Do you reuse your towels?

[Stacerita]

We all reuse our towels in my home.

 

[Angelhalo]

I have a towel with velcro on the top that I wrap around myself that I use everyday, and a towel turbie that I use for my hair. I use them each for a week and then they get washed. I will NOT however EVER use my husband's already used towel. Blech!

 

[OK!]

Heck yes, I reuse them. They usually get washed on Saturdays. Why Saturday? I dunno. But they get washed on Saturdays.

 

[Irish9697]

We re-use. For at least the better part of a week if not a few days more than a full week. Then again, we have heated towel drying racks in the bathrooms (if I remember, they were around $50 each at Bed Bath and Beyond about 5 years ago), so the towels are always warm and dry with the fresh odor. I'd wash them pronto if they were damp or mildewy smelling or obviously stained/dirty.

 

[tonilea]

We don't. I just can't. I buy only white towels and always bleach them.

 

[mumom95]

We reuse. We each use our own towel, and we use them for 3-4 days between washings.

 

[Judy from Boise]

We don't. I just can't. I buy only white towels and always bleach them.

reading your tag I believe this might have all ready come up as a topic .......

 

[SandrA9810]

Yeah, for about a week. Of course I sometimes use two towel when I need to dry my hair. So it's two towels over a week.
And kari hates drying off... dunno why... so I make her use hand towels to dry off unless she's washed her hair.
I try to use up all six sets of towels before washing them so I have a full load in the washer.

I'm more picky about what I put in the washer together. Just to drive kari nuts.

 

[tonilea]

reading your tag I believe this might have all ready come up as a topic .......

I confess, I have towel issues. But, I am not nearly as particular about the bath towels as I am the dish towels.

 

[KristaTX]

i don't even use a towel I just put my clothes straight on. No big deal.

Okay, am I the only one who read this??

I know you are probably serious, but and

Very interesting . Do you at least let yourself air dry before you put your clothes on . All I can think of is how hard it would be to get my clothes on if I was wet .

 

[MoniqueU]

Okay, am I the only one who read this??

I know you are probably serious, but and

Very interesting . Do you at least let yourself air dry before you put your clothes on . All I can think of is how hard it would be to get my clothes on if I was wet .

No I don't really dry off that much. But we have no humidity here. Sometimes my jeans take some doing but other then that no issue. I have been doing this for years with no issue. Not a problem.

 

[Stacerita]

No I don't really dry off that much. But we have no humidity here. Sometimes my jeans take some doing but other then that no issue. I have been doing this for years with no issue. Not a problem.

What about the steaminess of the bathroom from the shower?

 

[SandrA9810]

Kari's version of drying off is wiping her face off, cleaning her glasses and rubbing her head so her hair isn't dripping. And to her, that's dry. And I always have to complain about it so she'll do a better job. And of course she does have difficulty of getting shirts on because they want to bunch up on her shoulders and I have to pull it down in the back for her.

I can't stand being wet after a shower. I'll dry off as much as possible with a towel, and then I like to air dry (if NO ONE is home) for like 30mins.

 

[2BigKIdz]

We do not reuse towels. It had never occured to me to use a towel twice until we were on a group vacation in a beach rental home and a friend asked why I already had a load of laundry to do. I explained that I only brought 3 towels a piece so I was washing the ones we had already used. She had never thought about not using a towel again.

 

[CookieDiva]

We reuse.

 

[shortbun]

We all reuse them for about a week. Trying to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

 

[raysnkaysmom]

I'd say anywhere from 2-4 times I reuse... usually I reuse my hair towel more often than my body towel tho...

 

[mill4023]

I use it until I can smell it when I walk into the bathroom, then I change it out..

I don't wait quite that long. I sniff it up close and if there's any hint of musty/mildew odor, I grab a new towel. Otherwise, I'm good to go.
So we probably average about a week of use for each towel. With 5 kids, DW has enough laundry to do without adding more towels.

I can't believe that some people don't dry off at all. I just can't stand the thought of putting clothes on when I'm still wet.

 

[aprilgail2]

We don't. I just can't. I buy only white towels and always bleach them.

I don't bleach the towels but I would never think about using one more than once- I like a nice clean towel when I get out of the shower. We also use the turbo twisteee things for our hair but those get tossed right in the wash after using it once. I don't like the thought of anything growing in a damp towel and reusing it on my clean body! blech!

 

[PatsMom]

We all reuse them for about a week. Trying to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

DD actually uses three towels for some reason. But she does use the same three for about a week - hangs them to dry when she is done. DH and I both grew up reusing towels - to us it is just kind of weird to not reuse.