I have a towel rail on my shower door, so I use that. Let it dry until the next morning then to the laundry basket. If it’s still damp for some reason, I hang it on the edge of the basket until it’s dry dry.
Because we’re all being nerds about this, I’ll post pics later if I remember.
For the kids bath I have a toiletry holder with hooks. But if it is just them they use the edge of the bath (good) the floor of the bath (not ideal, stays soggy) or wherever. If we use it at the sink I wring it out and hang it on the edge of the towel bar or in the shower. Or on a toiletry
For me I do bath tap or edge of bath or towel bar or because I know my laundry schedule I throw it at the top of the heap.
I wring it out AGGRESSIVELY. I consider it part of my “daily age well plan” lol. I wanna have strong ass hands as an old lady. So I wring it hard one way, then swap and go the other, and count it as grip strength training. If this wears them out sooner, fine. They’re cheap ikea ones and getting all weirdly dingy anyway. They’ll become cleaning cloths once they’re too bear up. It’s been a couple years on this batch though and no fraying or holes yet.
I’m jumping in to the washcloth discussion a bit delayed, but I’m a washcloth person (one for my face + one for my body + new ones every day) and I also use cloth tp alongside my bidet (tmi? Sorry if so).
I have two very cute little trash bins, a bit smaller each than the usual size of a bathroom trash bin.
The cloth tp one has a step-raise lid to maintain sanitary conditions (ie not touching the lid when you deposit the cloth) and the other for washcloths is a simple mini trash bin with a lid.
Every time I empty I sanitize the inside of the bins and replace the trash bag liners. This has worked for me.
They’re not an eyesore and they both have cute little aesthetic tags that say “not trash” so guests don’t use them as such.
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Unfortunately once it has acquired gunk, you gotta scrub it. Ive has good luck with old toothbrushes and narrow straw brushes for getting in the cracks between the seal and the barrel and all the folds around the seal. I thing Amazon will probably sell you some weird task specific brushes if you want.
For cleaning products, I like an oxiclean style hydrogen peroxide type cleaner, which I think the affresh is? But the powder is easier to work with if you’re scrubbing. I found bleach largely ineffective because it doesn’t eat away at the accumulated biofilm the same way the hydrogen peroxide does. Maybe once you’ve scrubbed it?
My other hot tip is to find the filter/drain thing and empty that as a first step. It can also tell you how scuzzy the interior is. Also drain it after each go round cleaning it. How clean that water is running can give you an idea how well the cleaning is going and also gets rid of any grossness that got rinsed off but not fully pumped out.
And lastly, if you do another clean cycle, do one with zero soap just to give everything a good rinse out. If you need to do another cleaning cycle with soap, let it fill and get started with more oxi clean than seems reasonable (or more afresh), and then stop it about half way through (not just a few minutes) and let it sit overnight. That gives the oxiclean more time to eat away any lingering stuff.
And finally finally, one time I washed a cashmere sweater that had significant eau de mothball and it made my whole washer smell and odoban was the only thing that fixed it. Do with that what you will.
Washcloths!
Waiting to be grabbed bar, followed by where I dry it bar. Followed by waiting on the laundry basket spot, if needed.
Oh yeah and bonus counter caddy where ones I use if I’m doing face but not showering live.
I used this specialty product on the gasket and got decent results. You have to let it sit a LONG time. I think I did 8 hours and it should have been more.
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I have a tension shower curtain rod inside my shower.
Ok, towel chat. If you use washcloths/cleaning cloths in the kitchen, where do you hang those to dry? Your washcloth spots are my kitchen and toddler cleaning cloth spots, and I still use paper towels sometimes. 2manycloths2dry
The oven door handle.
There is a very classy pile of soggy cleaning cloths on my bottom step. Salvageable goes over the tap or on the back of toddler chair. I bought a little countertop drying rack for them but gave up due to spousal issues. Actually I could move that up for face cloths
I have a half size plastic hamper in the laundry room just for cleaning/kitchen cloths, and I hang it to dry on the edge of the hamper, then throw it in once it’s dry. Alternatively the oven door handle
Dish towels and dish rags that are in use go on the stove and dishwasher handles or draped over the faucet. But those that are dirty and need to be washed, but are wet, go in the same place as the washclothes above. Sometimes on the outside (my hooks are double hooks and the liner and curtain are both on it).
Dish towels - oven door handle
Cleaning rags - pretty much used and tossed into hamper for that floor. If they get really gross/wet, I leave them on the edge of the kitchen sink to dry.
I have this device and we hang our dish cloth/general wiper from it. It does take a couple of seconds to fold the cloth and feed it through. If it is wet and dirty, I hang it over the side of the hamper, or if the hamper is full enough I just sort of lay it flat on top of the other contents of the hamper. (This is a special rags-and-towels hamper in the upstairs hallway.)
Same. We have a huge stack of old burp clothes under the sink and once they’ve been used into a then in a pile next to the pantry until they get moved to the garage washing machine area. If they can be reused I drape it over our spray bottle of soapy water.
Has anyone ever had an HRA? I haven’t heard of one before and a young former coworker is asking my advice about HRA vs PPO for her health care.
My friend is a young pregnant single woman and wants to hear from, you know, an adultier adult!
Wow, my time to shine!
Since she’s pregnant I think we can all assume she’ll max out her healthcare costs this year (unless she is planning a home birth and then it is not my time to shine).
If I were her, here’s what I’d want to know to make this decision.
If she just wants you to pick a plan and she’s not a paperwork person, she is probably better off with the PPO.
TLDR HSA considerations but you don’t get to keep the money, and sometimes they are fussier
