We just pick up all the towels every couple days and wash them all. He does laundry, I do laundry. DH uses my used towel often, so I just grab a new one. New towels are always better than old. This is an awesome TWT thread, btw. DH doesn't have stinky balls, but an ex had some really rank ones. Seriously, if they smell that bad after a shower, can't you smell them if you go "downstairs" Major turn off.
@babybluu Totally going to make myself look like a crazy about towels right now but I do know a little bit about them.
The key to a good towel is the twist. And by twist I mean the little absorbent fluff on the towel. You want to purchase a towel with little to no twist. They are a little more expensive but they dry faster and last longer. They also feel better. The towels with tighter twists on the eyelets covering the towel will get hard when they've been overused. They get stiff and trap the smell.
My OB office ticked me off just a few minutes ago. I missed the nurse calling me about my blood test results from the downs test. She leaves me a voicemail saying I can call back, they are open for another 10 minutes or I can wait until tomorrow morning. I call back within 2-3 minutes of her call and voicemail and I get the call center. They say, "oh they're closed." How annoying! I'm not too worried, but don't say you're open for another 10 minutes and then literally set up your phones to direct patients to the call center.
DH's job is a Serious TW. To be fair it always has been, he's active duty military and they give him absolutely no notice before he has to go do something. He text me from work today saying to he has to go coach at a rifle range for the next two weeks starting tomorrow. Let me mention, the rifle range is outside for 8-12 hrs a day... In the middle of the Mojave desert at the end of August with temperatures between 105-120 degrees. Only saving grace is that our A/S scan is tomorrow and they are letting him skip part of the range in the morning so that he doesn't have to miss it.
@babybluu Totally going to make myself look like a crazy about towels right now but I do know a little bit about them.
The key to a good towel is the twist. And by twist I mean the little absorbent fluff on the towel. You want to purchase a towel with little to no twist. They are a little more expensive but they dry faster and last longer. They also feel better. The towels with tighter twists on the eyelets covering the towel will get hard when they've been overused. They get stiff and trap the smell.
The ones we have are from target and bed bath and beyond. I have noticed that they are uncomfortably soft. It's like drying off with a down comforter. It feels like it's just spreading the water all over my body instead of soaking it off. Is that the wrong kind? Lol.
@babybluu you can find a happy medium. hahaha. They don't usually stay thaaaat soft. I like the microdry - it's some twist but not like the crazy soft ones. Also, maybe try washing them in cold only?
@skullahoo I tend to care about things I have to use everyday. :-??
@KaraEpp16 I'll have to go out and try some new ones. I have the biggest thing about not buying a whole bunch of things at once even if it's needed. Like I can't buy all new pillows, I have to buy them one at a time over a long period of time because they're so expensive lol. It was easy with these towels because we registered for them before our wedding so they were all wedding gifts.
@AlabamaWorley you listen to Rovers Morning Glory too?? I love when they make fun of Ballrag!
I went to the hospital today because I was getting random gushes of discharge, and OB suggested going to make sure it's just hormones not amniotic fluid. My TW shoutout goes to the ass hats sitting on the bench 6 feet from the door outsidethe cardiovascular entrance smoking cigarettes! And who is there to enforce the "stay 500 feet from the door to smoke" rule? Every person using that entrance either has heart problems or is heading to OB triage and labor on the second floor. Get rid the bench and kick those smokers out!
@KaraEpp16 I'll have to go out and try some new ones. I have the biggest thing about not buying a whole bunch of things at once even if it's needed. Like I can't buy all new pillows, I have to buy them one at a time over a long period of time because they're so expensive lol. It was easy with these towels because we registered for them before our wedding so they were all wedding gifts.
@babybluu How long have you been married? You still could have got the moneys worth. I would just start with replacing the stinky ones. I usually buy towels one at a time, too. I'm not into spending money unnecessarily but I also am pro-stinkless towels.
Like I said, I don't notice how long his towels are in the bathroom. Maybe I should keep a calendar and mark down the days he brings a new one in so I know when to replace it?
Babybluu was only commenting on a jokey thread, she just told a funny story as part of that, it was harmless. I don't think anyone on here can stand up and say that their house is immaculately clean. Many of us work and don't have time (or energy!) to do laundry every day, let alone cook and clean on top of that. Our SO/DH are grown men and will need to learn how to help out with house chores when baby arrives and to share that responsibility equally. If my DH could pick his clothes off the floor it would be a start. But I certainly don't have the time to create an Excel spreadsheet for when I must be cleaning the toilet or washing my curtains.
I didn't think anything about her post was funny. I thought it was gross that she experienced it. I thought it was gross that he said his towel stinks because of the fact that "he dries his ball sack" and I think it's gross to not take steps to avoid contact with a nasty towel after cleaning yourself. It's absolutely crude in my opinion that he would even say something like that to his wife.
I'm not up on any kind of high horse. I'm not implying that she needs to cook/clean/launder and have a martini waiting by the door when he arrives home. I'm just saying it's nasty and EASILY avoidable.
I'm not telling her to keep track of his towel because she's ultimately the one who is going to be playing towel roulette.
I personally would not let a towel sit around for too long and if I saw that my SO was forgetful when switching towels - I would help him out. Luckily, I don't have to keep track of my SO's towels because he doesn't enjoy drying his clean body with a nasty one.
Of course he uses the towel to dry his bits! What else is he supposed to do, hang them out of the bathroom window? Oh I hear the siren wailing - it's the Towel Police!
I seriously am glad that I have plenty more things in my life to worry about than a damn towel.
Like I said, I don't notice how long his towels are in the bathroom. Maybe I should keep a calendar and mark down the days he brings a new one in so I know when to replace it?
Babybluu was only commenting on a jokey thread, she just told a funny story as part of that, it was harmless.
I don't think anyone on here can stand up and say that their house is immaculately clean. Many of us work and don't have time (or energy!) to do laundry every day, let alone cook and clean on top of that.
Our SO/DH are grown men and will need to learn how to help out with house chores when baby arrives and to share that responsibility equally. If my DH could pick his clothes off the floor it would be a start. But I certainly don't have the time to create an Excel spreadsheet for when I must be cleaning the toilet or washing my curtains.
I didn't think anything about her post was funny. I thought it was gross that she experienced it. I thought it was gross that he said his towel stinks because of the fact that "he dries his ball sack" and I think it's gross to not take steps to avoid contact with a nasty towel after cleaning yourself. It's absolutely crude in my opinion that he would even say something like that to his wife.
I'm not up on any kind of high horse. I'm not implying that she needs to cook/clean/launder and have a martini waiting by the door when he arrives home. I'm just saying it's nasty and EASILY avoidable.
I'm not telling her to keep track of his towel because she's ultimately the one who is going to be playing towel roulette.
I personally would not let a towel sit around for too long and if I saw that my SO was forgetful when switching towels - I would help him out. Luckily, I don't have to keep track of my SO's towels because he doesn't enjoy drying his clean body with a nasty one.
Of course he uses the towel to dry his bits! What else is he supposed to do, hang them out of the bathroom window? Oh I hear the siren wailing - it's the Towel Police!
I seriously am glad that I have plenty more things in my life to worry about than a damn towel.
I was thinking that about every single post that I'd read. I'm not trying to pick a fight with someone who is dramatizing things way out of proportion.
My OB office ticked me off just a few minutes ago. I missed the nurse calling me about my blood test results from the downs test. She leaves me a voicemail saying I can call back, they are open for another 10 minutes or I can wait until tomorrow morning. I call back within 2-3 minutes of her call and voicemail and I get the call center. They say, "oh they're closed." How annoying! I'm not too worried, but don't say you're open for another 10 minutes and then literally set up your phones to direct patients to the call center.
I specificically told my office that they can leave information on voicemail and I prefer that they do since I cannot answer the phone at work. I had to sign a waiver but now they do just that.
I appreciate people discussing their husbands ball sacks on this board, about as much as i appreciate the use of the word "tits." Are we not grown women? Can we not try to be less crass? Just saying...
Like I said, I don't notice how long his towels are in the bathroom. Maybe I should keep a calendar and mark down the days he brings a new one in so I know when to replace it?
Babybluu was only commenting on a jokey thread, she just told a funny story as part of that, it was harmless. I don't think anyone on here can stand up and say that their house is immaculately clean. Many of us work and don't have time (or energy!) to do laundry every day, let alone cook and clean on top of that. Our SO/DH are grown men and will need to learn how to help out with house chores when baby arrives and to share that responsibility equally. If my DH could pick his clothes off the floor it would be a start. But I certainly don't have the time to create an Excel spreadsheet for when I must be cleaning the toilet or washing my curtains.
I didn't think anything about her post was funny. I thought it was gross that she experienced it. I thought it was gross that he said his towel stinks because of the fact that "he dries his ball sack" and I think it's gross to not take steps to avoid contact with a nasty towel after cleaning yourself. It's absolutely crude in my opinion that he would even say something like that to his wife.
I'm not up on any kind of high horse. I'm not implying that she needs to cook/clean/launder and have a martini waiting by the door when he arrives home. I'm just saying it's nasty and EASILY avoidable.
I'm not telling her to keep track of his towel because she's ultimately the one who is going to be playing towel roulette.
I personally would not let a towel sit around for too long and if I saw that my SO was forgetful when switching towels - I would help him out. Luckily, I don't have to keep track of my SO's towels because he doesn't enjoy drying his clean body with a nasty one.
Of course he uses the towel to dry his bits! What else is he supposed to do, hang them out of the bathroom window? Oh I hear the siren wailing - it's the Towel Police!
I seriously am glad that I have plenty more things in my life to worry about than a damn towel.
I was thinking that about every single post that I'd read. I'm not trying to pick a fight with someone who is dramatizing things way out of proportion.
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Woah lmao how did I miss her comment lol?? Is it still there cuz I don't see it?
Also we have been married 2 years. I figured they should be okay but maybe they're not as good as I thought they were
@babybluu they've definitely lasted for $$$ I hope you get some new towels soon. You're going to appreciate it when we get like one shower a week with a newborn hehehe.
Like I said, I don't notice how long his towels are in the bathroom. Maybe I should keep a calendar and mark down the days he brings a new one in so I know when to replace it?
Babybluu was only commenting on a jokey thread, she just told a funny story as part of that, it was harmless. I don't think anyone on here can stand up and say that their house is immaculately clean. Many of us work and don't have time (or energy!) to do laundry every day, let alone cook and clean on top of that. Our SO/DH are grown men and will need to learn how to help out with house chores when baby arrives and to share that responsibility equally. If my DH could pick his clothes off the floor it would be a start. But I certainly don't have the time to create an Excel spreadsheet for when I must be cleaning the toilet or washing my curtains.
My house isn't a museum at all times but I'm sure if towels stunk of balls I would a)notice since this seems to be a recurring issue b) wash them. Edit to add: c) ask DH why his balls stink right after a shower. Also I love balls.
@kwentela DH is active duty as well, and he also gets no warning before they send him in CQ or staff duty. He can come home Friday, and enjoy dinner thinking he has the next two days off, and he'll get a text message at 7 or 8pm saying he has staff duty starting Saturday morning. Then they don't do comp days like they used to, so DH doesn't get his weekend days off. I can say I agree that their warnings or timing of giving notice, is poor.
This week certainly goes out to my FIL who made the statements "your boobs are going to get huge now" and "your poor body" all within one hour over the weekend, I don't think I ever was able to respond to either.
MIL for being her, my parents for judging me in the way I just spoke to my daughter as I was direct about her going to bed and we are staying at theirs. It's past 11pm her in the UK and although it's the holidays that's ridiculously late for a 12 year old. I say she needs to go to bed - she stubbornly sits down and refuses to move like a toddler so I hold her arms and try and move her and she flops and refuses - I try and drag her to bed but don't manage to stuggle with moving her more than 2ft & apparently I'm a bully. I am tired - no make that exhausted after looking after 6 children all day whilst being pregnant (3 of which aren't mine - their other grandchildren & their job to babysit today) and I'm rung out after a 12 hour shift with them & mostly by myself (12 hours by bedtime at 8 that is). 11pm and I have a sense of humour fail - excuse me for being pregnant, tired and hormonal! Grrrr result I go to bed in tears and she's sat being pampered by my parents and watching TV - I told them they can't put her to bed the. Because I'm done!
Today my boyfriend told me his dad and granddad would stand one on the balcony and one under it and THROW him to each other as a baby. Then he seemed to get annoyed or offended or whatever when I told him how horrified and disgusted I was and how his dad wasn't getting left alone with my baby if he thinks that was ever acceptable. Seriously, why would you tell a pregnant woman that?! He asked why I didn't find it funny... maybe pregnancy has stolen my sense of humour.
@mommaSimpkin my favorite was when we got restationed here and he was supposed to have 2 full weeks to check into his unit, we were in town for 3 days and they decided to send him out of state for training for 5 straight weeks. Never mind me being in a new place and state in the middle of no where and having none of our stuff yet, just see ya in 5 weeks I guess. I suppose that's our life and what we signed up for though oh well only 3 more months of the BS and then we're free
@kwentela they gave a coworker his anniversary off to spend with his wife, but when DH asked about ours he had to work. Or how long they take to do a promotion ceremony.. So DH walks around wearing the wrong rank for months at a time. They never answer our questions in a timely manor.. But it is what we signed up for. Luckily like you, DH and I only have about 5 more months left. Honestly, I'm ready for him to have a regular job with normal hours.
@mommaSimpkin definitely! At least a job with consistency not coming home at 2pm one day and 10pm the next... Every day of the week! Scary moving over to civilian side with a baby on the way but oh so ready for freedom
DH's job is a Serious TW. To be fair it always has been, he's active duty military and they give him absolutely no notice before he has to go do something. He text me from work today saying to he has to go coach at a rifle range for the next two weeks starting tomorrow. Let me mention, the rifle range is outside for 8-12 hrs a day... In the middle of the Mojave desert at the end of August with temperatures between 105-120 degrees. Only saving grace is that our A/S scan is tomorrow and they are letting him skip part of the range in the morning so that he doesn't have to miss it.
Active duty is a struggle. I'm up at JBLM and I was told a couple days before that I was going TDY for a week to a completely different state. Like for real? Can't give me a bigger notice?
Ok super late but I'm dying over the ball towels discussion. @babybluu It's time you get into the shower with DH and a pump antibacterial soap and take things into your own hands. Show him how it's done. He won't mind since you are touching his balls and maybe he'll learn to pay a little more attention to the boys. Some men are clueless and think a quick swipe around the nether regions will do the trick. I may or may not have had to do this before.
Also, I'm also passionate about bath towels. Spend some money on a few Hotel brand towels from Macy's. I love them so much even 2.5 years after my wedding I may go online and write them a review. So soft and fluffy but they dry you so nicely.
Also the second a load of towels gets forgotten in the washing machine and mildew rot sets in you gotta trash 'em. There is no coming back from that. Maybe that's why his towel smells.
I appreciate people discussing their husbands ball sacks on this board, about as much as i appreciate the use of the word "tits." Are we not grown women? Can we not try to be less crass? Just saying...
As I was writing my response I tried to be less crass but I can't think of a less crass word for balls. Nuts? I guess testicles would have worked. Testicle Tuesday! Totally agree with you on the tits comment though! Yuck.
@kwentela oh yes. We will be moving while I'm 37 weeks pregnant. Moving out of state, and getting a new doctor in place to deliver my baby is quite nerve racking. But I must say. I'm pretty alright with it. Seeming I'll be home, around family instead of states away from everyone and only having DH here. But these last five months are going slow and they're so full of appointments to transition over. On top of my appointments, and soon packing, and turning DH things in. It's gonna be a stressful couple months that I can't wait for them to be over.
My boss is a real ongoing twat waffle...she called me off from working tomorrow due to low census but didn't cancel any other PRN workers. She has done this before and can't seem to get the concept of a fair rotation. She keeps making up rules and fucking changing them as she sees fit. She's such a horrible boss and I wish she would just get fucking fired already.
Ok super late but I'm dying over the ball towels discussion. @babybluu It's time you get into the shower with DH and a pump antibacterial soap and take things into your own hands. Show him how it's done. He won't mind since you are touching his balls and maybe he'll learn to pay a little more attention to the boys. Some men are clueless and think a quick swipe around the nether regions will do the trick. I may or may not have had to do this before.
Also, I'm also passionate about bath towels. Spend some money on a few Hotel brand towels from Macy's. I love them so much even 2.5 years after my wedding I may go online and write them a review. So soft and fluffy but they dry you so nicely.
Also the second a load of towels gets forgotten in the washing machine and mildew rot sets in you gotta trash 'em. There is no coming back from that. Maybe that's why his towel smells.
Lol he washes them fine. He assured me. After talking to people and thinking about it I think his towel smells gross because he just kind of hangs it without spreading it out, so it never dries properly. Mine always lay out for a while.
Also Dh gets nervous when I touch them when it's not sexual... It's like he thinks I'm gonna squeeze them or rip them off which I've never done? Maybe he experienced that before so now he's scared lol.
I'm late, but definitely my MFM office. You know where you HAVE to pay for services before delivered. After spending over 600 a month on my coinsurance I finally checked my claims and realized my out of pocket should of only been 50 dollars and appointment, not 220, 171, 140 and others. I called bcbs and they couldn't figure it out. So at my appointment today they showed me a breakdown that made no sense, but conveniently decided they didn't need to charge me the 171 for today's visit.
They effed up. I know they effed up and I'm pretty sure they do too, but I can't prove it. And instead of helping me understand they outright gave me the medicaid website to apply. I don't mind paying for my services, but you could have your fees come close to what my insurance claims is my cost!!
Idk if the office is a TW or I'm the TW for not catching it sooner.
I was hoping for "That sounds awful" or "hey, good choice", not "that's too popular, you can do better". Telling me I can do better is a judgment. I realize I was asking for opinions and apparently people are unaware of how opinions and judgments are different, but it still irritated me.
Their opinion was that the name is too popular and you can do better. It doesn't mean you have to make a decision based on that.
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This is an awesome TWT thread, btw.
DH doesn't have stinky balls, but an ex had some really rank ones. Seriously, if they smell that bad after a shower, can't you smell them if you go "downstairs"
Major turn off.
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The key to a good towel is the twist. And by twist I mean the little absorbent fluff on the towel. You want to purchase a towel with little to no twist. They are a little more expensive but they dry faster and last longer. They also feel better. The towels with tighter twists on the eyelets covering the towel will get hard when they've been overused. They get stiff and trap the smell.
The ones we have are from target and bed bath and beyond. I have noticed that they are uncomfortably soft. It's like drying off with a down comforter. It feels like it's just spreading the water all over my body instead of soaking it off. Is that the wrong kind? Lol.
@skullahoo I tend to care about things I have to use everyday.
:-??
I went to the hospital today because I was getting random gushes of discharge, and OB suggested going to make sure it's just hormones not amniotic fluid. My TW shoutout goes to the ass hats sitting on the bench 6 feet from the door outsidethe cardiovascular entrance smoking cigarettes! And who is there to enforce the "stay 500 feet from the door to smoke" rule? Every person using that entrance either has heart problems or is heading to OB triage and labor on the second floor. Get rid the bench and kick those smokers out!
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Woah lmao how did I miss her comment lol?? Is it still there cuz I don't see it?
Also we have been married 2 years. I figured they should be okay but maybe they're not as good as I thought they were
Edit to add: c) ask DH why his balls stink right after a shower.
Also I love balls.
He can come home Friday, and enjoy dinner thinking he has the next two days off, and he'll get a text message at 7 or 8pm saying he has staff duty starting Saturday morning. Then they don't do comp days like they used to, so DH doesn't get his weekend days off.
I can say I agree that their warnings or timing of giving notice, is poor.
Or how long they take to do a promotion ceremony.. So DH walks around wearing the wrong rank for months at a time. They never answer our questions in a timely manor..
But it is what we signed up for.
Luckily like you, DH and I only have about 5 more months left.
Honestly, I'm ready for him to have a regular job with normal hours.
Also, I'm also passionate about bath towels. Spend some money on a few Hotel brand towels from Macy's. I love them so much even 2.5 years after my wedding I may go online and write them a review. So soft and fluffy but they dry you so nicely.
Also the second a load of towels gets forgotten in the washing machine and mildew rot sets in you gotta trash 'em. There is no coming back from that. Maybe that's why his towel smells.
But I must say. I'm pretty alright with it. Seeming I'll be home, around family instead of states away from everyone and only having DH here.
But these last five months are going slow and they're so full of appointments to transition over. On top of my appointments, and soon packing, and turning DH things in. It's gonna be a stressful couple months that I can't wait for them to be over.
Transitioning and relocating is a TW for sure..
Lol he washes them fine. He assured me. After talking to people and thinking about it I think his towel smells gross because he just kind of hangs it without spreading it out, so it never dries properly. Mine always lay out for a while.
Also Dh gets nervous when I touch them when it's not sexual... It's like he thinks I'm gonna squeeze them or rip them off which I've never done? Maybe he experienced that before so now he's scared lol.
They effed up. I know they effed up and I'm pretty sure they do too, but I can't prove it. And instead of helping me understand they outright gave me the medicaid website to apply. I don't mind paying for my services, but you could have your fees come close to what my insurance claims is my cost!!
Idk if the office is a TW or I'm the TW for not catching it sooner.