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?

I think lots of people trot out the old environment argument to excuse the fact that they are Mings the merciless.

Maximum 2 uses out of each towel...but usually as soon as it's been used it gets washed.

We share our towels, so dont really want to reuse a towel that has been used to dry Dh or DS's nether regions, so they uaually get put straight in the wash as i cant be sure who used what.

We have tons of towels to go round though

getorf, I feel I need to bow in your prescence I cannot imagine finding the umph to change my sheets that often. I am under 5ft and a kingsize 20tog duvet feels like I am trying to put up a ten man tent on my own

Once a month is a bit yak OP and I am quite slovenly.

Whoever asked about the towel sharing thing - I couldn't just grab a towel, DH's is that wet, it feels like he takes it in the shower with him - I have no idea what he does with it

at ten man tent.

DP can't change sheets - he gets all confused and trapped

I've got it down to a fine art now. It's all in the wrists Plus I am a 6 foot so have natural advantage.

I'm not denying I can be a bit minging, in fact I'm quite proud of my lackadaisical attitude towards housework. It leaves me more time to smile :-)

OP - you haven't died of any hideous illness, so I would guess that you can't be going too far wrong

yeah - well I tried getting DH involved in it but it doesn't really help me, I just feel more stressed and even redder and hotter.

Ah yes, height - it does help in so many ways! I might try standing on a chair next time

DP can't do it, he takes the duvet in his hands and with a determined look in his face clambers inside the duvet cover and then huffs and puffs for ages.

Then it comes out all lumpy.

I just have the duvet inside out, grab a corner and then flick it, and give it a great shake. Job done.

I get trapped changing the sheets too! It's like narnia in there

EURGH.

I am a slob but even I wash my towels more than you op, I recon they get used 3 times before they get washed..

I seem to wash all my tea towels every day [boggle]

(what are kitchen hand towels? Isn't that just a tea towel )

We have tons of towels and they go in the wash after being used a few times so there is always a couple in the wash at any one time. Have tons of tea towels too and the same thing with them, used a few times then thrown in the wash. Towels need washing often because although you're clean when you get out of the bath/shower, you rub loads of dead skin off when you dry yourself and it all gets stuck in the towel. I wash them at 60 usually unless the odd one ends up in a 40 dark wash.

I'm not so good with the sheets, done every 2 weeks in the winter, it's every friday in the summer when I can get them all dried easier. Having a washer/dryer in a 6 person household is a nightmare for laundry, the basket is always overflowing so I have to prioritise. I do a couple of washloads a day, usually 2 in the winter because it takes so long to dry everything and I never see the bottom of the basket, it's about 4 loads a day in the summer when I can use the lines and my basket is always empty, bliss.

Bath towels, twice a week,
Bathroom hand towel daily
Bed sheets weekly
Kitchen towel daily and we have a dishwasher

Ick to anything less and couldn't be bothered with anything more

GetOrf I totally agree with you re the sheets. We sleep naked and I love clean sheets, change them at least twice a week. There is something delish about crisp, clean cotton against your skin.

Bath towels after each use. Hand towel every day. As others have said, how do visitors know which towel to dry their hands on if they use bathroom when it's full of your month old towels?

Can someone explain the uses of a kitchen towel please? I wash my hands and just dry with kitchen roll and I get through loads of tea towels a day but they are thin and easy to wash/dry. Surely a towelling towel would be rather unhygenic in a kitchen?

I am not convinced by the 'I'm clean when I get out of the shower', surely drying with a towel, some skin comes off even if you scrub in the shower. To then leave that for a month is just skanky. I am no neat freak, my house is a mess, but at least we have colour coded towels and they get washed perhaps twice a week, or at least when they have been used 2/3 times for me (nice clean person) and once for husband (smelly man person). Children once a week or more. Bed sheets once a week, 10 days if I have a rush on at work.

I am really surprised by this, perhaps I am not the slattern I have been thinking all this time.

Oh and I was everything on 40 except for bedding and work clothes and thats on 60.

I don't have a towel towel in the kitchen either, just tea towels (for some reason I have dozesns of the things)

Bedlinen every sunday 60 degrees
Towels every few days also 60

Yeah 5'2 and a kingsize duvet is hard work. Especially as my bedroom only fits the (double) bed with just enough room to walk around it so any energetic shaking leads to bashing oneself on the wall. And it's only me who sleeps in my bed so I swap pillows half way through the week and kid myself the rest of it smells as fresh

I feel sorry for your DP Getorf. My DH moans like hell on sheet changing day because I strip the bed in the daytime, but struggle to do put them back on my own (superking bed + shortarse me = nightmare) so I wait for him to be there in the evening and insist we do it together. But this usually gets overlooked until we are ready to climb into it at 11pm, and we are really tired. My DH starts acting like a spoilt child and just throws himself on the mattress protector, grabs at the bare duvet and goes 'No! don't make me do it! Just leave me to sleep like this - just for one night - pleeeease!'

Your poor DP is a saint.

Boke. OP you're yucky, and that's coming from someone as slack as slack can be.

I've no idea how many towels we (me and ds) go through, but we've got loads of towels and I seem to spend my life washing them. Same with tea towels.

Fellatio my DP is exactly the same. He hates hates hates my changing sheets obsession, and sometimes if he has had a hard day and just wants a 20 minute nap, he goes upstairs and I hear him bellow because there are no sheets on the bed.

Because I have been ill lately, he has had to help me with the sheets, but it is so frustrating watching him do it (he really is useless) that I end up taking over putting the duvet on whilst high as a kite on oramorph. And that's amusing in itself.

He would love it if i was slatterntly and ionly changed them once a fortnight

He also does the whole 'oh fuck the sheets, we can do without them for one night'

'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.'

OP that is a truly bizarre thing to say. Why on earth does something have to be small enough to 'fit in' with another wash to justify its own need to be washed? Everything 'fits in'. You just sort your loads better.

Well, he's probably right Getorf, you must have the cleanest mattress in the world!