Towels and washing? Every day?

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How often do you wash your towels?

I wash mine after two goes and I regularly bleach... husband thinks I'm mental? AIBU??

*Bleaching. Your. Actual. Towels confused

You could use vanish OXI action & Daz for whites like I do - bleach will destroy your washer, and destroy the environment.

But I do use the vanish oxi action to keep white t shirts white*

You do know Vanish Oxi is bleach?

Ok it's peroxide which is oxygen based bleach rather than domestic and milton which are chlorine based, but it is still bleach. Possibly slightly kinder to your machine and clothes than chlorine, but still a bleaching agent.

You don't think people in the third world don't care if their white clothes aren't white?

Aside from the fact my comment was clearly a tongue in cheek response to the posters comment referencing first world problems, I imagine people in third world countries don’t need vanish Oxi clean to keep their whites, whites.

It applies to the other comments too.

I expect some will use the sun as a bleaching agent. The well off in those countries may well use Vanish Oxi action, though.

It applies to the other comments too.

I only made one comment about first world problems.

Once a week at 60°. Same for bedding. Never use bleach.

JoxerGoesToStuttgart

I think your humour is being lost on some.

I love these threads.

Someone has a towel covered in pubes and dries their arsehole. I'd be washing my towels too if I was like that .

Another one who can't believe the OP washes towels after one use, uses bleach and a tumble dryer (though the latter I sort of understand if OP lives in a flat). And anyone who uses anti bacterials in the wash which no one living with a septic tank would do, or so called air fresheners which are probably more polluting for the lungs than your average grime. I've stopped flying and driving and gone veggie and the resultant weight loss from walking may yet help the NHS. When my DC have had worms or conjunctivitis they've been straight onto separate towels and previous towels have been washed. Other than that .... what does OP do in shared lavatories? touching handrails in a tube or bus or train or just a supermarket? No petting of animals? No handshakes? No using of handtowels in another person's home? Wet wipes in a handbag to clog up our sewage system even more? It's the lack of logic that appalls me.

@AdelaideK so you don’t actually wipe yourself dry with a towel then?
I’m assuming you have no bodily hair or if you do it doesn’t get anywhere near or on your towels.
You comment is backward. I wash my towels after every use because their used that means actually drying our bodies as you do with a towel.
Is it really that hard to understand?

I do the sniff test. So I generally wash them a minimum of 1x a week.
I never use bleach.

I wash my towels continuously. I have a washing machine just for them and run it constantly.

I employ an army of spiders to deal with my towel washing. They patrol over the used towels checking them for pubes, skid marks and other stains. They then drag any that are ‘filthy’ to the washing machine in battalions where a mass cleansing takes place. They even hang them out for me, rub their willies across at regular intervals and then bring them back in. I am providing employment for many out of work spiders and am thrilled with the service they provide.

Can you spiders come to my house ? 😄

Your*

I've got no hard rules about most washing, towels included... I just wash them when I think they are dirty! That often depends whether they've been left out to air and dry nicely on the rail after use or they've been flung in a damp heap on someones floor lol!!
The only things I wash absolutely every day is underwear. And anything that's got food spilt on it or baby poo or vomit on it!

Yo you have obviously given serious thought to this, and I am impressed by your solution.

A busy spider is a happy spider!

If the spiders leave spider pubes on the towels do they have to wash them again?

Yes joxer spiders are extremely fastidious! Their own towels are very very small, though, so they actually generate far less laundry!

If they are all white why do you need to bleach them?

I employ an army of spiders to deal with my towel washing. They patrol over the used towels checking them for pubes, skid marks and other stains. They then drag any that are ‘filthy’ to the washing machine in battalions where a mass cleansing takes place. They even hang them out for me, rub their willies across at regular intervals and then bring them back in. I am providing employment for many out of work spiders and am thrilled with the service they provide

I love spiders, but had no idea they could be put to use like this. From now on, the malingering spiders who hang out at my house will be getting busy!

Once a week. I use then under DD for nappy off time so do a different towel everyday (2 hand towels, 4 people towels) but they go in with the normal clothes wash.

I bought bleach for the first time ever this week! Won't be going in the wash though (our towels are green).

I can’t help but feel it’s dosgusting to use your towel again after one use without washing.

@Maybe2020, don't you wash yourself properly? That would be the only way that a towel would be disgusting after one use.

I think your humour is being lost on some.

Or the other way around...

I have a MN towel thread bingo card to fill, FGS.