Towels?

[LettuceP]

Another thread about washing bedding just reminded me that I've been meaning to ask this.

What do you do about washing towels? Does each person in your family have their own towel and you wash them together? How often do you wash them?

We have clean towels in the airing cupboard and get one out as needed. For the kids I hang them on the radiator in their room after use and use them once more then put them in the washing basket. Me and DH try to do the same but usually end up slinging them in the basket after one use. Tbh it's only a few years ago that I learned you don't have to wash them after every use. They get washed with clothes, I don't seperate towels or bedding. I only seperate by colours and some things go on a hand wash. I do all washing at 40 degrees but I think I need to start separating things more and doing some washes at 30.

I'm trying to cut down on washing because I know I do way too much and we need to save money and I'd love to have less to do 😁
Also what about clothes? How many wears before you wash them. T-shirts, socks and pants are 1 wear then wash but what about jeans, trousers, jumpers, bras etc?

Once a week at 60, and (evil of evils) tumble dried to keep them soft

We put ours in with bedding or wait for a full load of towels.
Washed on 40, pegged out on line and finished in the drier.
Can't have wet washing in the house as it creates damp.
I usually wait for a dry breezy day to wash them.

Just DH and me. Socks (tights, but I rarely wear them nowadays) and underwear changed daily and washed weekly with bedlinen, usually at 40. Towels generally weekly, used to be at 90, but now generally at 60. Shirts/blouses, T-shirts, jumpers, jeans etc. normally get worn two or three times before washing - mostly washed at 30, sorted for colour or light/dark.

We have a cupboard full of towels and a new one probably gets used every 4(?) days per person. I wash them once I have a full load - so probably every other week - on a 60 degree wash.

Then they go in the tumble dryer.

Bedding gets done every 3 days though. I'm a sucker for a clean, fresh smelling bed. One of my very few pleasures in life.

Again, the tumble dryer means that I can wash, dry and put the bedding back on within the space of a few hours

Towels. I have posted this before. A tip from my sister's ex. Take a couple of flannels to dry yourself with after a bath or shower - they'll get the worst off and can be washed straightaway. Then wrap yourself in a big towel, and you can re-use that a couple of times. Saves huge amounts of washing.
Sheets, towels, white school shirts go on a hotter wash. Almost everything else gets done on a 30 min 30 degree wash. Easy.

Everyone has their own towel which gets washed once a week, same as bedding.

towels in the wash right now.
50 long cycle
each their own towel, all washed together

What florascotia2 said.

Don't any of you compulsive laundry generators know that we have 12 years to stop the planet's temperature rising more than 1.5 degrees to avoid catastrophic climate change?? This WILL affect your children

Saving energy is one of the easiest ways we can all make a difference.

Other than for a very occasional maintenance wash, THERE IS NO REASON EVER TO WASH ANYTHING AT 90.

60 is fine for killing germs - this is the temperature I use to wash towels, which get done as a single load about once a fortnight.

Everything else gets washed at 30. It's also better for your clothes & bedding & prolongs their life. No-one in my house has ever been ill from my laundry habits.

Am still figuring mine out, but so far :

Towels, change it roughly once or twice a week. We should have our own ones but don’t really- except baby. Hand towels gets changed once a week, and kitchen ones get changed daily.
Bedsheets once a week.

Pjs DH after like a month. But me every other wear as I’m bf and Leak everywhere. I feel I wasn’t I would wear it for a whole week.

Outer garments/jackets/fancy - only washed when they get dirty.

Underwear, changed every day. Including I’m starting to convert into half sleeve vests so I can spare my tops from needing daily washes.

For now, I wash tops and bottoms after every other wear simply because baby pukes and puts dirt all over me. Otherwise, I would hang behind the door in my bedroom and put them all in the wash when I’m washing that specific color. Usually by the weekend.

Laundry:

Light colours - 40 degrees once a week
Dark colors - 40 degrees once a week
Whites - 60 degrees once a week
handwashjng - I do it in the shower when bothered
Cleaning cloths/mop heads- 90 degrees once a week
Towels - 60 degrees. when there is no more towels left in the ottoman
Bedsheets- 40 degrees- when there is no more sheets left to use.

It usually ends up being , a laundry cycle every other day or so.

morning: take out load from previous night and put a new load.

If I’m showering, I take out one item from the handwash basket and wash it with me (powder in toilet always).

Afternoon: hang laundry and remove air dried one. Fold. ( airdryer in child’s room so I can do this while he plays safely)
Evening: run cycle to be ready by next morning. ( ideally I should put a timer).

I’m hoping to improve still. I hate that I have clothes on airdryer everywhere. Might need to change to air drying in evening only and removing them in morning.

We have a towel each and then a pile of shared ones. They get washed at 30° with the rest of the washing after 3 or so uses. I agree with the posts about climate change. Are the posters who wash at 90° several times a day/week and who shower 2+ times a day the same posters who come on wringing their hands and wondering what we can do about climate change?

Dear God what a waste of water, energy and money. I assume they're mostly ironed as well? How do you get the time?

Own towels washed weekly, sometimes more often if we think they need it.
Clothes eg Jeans that are OK to wear again go on bedroom chair.

I just figured since the bath mat is in there I would need to kill bacteria off. 😂
I wasn’t brought up to use one at a time but dh was so I just figure if I’m washing anyway I might as well chuck them all in.
Also I don’t wash 28 towels a week I don’t even have that many.
DC3 are all only small so all use small towels dh and I use medium sized ones and hell no I don’t iron them.
I also don’t have a tumble dryer but I am aiming for one in the next few months. Yeah

We all have our own towel (even the dog - though I don't wash his and ours together). I really don't understand at all why anyone needs to wash a bath towel after one use. Ours just get done once a week with tea towels. The latter are changed more frequently as dh tends to leave residue on pans, then wipe on tea towel. Everything else, apart from underwear, gets more than one wear from most of us.

Towels are communal when in the airing cupboard, keep your own once used. Hang to dry and wash with tea towels and sheets and white pillowcases once a week. Wash duvet covers less often as they don't show cat paw prints.

Thank goodness for @HoustonBess, I was beginning to feel left out.
Undies every day. Clothes after 2-4 wearings. Towels and bedding when I can't smell washing powder anymore

I don’t have a tumble dryer so towels done once a week and then taken to launderette to dry on a Sunday morning in the winter or on the line in the summer.

Also what about clothes? How many wears before you wash them. T-shirts, socks and pants are 1 wear then wash but what about jeans, trousers, jumpers, bras etc?
Missed the last bit. I do one clothes wash a week except for white school shirts which are done separately.

Me- Jeans usually 5 days. T-shirts worn once in summer and for 2 to 3 days in winter. Jumpers for a week or two.

12 year old- I wash what is in the laundry bag and anything left out to wear again that looks dirty. There is usually one or two sets of uniform, a couple of t-shirts, a pair of pyjama shorts, and sometimes a pair of jeans.

White school shirts are washed on a 30 degree wash and lower spin speed so I don't have to iron them. Soak and iron them once a term. PE and games kit are washed at the end of half term, unless they are in the laundry bag.

I stupidly wash towels after single use... I admit that’s mad

But nightwear.... I cringe if I have to wear that for a second night.

Re: clothes

Underwear, socks, tights, shirts, T-shirts after one day.

Anything that is not worn directly next to the skin gets washed only when it looks or smells dirty.

Jeans & jumpers can go on for months sometimes...

We have our own towels. We do a separate towel wash because we tumble dry them (it’s a washer/dryer) and they take up most of the machine 😂

How does anybody have the will to do so much washing??? Towels are washed once a week here...DD & DS have their own, DP & I grab the dryest one of two when we go for a bath.
Towels/bath mat/tea towels/kitchen wipes go in when there is a full load otherwise bits & bats go in with the nappies. I do one load for the kids, one load for me & DP, then one lot of whites a week.

Screw washing any more 🤣

Children used to have towels with colour coded hanging loops. Two bath sheets, one pool towel, two hair towels each. If they brought them down they were washed otherwise it was damp towels. Same rules still apply. Mostly washed twice a week except after rugby when it was boiled. Now washed along with bedding once they’ve left.
We have our own towels just from habit but wash every other day.
Bathroom and lavatory hand towels are washed weekly if just us or after the weekend if we’ve had anyone here. Kitchen hand towels daily.
Guest towel sets washed when they’ve gone.

We rarely tumble dry but do send bedding and sometimes towels out to a laundry.

We all have our own towels (colour coded), hot washed once a week. Hung on heated towel rail between uses.

We are four adults - cannot begin to imagine washing every towel after every use.

PJs every 4 days or so. I do put clean clothes on for work every day but DH wears his for longer, which is fine. Clean undies every day obviously but everything else really gets washed when it needs it.