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.

I saw a TV program at the beginning of Covid where they tested how much bacteria was left on clothes after washing at various temperatures and it really made no difference.

Interesting! Similarly, I was once told (don’t know the original source) that water temperature is irrelevant also for hand washing for the same reasons. To make any difference to germs, the water would have to be so hot that it would be intolerable for the skin, so the temperatures at which we wash our hands makes no difference- it’s the soap that does the magic!

I find that towels get a bit whiffy without a hot wash. We have more than enough laundry to wash them separately.

I wash towels separately I have lovely fluffy white towels and I want them to stay that way

Tea towel and cleaning cloths and sports stuff together

Clothes at 40 - 60 depending on what it is
Bedding separately probably once a week

I wash mine with the bath towels at 60. If you change them regularly (daily or so), 40 is fine, too, I'm sure.

[quote CityCommuter]@kereh surely you don't dry your hands on a tea towel as that's for dishes for cutlery! You need a hand towel for hands only... [/quote]
Why?

Does the name of the towel have any bearing on whether it dries my hands or not?

He thinks it just not right to have tee towels and underwear washed together as its unhygienic.

Sorry but that is disgusting. Regardless of it being washed properly.

@kereh surely you don't dry your hands on a tea towel as that's for dishes for cutlery! You need a hand towel for hands only...

Quite! and a dish cloth for surfaces.

I find stains come out pretty well at 40 but not at 30. I also line dry which tends to take care of anything left.

I try to put tea towels in with towels and bedding because I tend to put them on a hot wash with stain removers and without fabric softners, whereas clothes just get chucked in on a 40° eco cycle, but if I'm not due a separate load for sheets/towels (especially if its a week when DD is at her dads so its just me at home) then I just throw the tea towels in with my clothes.

So far its not killed me, DD or the tea towels.

I use any towel in the vicinity to dry my hands

Sorry but that is disgusting. Regardless of it being washed properly.

Why?

@kereh Tea towels are for drying up crockery. I other just shake the water off my hands or wipe them on a hand towel. Kitchen dish gauze cloths are for wiping benches.

All goes I together here!

40°c wash.

Bedding and towels at 60°c.

The only thing that gets washed separately is my period pants because they have to be done at 30°c and no fabric conditioner. They are rinsed in cold water first.

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Similarly, I was once told (don’t know the original source) that water temperature is irrelevant also for hand washing for the same reasons.

Just as well because we didn’t have hot running water when I was a child. It would have spread a lot of germs having to boil a kettle when you’d just been to the loo.

All in together. I doubt much is surviving after a long wash at 40 with bio powder and dettol laundry cleanser

[quote Cokie3]@kereh Tea towels are for drying up crockery. I other just shake the water off my hands or wipe them on a hand towel. Kitchen dish gauze cloths are for wiping benches.[/quote]
Says who?

@itsgettingwierd Why no fabric softener with the period pants? Does it ruin the material? Genuine question. I'm thinking of getting a pair or 2. I'm a light bleeder and only go for around 2 and a half days, and it seems a better investment than pads and tampons (don't like the idea of moon cups).

@allgoodinthehood

I used to wash towels a lot more often until someone pointed out that you are drying a clean body. Now its every 3/4 days.

Had that not occurred to you before?!

@kereh Says who what? What are you referring to?

I was taught these things in Home Economics. And by my mum and grandmother. And etiquette 'women's housekeeping' books.

I separate into darks and whites. Colours just go in with darks. Thats it. Towels, cloths, etc. Go in with either darks or whites. Nothing gets a separate load except bedding but only because it's a full load on it's own, otherwise it would go in with the whites. Everything on 30° and that's perfectly fine. Everything is clean and more eco friendly.

Says who?

Common sense really! I bet you dry yourself on a normal towel in the bathroom. Although I did once stay in a hotel in Italy where the bath towel provided was like a giant tea towel!

Whats the difference between drying a knife or drying a hand?

I wash them separately. We use our tea towels to wipe up/mop up food, spills, grease, etc, so they need to go on a 60 degree wash to be properly cleaned.

Underwear and socks are washed together and sometimes with clothing if I need to make up a load. They are washed on 40 degrees.

@CecilyP

Says who?

Common sense really! I bet you dry yourself on a normal towel in the bathroom. Although I did once stay in a hotel in Italy where the bath towel provided was like a giant tea towel!

Common sense tells me that a towel called a tea towel will dry my hands just as well as a towel called a hand towel.

[quote Cokie3]@kereh Says who what? What are you referring to?

I was taught these things in Home Economics. And by my mum and grandmother. And etiquette 'women's housekeeping' books.[/quote]
Ah, you were making a funny.

Good one.