Towels

Years ago I learned a great towel tip from my sister in law.  Over the years we've used it in our home, sometimes with greater success than others.  Recently while searching for towels so our family could go swimming, I realized that we need to reinstate her great idea and utilize it the way it was meant to be.  Here's the idea.

You assign each child two matching towels.  Every child gets a different color or pattern.  Two towels, if hung up after baths or showers are enough for each child to get through a week of keeping clean.  I've put hooks on the backs of the bedroom doors so it is easy for them to hang their towels after they shower.  If a towel is left on the bathroom floor, I know who it belongs to.  If a towel is moldering on the carpet in the bedroom after a shower, we know who's it is.  On laundry day, (our kids do their own laundry) they wash their bath towels along with their clothes. 

I realized recently, that my little girls had never been give "their towels."  They have been using whatever towels they can find lying around, sometimes towels belonging to their brothers and sometimes the guest towels.  They have been using a new towel every time they bathe, resulting in lots of extra laundry.  Time to get things working again!!