Washing dishcloths

[Philagoofy]

Very serious question here. Do you save up all of your dishcloths, dish towels and kitchen hand towels until you have enough for a load and wash them all together or do you put them in with other items such as bath towels, clothes, underwear, etc so that they aren't accumulating for several weeks?

 

[SalandJeff]

I put them in with towels, but just towels. I do all the little stuff (underwear, socks, washcloths) in one load so I can add extra bleach, plus they are a pain to fold. So the kitchen stuff gets put in with towels, also with bleach. That's why I buy all white towels, washcloths, hand towels.

 

[MouseMomx2]

I throw them in with other laundry as they get dirty. It never occurred to me to do otherwise. I throw them in the washing machine at the end of the day and do the load the next morning.

 

[luvmy3]

I wash them with other towels only, I do not mix towels with clothes.

 

[tonilea]

Definitely a in a load of their own. See my tag. All will be explained.

 

[laurie31]

tonilea - you must never come to my house.

We wash DH's tighty whities, undershirts, and the dish towels together, because they are the only things we wash in hot water with bleach.

We usually have enough each week for one load.

 

[LMDisneygirl]

I never wash kitchen towels with underwear. It doesn't really make that much sense since kitchen towels sometimes clean up things that are just as bad as underwear (I'm thinking raw chicken and the like), but that's my rule.

 

[NHdisneylover]

I will toss them in the regular laundry so they do not sit around really dirty, but as I fold that laundry they get tossed aside to be rewashed all together on hot and with bleach. Everything else gets washed in cold water and I think they need hot to kill the germs. I get enough to make up a small load every 5 or 6 days. One dish towel per meal prep in my home--so that means we go through 2-3 minimum in a typical day (more if there is a spill to clean up or we bake cookies or whatever).

 

[Meriweather]

in the bleach batch with whatever is in there

 

[SpecialK]

in the bleach batch with whatever is in there

Same here.

 

[Imzadi]

My dishtowels are white. So I usually toss them in with all my whites that usually get extra bleach.

 

[disykat]

I toss them in the washing machine as I go through them and they go through with the next load. I usually do all our clothes on one day, so the next load is generally either sheets, towels, or the first load of clothes on laundry day. I always do the whites first so whatever has been sitting in the machine runs through on hot. If for some reason I'm running though a load on cold midweek, I scoop out any stuff that is sitting and save it for a hot load.

 

[Muggle-born]

I wash them about every 5 days. They get laid out to dry and I use a new one when I do the dishes which is everyday. Our washer has modes that I can wash a small amount so I use that setting with the very hot button and bleach up those bad boys.

I wash our bathing towels every 3 days or so too but that's always a full load because I never use the same towel again (and I often shower more than once a day) and DH uses a new one every other day.

 

[SandrA9810]

For cleaning rags, I use ALL white washcloths or rags. I like buying those 12 packs at target that come with 4 colors, one color always being white, and 3 of each. So the colors go in the bathroom, the whites go for cleaning. I'll wash all kitchen and cleaning towels in the same load and usually let it pile up. Because I wash it differently than the rest of my towels or clothes, they just get a small load every so often.
And before since the laundry was just off the kitchen, I'd pile them up in the laundry room until I had enough for a small load.

 

[PollyannaMom]

Very serious question here. Do you save up all of your dishcloths, dish towels and kitchen hand towels until you have enough for a load and wash them all together or do you put them in with other items such as bath towels, clothes, underwear, etc so that they aren't accumulating for several weeks?

I just toss them into the next load that's the right temp.

 

[Sgt Mickey]

With towels. We have 6 people in the house so towels are always being washed.

 

[cybrkitn]

They get tossed in with the white wash.

 

[bettymae1121]

I save up the kitchen wash cloths and dishtowels and just do a small load, I don't like to put "icky" items in with "non-icky" items. I know it all gets clean but I'm OCD like that!

I have to say, I've saved a ton of money and a small forest worth of trees since switching from paper towels to reusable wash cloths in the kitchen! I only keep a roll or two of paper towels on hand for emergencies, I use the wash cloths now 99.9% of the time and love it. I wish I'd done it sooner!

 

[wdwfan16]

Very serious question here. Do you save up all of your dishcloths, dish towels and kitchen hand towels until you have enough for a load and wash them all together or do you put them in with other items such as bath towels, clothes, underwear, etc so that they aren't accumulating for several weeks?

Ours get washed with sheets, bath towels, underwear and socks. The load is done in a front loader on the sanitize cycle.

If I waited for just a load of their own it would take about a month and I would need to buy and store about 3Xs what I have now.

 

[wdwfan16]

I save up the kitchen wash cloths and dishtowels and just do a small load, I don't like to put "icky" items in with "non-icky" items. I know it all gets clean but I'm OCD like that!

I have to say, I've saved a ton of money and a small forest worth of trees since switching from paper towels to reusable wash cloths in the kitchen! I only keep a roll or two of paper towels on hand for emergencies, I use the wash cloths now 99.9% of the time and love it. I wish I'd done it sooner!

To me nothing is "ickier" than underwear.