How do you keep visitors & Realtors at open houses and showings from using your nicely folded, perfectly hung, and oh so clean and dry towels? I have read that some suggest tying them in ribbons or raffia and therefore signal that they are off limits. Does everyone know how to read raffia? A sign "Do Not Use Towels" along with "Do Not Use Toilet or If in the case of an Emergency : please close lid & flush (or maybe flush and then close lid)", "Do Not Sit on Bed" , "Don't kiss the Mirror", "No eating or drinking in any room", & "No smoking right outside the door and then throwing butt on doorstep" (still referring to the cigarette here) - might help!
What I do is provide a wicker or metal holder 
with lovely paper guest towels or on a low budget - nicely folded printed Bounty. The reality exists that - "when you've go to go, you've got to go". Realtors at open houses are sometimes there for hours. Children are always unpredictable in their potty habits, some are still in training! I designate a powder room or the guest bathroom for use and indicate that in the other bathrooms. This has helped with the towel problem - the others are still out of control!
What do you do?
Kathleen Lordbock 
Re$ale Design & Home Staging
Brainerd Lakes area of Minnesota
~Changing the way houses are sold in Minnesota~
I have even had REAs ask to buy these from me!
and it's one of the reason I use fluffy white towels alot in case I need to bleach them or dark colors so the dirt won't show.
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