Bath towels or bath sheets?

Towels get larger and thicker every decade. Bath towels used to be a luxury you only met in a hotel, now they are apparently too small!

Even terry hand towels were a luxury once. Before terry towelling was invented, towels were flat-surfaced and made of linen. They scraped you dry rather than dabbing away the moisture. Probably very good for the skin.

Bath towel, bath sheets far too big for me.

A towel, not sure what sort, just a towel. Brisk dry off and dress.

Sheets both at home and in our holiday let.

Bath sheets since the DC left home. It was bath towels before that because the thought of laundering six bath sheets each time was just too much! I dry and go, don’t ‘wear’ the sheet, but it’s nice to envelope myself in warmth as I step out of the bath.

Love Bath sheets but use Bath Towels as they don't hang right on the Towel rail and flop all over the place.

Exactly as maytime2 describes for me.

Bath sheets are far too big. Bath towel around my wet hair and towelling bathrobe when I get out of the bath.

I don't stay in the bathrobe for ages though, just until I have dried my hair.

Bath sheets with a towel for my hair.
Now though they are becoming softer and cosier with my daughter’s advice on how to launder.
White vinegar…..nothing else. Amazing results.

During lockdown I used all my bath towels which had remained in the linen cupboard unloved for many a long year. My intention was to use them, wash them then donate them to the charity shop.
We decided that we actually preferred the bath towels for most occasions so they are still in use.

Another who feels undried if they haven't enveloped themselves in a bath sheet. Like Maizie we only have bath sheets and hand towels in the house.

According to John Lewis towels are named as follows by size: face cloth, guest towel, handtowel. bath towel, bath sheet.

My son bought me a towel as big as a single bed sheet, its huge. Fab for sitting cuddled up in

Bathsheet always. But if we have visitors, they will get a bath towel if they stay one night or two, and a bathsheet, for longer stays.

DanniRae

Always a bath sheet - a bath towel for my hair.

Me too.

Bath sheet, and IMO holiday lets that don’t provide them are stingy. Probably the same ones that only provide standard double beds when there’s plenty of room for a king size. Not to mention ancient duvets that have gone flat as pancakes.

Bath towels are useful for wet hair turbans, though.
I use both.

I like hand towels as many as I need. Hand towels are easier to use than the heavier bath towels.

All ours are bath sheets. All plain blues. We've probably got about 15

I am wondering after reading this thread if people launder their bath sheets/towels after every use? We have our own towels but they get used a few times before they are washed. Oh dear am I going to get shown up?

After every use? Good grief, no. Is that a thing? If it is what a waste of energy and excess use of chemicals. Ours get washed about once a week, as does our bedding.

Bath sheets and hand towels here, and we have our own hand towels. I don’t think I have ever owned a bath towel.

Witzend

Bath sheet, and IMO holiday lets that don’t provide them are stingy. Probably the same ones that only provide standard double beds when there’s plenty of room for a king size. Not to mention ancient duvets that have gone flat as pancakes.

Bath towels are useful for wet hair turbans, though.
I use both.

Bath sheet, and IMO holiday lets that don’t provide them are stingy. Probably the same ones that only provide standard double beds when there’s plenty of room for a king size. Not to mention ancient duvets that have gone flat as pancakes.
We have 8 huge, ultra fluffy white bath sheets in our holiday let this week Witzend. No complaints either about the bed size or the plump duvets.
The fridge is a bit small for our requirements though!

Bath sheets every time, Bath towel for my hair

Bath sheet. The bigger the better. Can’t stand a towel which, when wrapped round my person, doesn’t meet at the front.

DH complained that the towels were getting too scratchy. We don't have a tumble drier, which would make them softer, and even white vinegar doesn't do the trick, so I bought him some bamboo towels, which are super soft and he loves them. I wash them separately in just water and they stay soft.

He likes bath sheets, to answer the question. I find bath towels easier to handle. I hate being wet and I hurry to get dry and into my night clothes and into bed after my bath. I can’t bear the thought of lounging around wrapped in a towel.

I have a selection of both but the bath sheets are only used by overnight guests. I prefer to use bath towels as I find bath sheets too big. Not that I’m suggesting I’m petite! But I don’t wrap up in a towel. I prefer to shower then quickly dry and get dressed.