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??

We change the towels once a week. Bleaching towels is bonkers.

Shower/baths clean your body, if you feel your towel is dirty after one use on your body, you probably need to wash more thoroughly.

But to answer probably around once a week.

Once a week I change them all and do one wash.

After one or two uses is crazy! What a waste. Do you not have anywhere to hang them in your house?

The whole point of a towel rail in the bathroom, is to hang towels so that they will dry.

Towels and bed linen get washed weekly here. We're on a septic tank so I never use bleach or anything antibacterial.

It’s not about not feeling clean after a shower I shower everyday so I now I’m clean.
It’s the fact I don’t want to dry myself with a towel I’ve already used to wipe my arsehole and wipe my face with it or my husbands for that matter, how an I going to know which towel is which.
There used once and go in the dirty washing basket.
I also wash with bleach home bargains do a bottle of laundry bleach for whites and it’s great at keeping my towels white.
I also don’t wash clothes and towels together, tea towels are washed on there own also.
Shoot me.

@YesQueen sorry if I offend but I think that’s rotten.
Each to their own though.

I wash towels once a week or fortnight.

I don’t tend to dry my bumhole with my towel and I my husband has a different size towel so I always know which one is his. Ours get hung up to dry so they don’t smell. I wash them once a week, any longer and I start forgetting how long it’s been and they start getting floosty from the damp/dry cycles.

We wash towels after every use. We have lots so we don’t have the machine going all the time, just one large wash once or twice a week. I wash them at 60 degrees and I give them a short tumble when they’re dry so they’re fluffy.

Yep it’s not great environmentally, I get that. However, living with small children who get threadworms / molluscum / styes/ god knows whatever else I don’t want to share a towel with those kinds of bugs... or wipe my face with a towel that my dh has used to dry his anus with.

If you drive a car, go on a plane, use plastic, stay in hotels (all of which do shitloads of waste and washing) and whatever else, I don’t think you can really have a go at people for washing towels.

@Maybe2020 sorry if I offend but I think you are unhinged.
Each to their own though (and who gives a shit about the planet)

Once a fortnight here but we don't shower every day. We have a lot of showers at the pool or gym, and different towels for that. Hand towels get washed more often. We all have our own towels and they are hung up between uses.

I think this is plenty! It's important not to be wasteful with resources.

maybe who wipes arseholes with their towel??? As for keeping towels separate, DDs have a hook on the back of their door, DH and I have the top and bottom of heated towel rail.

Weekly here. Although if Dd is home from uni for the weekend she pops hers in before she goes.

3 years ago I washed my own towel daily as I was having a daily period. So I did wash as I often haemorrhaged while wearing my towel. Thankfully since my surgery it's not an issue now.

About once a week. I'll spin them in the drier in between though to create them a bit.

Do you wash jeans after one wear? If not why not? They'll be far dirtier than towels are after being used once after a shower.

When they start to smell 'biscuity' here - 10 days ish.

Swimming towel washed after each swim
Normal towels 1-2 weeks

I’d hate to use a bleached towel, the smell must be awful.

It's astounding to think that in the year 2019 with the planet going to heck in a handbasket that there are still morons who think like this.

10 days to a fortnight here. No bleach, wtf?

@Maybe2020 I literally wrap my towel around me, I don't dry my face with it as I don't wash my face in the shower and I'm not wiping my bum with it
So it touches my clean back/legs/feet which have all just been scrubbed with soap

Those asking what bleach to use in a White wash: Ace Laundry Bleach (B&M 👍). It's amazing stuff...your whites are really white (and it smells so clean!!)

I'm a slattern by MN standards, clearly...my bath towels get washed when I think about it...possibly monthly 🤷‍♀️. Hand towels every week and a clean tea towel everyday. I live by myself though...I think I've gotten lazier over the years where household chores are concerned...but I work very long hours, so I'm not feeling too guilty 😂💁‍♀️

If you shower less, you won't need to use a towel as often. There, fixed. (Word towel no longer making sense to my brain after this thread.)

The same as you every second use.

Each of us has a different towel (different colours etc) so no inadvertent sharing. Towels are washed once a week. Bleaching towels - ugh!

Where I live, we wash towels once a year or so, whether they need it or not and we use piss. Anything else is just grim.