How often do you wash your towels?

thriftlady_2

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Once a week here too for towels and daily for tea towels.

Same here

thriftmonster

H - I'm glad I'm not the only one who uses the bannisters for drying bathsheets! - our bathroom is just too small. We usually have a couple of bathsheets and a couple of hand towels on the go between us - at the end of the week they will get used as swimming towels and then washed. Tea towels each day.

bulchy

We all have our own towels, and they usually get washed once a week,or sooner if anyone thinks they might need it. Hand towels are changed everyday, and teatowels I usually go through 2 a day.
DS last year expressed his surprise at the fact that I wash the bathtowels, as he is clean when he dries himself, so why does the towel need to be washed?? He was only 12 at the time though :rolleyes: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Sue

belfastgirl23

Tea towels - when they're dirty - I usually go through 2-3 a day, more if I'm doing a cook up. But save then and wash with other whites.
Hand towels once a week or so, more if we have visitors or are expecting visitors
Bath towels, we both have our own and it could be once a fortnight at times, I'm with the 'you're clean when you use them' folks Or they might go in when there's space in a white wash. They are dried and aired in between uses though I remember my student days when towels were washed once a month whether they needed it or not so this seems like an improvement to me

debtworrier

There's only me to worry about, so I do a separate towel wash about every month or so (they leak colour horribly so can't be bunged in with other things - will be replaced with *white* towels when they wear out, I've learned my lesson!)

However my towels never get very damp because I always "sailor dry" before using them, i.e. wring out my flannel/facecloth really hard and then dry myself with that, wringing it out again when the flannel feels wet. I usually usually have to wring it out two or three times if drying my whole body. Only once I've dried myself this way with the flannel do I use a towel. As a result, my bath towel is never more than damp, so it dries really quickly and doesn't get smelly.

vfairbrass

lil_me wrote: »

We have a routine with boys after bath, top to middle, bottom to middle, then the middle.

Or as my mother used to say 'Up as far as possible, down as far as possible and then possible'

I wash towels once a week only and have always done so. Between times they hang over the banisters to air after use. Haven't come to any harm so far.

guinness34

i wash our towels twice a week but there is six of us
but my oldest daughter moves out this weekend she going to live with her boyfriend so i hope she will be fine

carrieparkinson

the kitchen towels at least once daily, and the bathroom hand towel at least once a day. bath towels are for kids and myself, its 2 days(we each have our own towel) and for oh its everytime he goets a bath or shower (hes a landscaper n a mucky bleeder) and for the wash cloths its about twice a week.

Soapy955

scubaleopard wrote: »

My husband and I shower every day witout fail and I love him and his bits. It would not even occur to me to worry about using a towel that he had used for any of his bits and I know the same is true for him.

I was thinking exactly the same! What's so horrendous about any "bits" of a family that you love?

Also the person who doesn't use tea towels but uses kitchen roll... isn't that terribly expensive? You must get through loads of it? Surely it's more OS to use a towel that can be washed and re-used?

And carrieparkinson, I suggest you tell your OH to wash all the grime off his body before using your towels!!

Parallel_Universe

MKwife wrote: »

Once a week

You only drying a clean body with it so it can't be that dirty!!

same for me!