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?

But when you dry, it'll end up with dead skin cells on it. I wouldn't want them foistering on a damp towel for long!

Do some people really wash after every use?! Wow. That is clean.

peacypops - we have lots of towels in the house but we only use one at a time, each. So there are plenty of clean ones there, which we use on the rare occasions that ours are in the wash, or which we can give to visitors (in which case, obviously we wash them as soon sa they've left.)

stranded - phew! Am glad you are as skanky as me :)

once a week! You should also apparently wash them on 60 to make sure all the nasties are killed (same with bedsheets)

Once every other month is not sanitary, you could have all sorts growing in there.

ewww, i am generally more of a lurker than a poster but I felt compelled to respond to your op as that really is gross!

Once a week towels (aired and dried after each use), bed either once every two weeks or every week depending on how grubby it is.

I do ours when I feel they need to be done. Probably once a week but we have several towels so rotate them so probably works out that I don't always wash them in the week. If that makes any sense! New towels once a week or less, wash towels every 2 weeks all together.

It would do my nut in to wash them after every use as we don't use a tumble drier. Once a month though, aren't they erm...damp?

Oh yes, and we only wash them on 40C. Unless doing whites in which case every now and again (not always), I put it on at 60.

But we don't get ill more than anyone else I know and we appear clean and normal to the external world (I think).

I don't sweat the small stuff. I don't have a schedule for washing the towels. We have plenty, so I put them on a hot wash when the mood takes me. Probably amounts to 3 or 4 times a month. There are two of us, each having at least one shower a day. Clean people = clean (if wet) towels. I do hang towels up properly to dry after they've been used else they smell musty.

(thinks maybe I should get off MN and go and do the damn washing...AGAIN...)

And also, why would DH be in charge of washing his own towel? Is it not just as easy for someone (you or him) to put all the towels in together? I feel like you might need to up your game on the domestic front

I think it depends how fast they dry really.

At my mum's house you use a towel, on your clean body, and it goes back on the heated rail so dries straigh away, and they smell fresh for a while (not sure about a month but I've never really asked how often she does a towels wash). OTOH where I live we have a tiny, badly-ventilated bathroom and no central heating, so unless it is baking hot and summery, if you use a towl it will not dry fast and will smell nasty when it is dry. So we wash them pretty much ever time we use them. It's not ideal in terms of being eco-friendly but there isn't really another option.

(but baby is asleep on my lap and I've done a load of washing EVERY DAY this week - sometimes two a day...perhaps I'll leave our skanky towels for one more day....)

Not unreasonable, do as you please. I'd find it a leeeeetle bit mingling though.

YANBU. Well, not mightily so.

I am, though, intrigued by DH and pyjamas. He religiously changes shirt, pants, socks at least daily. He would cheerfully though change pyjamas monthly if I didn't grab them and bung them in the wash.

Oh dear. kits, why wouldn't her Dh be in charge of washing his own towl?!

Are you from the 1950s or something?

I would not want my DH to be in charge of washing my towl if his idea of often enough was once every 2-3 months, bleugh.

kitsmummy - I meant, DH is in charge of deciding when his towel should be washed. So if he puts it in the laundry then I'll put it in the washing machine. But I won't if he doesn't.

They do dry nice and quickly, I think perhaps that makes all the difference..[hopeful]

I'm not very hygenic at all, but I wash my towel at least once a week.
Once you've used it for that long, it doesn't feel nice, and it doesn't smell nice.

I dont get this his and hers towel thing. In our bathroom there is just towels and anyone of us can use them and put them back to dry for the next.

Why would i need a personal towel?

mine get washed everytime they are used

I really think you need to wash the kitchen towel more often. The thought of a damp, skanky old towel encrusted with old bits of food etc... heave

grovel - men and PJs are an odd phenomenon. They touch the same bits pants do, right? So why does DP get through two pairs of undercrackers per day and will only change his pyjamas under intense duress?

I wash mine about twice a week.

I am more flabbergasted that you are still managing to use the same towel that you have been using since you gave birth.

Was it only me who had lochia still flooding out of me at 5 weeks and milk spraying the minute I came out of the shower?

My towels looked like they'd been used to clean up a murder scene.

Once a week for us. And by the end of that time I often notice they are starting to smell a bit stale.