How often do you wash your towels?

mouseymousey99

We share a huge bath sheet (2 of us) and the bath water.
Bath sheet,tea towels and dishcloths every day.
Sheets every week, in the winter, 2 - 3 times a week in the summer.

Annie1103

Hi,
Just want to say thank you to everyone in this thread, me and my OH have a bath towel each and I wash them daily.

But...after reading this thread I am switching to washing them once a week. Which will mean only using the washing machine every 3 days instead of daily.

seashore321

The way the weather is at the moment I just hang my towels out every morning and they smell scrummy!! If it rains you have to decide whether its acid rain or cos I live in the country rain smelling of cow pooh!!

One thing I would say is if your towels hang near the toilet they need washing every day cos unfortunately the spray from the toilet will adhere to the towels and it carries a degree of urine etc...(sorry).

Slinky

seashore321 wrote: »

The way the weather is at the moment I just hang my towels out every morning and they smell scrummy!! If it rains you have to decide whether its acid rain or cos I live in the country rain smelling of cow pooh!!

One thing I would say is if your towels hang near the toilet they need washing every day cos unfortunately the spray from the toilet will adhere to the towels and it carries a degree of urine etc...(sorry).

Try putting the lid down before you flush!

smokeycarebear

There are 8 of us in the house, so I have to wash the towels when used. I don't have enough towels to go round everybody. Kids have a bath every other night and I go on the other nights and DH washes when he remembers or I'm moaning about smell - he is a dirty pig - no sorry pigs are cleaner. I do about 2 -3 loads a day, and on bed changing day it is about 5.

patchwork_cat

Hi
To all the people who think that they wash their towels too often - try doing what the Germans do and use a dry flannel to take of the worst of the wet and do the personal bits - you could then wash the flannel every day instead of a huge towel.

Dotmatic

Thought I would just add my tuppence worth to this thread

We have all have a bath towel each and they're changed once a week, the hand towel in the bathroom and the tea towel and hand towel in the kitchen are changed daily, I wash them all on a 60 degree wash :eek: just once a week.

It's been interesting reading what everyone does with their towel washing etc, I really hate the way the towels just hang about all week, I end up hanging mine on the bedroom door as there's nowhere else for it to go :rolleyes:

VickyM_2

Another of those threads which makes me feel like a complete houseslut, since although I know I only washed the towels a couple of weeks ago when it was sunny, it's usually every few weeks. Or possibly every other month... oh dear... but then, yes, we're clean when we use them. In winter they hang on the radiator, in summer (when its not raining on the line outside) so they do dry off and don't get musty.

How on earth do those people who wash their towels every day dry the dratted things??

And I'm not even going to join the conversation about how often you wash t-towels, and jaycloths!!

keelykat

Oh i cant stand j cloths! i get a big pack of cheap sponges and throw away often!

spiddy100

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 would not dream of wasting all that electricity.water,soap powder on something that has been used to dry a clean body.

^^^ What she said

Bath towels go out on the bannisters (glad everyone else seems to do this too ) after use to dry so they don't get musty. Change them probably once a week. Boys have their own bath towel, DH and I have two but we share them.

Face flannels every day. Hand towels every few days but thinking about it, it should probably happen more often.