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?

*wash

Some of this thread is making my dinner settle badly. I'm not going to read it too closely.

Bath towels in our house get washed every week at the longest - at least every 4-6 uses, sometimes more often if they've not been hung up properly by one of the males of the household or there's bugs in the family.

Hand towels and tea towels get changed at least daily. I've seen how DS1 washes his hands after a poo, even with us breathing down his neck. No I don't want to dry my face or prepare food with hands dried with that.

I haven't read all of this but OMG , once a month!!! We wash bath towels after every use and hand towels daily here .

Zombie thread!!

None of the stuff cantspel has listed is that toxic - I've even heard a small amount of ethanol can be good for you! - except chloroform, which is nasty, but I doubt it's in fabric conditioner. It could turn up in dry-cleaned stuff though.

I went out with a guy years ago who was lovely but was occasionally a bit whiffy. As I got to know him and spent some time in his house,
I traced the smell to his mouldy, mildewy towels. He would come out of the shower and dry off with a stinky towel. He was in the habit of chucking his damp towel on the bed (!) until he needed it again. When I gently raised the subject, he gave me this genius theory: baths towels are never dirty, so you don't have to wash them. They only come into contact with your body when you're at your absolute cleanest, so no need to wash them! After that, if I was left alone in his house I would put on some stealth laundry, but it didn't last long. The best bit is that he was a doctor!

I agree that several weeks/months is a tad too long to leave it but the people who wash all their towels after every single use - YOU ARE INSANE

Don't you have anything better to do?! Your laundry costs must be astronomical!

My towels are still fluffy after a good few uses, maybe because I "wipe" most of the water off while I'm still in the shower (and I have naice towels).

Towels get washed once a week, the hand-towel in the downstairs loo and the hand-towel in the kitchen get changed daily and tea-towels (which are only really used for getting things out of the oven not for drying anything as I let things air dry) every other day or so.