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?

Just put clean towels out in all the bathrooms and have made up the dc's beds. Just off to make a cup of tea to drink whilst ironing dh's boxers x 7 and work shirts x 5. Also dd's blouses and ds's shirts. That will leave nor more than three feet of ironing

My washing machine doesn't have a boil wash. The hottest wash it does is 60 degrees.

And what is a sex towel then?

I have towels in my machine every day!

Sex towel? Dare I ask?...

it's a comfort to know you don't wash his penis ob bleach (most likely more hisphysically than mine really). showering before and after sex?

Doesn't it tke away from the spontnaity having to go for a shower before?

Sharing towels is not hygienic. I can concede that some people don't wash their bath towels more than once a week, but towels should never be shared.

Why, what will happen if you share a towel? The world will end? Ok, if someone in the family has a skin disease or something then thats fine, but apart from that what is so wrong with sharing towels? I will again ask you to think about the skin to skin/fluid to fluid contact that comes from having intercourse!

As it happens we dont share towels in our house but really dont see a problem with it!

If you don't want to share towels with the rest of your family then fair enough. Its not a bloody excuse to wash them every day though .

Towels get changed once a week
Pants and socks daily
Bra weekly
Clothes generally get worn 2/3 times before being washed
Bedding once a fortnight
No pyjamas as we both sleep naked, I can't bear the feel of clothes in bed as no matter what I wear it rides up.

We do 3 washes a week apart from when the bedding is done which makes it 4. All done on a Saturday and what hasn't dried by Sunday afternoon goes in the drier.

CoffeeintheMornng - I agree totally. Manic washing !
I have spoken to 2 friends who are GPs and also to a friend's dh who is pretty high up in the pharmaceutical industry, and they say that people who obsessively wash everything and live in sterile bubbles, can actually be MORE likely to become ill, as they will develop no resistance to the bugs that they are bound to come in to contact with outside the home.
The guy in pharmaceuticals worries that bugs are becoming resistant due to the current obsession with over cleanliness, anti bacterial products etc.

I prefer spontaneous sex obviously, alas I am getting recurrent UTIs, thrush and kidney infections, and I need to try to be as clean as possible because I have a reduced function in one kidney due to scarring. Nothing more depressing than needing antibiotics EVERY time you have sex. Sometimes it is necessary to be excessively clean, I want to keep my kidney.

Sex towel, I thought was a normal thing. For mopping up the mess until you can get to the shower/toilet. Now I am thinking it's not and I am weird.

hee heee..... I use a towel off the 'to be washed' pile for that ;)

oh right, how rubbish for you - can't blame you for wanting to keep the kidney

your right a shower before is better that anti-bs after

I love that we're all so passionately convinced of our own best towel-washing practice!

My towel practice is the best towel practice. In fact my laundry practice generally is superior to all of yours, and with the exception of a few other sensible well-balanced types you are all amateurs and some of you are downright loons.

There is another thread that's absolutely on fire at the moment about how to dry laundry successfully. I think it might be what you could call a slow news week.

Hee heee at slow news week.

This thread made me do a service wash n dry of every single towel in my house, £8 well spent

its the drying that gets me!!!!!!

|Fellatio someone who uses tea towels can hardly call themselves a bastion of best practice.

I wonder if anyone has ever actually died or come to harm from tea towel use. Or from wearing knickers two days running. Or leaving sheets on the bed more than a week, or from towel sharing. I suspect not actually.

ariesgirl i have done all of those htings and i'm still here, hurrah

What on earth are you supposed tou use then? I realise that leaving things to dry naturally is more hygenic than using a damp dirty teatowel that is on its fourth day, but I get through about two a day, so they are always clean and fresh, and sometimes you can't wait for something to dry by itself.

Thats what kitchen towel is for. Now had you only used the towel once then allowed it to dry before putting in the wash basket for washing I might not be so eugh at the though

Aries and some more....

- not meant as personal attacks by the way.

At what? What have I said that's boak-worthy?

Fellatio, you do realise you are actually killling your family, don't you? Pretty much on purpose? You utter fiend.

I wash towels after each use too. I'm funny with the "feel" of towels too - they must be tumble dried for example. A month is just EWWWW .

We do bath towels and sheets weekly and hand towels and kitchen towels more often. Our bathrooms have heated towel rails so they are very warm and everything dries very easily . So no musty damp towels luckily otherwise would wash them more often. Looks like ones a week seems to be the average here ...