How to go to bed

SarahLee said:
I really don't know whether I should confess to this, but since I'm 2 glasses of wine down and it's a Sunday night :

We have 3 classes of towels - in either aqua/white, blue/white, green/white combinations depending on which bathroom they belong in.

> The old towels stay out of sight and are designated for dog washing / hair colouring and anything else that's going to stain or ruin them further.
> Then we have nice, plain towels for every day use in each bathroom (white towels can go anywhere, but there had better not be a blue towel left in the green bathroom :bat:)
> Then I have decorative, accent towels which are not for daily use folded neatly and arranged artfully over/beside the plain daily use towels just to make it look pretty :)

Obviously, when the 2nd class towels get a little bit old, they then get demoted to dog / hair dye towels . . . well it's obvious to me anyway.
I'll just get my coat and leave this thread now :coat:
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We have towels. :)
 
Yv, a dog towel will do me, although it will need to be a great Dane sized one - not sure a JR one will dry all of me!

We have 2 containers for towels, the bathroom and the airing cupboard. Unless you count the landing bannister rail in summer and the laundry fairy void...
 
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Yv said:
See, now I am thinking [whilst not actually at home] whether we have anything that should be practical but is simply ornamental, other than the aforementioned cushions. So far I have come up with a pair of decanters in a wooden stand, which used to be used and only aren't now simply because we cba decanting any spirits into them, easier to go straight from bottle to glass :D

Can't think of anything else...

Oh well, looks like I am with you @Maggie52, a bit of a sloven, I must try harder ;)
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Now you have got me pondering What do we have for decorative purposes only (apart from me that is) Well there's the big jar of chillies in the kitchen that are not for consumption, just look interesting. Numerous smelly candles in various containers that I never get round to lighting as they don't look as good when they are half burned. OMG!! I have a posh bar of soap in the main bathroom that rarely gets used as we use the en-suite ( living in a bungalow it's just as easy then I only have to keep cleaning one bathroom and not two) Having had a career working in mental health I never considered myself to have OCD, perhaps I am also suffering from delusional ideas. (May make appt at my local mental health clinic tomorrow) (n):naughty:
 
I caught the last few minutes of a programme called The Casual Vacancy on BBC1 last night with Julia Mackenzie and Michael Gambon. She was spraying air freshener everywhere and shouting at him "You know the rules -- no solids in the en-suite!" and I thought of this thread. :eek:
 
SarahLee said:
OK OK . . . I know I'm 'slightly' OCD with towels, but at least I'm not alone with the bathroom towels / scabby towels split! :LOL:
I'm just waiting for somebody to confess to having four classes of towels now!
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My only OCD tendency with towels is how they're folded. :lol:
 
viv1969 said:
My only OCD tendency with towels is how they're folded. :LOL:
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As long as they end up smaller than they started out, job done :thumbs:
 
Yv said:
:LOL: exactly!! Though I do cut out any labels when I buy them just so it doesn't matter which way they are folded, I can see a white tag! ;)
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:rolleyes:
:D
 
Perhaps I'm looking at this too simplistically, but

Going to bed: Get into bed, read for a while - sometimes - turn off light and go to sleep. Wake up about 7 - 8 hours later. Get out of bed.

Towels: All the same colour, and two sizes, bath and whatever the smaller ones are called. They hang on rails, folded to more or less fit. We don't have a dog and the cats, when we had cats, didn't enjoy being washed. The first aid kit was a more pressing need than a towel...

Toilet rolls: Neither of us would ever notice which way they are hung, or care anyway.

My life sounds so dull compared with everyone else on this thread :p
 
Yv said:
:LOL: exactly!! Though I do cut out any labels when I buy them just so it doesn't matter which way they are folded, I can see a white tag! ;)
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Cobra said:
As long as they end up smaller than they started out, job done (y)
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I don't mind how they're folded / hanging in the bathroom; or the colour; or the thread count etc.....just how they're folded in the airing cupboard.
I know....I'm odd :lol:
 
Mrs Nod has a habit of removing labels from her clothes so I refuse to wash those articles, otherwise I would get the blame for shrinking them by washing them at too high a temperature and/or tumble drying them. ALL my clothes can handle at least 40°C and the tumble (set on low). (At least all the clothes I still have can!!!)


ETA (and get back on topic!) that I do have a laundry quirk in that the bedding gets washed and dried in the correct order for remaking the bed, so sheet and mattress protector and the inner pillow cases are the first load, followed by the duvet cover and outer pillow cases.
 
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Nod said:
Mrs Nod has a habit of removing labels from her clothes so I refuse to wash those articles, otherwise I would get the blame for shrinking them by washing them at too high a temperature and/or tumble drying them. ALL my clothes can handle at least 40°C and the tumble (set on low). (At least all the clothes I still have can!!!)
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60oC and be damned :D

Although I did learn NOT to wash net curtains very quickly, at 60.
Meh, they were due for replacing anyway :D
 
kendo1 said:
Ahh. Married life. How sweet.
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this is why marriage is like a game of cards , at the beginning all you need is two hearts and a diamond...... and by the end all you want is a club and a spade

on the bed thing my going to bed process is

a) throw all the decorative crap on the floor
b) untuck the duvet from the bottom of the bed ( I'm 6ft 4 , i need to be able to put my feet at the end of the mattress)
c) go to sleep
 
Yv said:
Don't get me wrong, we have 'older' white towels some 'newer' green ones, and when for example Nod comes to stay in June, he will get the newer green ones all beautifully laundered and left in his room for his exclusive use
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it might be safer to give him the old manky ones - then you can throw them away afterwards during the decontamination process ;)
 
DorsetDude said:
60° C you mean? :cool: (Alt 0176 if you're asking)
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I wasn't but thanks :)

DorsetDude said:
You realise you're supposed to take the long white springy wire bit out of the top first ?
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No wires Pine rod, and yes I took that off, otherwise it wouldn't have fitted in the machine in the first place :D
 
This sort of thing does my frickin' head in!!!

We've "only" got three decorative cushions on our bed which get chucked off every night and put back on when the missus makes the bed in the morning. The most ironic thing is that we've got a memory foam mattress which you're meant to air for a bit before re-making. The missus is paranoid about germs/bugs etc but insists on making the bed as soon as she gets out of it :thinking:

The other thing that gets me are decorative items that impair functionality i.e. hearts, handle hangers that are placed on door handles which fall off when you operate the door or prevent the door from closing..... but apparently they look pretty?
 
crikey I thought I was houseproud. My hubby does as he likes, as do I. Life is relaxed and peaceful in our house :D I suppose it helps that I'm not materialistic and I don't care what anyone thinks, is my home, is comfy, is my haven :)

In fact might show him this thread so reinforce how lucky he is lol :p
 
I don't think we even have two identical towels in our house.
 
Right my list....

1. Shove quilt out of way.
2. Get in
3. Adjust quilt
4. Put on mask
5. Switch on Respirator
6. Got the hell to sleep

7. Get up
8. Leave bed in what ever the hell state it's in when I get out of it
 
big soft moose said:
gee flatulence must really be a problem in your household :LOL:
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Well this diet does involve quite a bit of salad :P and just realised I put respirator when infact I should put ventilator
 
Wow. We seem to be quite relaxed. Young children, big dogs, muddy country side and busy life's. I couldn't deal with all that non functional crap on the bed.

I hate it in hotels where I have to spend 15 minutes of clearing the bed, and at least can leave it on the floor. Definitely wouldn't want to be dealing with that at home.

Ps. If it is proper man flew you just straight lay down on the bed in you clothes first, then when you wake up four hours later you sneak in under the cover still in your clothes. And when all sweaty by 10 in the evening you'll get up and watch movies all night long so you feel worse the following day.
 
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