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?

So many of you are bonkers, I have no words.

Some of us work so hard to conserve energy and so many are just pissing it up the wall.

Two words.
Faecal matter.

Seriously, how much faecal matter from your brand newly washed body gets into your the mouth? In 45 years of drying my body I have never accidentally sucked my towel.

I take it none of you people have ever had extremely thorough sex then? I don't just mean bumsex necessarily, I mean just really getting erm, close up and personal to the business end of things. Honestly, it's a wonder some of you managed to conceive at all. Do you disinfect your husbands before you snog them?

Threads like this that swing wildly from one wacky extreme to another are a real eye-opener. They make me realise just how fantastically well-balanced and sensible I am.

I've just realised I have had way to much to say on this thread.

I think it must say something worrying about the state of my life.

@fellatio & Reshape - no leprosy but Cryptosporidium was none too pleasant [it was a bit of a shock when Health Protection lady me, but she was very nice though..] Other than an adult with a weak immune system, and we only have the usual athletes foot, worms, verrucas etc. I am only this obsessive about towels, socks, underwear, bedding and anthing related to eating (pans, plates etc). My children enjoy plenty of opportunities to be exposed to germs and bateria to build their immune systems/ have a life. Their favourite places to go are oftens some of the dirtiest, most germ ridden, places you can think of. I just prefer to know that the plates/cutlery I am eating from is clean and the towels I am using are clean too. Its also a bit of a ' breaking the cycle' insurance rather than avoiding exposure.

No fellatio you are not well balanced .......you use .....I can barely say it.....a towel more than once

For the love of god, some of you really need to get lives.

I understand the thing about bacteria etc. but, apart from those of you who do it for genuine medical reasons, I think a lot of you are just using this argument to cover up the fact that you are just a bit, I dunno... precious? It's a bit embarrassing how proud many of you are to say you have your washing machines on at almost every hour of the day

So....if I might summarise the last 19 pages:

The mingers need to wash more
The hygiene freaks need to wash less
Best practice seems to indicate once every week to 10 days is about right.

Faecal matter and excessive mould spores on towels can give you skin rashes and so on. Best avoided. I concur with the once a week regime, providing you dry them out properly between uses.

I doubt the so-called mingers on this thread are in all honesty, anywhere near minging. Apart from the OP, obviously. Joking OP

I wash towels weekly and sheets 1-2 weekly and can safely say my toilette has never been brought into question. I rarely get ill and can safely say that I will go from cradle to grave without obsessing over the fact I don't unecessarily boil my towels after each use.

I fall into the best practice section thgen. Phew!

I haven't read all 19 pages, but it sounds like there are some odd living standards going on.

Washing a towel after a single use is utterly wasteful qand entirely unnecessary (unless the user didAfter month is just .

I would be interested to know what the water and electriciy bills are for those who wash towels every day.

Whoops, my editing went all over the place. If the user didn't wash properly and used their towel to wipe themselves clean then washing a towel after a single use is justified.

I used to work with a woman who very proudly told me that she washed her kitchen floor with bleach EVERY SINGLE DAY.

DHs mother reused her towels. I can't even be sure how infrequently she washed them. DH is, even to me, freakishly hygienic so it was a shock when he got ringworm on his chest. After a process of elimination the GP said it had to be the towels he'd contracted it from. Cue DH utterly grossed out. Shortly after that we moved in together and towels have been washed after every use since.
Not proud, not precious just wary.

I can go one better than that fellatio, one of my mums friends used to clean the whole house with bleach......."including the dishes!!!"
Never, ever used washing up liquid as this didn't kill the germs!

She couldn't understand why her kids kept getting sick!!

Coming late to this and haven't bothered to wade through the 40 odd pages of responses.
Our towels get used two or three times before they are washed.
I don't use fabric softener on them, I love a crunchy rough towel.

Ringworm isn't an actual worm you know. It's like thrush only not in your fanjo. Same as athletes foot. A bit of Caneston will clear it up. It's doesn't mean you are a filthy skanky minging ho, or have been in a filthy, skanky minging ho's house if you get a bit of it.

Would like to add my sense of real at the number of people who happily and proudly say that their washing machine is on every second of the day. And the ones who wash their towels after every use. It makes those of us who are actually trying to conserve energy want to bash our heads against the wall weeping. How can you possibly afford it? And if you can easily afford it, just think of the money you could spend on other stuff like wine.

Thanks Ariesgirl I am aware of what it is.

Serious question - how much does it cost to run a 30 min cycle on 60 degrees? I have no idea but I never see the difference in my bills if I wash twice a day or once every other day.

Ok ok keep you hair on

I would like to say towels last a week, but my family trea this place like a spa and tend to use them just once, no matter how much I go on about it.