How often do you change your kitchen towel?

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If you use it mainly for wiping hands (not dishes)?

And while we are at it, when do you replace your dish sponge...every week? Month? When it looks utterly manky 😃

And your toothbrush?

Kitchen towel daily, don’t use a sponge but cloths fo wiping down and they’re also changed daily.

I'll be honest because i don't give a shit 😂 Towel every other day, sponge when it starts falling apart...! Once a month perhaps? And toothbrush the same really, probably every 4-5 months??

Fresh kitchen towel and cloth brought out Every morning, will use another fresh one throughout the day if needed. I don't use sponges because they're disgusting.

Thanks for your replies. I now realise I am slovenly 😯

Why do you change your kitchen towel everyday?

Spun, I change my toothbrush every 4-5 months too! I plan to do it on the first of each month, but then I forget

Kitchen towel when it starts to look grubby and I remember.

Sponge, when I think it looks too grim to get away with.

Why do you change your kitchen towel everyday?

Because they get dirty.

What's the point of washing your hands only to dry them on a dirty towel? Why clean off your worktop with a dirty towel?

Toothbrush 3 months in theory, but I always forget.

Tea towel I have no idea, when it looks manky, which is most days. We use ours for all sorts so I sometimes go through multiple in a day.

I don't use washing up sponges because I think they are awful germ festering things. I use a cloth and it goes in the wash immediately. But we mainly use the dishwasher rather than washing up.

Kitchen towel- daily
Kitchen cloth- fresh one each time in wipe up counters.
Toothbrush- every few months

I have a separate kitchen towel to dry hands and a couple of tea towels to dry dishes on. Tea towels get changed when they either look dirty, or I'm putting a light wash on (so every 2-3 days).

Use about 2 kitchen towels a day.

@Aquamarine1029

Why do you change your kitchen towel everyday?

Because they get dirty.

What's the point of washing your hands only to dry them on a dirty towel? Why clean off your worktop with a dirty towel?

How dirty can a towel get in one day of drying clean hands? And surely you clean off your worktop with a cloth specifically used for that, not with the towel you use for drying your hands?

Do you change your hand towels in the bathroom too everyday?

Why did no one teach me this stuff?

I change towels when they look grubby and I remember. And dh changes the 🧽 when he remembers to get another one from the pantry. No system really yet.

Tea towel?
Every few days when I do a hot wash.
Ours is used for get stuff in and out of oven or drying hands, which are clean because they have just been washed.

Kitchen towel, tea towel, wiping up cloth daily (I don't like sponges) daily, and oven gloves (well pan holders) every 2-3 days.

I can’t remember when I last washed our oven gloves!

cleanasawhistle

Use about 2 kitchen towels a day

Not surprised with that username

@onemouseplace

Kitchen towel when it starts to look grubby and I remember.

Sponge, when I think it looks too grim to get away with.

At least there's one honest answer on this thread This is my logic, too.

I think I do things differently. My mum thinks I'm quite odd.

I use T towels, the type you wipe glass with, not the fluffier ones. I have about 50 and I use them as I would paper towels, kitchen sponge and paper kitchen towel.

For each job I use a new one and put it straight into my washing machine afterwards. I might get through up to 10 a day. Then I launder them and start over.

They are clean but nowhere near pristine. They are all very absorbent as they are washed do much. I keep them in a drawer in easy reach.

I've used this method for 20 years. I do use kitchen roll when frying food to absorb grease. But one roll will last 6 months in my house.

Tea towels and sponges both get charged daily. No point drying your hands or washing your dishes with dirty towels and sponges.

How do you wash small stuff like wine glasses, things you don’t put in the dishwasher? Is there an alternative to sponges and those awkward brushes?

Kitchen towel twice a week and hand towels in bathroom weekly. Use separate tea towels and have a dishwasher

Planning, what’s a T towel?

Also hand towels in the bathrooms daily but bath towels twice a week.

Re the glasses - they all go in the dishwasher except awkward champagne flutes and lead Crystal which can go dull. I use just marigolded hands or baby bottle brush to clean them in warm soapy water, rinse and dry with a fresh glass tea towel.