There's nothing stopping you, from washing with a towel and drying with 20 wash cloths

Except for your mom doing the laundry, maybe.

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31 Comments

Lumidaub@feddit.org · 27 pts · 224d (3 replies)

Interestingly, some people don't live in their mum's basement and have to do their own laundry.

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 224d (2 replies)

Can't image what that must be like, that sound difficult...

gerryflap@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 224d (1 reply)

It is very difficult. I tend to let it collect until I start running out of clean stuff while hoping for the gnomes to do it for me. But they never actually do so :(

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 224d

Phase 1: collect underpants, phased 2: ?, phase 3: profit. Seems like the gnomes' business plan might contribute to said problem

ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 224d (6 replies)

If you shave your body hair you can probably get dry (other than your hair) with like 3 washcloths for most people. Isolating to the US its probably closer to 5 to handle the extra surface area. Maybe 6 if they're out of shape enough to start sweating while they dry off.

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 224d (4 replies)

You're not wrong with the increased surface area, maybe even lowballing it lol

Some people are also just cursed. I had manager get mad at me once when i worked fast food for how many paper towels it took to actually dry my hands, my skin just clings to water like crazy

ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 224d (3 replies)

A tip for that: shake your fingers into the sink 12 times before drying. You should only need one paper towel this way.

Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 224d (1 reply)

But never 13 times

ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 224d

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mangaskahn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 224d

An important addition to that, fold the paper towel in half, it absorbs additional water between the layers.

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 224d

Yeah, most towels are unnecessarily big, for the amount of moisture they're required to absorb. I simply folded the towel in half (as wash cloths are double too), which fitted 4x5 of them haha.

sparkles@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 224d (1 reply)
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PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 224d

There you go, free to shower as inefficiently as they see fit.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 224d (2 replies)

Nothing is stopping you from just walking through a car wash. Don't forget the hot wax!

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 224d

Gotta have that hot Brazilian wax

axexrx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 223d

Thats not true. They've got a guy named Ronnie. Hes a big Jamaican dude, and every time I try, he yells what cha doin, Mon? Then hits the big red button, stopping the shower, he drags me out of there shaking his head and clicking his tongue.

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 6 pts · 224d (1 reply)

I automate the drying process by attaching wash cloths to two large rotating cylinders and standing between them, getting lightly battered

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 224d

Yeah, I've heard it's not best for one's outer coating, it might get flaky at times

Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 4 pts · 224d (2 replies)

Umm maybe you should go back into the shower and find a better thought 😆

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 224d (1 reply)

I can't. I ran out of wash cloths

Deconceptualist@leminal.space · 2 pts · 223d

😂

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 224d (4 replies)

Also I'd be cold and I don't want to

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 224d (3 replies)

Showering longer and hotter heats the room ;)

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 223d (2 replies)

pls im already using all the hot water in the tank and I can't legally get a bigger one

axexrx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 223d (1 reply)

Time to go tankless!

chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 223d

I looked into it but damn that would be a lot of trouble so that I can dry off after a shower with 20 washcloths. Supposedly they don't do well with hard water and water softener systems involve buying huge bags of salt to burn through every month.

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 224d (1 reply)

Army and hospital towels are tiny, and after spending loads of time in both I'm sure I could get by with only one washcloth. Well, at least if I cut my hair again.

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 224d

Interesting. If my hair is short, and I wipe most water off my body, maybe I could manage that too. I do like how the conversation is gradually shifting to drying efficiency haha

Bazell@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 224d

Common sense does. And economical situation also.

IWW4@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 224d

Other than common sense.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 224d (1 reply)

Sanity.

PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 224d

What is this "sanity" you speak of?