to only wash bath towels once a month?

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or less

DH is in charge of washing his own towel and I am sure he never puts it in the wash more often than once every 2 or 3 months...

DS's goes in about once every 2 months (but it barely touches him as he likes to run around naked pretending to be a train driver straight after his bath, which dries him quite effectively).

I usually wash mine about every month but have realised that I haven't washed it since coming home from hospital with DD, who is now 5 weeks...in my defence, there is one HECK of a lot of other washing to do and it just won't ever fit in the machine....

We do wash out clothes (!) and sheets once a week. And I do the kitchen hand towel every week or two - it gets quite grubby and also fits in the machine with another wash easily.

But are we grim and disgusting when it comes to bath towels? How often do normal people wash bath towels?

We all have our own bath sheets and there are handtowels in the bathrooms. I wouldn't want to share bath towels because people do have infections etc from time to time etc.

GlitterKitty I almost choked on my drink as I happened to read you cake tong thing as I took a sip.

I'd say for hygiene's sake washing more often than once a month is needed. Ours tend to go in on a hot once a week (I think don't really have a schedule)

I tend to just go around the house and scope up all the towels and stick them in at the weekend, not long ago DH got all moany about his towel being 'missing' so I decided that if he didn't want me to take his towel to be washed I'd just wait for him to drop it in the wash

Now there are three towels hanging up on the back of the bathroom door (there is a ikea door hanger thingie - think there's about 5 or 6 hangie things on it) as he's obviously just taking new towels and not putting the others in the basket (which is about 30 cms from the door!!)

I feel a bout of sarcasm coming on tomorrow as I comment on the exhaustion carrying the towel to the basket causes me (obviously he'd need to be in ear shot at the time)

By the time you realise you've caught impetigo, probably the rest of the family have, too, if you share towels. It's rather nice, too, to just have your own towel for your use. You get to pick your own colour!

Three uninfected people in my house, to the best of my knowlege.

Washing is not say, cleaning toilet but its not relaxing, or fun, or...recreational to me. Just a chore.

I dont iron ANYTHING. Not ever.

Moln that happens with us too. really annoying as you don't know which is current towel etc. Also bath sheets are bulky to wash.

Meh, we share a bed. I'm going to catch it anyway. Its not on my worry list!

So are we weird for sharing towels?

It's never occured to me that everyone should have their own personal towel.

You dont iron anything at all?

I doubt any of us find it recreational but yknow, me and DH make sure its done, and DD1 is old enough to help out now putting on washing, DD2 knows to put her stuff in the basket (which appears to be better at age 7 than some of your full grown partners - or indeed you!)

I still have far too much spare time to spend on MN all the things I want to do yknow.

Towels are one thing. The thing I have never understood and have just finished three glasses of very nice wine is why the average man my dh goes balistic if I happen to use his toothbrush by mistake but has a notion that heaven and a blow job are the same thing!

V good point, tea.

So, personal towel people: when guests come, do you hide all the towels?

Or issue them with a personal towel upon entry into your house?

What if they use one of your towels by mistake? Do you wait till they leave and then run upstairs and take all the towels away for a boil wash?

No, why, is not ironing bad? Does it spread ye filth & disease?

I'd iron a shirt if I needed one. But I usually dont.

Why would a guest use a bath towel?

Hand towels are communal and the one in the guest toilet would surely be changed after guests.

Overnight visitors would be issued with their own towels on arrival surely?

Im feeling brave - anyone want to comment on how often they wash facecloths?

We all have own towels - best way to ensure DH keeps his athlete's foot to himself. Bath towels are used once a day, dry off in boiler/airing cupboard afterwards and washed once a week. Hand & teatowels get changed 2-3 times a week. Sheets once a week. Duvet cover- ah, now I hang my head in shame! Much less often.

We've always shared towels in our house. Except when there's a little baby - when they have those hooded ones. We hardly ever get ill & no one has a skin problem. Wouldn't have occurred to me to each have our own towels really. It'd mean going out & buying loads of new towels, as no one would remember which was theirs otherwise. Plus, you couldn't have matching towels in the bathroom could you? I can't believe I'm actually thinking about towel usage in such depth!

'guest toilet'?? [shocked] you have a seperate one for guests?

In our bathroom there is a bath towel on the towel rail and a hand towel. A guest would not be guarenteed to use the hand towel, unless you hid the bath towel?

Facecloths? Unhygenic

Facecloths get changed about weekly. Think I'm the only one who bothers using it.

Nah, ironing is purely cosmetic, which is why I wouldnt do things like pants, but it totally depends on your lifestyle, as to what is acceptable.

Also, there is nothing nicer than sliding into clean, freshly ironed bedding (with no pants on!)

I'm not fussed about ironed sheets. I do like them to be clean, though.

Yes, its just a personal thing really... must admit I was shocked to go to a friends for a kids party once and the loo was not only really dirty, but there was NO towel. None at all. That was odd.

Dont lots of people have guest toilets? We dont have a particularly big house or anything like that.

If you share towels do you wash at different times

The only thing I'd dislike about it is because if I used the same towel as DH, we both shower in the morning, and the towel would be damp after the first used it

I like my towels to be dry when I go to use it to dry myself

marriedinwhite - I'd say it's because with one situation he's putting something in his mouth that's been in your mouth and in the other just you are putting something in your mouth.

Though possibly it might be because in the first situation he's putting something in his mouth that been in your mouth that something else has been in.

We have a 'gardening loo' , but although its clean, I wouldnt wish that on a guest! They would use our bathroom. I dont know anyone with a guest loo.

Oh I think I would have taken my kid home!

DD1 was a caution as a wee un - everywhere we went, she demanded the toilet so she could inspect it, and if it wasnt up to her standards she would insist on leaving.

Facecloths are manky - I use em but they get washed every time too, I have a basket in my bathroom and I roll them up nice like in a fancy hotel (realise I sound pretentious but I do like lovely bathrooms, and a whole basket of facecloths doesnt cost a whole lot )

or does everyone mean by share towels that there is a selection of towels and people just take from it rather than there being a towel that belongs to one person and they alone use it and no one else uses it ever?

Not share a towel as in have one towel and everyone uses it - like I had thought originally

We have white hand towels, which really do need changing daily or they look grubby.

I share towels with DH then if its what moln thinks - but they get washed between each use. DDs share towels - different bathrooms, different colour schemes, thats all.