Except for your mom doing the laundry, maybe.

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            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.

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

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        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 :(

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

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      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.

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

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    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.

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      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

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

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      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.

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    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.

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      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