Is this weird or am I a slattern

[allgoodinthehood]

I think it totally fine to wash tee towels in with clothes washing .
My partner thinks they should be washed separately on a hot wash.
He thinks it just not right to have tee towels and underwear washed together as its unhygienic.
My clothes washing is on a 40 degrees wash.
Tell me Im not mad .
Happy Easter everyone.

The way around this is to iron your tea towels. The iron will kill anything that's lurking from having been washed with your underwear.
And ironed tea towels are so much nicer! And kids can help with doing this.

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I have never ever washed towels, tea towels or bedding in with clothes. I wash clothes at 40 and towels, bedding and tea towels at 60.

No way is 40 hot enough for towels and bedding.

You are not unusual though because when I see my neighbours' (both sides) washing on the line they had a real mish mash of items like underwear and towels

I wash most stuff at 30 and separate only by colour. No one has died yet from my shoddy laundry schedule. And apart from DH’s annual cold, we don’t tend to suffer illnesses either. (Touch wood!)

For those advocates of separating colours, I recommend Dr Beckmann's Colour Collector. Never separate again!
… unless you need to bleach whites, obviously.

Bah! I can't get too worked up about this. Nearly everything is washed on 40c here with biological powder. Everyone's healthy and our hand towels don't smell .

None of the underwear going in is that dirty tbh - people seem pretty good at, erm, wiping up after themselves (TMI!)

No way is 40 hot enough for towels and bedding.

I always followed accpeted wisdom and washed my sheets on 60 degrees, but recently I (finally) treated myself to some nice Egyptian Cotton sheets and the labels say to wash on 40 maximum!

I really need to go and get dressed but just want to ask, how are your tea towels getting so dirty? If you have a dishwasher then surely they don't really get used that often?

The poster that gets through 5-6 a day???!!! 😮😮😮

Before I had kids I would do separate washes every week as follows: whites, darks, towels, tea towel/cleaning cloths, bed linen. Nowadays I don't have time for that shit and whatever needs washing all goes in together, just separated by colour I.e. whites or darks.

I wash clothes at 30 or 40 degrees and wash light and dark separately. Also wash delicates (like son’s football shirts) and woollens separately, as don’t use fabric conditioner on them. I wash dark towels/tea towels at 60 degrees and light towels/tea towels at 90 degrees! Always have! Thought that was what you were supposed to do, for hygiene reasons and to ensure more delicate items lasted longer.

All in together unless I'm doing a hot wash for something else.

Tea towels and towels seperate. I find towels need extra rinse and no conditioner.
Washing animal food bowl with ours makes me heave but I know that's irrational if the water is hot

Clothes 40
Towels & bedding 60
Tea towels 90

@Confusedandshaken I was just talking through messenger with a cousin, she has one with temperatures on, but she never alters it. She didn't know you were supposed to. She only uses normal set and never deviates. Turns it on, puts things (though she does bedding separately, whereas I don't) in, presses start. She's never even pressed any other buttons. She's had it for several years, never took any notice of temperatures as she thought normal was normal, it the default, so never needed adjusting. I'd be the same way. If you have a good washing powder/detergent it shouldn't matter the temperature anyway. As long as the clothes are dried properly. Sometimes we use Cold Power washing powder. Used to use it when we were younger, too, and the hot water pipe wasn't connected to the machine. Some people still wash in plain cold water here. Never thought anything of it, til I came to this site. Then again it is hot and humid sub-tropical to tropical weather here.

[quote CityCommuter]@allgoodinthehood your partner is right, it's disgusting! It's like wiping your dirty arse on a tea towel after you've done a poo and then drying your dishes with the same tea towel and putting e-coli all over them while doing so! Nice isn't it![/quote]
Hyperbole much?

[quote CityCommuter]@allgoodinthehood your partner is right, it's disgusting! It's like wiping your dirty arse on a tea towel after you've done a poo and then drying your dishes with the same tea towel and putting e-coli all over them while doing so! Nice isn't it![/quote]
It really isn't.

I wash mine with bath towels on a 60 but because I use fabric softener on other clothes and that's no good for anything you want to absorb water and I tumble dry them and I don't with most clothes in case they shrink, so it's just easier to do a load of like items. That's just my way though I don't think yours is unhygienic! My logic is that teatowels are only used to dry clean hands (or get things out of the oven when you can't find the oven gloves) and bath towels are used to dry clean bodies....

I wash stuff separately because towels etc shed on clothes . I do darks , lights and 60.. I have a sorter in my utility

[quote CityCommuter]@allgoodinthehood your partner is right, it's disgusting! It's like wiping your dirty arse on a tea towel after you've done a poo and then drying your dishes with the same tea towel and putting e-coli all over them while doing so! Nice isn't it![/quote]
Doesn't your washing machine go through a rinse cycle? And don't you wipe your behind after going to the toilet? And people thought my posts were weird!

[quote Watchingthetelly]**@CandyLeBonBon* @Twoforthree* nope. There might be multiple reasons but I’m talking about direct experience of a family member who changes towels daily, dries them immediately but washes them at 30 on a shorter clothes wash. It turns my stomach. He can’t even smell it.[/quote]
Sounds like it's his washing machine that's the problem, not a generic 30 degree wash that's the problem because that's very specific to him. If I wash at 30, tjat doesn't happen so it could be his drum needs disinfecting etc?

You're right @Cokie3 - that post definitely eclipsed your English-bashing one for sure!

As far as darks and lights are concerned, I do wash new dark clothes separately for the first couple of times, the get rid of any excess ink, but find after that, they're good to go in with the rest of the clothes and sheets and towels regardless of colour. If it hasn't run the first couple of times, it won't run after the 10th wear.

The way around this is to iron your tea towels. The iron will kill anything that's lurking from having been washed with your underwear

Dear god this is a step too far. I don't iron clothes so tea towels haven't got a chance in hell.

Honestly all this handwringing about smearing poo over you dishes by being environmentally friendly and combining washes is bonkers.

I'm on immunosupressants, wash everything together at 30/40 and am rarely if ever ill. Apart from this week where I've got some cold lurgy from visiting the supermarket.

I boil wash my tea towels on 90, separately. I think it’s a bit unhygienic to wash on 40 with clothing.

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