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“I ‘wipe’ all water off my whole body with my hands like windshield wipers before getting out of the shower (or pool, beach, etc). It gets rid of like 75% of the water on you, and the towel does the rest. It keeps your bath towel less moist (doesn’t get dank as fast) and your floors way drier as well.”
“My sister said in passing that she never gets cold coming out of a shower because she uses her hands as a squeegee. I asked her what she meant, and she simply pressed her finger against the skin of her arm and slid it down. So now, after every shower, I do that. I have fewer damp towels, don’t track water, and even after a cold shower, I don’t feel like I am freezing. I was tempted to get an actual squeegee just for this purpose, but my hands are free.”
“I learned this shortly after I joined Reddit, and a former army member relayed it as one of the most useful things he had ever learned!”