Clever or Gross?

[IMGONNABE40!]

We recently had a house guest who spent three nights at our house. After he showered in the morning there was no good place for his towels. After he was gone for the day, I removed the towels from the bathroom and put them in the dryer. I also tossed in a (clean) sock with about a tablespoon of fabric softener on it. When the towels were dry, I folded them and returned them to the guest room. They were nice and fluffy and fragrant.

I thought this worked out very well and I think our guest enjoyed having "fresh" towels each morning. Then I got to wondering, since the towels had not been washed, was this kind of gross? What does everyone think? Would you do this when you have guests?

 

[mommytotwo]

It sounds sort of gross. Since you put a dirty towel in the drier. I'm sure your guest thought that it was a nice fresh washed towel. I wait until the guest is gone till I wash the towels, or if they are here for a longer period of time I change them or let them know that I will wash them.

 

[Pop Daddy]

it depends, was the guest sexy

 

[MosMom]

When we are at Disney, we keep the same towels to help them save water. I don't see it as much different than that. You just fluffed them up a little to make it nicer.

 

[dandave]

What's up with the sock? And how does one go about getting a tablespoon of fabric softener?
My fabric softeners for the dryer come in sheets- not spoon fulls.
Gross?? I guess it depends on how well the guest bathed himself.
If I weren't willing to actually <i>wash</i> the towels, however, then I wouldn't bother to perfume them up with fabric softener...Dirty is dirty. Perfumed dirty is just plain icky. JMHO, of course.

 

[IMGONNABE40!]

Liquid fabric softener, dandave. The type I use has a very shallow cap which I estimated at a tablespoon. I did not want to say capful since a lot of liquid fabric softeners have a premeasured cap (about 2 oz). Since I do not use dryer sheets, I sometimes put softener on a sock and throw it in the dryer if I forget to put it in the washer with the load of clothes, or if I want extra softening. By the way, I put the sock/softener duo in with my guest's towels for the softening aspect. The fragrance was a bonus.

 

[KristaTX]

I think it's gross to put stuff that's not freshly washed in the dryer. But I can be an extreme clean freak.

A side note - I find that fabric softener makes towels not absorbant enough.

 

[dandave]

Oh, I see! I honestly only thought you could put the liquid softener in the washer. Thanks for the tip!
I always forget the washer, so I must rely upon my: clean lent filter, put wet clothes in dryer, add a couple of FS sheets routine to do my clothes.
The towels were only dirty, if your guest didn't make good use of the soap.

 

[heathrow42]

I couldn't decide.. still am not sure.. but I was showed my DF and his answer made me laugh.. men they have such a direct/logical way about things!

"you don't wash your towel every day... Its just machine dried instead of air dried... and it smells nice which is a bonus"


--Heather (and Jason)

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Originally posted by Pop Daddy
it depends, was the guest sexy

 

[Manda1219]

I'm a little confused...If a towel was only used to wipe water off of your now clean body, how is it dirty? I don't wash my towels every time I use them...Nor does anyone I just asked...

 

[Octoberbride03]

I'm a little confused...If a towel was only used to wipe water off of your now clean body, how is it dirty?

When you dry off, its not just water that gets on the towel. Excess soap(assuming you used it) and dead skin cells(courtesy of soap) can make their way onto the towel you're using to dry off. Most of the time, the dead cells are so few we don't notice them.

Anyhow, i say as long as he was the only person who using the towels then i don't consider it gross not to have washed them b4 putting them in the dryer.

 

[MScott1851]

I have never understood the phenomena of using a towel over and over.... When we have guests, they know that there are tons of towels, washcloths, and handtowels in the linen cabinet beside the sink. Whether or not they reuse is up to them. As for me and mine, we use a fresh towel each shower...sometimes I will step out on the one I used the time before, but don't dry off with it again.

 

[pw2pp]

You never know what could be on those towels.