AIBU to say the washing sheets/towels and toilet brushes argument may have been solved...?

[WineAndTiramisu]

Saw this today and immediately thought of all the arguments on here over the years about washing towels, bed sheets and the horror of toilet brushes!

amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/21/self.html

I'm definitely more dirty than the cleaners verdicts!

The weirdest part of the thread isn't that people who wash their towels after every use and shower three times a day. Or that people shower once a week without soap and only wash their towels on a full moon. It's that a parent would be so controlling as to hide bath towels from their teenager because they're for the precious dog and he can make do with a hand towel. I can't for a minute Bondi gives a stuff what anyone thinks but it is odd. There isn't even the option of using a big one and getting it washed less often.

Washing bed linen and towels every day is absurd. I bet you wouldn't have been neurotic enough to do it every day 70 or more years ago when it meant boiling up enough hot water to fill a tub, using a washboard to clean the clothes, boil up more water to rinse, then put through a mangle before pegging out to dry.

I live alone and do two washes a week - one for bedlinen, towels, face cloths etc and one for clothes. It works for me.

It's that a parent would be so controlling as to hide bath towels from their teenager because they're for the precious dog and he can make do with a hand towel.

😂😂😂 try again. They are not hidden to be used for the dog! The dog gets bathed maybe once/twice a year. They are hidden (set on a chair in my room with other clean laundry) because if they’re in the hot press DS will lift them before a hand towel when he doesn’t need a large towel. Both DCs take a large towel to swimming lessons so they are allowed them a treat nothing happens if DS does take a large towel. I don’t say anything to him, it just gets washed like the rest, but if I can help it, he uses a hand towel.

Is really only selfish wasteful gits who hate the planet that use large towels when a smaller one will do.

Nothing dries you like a hammam towel. Lightweight and fast drying, they improve the more you wash them. No need to dry one of these in the drier, just hang it on a skirt hanger overnight. If you bought seven you could use one each day and wash them all at the end of the week in one go economically. Job done.........

Do none of you ever get, erm, bodily fluids on towels? When you're drying your bits?

Well, no. Why would you if you wash properly, assuming you don't suffer from incontinence?

I bet you wouldn't have been neurotic enough to do it every day 70 or more years ago when it meant boiling up enough hot water to fill a tub, using a washboard to clean the clothes, boil up more water to rinse, then put through a mangle before pegging out to dry.

I bet you wouldn’t have used lots of the stuff you use for convenience today, 70 years ago.

Bondi - It's more the fact that if I do gardening or running, I tend to have a second shower afterwards, so the towel gets used twice those days and is also wetter for longer.

Oh, and it is perfectly possible to dry yourself with a hand towel. Occasionally, I've done this when I've changed the bath towels and forgotten to take new one into the bathroom. And I'm a grown size 14 woman so have considerably more surface area than a child! It's not some kind of horrific privation or anything.

Slightly off topic I know, but is anyone else about what the heck Maxi’s “hot press” is?

Also, I feel I should point out that washing towels alongside regular laundry is strictly forbidden on MN. Towels and bedding must be done separately at 60 degrees to deal with GERMS and POO CRUMBS.

Cowsopinion, your circumstances are quite unique then, of course do whatever you have to do for your mental health. I hope you feel as well as you can as soon as you can. Can't help wondering why you commented though given your situation is so specific. Someone who doesn't have issues such as yours however has no excuse for such wanton disregard for the environment.

I don't have the time, energy or inclination to wash towels or bedding each day. I shower in the morning and before going to bed. Linen gets changed every 2 weeks unless someone has been ill (think hot sweats etc) and towels once a week.

I have better things to do with my time than sort, wash and put away any more than is necessary.

Do any of you that wash towels and or bed linen daily work FT because I have no idea where you would find time to do that each day?

Slightly off topic I know, but is anyone else confused about what the heck Maxi’s “hot press” is?

It’s just an airing cupboard. The cupboard with the hot water tank and wooden slatted shelves.

Oh, very droll. Bath sheets aren't really sheets either. I like bigger towels because I wrap them around myself before scuttling into my bedroom to get dressed. I live in a shared house and hand towels are not big enough, neither are bath towels if I'm honest, although I will use that in a pinch. How very selfish of me to use a bigger towel!

I'm racking up brownie points though, I don't have kids, don't drive, try and recycle as much as possible, avoid using the tumble dryer...

Do any of you that wash towels and or bed linen daily work FT because I have no idea where you would find time to do that each day?

I have 3 part time jobs totalling 45-50 hours per week. My laundry routine consists of this 6:30pm run the bath for DS(9), while it’s filling I take dry washing off the banister and airer and set it on my bed. Then once DS gets in the bath (so about 5 minutes later) I go down and take washing out of the machine and bring up to hang on the banister and airer. Takes about ten minutes. Maybe not so long. I don’t time it. Then I fold what is on my bed and set the each person’s clothes in their room for them to put away. By which stage DS is usually ready to get out of the bath. I go into the bathroom when he is out and take any dirty washing from the basket down to the washing machine and set it to wash overnight. If it’s a dry day I hang it outside in the morning rather than upstairs in the evening. All in all it probably takes about 30 minutes a day. Those 30 minutes would otherwise be spent hovering around the landing as DS is in the bath anyway. So it doesn’t feel like wasting time because it’s nottaking away from something else I would be doing.

Maxi that’s only one load a day?

Seems reasonable. If i were to do 4/5 loads a day i couldn’t work around it, i’d need to empty and refill the machine every couple of hours. At most i can put a load on before work, one when i get home, and one overnight. I’d need to get up half an hour earlier too to hang out a load. Stuff that when I start work at 7!

Scrunch up big wodge of loo roll
Stick your hand down the loo and rub off poo
Flush
Poo gone forever with nothing hanging around to remind you of it!

Ugh - don't want to stick my hand down the loo. Plus what about those this dense logs that don't flush and need breaking up in order to flush. Like fuck am I breaking those down manually

Maxi that’s only one load a day?

Yes. I usually don’t do one on Sundays.

People wash towels and clothes etc more today because they can as it's easy. There's no need to.
So many people are just too fussy.

UGH, my family and I run several holiday lets there's no bloody way I'm sticking my hand in stranger danger thanks

All in all it probably takes about 30 minutes a day.

ILoveMaxiBondi you see that's 3.5 hours a week compared to me 30 mins per week for both bed linen AND towels. That's a lot of hours extra per year just to do chores which I don't see the point of. You do which is fair enough but I would rather be doing something other than chores with those 3 hours per week.

An extra 30 mins a day is a big deal to me. I can think of thousands of better ways to spend that time than washing towels that don’t need it.

you see that's 3.5 hours a week compared to me 30 mins per week for both bed linen AND towels.

3 hours a week. I don’t have a wash on Sundays. And also it’s all my laundry. Not just towels and bed linen.

I can think of thousands of better ways to spend that time than washing towels that don’t need it.

It’s dead time though because I would otherwise be MNing or something to pass time while DS was in the bath. He has SEN so he’s not reliable enough to leave him in the bath while I go off elsewhere.

What's the betting that all those children that have had to make do with a skanky hand towel to dry themselves will be buying themselves the biggest, fluffiest bath towel when they leave home.

I would rather use a bath towel every day and not have it washed as often as use a clean hand towel every day.

So a clean hand towel is skanky now? what planet are you on pet?