Do you re-use your bath towels?

[Mouse House Mama]

ok sorry but for the 2 seconds you run a towel over your privates you compare that to 12 hours in your panties??

Come on.. lets be real

2 seconds? Um, I wash those parts better than that and I dry them as well. Still, I would not dry my face with any towel that has dried my parts no matter how clean. YMMV.

 

[Kat77]

Nothing sits all week here. Laundry is done every single day. I do multiple loads a day. Usually 3-5 loads. I swear I must have worked laundry in a women's prison in a past life.

I must have been your cell mate and coworker. I do almost as much laundry, my sista. The sheets are on a weekly rotation but otherwise I'm right there with you... including the blankets and two towels for showering.

 

[PeterPanic]

Clean towel after every shower or bath. I was raised this way along with my siblings. My sister in law was raised to use a towel for a week before laundering. According to my bro, this was one of the biggest issues they had when they first married. They joke that when their kids date,the first they should ask is not about religious orientation, but about towel practices to insure compatibility.

Don't forget to cover which direction to hang the toilet paper. From the front or from the back? That can cause some strange discussions.

Nothing sits all week here. Laundry is done every single day. I do multiple loads a day. Usually 3-5 loads. I swear I must have worked laundry in a women's prison in a past life.

I assume that you do not work outside the home. That is something I would think would be quite a burden to someone that wasn't home all day. But what do I know. And one question...how the heck do you afford your water/electric/gas bill? Seems like that would get pretty expensive.

 

[mom2val]

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[disneyfans95]

I cant understand the "touched your privates" angle.

It is CLEAN. IT is your OWN body..

You won't get STD if you use that towel the next day..

It is amazing how repressed folks can be.. Oh that towel was near my #^^$^, it must be scorned and burned at the stake.. Ok or at least thrown away and burned in hot water..

Come on people..

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I must have been your cell mate and coworker. I do almost as much laundry, my sista. The sheets are on a weekly rotation but otherwise I'm right there with you... including the blankets and two towels for showering.

Woo Hoo! At least I know I am not alone! lol! I like to wash the pillows too. Do you?

Don't forget to cover which direction to hang the toilet paper. From the front or from the back? That can cause some strange discussions.



I assume that you do not work outside the home. That is something I would think would be quite a burden to someone that wasn't home all day. But what do I know. And one question...how the heck do you afford your water/electric/gas bill? Seems like that would get pretty expensive.

I do not work outside the home at this time but I do volunteer quite a bit and combine that with running all over with activities I don't actually spend tons of time hanging around. I start laundry very early in the day. I do agree that if I was at work 9-5 it might be a little difficult but still doable. I have the laundry timing down to a science. I have a super efficient washer so the water bills are relatively small. The oil bill has always been ridiculous no matter how much or how little laundry we do. It just is what it is. Nothing really makes it go down substantially. Sad but true.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I cant understand the "touched your privates" angle.

It is CLEAN. IT is your OWN body..

You won't get STD if you use that towel the next day..

It is amazing how repressed folks can be.. Oh that towel was near my #^^$^, it must be scorned and burned at the stake.. Ok or at least thrown away and burned in hot water..

Come on people..

Who is even implying such a thing? There are plenty of clean things, it doesn't mean I want to rub them on my face. You also shed skin cells etc. when you dry off and I want a clean towel all the time. I am not a towel reuser.

 

[Sparkly]

I reuse my towel 2-3 times before washing. I use it after showering, showering gets you clean, I don't see the big deal.

 

[Trek Girl]

I'm in the camp that only uses my towels once before washing them. It's how I grew up. When I was an undergrad, I would use them for a week before washing, but that was only because I had to use my dorm's laundromat, and I was trying to save money and time. Now that I have my own washer and dryer, it's fresh towels everyday for me and DH. We usually do laundry about twice a week to keep the hamper from overflowing. As for pajamas, we don't wear those, and we try to change the sheets every week (but sometimes life gets in the way and we don't get around to it until the second week).

There's no wrong or right answer for this one, as it's all about personal preference. In my case, there's no reason for me to have to reuse my towels, so I don't.

 

[disneyfans95]

I'm in the camp that only uses my towels once before washing them. It's how I grew up. When I was an undergrad, I would use them for a week before washing, but that was only because I had to use my dorm's laundromat, and I was trying to save money and time. Now that I have my own washer and dryer, it's fresh towels everyday for me and DH. We usually do laundry about twice a week to keep the hamper from overflowing. As for pajamas, we don't wear those, and we try to change the sheets every week (but sometimes life gets in the way and we don't get around to it until the second week).

There's no wrong or right answer for this one, as it's all about personal preference. In my case, there's no reason for me to have to reuse my towels, so I don't.

ok so clean towels, but you sleep naked on the same sheets for a week

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I cant understand the "touched your privates" angle.

It is CLEAN. IT is your OWN body..

You won't get STD if you use that towel the next day..

It is amazing how repressed folks can be.. Oh that towel was near my #^^$^, it must be scorned and burned at the stake.. Ok or at least thrown away and burned in hot water..

Come on people..

My goodness, no one was going that far! No one said a word about STD's. Over dramatic much?

 

[Kat77]

I assume that you do not work outside the home. That is something I would think would be quite a burden to someone that wasn't home all day. But what do I know. And one question...how the heck do you afford your water/electric/gas bill? Seems like that would get pretty expensive.

Not the quoted poster but I will share my routine.
Load washer before bed.
Wake up, transfer load to dryer, reload washer.
Afternoon/Evening- unload/reload dryer, kids help fold and put away laundry. Throw in third load, if needed.
I do not work outside the home, but my routine is pretty basic and would be possible if I did.

Woo Hoo! At least I know I am not alone! lol! I like to wash the pillows too. Do you?

Yep. I wash everything. If it can not survive the machine, we do not need it.
Simmons foam pillows do not lump, if anyone is looking for a good washable pillow.

(I have a horrible dust allergy. That may factor into my laundry ocd a tiny bit. I do enjoy the ability to breathe easily )

 

[declansdad]

I'm in the camp that only uses my towels once before washing them. It's how I grew up. When I was an undergrad, I would use them for a week before washing, but that was only because I had to use my dorm's laundromat, and I was trying to save money and time. Now that I have my own washer and dryer, it's fresh towels everyday for me and DH. We usually do laundry about twice a week to keep the hamper from overflowing. As for pajamas, we don't wear those, and we try to change the sheets every week (but sometimes life gets in the way and we don't get around to it until the second week).

There's no wrong or right answer for this one, as it's all about personal preference. In my case, there's no reason for me to have to reuse my towels, so I don't.

How about helping out the environment?

 

[pixiewings71]

I use 2 towels daily, 1 for my super long hair (waist length) and 1 for my body, I reuse them before I wash them.

 

[4luv2cdisney]

Woo Hoo! At least I know I am not alone! lol! I like to wash the pillows too. Do you?

I don't, but I might start. I buy us new pillows all the time and it get's expensive. We like fluffy new pillows here! I never really thought of washing them. Do they come out flat and lumpy?

While my household has 18-20 loads of laundry per week, I am not the one doing it all so I just gotta say...

 

[PrincessKsMom]

We use ours for a week. Having said that....

I use two towels - one is for my face/head/hair only. The other one for my body. I'm not even sure why, but that's how I like it!

Us too on both counts.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

I don't, but I might start. I buy us new pillows all the time and it get's expensive. We like fluffy new pillows here! I never really thought of washing them. Do they come out flat and lumpy?

While my household has 18-20 loads of laundry per week, I am not the one doing it all so I just gotta say...

I have to ask -- how many family members that you have 18-20 loads of laundry a week?

 

[TinkerBelled]

I have to ask -- how many family members that you have 18-20 loads of laundry a week?

Heavens! That's so, so much water used every year. With the most water-conservationist washer you can buy, that's well over 25,000 gallons a year; with a conventional washer, it's over 40,000. I'm not a rabid environmentalist, but I couldn't justify using that much water unless I had a family of ten.

 

[ilovejack02]

New towel for each bath for sure in summer, in coldest of winter we MIGHT use it twice. I live in South Louisiana , the humidity and heat is insane here. .Towels smell bad quickly , even with AC on , which I turn up during day if we aren't here. Sheets are washed about every 3 days in master , I like new fresh sheets. DS10's sheets get washed every cpl of weeks , which sounds funny but he sleeps on top of quilt and under a really soft thin blanket . Blanket is washed every 3 or 4 days as he drags it all over the house. Dog sleeps with us , which is the reason I wash so much , she gets washed every four days too lol.

Pillows are washed every two weeks, yes they come out fluffy and I replace yearly .

Hubby sweats alot at work during summer so sometimes no matter what we couldn't reuse his towels, no amount of soap in the world will totally erase 100 degree stink : ) . I do at least 1 or 2 loads of laundry a day , with 3 people , 3 dogs and 1 cat in house. If it isn't people clothing, it is dog beds or doggie bath towels etc.

 

[KateDinVA]

I use a towel for a few days to a week (usually, until I wrap my hair in it and come downstairs, as opposed to toweling off and throwing it over the rail), with a fresh washcloth for each shower. I prefer thin towels, too (where 10-12 fit in a load!)

My DH uses a fresh towel for each shower (sometimes twice a day) and prefers the thick, plush, large bath sheets that only fit about 5-7 a load But... he does help out a LOT with laundry, so I go with it.

DD1 has to take two clear-water baths a day, and use a fresh towel for each. I use very small towels for her as she is small, and not washing her hair