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!

I suspect you probably have more issues but I won't speculate.

Oh go on, or at least if you won’t then refrain from making nasty remarks if you aren’t prepared to follow it up. Stand by your convictions, what “issues” do you suspect I have, armchair psychologist?

And no having a clean towel every day is not normal after a shower, not remotely normal.

It absolutely is.

And I say that as someone who's been previously diagnosed with ocd.

Your OCD is your ocd. It has no bearing on whether what anyone else does is normal. It’s individual to you. Don’t project onto me.

I'm reading this thread lying on my bed wrapped in a fresh bath sheet with my hair in a fresh turbaned bath towel after a lovely hot bath trying to figure out how I'd manage only using one hand towel 😱

I don’t hang about in my towel. It doesn’t even get wrapped round me. I dry myself whilst still standing in the shower (water off) and then put the towel on the floor to step on while I dress.

It’s not great from a sustainability aspect all this washing
Washing a towel that’s only dried a clean body ! Paper towels useage etc

Poor poor polar bears and our great grandchildren

I don’t use paper towels. I don’t even have kitchen roll in my house. I use cloth sanitary pads and reusable toilet wipes. (Just for me- kids use toilet roll) I use bars of soap rather than have plastic bottles of soap and shower gel. I use an eco egg for my laundry, no sanitisers or fabric softeners. I don’t have a tumble drier. I don’t buy new clothes other than DC school uniform and shoes. I don’t buy clothes for myself. If DCs need clothes I go to the charity shop first. I don’t use airplanes. I walk wherever possible. I do very few car miles. I shop local and recycle as much as possible. I don’t even use wrapping paper on Xmas presents.

But yes. I’m killing the polar bears.

Ooo I love it when we discuss laundry on here! Never ceases to amaze me!

We have 3 towels out for me and my OH so we can use one each and I get one for my hair twice a week. One hand towel in the downstairs loo and a bath mat. These get washed weekly at 60.

Do people not share towels? I can go one extra, we share bath water. Every night! He goes in first then I get in after so I get extra dirty man bits water!

It seems strange that you do all that Maxi but still wash towels everyday, that seems to go against everything else you do

What a fun life that sounds for your children maxi

Personally I don't see the need for a clean towel after every wash but I do realise people have different views & ideas.
So if you want a clean towel everyday then that's fine by me seeing that on the scale of it MaxiBondi you do much to help the environment than most, which is good.
P.S. I only mentioned extreme washing as a mental health thing/symptom as when a friend of mine had a breakdown she went from average cleaning/laundry (say hoovering a few times week/once a day to hoovering 3 or 4 times a day.) Washing everything up before putting it in the dishwasher to 'sterilise'. Changing clothes up to 3 times a day & immediately washing all items. Showering 3 or 4 times a day etc. Basically doing hours & hours of unnecessary housework as it helped her feel in control/lessen her anxiety. This all crept in gradually after her son was killed & became her coping mechanism, which I can totally understand.

Not good for the environment to do excessive washing - the water, the electric, the extra soap and fibres going into the water courses.

I think the people who are leaping on ILoveMaxiBondi just because she happens to do her washing differently from they way they do it probably have more "issues" than she do. FFS, get a life. Not everyone has to have your standards.

It seems strange that you do all that Maxi but still wash towels everyday, that seems to go against everything else you do

It seem a strange to you that I do things I want to do according to my own personal circumstances? How odd. Do you struggle in general with knowing others do things differently to how you would?

What a fun life that sounds for your children maxi confused

No idea what that’s in reference to (my children having fresh towels is cruelty?) but it comes across as a very low dig. Over laundry of all things. Have a word with yourself.

Or perhaps it’s a reference to my low consumption life? Really? You’re having a dog and saying my kids have a shit life because I don’t go on airplanes and recycle? Come on. That’s nasty.

I think @ILoveMaxiBondi has been a bit picked on, and I say this as someone whose towel standards are very different from hers.

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Max I wasn’t having a dig at you personally ! But I reluctantly concur your other efforts just about offset the towel wash

We all have eco crimes
I have to go on a bloody day trip on a plane tomorrow

Like how badly do some of you wash themselves that towels are washed after every use?

Also.
Vinegar into the washing machine with them. Magic.

We all have eco crimes

Exactly. And they’re not all unavoidable. Plenty of them are purely out of convenience and comfort. I’m perfectly willing and able to say mine are. Not sure why I’m getting so much stick. Everyone on here having a go at me will have their own eco crimes but they won’t admit that.

If you don’t have a tumble dryer and it’s wet outside all this wet washing must be hanging in the house which must make the house dampish or does it go in some outside bit of house. I read quite recently that hanging wet washing in the house is quite bad for health

Towels once a week.
Bedding once every two weeks.

Wouldn't have the time to do anymore.

Plus have never had a tumble dryer and we live in a small place.

Whats the alternative though light? For those that have no outside space or tumble driers? My windows are open most days from about 8am -4pmish in winter (longer in summer but laundry is outside drying then) so the house is well ventilated.

I wash all towels after use
Amazingly, I only do 2 washes a week.
There's 5 of us in the house hold.
It wouldn't occur to me not to wash them my kids can accidentally wee, puke or shit or them so yes they need washing

The alternative is to do less washing as more washing done especially of towels which are quite heavy, then more moisture in the house which can be quite unhealthy.

Well, (to use the argument given earlier in the thread -I don’t wash towels daily and I’m still alive) I’ve been doing it this way for coming on 14 years and none of us are dead yet so i’ll keep doing as a I have done. Like I said, the house is well ventilated.

Just out of interest... How many of you wash every day types are Christian? What do you think Jesus would think of your obscene waste of resources just to feel that tiny bit cleaner - vanity? Pride? Greed?

Next time you pray please ask God what he thinks about your use of resources, and I hope you're honest enough to try and hear the real reply rather than the one you want to