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 Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 11:50 pm
   I have to hoard towels.
You heard me. I am a towel hoarder, and not by choice.
So here's the story: Toastie lives at home with her parents and younger sister. There are two bathrooms in the four bedroom house they live in. The downstairs bathroom stinks, it's right off of the kitchen and you have to walk through the entire house to have a shower or take a bath, the shower is located over top of the tub, and is an old fashioned one where you have to pull the thing on the tub faucet to change it into a shower. The closet is stocked with 3 bath towels and roughly 10 swimming towels with pretty designs and frogs on them.
The upstairs bathroom is newly renovated with a standing shower separate from the jacuzzi bathtub, twice the size of the downstairs bathroom, has a sunlamp for when it's cold outside to warm the entire room without having to bathe, and it's closet has two bath towels, and four hair towels (the half-sized ones barely large enough to cover your body but much larger than a hand towel). There's also a towel rack on the door, which houses four bath towels when fully stocked. That's six bath towels upstairs. Twice as many as downstairs. And i have to hoard towels to make sure i have something to dry off with.
Why? My Sister.
This little demon crawled out of the bowels of HELL four years after Toastie was born. Her room is a disaster area that even my mom won't step into, she doesn't brush her teeth regularly, she only showers when she feels like it, she's twice Toastie's width yet shorter, and enjoys making Toastie's life hell.
This is what normally happens when Toastie takes a shower: She wraps up in a towel, goes to her room, dries off, brushes her hair, gets dressed, and hangs the towel back up. This is what normally happens when the hellspawn takes a shower: She wraps up in a towel, goes to her room, dries off, tosses the towel into th abyss, brushes hair, gets dressed, leaves, and the towel is never seen again.
NEVER AGAIN.
Right now, there are ZERO towels in the bathroom larger than a hand towel. The last time Toastie had a shower, she had two towels in her room, one for her hair, and one for her body. She hung the hair towel up after the shower... and it's disappeared into the abyss. Seriously. I don't even have a ******** towel to wrap my god damned hair in to dry it off quicker. I'm scared to hang my towel back up. I'm afraid that if i do, i'll find that there's nothing left to wrap myself in to go back to my bedroom. I'll have to run down the hallway in my birthday suit and dry off with a BLANKET. This is not how things should be in a bathroom that has SIX ******** TOWELS in it to begin with.
I don't even WANT to know how SHE gets from the bathroom to her bedroom after a shower. Seriously. There aren't any towels in that bathroom, since i've been keeping my one little towel in my bedroom between showers.
I can't even believe her. Her room is such a ******** dump that she doesn't even notice over five towels strewn about the place with reckless abandon. They're probably all covered in crap too. -shudders-  
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 5:35 am
I always throw my towels into the abyss of my room too after a shower. But then my mom always buys really short towels that I hate so I buy my own towels that are long and fluffy and I dont want my brothers taking my towels so its ok that they end up in my room.
You should keep a few towels in your room. It sucks that you cant keep them in the bathroom but it doesnt sound like your sister is going to change soo that may be the best option.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:41 am
I ... well, I do the same. Pisses off my parents because they're all "QUIT USING YOUR CARPET AS A TOWEL RACK. D<"
But I usually grab a towel from my room floor before I shower.
And when someone does a load of towels, they leave my "abyss".
Our bathroom has a towel rack for two towels, and under my sink holds maybe 5~6 more. There is usually an average of 0 towels under the sink, because they sit in a laundry basket in the hallway. :D
I usually use whatever towel I feel like it. The designated bath towels are useless when anything more than a drop of water hits them, so I like to use the oversized and fluffy towels.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:57 pm
There's two towels per rack, and one rack in each of our two bathrooms. When taking a shower, us kids grab a towel from our bathroom (which just has a bath tub with a shower head like the one Toastie talked about) and head to our parents bathroom and we go to our parents bathroom, take the shower, and then go back to our bathroom and hang the towels back up. So our towels always hang out in the bathrooms. Our mom has trained us well.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:42 pm
Thing is my house are simple.
-We all have our own bath towels, designated, I guess. But it's not really designated, we just grab a towel when my mom buys them, or buy them ourselves and people don't use a towel that isn't theirs.
- Using the wrong bath towel = invoking the wrath of Satan.
- Using the wrong bath towel = having to buy a new bath towel for the person you stole it from. (This applies for using it only once, if it's a mistake or you forgot your towel, you'd best be ready to pay up BITCHES!)
So, yeah, pretty straight forward, "use your own bath towel".
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:23 pm
She wouldn't dare to even have a towel devouring abyss of a room if she had to face my mom. One faces my mom's wrath from just a small pile of clothes.
But at the same time we've always had our own towels to use so there weren't any problems with that.
Your sister seriously needs to face some parental wrath for that mess. You should have your own supply of towels and have them dry in your room just to still have your own towels.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:53 pm
I have 2 towels to myself that I hang in my room and take into the bathroom with me. They're my designated towels [:
i can't keep my towels in the bathroom. if someone uses them and they're wet when I get to em, then I feel really weird and gross.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:36 pm
My bathroom and towel usage are good when my brother isn't home. But now that he's home from college he somehow manages to get every single towel wet except his own. He takes three towels and puts them on the floor so his feet aren't cold from the tile floor. In the shower he sing (VERY BADLY) and splashes water on my towels. His towel somehow makes it out alive.
Siblings=Wages of sin.
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:38 pm
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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:43 pm
Yesh... that is one evil sibling you got there... o.o
[pervertedness]
Okay, as much as I like the thought of Toastie running around as such, there's family around... which... yeah... x_x
I mean, if I were faced with the choice, I'd scream in the bathroom till someone brought me a towel or clothes... ^____^( )
[/pervertedness]
Wait, was that really perverted? o.O( )
Anyways...
Hmmm... how it goes down at my house (I share a bathroom with my little brother)... we have 1 towel rack... that doesn't get used... We hang the towels on the shower curtain rail thingy... when we're not sure who's is who's... we toss 'em on the floor and use 'em to keep the floor from getting wet and grab a new one from the linen closet... then the old ones go into the hamper...
As for messy rooms, yeah, if ya can't walk on the floor... there's problems... the abyss needs to be filled! Er, fixed. ^_^( )
Good luck? And I wish ya more towels? ^_________^
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 1:23 pm
Unfortunately this thing with the towels is a new thing... she started doing it about a month ago when my mom gave up on nagging her to clean her room. NOTHING could get that girl to clean her room.
Once, my dad threatened to throw out everything that was on her bedroom floor if it wasn't cleaned up when he got home from work... it wasn't cleaned, so he went up there with a garbage bag, stuffed everything inside, and threw it into the bin in the alley... when she got home from school and saw this, she went into the back alley, pulled the bag out of the bin, and dumped it back onto her floor, making an even bigger (and smellier, since it was in the trash previously) mess than before.
She's disgusting.
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