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??

It's the dramatics I cant get on with: Vile, disgusting, rotten etc. Its ridiculous over a bath towel. But we all have our things I suppose. I wont wear a top twice even if it is clean and doesnt smell, I can't stand the idea of it. But I know many people who would.

Saying that I kissed and hugged my baby when she was born, before I was allowed to bath her. And she would have been covered in more than a swipe of my arsehole

@InsertFunnyUsername I’m the same with tops too because of my sweaty armpits. Like you said each to own.
I’m saying it’s disgusitng because I think it’s disgusting I’m not calling a person disgusting. I’m saying If I picked my used towel up and re used it I’d think it’s disgusting.
As you just said with not wearing a top twice, that’s your choice and no one should question why. Same goes with towels.

A newborn baby is completely different to a pube covered towel.

you really can't be washing very well if your towel is covered with pubes. Maybe that's the problem, some people simply don't know how to wash.

you simply can't equate a top that has been worn all day and got sweaty with a towel that's used for maybe a couple of minutes to dry a (hopefully) clean body.

@CassianAndor my house smells brand new like the day I bought it tbh.

I would hate to live in a house like this, I think you're the mad one.

Calling others mad is hilarious.

@coconuttelegraph it’s not hard is it?
I mean cmon, I never did say I wash my towels because me and my dh don’t wash properly.
Why do you wash your towels? Seeing as your clean from your bath/shower why do you ever wash your towels?
I mean we get out of our shower wipe ourselves thoroughly dry, genitals/underarms. It’s not hard to see why I would want to wash my towels after a use. You know for a fact it’s nothing to do with “oh but your clean after a shower” stop being so fucking stupid.

People astonish me in their weirdness

I use towels that are moderately darkish so can just join any wash that’s going in (apart from whites). So I don’t do special towel washes but can throw any random towels in with daily washing. I also dry myself with a handsize towel so it takes up hardly any room in the washing machine.

I guess yanbu to bleach the white towels to keep them white but I think mid coloured towels are a bit more practical as they wouldn’t require this.

Why are you arguing with people that have wrote their view on towel washing 😂.

I don’t care if you think it’s mad. I’d rather live in a clean house simple as that.

@spanglydangly you would hate to live in a clean house?

Having pride in your home is madness? Ok 👌🏼

If I washed towels after every use, I'd be washing and drying 8 towels daily on top of the other multiple loads of laundry I do. We are a clean family/ household but that is extreme.

Jesus now I’m not being clean enough 😂 @CassianAndor. I mean we both shave and we have to dry ourselves somehow so where do you think it’s going to go?

@Maybe2020 my house is clean thank you! But it's not fucking sterile!

Women didn't even wear underwear in the middle ages!😂 I doubt they had actual facilities to wash clothes daily either never mind clean towels every day.

I have white towels that are older than god yet they are still white without bleach! Never bleached a sheet either who wants that smell in bed? Don't ever use conditioner in any wash either towels are fine, actually better, without it

Unless you are working under lab conditions nothing is sterile. There are billions of healthy bacteria living on you and inside you as well as a few 'bad ones never mind everywhere else. Anti bac and bleach don't discriminate. Trying to live in a sterile world is not only a bad idea but impossible.

Towels used after a shower don't smell if hung up to air. Why is this obsession with unachievable 'cleanliness' these days?

I don’t wash towels every single day they are used once, thrown into dirty wash basket. When full I chuck in washing machine.

Maybe, you are going to burst something if you keep on at this rate. Losing your shit so vehemently on towels thread is perhaps a sign to step away for a bit.

Do you know the meaning of sterile?
No where thst is lived In is sterile.
Spotless is the word I should of used.
You don’t sound very clean when you commented you’d hate to live in a house that still smells brand new.

I’m really not losing my shit I think it’s madness that everyone finds it so hard to get round the fact that some people like to wash their used towels.

I love these threads. I really do

“So bad for the environment” from people who eat meat, fly to their holiday in the US/Europe/Asia, drive, buy everything wrapped in plastic.

Unless you are as minimal as possible you don’t get to use the environment card on these threads.

“I wash bath towels once a year, they’re drying a clean body. If you need to wash more often you’re back not washing yourself properly. I wash hand towels daily/twice a week.”

So you don’t wash your hands properly then? Why not?

“I wash them when they’re dirty- every 2 weeks”

So they’re spotless for 13 days and suddenly dirty on day 14? Doubt it.

If they were clean after every use they’d never need washed at all. So are they drying a clean body or not? How are they becoming dirty after wash 14?

“I wash mine once a week- anything more is excessive”

Well actually, once a week is excessive- as you can see by this thread you can clearly go 2 weeks/ a month/ 6 months before it becomes dirty. You’re being very wasteful.

Much logic fail on these threads. As usual.

A newborn baby is a lot worse than a pube covered towel. Still kissed the forehead 2 minutes after coming out my vagina.

I'm not telling people to wash their towels less, It doesnt matter to me, just pointing out that people describing it as vile/rotten are being dramatic. I'm being dramatic not wearing a top twice, doesn't mean people who do are rotten.

@Maybe2020 you started calling people mad, that's losing your shit!

Brand new houses don’t smell ‘clean’. They smell of plaster dust, paint, grout and that really horrible strong ‘newly laid carpet’ smell and other horrible VOCs. Not clean, just ‘new’.

Maybe err, down the plughole?

@Maybe2020 spotless is equally unappealing and mad! Get a hobby, cleaning isn't one!