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??

1 towel per person for 1 week then washed at 60c. Hand towel shared and washed once a week.

Not every two days that's for sure. And I don't bleach them either.

Maybe once a week? And they don't smell damp

Every week whether they need it or not 😏

Every 2 days here.

I’m only patting my clean body down. Why would it need to be washed straight away? 4 people in this house. That would mean the washing machine would be on every day !

Bath towels, tea towels get washed after two uses.

What bleach do you use?

I would presume you don't wash properly if needing washing so often OP.
Weekly wash for bath towels here, hand towels a couple of times a week.

What are you washing your body in? Wee?

Once a week for body towels, hand towels and tea towels changed every 3-4 days.

These people can’t have jobs surely. I’d lose track of who has had a shower or used their towel. Do you keep a chart or what? I just put them all in on Saturday and issue everyone with a new one.

Also bleach ruins fabric.

@ThinkGlow I'm with you!

My white towels stay white without bleach
I wash only whites together and occasionally dry in the sun - my white towels are over 10yrs old and still bright white.
I wash towels about once a week, or more often if particularly grubby or stinky (after kids play football etc) , in normal wash

Once week here. You use bleach?

We don’t share towels. But growing up in the 70s we did as a family of 5! Funnily enough we were in robust health!

My DS somehow has been indoctrinated by one of his bio parents that towels need washing after EVERY use.

I can't tell you how annoying it is to get home after a week away working and not be able to do my laundry because all of our towels are shlooshing away on a 90.

I wash my towels about as often as there are threads about it on mumsnet

So, what, about twice a day

Hang on people re use towels they’ve used to dry theirselves after a shower? 🤨
I use a towel once after a shower then it’s stuck in the washing machine.

Hand towels get put in the laundry basket after a day's use.
Bath towels get put in the laundry basket after a week's use.
Amounts to one 60c wash per week.

When I get out of the shower I wrap myself in a towel. I don't actually pat dry any part of myself. Because I'm clean I think my towels are pretty clean, just wet. I don't use the same towel every day. Therefore I wash them when I think of it. Not even once a week.

Here we go. Is this thread a monthly or two weekly occurrence?

OP you will get a range of responses from: the 'towels get washed when they have started growing fungus, anything else is desperately wasteful and bordering on a hygiene obsession', through to 'I only use towels that have been laundered for 3 hours at 100c and then they get burned in the street once used because I don't want that filth in my house and anything less is just eeeeewwwww'

Take your pick.

@Maybe2020 um yes? I dry myself and hang up the towel to dry for the next shower

Even once a week seems excessive. Assuming you're using on a clean body x7 times. It's only water. Why on earth do you need to wash something in water that's been used to dry off clean water?! (And yes I do wash our towels but no where near once a week).

Apart from the environmental issue, I can't believe how wasteful some of you are.

Your laundry, electricity and water bills must be enormous. Towels must need replacing frequently.

Just hang the bloody things up and they'll dry!