn't want to use a disposable option. Except you'd need a sign or to take out the bath towels because no one would realize the stack of facecloths was meant for your hands!

I always made sure to use linen napkins and real hand towels. I wouldn't use paper dishes either, but with Covid and an immuno-compromised husband, I've been making sure that we have paper towel in the bathrooms and kitchen.

I do that too. I hate community towels ever since I've seen way too many people in kitchens do nothing more than stick their fingers under the stream of water, rub them together, then use the community towel to finish cleaning them.

I've always used them for company. Wet towels gross me out - hand towels, dish towels etc. I probably wash 8-10 dish towels a week!

Kleenex used to sell extra large heavier tissues. They were very handy to have around. I do like the select-a-size if I have to use paper towels for hands.



ETA: MichyM did you ever decide what to able the die you liked. and a machine, borrowed or bought?

This is genious!

Oh wow! I knew you were special!

I use decorative paper napkins for my guest bath when we are having a group, especially my extended family at Christmas. Using the same actual towel during cold and flu season is gross.

Add me to the list of those who have been using them for years when guests are over. In the past I would put out a stack of my vintage hand towels and a basket for the used ones, but that's a lot of work to wash and iron them properly. Now I just put out the decorative paper hand towels. My favorites are the ones made by Caspari and I'm always looking for them on clearance sales.

I used to have a basket of washcloths and a spot for used ones. For some reason those didn’t get used as often as the paper ones. Maybe I need clearer signage because it seemed people didn’t want to use them.

I buy a huge box of the white paper towels that go in the commercial holders from Costco. I prefer the flat fold ones, but sometimes the C-fold are the only ones available and they work fine too. I have a little tray I stack them on in the powder room. I also put a small stack on the counter in the guest room bath for people to use to wipe shoes, luggage, the counters, etc. Almost everyone who visits uses them for something. I do hang regular hand towels in the bathrooms as well, but the paper ones are always available too. One box lasts years!