How often do you wash your towels?

balmaiden

I dont use tea towels, everything is either in the dishwasher or left to dry on the draining board. I read yonks ago that tea towels are less hygienic than letting things airdry, good excuse.

As for towels, whenever really, maybe once a week maybe twice.If people had to handwash I doubt that towels would be washed daily!

Poppy9

debtworrier wrote: »

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.

The only other person I've heard doing this is Victor Meldrew:rotfl:

Linda32

MATH wrote: »

We all have our own towels and I do think that makes a big difference to how often you wash them. There is no way I'm dabbing my eyebrows with a towel someone else has fettled their 'tail-ends' with, even once:D

Nearly spluttered wine, errm I mean coffee on the monitor there Math :rotfl: :rotfl:

In answer to the question, we have two bath towels on the go at a time (we have six in total) One hangs on the rail in the bathroom and one on the radiator. These get changed every Friday, then they go in the basket to go with the ordinary clothes washing.

One hand towel in the kitchen which gets changed weekly, (we have two in total) This also goes in with the ordinary washing.

Tea towels and dish cloths (microfibre of course) get changed every few days and go in with the bedding which is washed at a hotter degree than the clothes.

Edited to add, having read the rest of this thread I used to change tea towels and dishcloths after washing up at tea time, I don't anymore though and can honestly say, no ill effects what so ever and nothing different noticed either.

I do lay the dishcloth out flat though to dry between uses, can't stand to see them scrunched up.

kippers

Thanks everyone...well i've decided to wash my bath towels once a week and give everyone their own towel each. I love this forum!

Gillian1912

We each have our own hand towels. I like to use a hand or bath towel just for me! Hand towels tend to get changed twice a week because DH makes his so mucky with toothpaste and generally dirt. How do men make so much mess? As my hand towels are in pairs, both get changed at once.

Wherever we have lived, hubby's towel is always the one nearest the washbasin because I know he will grab the first one he comes to!

We each have own bath towels which are hung over bannister to dry after use. Probably washed after several uses on hot wash.

Tea towels and kitchen cloth every day.

Fruball

I replace the kitchen towels several times a day - we are a busy household of 5 inc 2 messy toddlers so I just fling them on the floor by the machine along with our reusable dishcloths that we wash all the time too.

Bath towels get washed once a week - unless they fail a sniff test or ds or OH nick mine, which they always do because they never remember they have their own :mad: and grab the first one they see :mad:

Hand towels in the downstairs loo get washed every couple of days.

savingsara_2

balmaiden wrote: »

I dont use tea towels, everything is either in the dishwasher or left to dry on the draining board. I read yonks ago that tea towels are less hygienic than letting things airdry, good excuse.

As for towels, whenever really, maybe once a week maybe twice.If people had to handwash I doubt that towels would be washed daily!

Hear! Hear!

JillD_2

blimey I feel like a right old minger now.
I do our towels avery couple of weeks unless they look really grubby before then. We (me, oh, ds 3, dd 2) each have a bath or shower daily, and each have a bath towel, it would not bother any of us to use the others' towels, we all love all our bits, as others have said they are clean when dried. I do the hand towels every week or so, or sooner, agan if they look grubby earlier. We have one hand towel in each loo and in the kitchen. The kids use flannels in the bath and these get wrung and rinsed after their bath and hung on the edge to dry. The flannels get washed every couple of weeks too.

The dishcloths and face/hand wiping flannels in the kitchen get washed every time I put any kind of wash on as they really do get filthy. Tea towels however go weeks between washes as we have a dishwasher so teatowles aren't used that often.

And for what its worth I regularly get in the bath after the kids, they may well have done a wee in it but for some reason even that doesnlt bother me. I think I just think - I change their nappie,s I wipe their bums and I mop up their sick so nothing seems to revolting compared to all that lot :rotfl:

morgansmummy

We have a towel rail. don't know if that makes a difference??

But we have our towels about a week - one each, and mine have to be changed more often, due to bad "holiday body" application!!

in our previous house, we used to put towels over the bath, banister etc, but they used to get musty after a couple of days, so I used to wash them after use.

I go by smell, or colour (ie how orange!!) now...

El x

sugaJen

wow this has really made me think.....

I have loads of face cloths so these are picked out the bathroom daily and chucked in with any wash thats going (kids leave them wet in the sink so they pong!!) Hand towels are done every 1-2 days but bath towels are thrown in the wash after 1st use, which when I read here and actually think about it, its very silly, I will get out the shower wrap a towel round me and just wander round the house til im dry (unless im going out...totally different story) kids will get out the bath and sit in front of the fire til they dry so bath towels arent 'really' getting used???

How daft am I?? I am going to find a place where they can hang after bathtime.

Thanks OP because this never actually crossed my mind, it will save me a wash load or 2 a week!

Jen
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