Hanging Towels

I hang my bath towel on a hook in the bathroom by the little loop in the center of the wide side.

I don't recommend this over a bar. Bars are just better since it gives the towel more airflow, but I don't have the space.

If you have to use a hook as well, I recommend using the loop instead of hanging the towel directly over the hook, even sewing a loop on if there isn't one. It ensures that the towel is perfectly balanced and secured every time without needing to visually confirm. I can turn my brain off and think about other things¹, because I know all I need to do is find the loop and put it on the hook. It's impossible to grab the wrong end to hang and end up with the towel slipping onto the floor.

That's worth the extra few seconds and fiddling. Your brain remembers the extra thinking and checks it needs to do, even if you don't. I didn't realize how much I was fumbling with the towel to keep it balanced until I didn't have to. The loop goes on the hook, and my hands can do the rest.

This goes for smaller towels too, not just big bath towels. Paradoxically small hand and face towels are more annoying to hang because there's less weight to secure them to the hook.

In the kitchen though, just use the oven handle or wherever else works as a bar. You really want the airflow or those dish towels will get smelly so fast.

- Rew

Nightly Notes

I suppose this is an offshoot of When Slower Is Faster? This isn't not about speed though since I don't hang towels enough for it to be an issue, and when I'm hanging a towel I have very good reason to anyway so it's not a problem if it's slower. The point is removing thinking in a time when I really don't want superfluous thinking.

Anyway.

I feel like I'm repeating myself, stylewise. This is the tone and structure I default to, and I'm getting tired of reading it. "I do a thing, the cost is minimal and there's potential upside, cheeky side tip/caveat before I go." I literally just did it.

I have no clue why this is where I've ended up, I can't think of a source I got it from and it's only half how I think about things. I think I should change it up a bit.

Change is all that matters but we only get to keep consistency, so on and so forth.

- Rew