Aibu to feel like the dirtiest person in the world

[Panandthegang]

After reading this article??

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Well, the manufacturers of Germ-off! sprays will be delighted. I fully expect shares to go up.

Can't help remembering a hygiene - or lack of it - discussion with a friend - both of us with long grown-up kids. 'Sometimes, when I couldn't find anything else,' she said, 'I used to wipe their faces with the floor cloth.'

Bloody hell, those who only use bath towels once and wash them, your washing machine must be on every day 😳 Think of the environment fgs. Nobody is going to get mange from using a bath towel more than once.

I work full-time and have 3 kids. I clean the loo every morning. I wash tea towels everyday, change everyone's beds once a week, regularly wash cushion covers etc. My house is tidy, it's genuinely not that difficult. Do it everyday, put washing away immediately etc and it never builds up

Wow

I’m too exhausted after a long commute and stressful job to be washing tea towels on a daily basis.

I don’t eat off the toilet so don’t need to wash it daily unless it is visibly dirty. I have cleaner and do it once again in between.

Loo seat daily, tea towels daily, disposable dishcloths, hand towels daily, bed sheets fortnightly, must try harder with the rest.

Not read the article.

We have 4 loos. They get cleaned every 3-4 weeks (unless needed in between). Never look dirty and none of us has ever had D+V (DH, me, DD7). We all wash hands frequently (and don’t put them down the loo as a matter of course) so why on earth would they need cleaning daily? All that bleach etc is destroying the planet.

Anti-bacterial soaps, wipes, sprays etc are doing more harm than good in the long term. For all of us.

I don't work and no way on this earth would I find time to do all that cleaning and I consider myself clean but obviously I'm a manky skank according to that article.

I work full-time and have 3 kids. I clean the loo every morning. I wash tea towels everyday, change everyone's beds once a week, regularly wash cushion covers etc. My house is tidy, it's genuinely not that difficult. Do it everyday, put washing away immediately etc and it never builds up

It's not that it's difficult, it's more about what you prioritise. It's not a priority of mine to spend so much time on housework.

I want my limited time and energy for other things.

I'm not even reading the article, because it'll be same as the other million articles and threads that I've seen before, and will only confirm that I am a slovenly slattern. FWIW, I change tea towels when they are dirty, never wipe down the remote control, and only wash cushion covers if something has spilled on them making them dirty.

I like to think that I am helping both myself and the planet here. Myself, by not killing every bacterium in sight thus compromising my immune system, and also by having more time to do other, more enjoyable things. The planet, because how much laundry does this incessant changing of towels, beds, cushion covers etc generate? So by not doing this regularly, I'm helping to reduce the toxic chemicals that get washed into our rivers and streams.

Washing towels after every use is ridiculous and a waste of time, not to mention water and electricity.

The loo gets cleaned once a week here unless it needs it more. Fridge gets cleaned rarely apart from the veg drawer. Tea towels get chucked in the wash when I do a load which is often daily.

"So how many times can you use your towel before before concentrations of your own flora get so out of hand that you need to wash it? "If you can dry it completely, no more than three times max," Philip Tierno, a microbiologist and pathologist at the New York University School of Medicine, told Tech Insider.

And this is assuming that you're hanging it somewhere dry so that it can completely air out. "A damp towel is growing," Tierno said. "If there is odour coming from the towel, wherever there is odour, there are microbes growing so it should be washed." "The idea is to be prudent and to be aware," Tierno said. Mostly, aware that your towel is disgusting. And you're probably not washing it enough.

www.sciencealert.com/how-often-should-you-wash-your-bath-towel-according-to-science

So I've never been a fan of sticking huge bath towels over every radiator to get them dry fast, which is why I'm happier putting damp towels straight into the laundry. Personal preference. I also love the feel of a clean towel that hasn't gone limp with use.

No fucking wonder the world is on its last legs.

This kind of of electricity and water use shocks and sickens me.

Have none of you cleaning and washing aficionados heard of global warming? It's selfish and not necessary to clean that much. Bah.

Seems it's tumble drying that's much more energy guzzling than washing. Ironing too takes a lot of power. I don't feel any guilt, I never owned a drier and can't remember where I keep the iron or even if I have one. ecocurious.wordpress.com/tag/carbon-footprint/