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How often do you wash your towels?

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cherrycola66 · 12/06/2025 18:12

Random post but I keep seeing it pop up in articles about how you only need to wash your towels once a week, I wash mine after each use, is this not normal?

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Pickingmyselfup · 12/06/2025 21:24

On average weekly, sometimes it might be after 4 days, others after 10. I think weekly for towels and bedding is just right but I don't panic if it stretches to weeks. Life is busy, I have other stuff to be doing other than washing but I find aiming to do it weekly stops it from stretching on and on. I also include bathmats and hand towels in the towel and bedding wash too.

Tea towels are another story, they are constantly being kicked around the floor so constantly being put in the wash.

BoudiccaRuled · 12/06/2025 21:23

choccytime · 12/06/2025 19:20

Oh dear I'm ashamed . There's only me and DH here now so the bath towels maybe once a month hand towels every week . Tea towels get a boil wash every now and then . when we ve got family round I make sure there's clean towels

Why ashamed?
People washing clean towels every two minutes should be ashamed of their ridiculous nonsense.

Talkinpeace · 12/06/2025 21:22

When the ecosystem on them evolves enough to ask

every few years

vickylou78 · 12/06/2025 21:22

Once a week here (sometimes 10 days!) but we all have our own bath towels and we are using them on clean bodies and leave them over an airer to dry after a shower so they are fine being used for a week.

T towels and hand towels more regularly.

Flomingho · 12/06/2025 21:21

Hand towels are changed every other day and bath towels are after every two uses. A towel per person. They wouldn't feel fresh if washed any less than this. If we have guests they would be given clean towels every day.

BoudiccaRuled · 12/06/2025 21:20

After each use is completely unnecessary and a massive waste of water, as well as your money. Surely your towels wear out?
Every week or two is fine, you use them on your clean body.
Unless there's a drip feed coming that you wipe your arse on them too...

CloudywMeatballs · 12/06/2025 21:20

I can't believe that you genuinely thought it was normal to wash towels after every use! Just why? What terrible thing do you think is going to happen if you hang it up to dry and then reuse it the next day?

Weekly is more than enough, presuming they're being used to dry clean bodies. To be honest, it can sometimes be several weeks in-between towel washes in my house because I forget about it.

user1476613140 · 12/06/2025 21:18

Once a week.

mintgreensoftlilac · 12/06/2025 21:17

genuinely curious to know how people physically fit in washing towels several times a week?!? I do a load of washing every day more or less (household of 3) and within that, towels probably get done every couple of weeks. Are people doing multiple loads a day? And what is the rationale for doing them every day/several times a week? I like to think we are a very clean-smelling family but by the sounds of it we need to do better 😂

Ohwhatfuckeryitistoride · 12/06/2025 21:15

Wash? I burn them after one use. 😏

Miyagi99 · 12/06/2025 21:08

WithIcePlease · 12/06/2025 20:38

I wash them whenever this thread appears on MN

😂😂

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 12/06/2025 20:54

cherrycola66 · 12/06/2025 20:26

I only have a small 2 bedroom house, I have a towel rail in the bathroom and over the shower door that I hang them on and then I have under the bed drawers and my daughters I keep in a drawer under her bed too. I’ve never counted but I do think I must have around 20 or more

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That's so much space storing towels instead of being used for other things.

No one needs that many towels. Just use them more than once and take some space back.

AdoraBell · 12/06/2025 20:52

I use the towels twice, DD usually only use them once. I try to only do the wash weekly.

GRex · 12/06/2025 20:51

Tea towels aren't for hands; but we get through 2-5 depending on the week. If they get particularly wet, dirty, or my laundry lady comes (twice a week) then they get replaced.

GRex · 12/06/2025 20:49

Hand towels get replaced weekly, plus the downstairs one is replaced after guests. Each of us have our own face and body towels; they get washed every 1-2 weeks or if needed. They live on towel radiators, so don't usually get any damp smell. Swimming towels get done on the day they were used.

TheLette · 12/06/2025 20:41

If you have a small 2 bedroom house then it would be sensible to reuse towels so you can avoid storing 20 of them! My house isn't massive but bigger than yours and I would struggle to store 20 towels. I'd definitely get rid of some and try to live an easier life with less washing!

IpsyUpsyDaisyDoos · 12/06/2025 20:39

WithIcePlease · 12/06/2025 20:38

I wash them whenever this thread appears on MN

So every day then?

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 12/06/2025 20:38

The world has actually gone mad. Seriously - what do you think is going to happen if you dry your clean body on a towel which was used to dry your clean body the day before?

WithIcePlease · 12/06/2025 20:38

I wash them whenever this thread appears on MN

Miyagi99 · 12/06/2025 20:32

Bath towel and hand towel once a week, tea towels every couple of days. I have some really nice towels but they’re just for show and visitors, I love my old tough one that’s about 40 years old 😂

Flannelfeet · 12/06/2025 20:32

I actually had this conversation with my husband yesterday after talking with some friends who only wash the towels after a few uses. I said I think we are weirdos, we wash after every use and most of the time I have 2 big towels as I use one for my hair. I dont know if I can use a towel twice, I think i would feel unclean.

Venturaventura · 12/06/2025 20:32

rhomb · 12/06/2025 19:49

Weekly. Wash all the towels in one wash.

washing daily - are you a hotel?

We have solar power so it doesn’t cost to wash and dry them after one use. We use small towels though, not huge bath sheets.

deeahgwitch · 12/06/2025 20:29

BitOutOfPractice · 12/06/2025 18:27

I just air dry my body because using an actual towel is so grim.

You are even bolder (naughtier) 😂😂

BreakingBroken · 12/06/2025 20:29

when ever i do laundry, I just grab the bath and kitchen towels and add them in. so easily 3 times a week.

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cherrycola66 · 12/06/2025 20:27

Drew79 · 12/06/2025 20:20

Plus all the energy usage... are people also using driers to launder multiple towels every day/week?!?

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I do use my dryer around 4/5 times a week not specifically for towels but all my washing

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