How often do you wash your towels?

[Susieblue18]

Not AIBU but didn’t know where to put this. We are a family of 5 with 3 teenage boys so lots of showers. I don’t seem to have any system when washing towels, just take a few off the heated towel rail every few days. What do others do, wash them every day, all the towels once or twice a week?

Are you offering to do everyone’s laundry? If not, why can’t you work and do your own? How long does it take you to put some items in a machine and press a button?

I manage perfectly well with a full time job and no extension 🙄

So. I have a towel on the go at the moment. I know it had been on the go for a bit before Christmas. After Christmas I was going to wash it but I was planning to dye my hair and this is the only coloured one I like using. The rest of my towels I like using are white and I can’t use those when I’ve dyed my hair as the colour comes out for a week or so after (plum) This towel’s soft, stripey and the perfect size. I dyed my hair on New Year’s Day. Said towel is still on the go… I live alone (with the dog who changes his towels more often than me) and so nobody knows except me. And now you (shush!!). I’m planning a towel pants and socks wash at the end of next week. I guess it’ll get done then. Before then it might even get to dry the dog once too! Sometimes when I’m about to wash towels he gets to use one of mine. But hey, he’s clean. He’s had a shower. I’m only drying a clean body 😉

@Perfectpeace 4 of us. We all do sports. We work FT. Kids are out doing stuff every night & weekends. We both help out at stuff. We have daily laundry but I seriously don't have time nor drying space to wash 4 bath towels daily lol

But no one has asked you to or said you should. You seem incensed that others wash theirs daily but it has no impact on you or your family so I don’t understand why. Live and let live!

In my job I work with lots of families. I visit people at home. I can guarantee that most families I meet do not have the time nor money or space to wash & dry multiple towels every day. It's not a common cause of death either

@Perfectpeace no not incensed but Mumsnet at times is a very unusual place. No one I know washes towels for a whole family every day. Not even close

So did I.
Where are all the "after every use or you are filthy scum" posters?
Or is the cost of living crisis finally forcing people to cut back.
This question was asked a couple of years ago and I got flamed and my head ripped off and served up on a platter for daring to suggest that people might consider the environment and wash their towels a bit less often.

Honestly am shocked. Am no Mrs Boquet but I was ours every couple of days. I feel a bit yucky if I don’t. Daughters are covered in fake tan & make up & dropped on the floor.

Why do you think anyone who replies to your posts is angry or incensed, @Perfectpeace ? We're just curious about how your towels get so dirty. What are you doing with them?

Growing up we always had clean towels daily, my mum still does this for my younger siblings living at home. Everything gets tumble dried so there is no issue of wet towels sitting around as would be the case if everyone was hanging up wet towels in bathrooms a d bedrooms.
When DH and I moved in together I thought he was a bit of a minger for re using towels but now I do it too. If my mum comes to stay I do give her clean towels every day as it's what she's used to and she is very good to us. Other guests I just leave a few sets of towels in the spare room and ask them to throw in the basket the ones they have used by the end of their stay.

The kids bath towels get washed after each use, DH and I use ours twice and then wash them.
Tea towels changed daily and hand towels a couple of times a week.

I use a flannel to dry my face. And I'm not delving in my bum, just wrapping the towel around me when I get out the shower
My feet are squeaky clean, I wash them with exfoliating gloves and soap

Omg my mind is blown reading this 😂🤯 Maybe THAT’S why I can never get through all my washings.. my husband hangs his damp towel up on the bathroom door all the time and reuses it but doesn’t appear to check or ever decide it should actually go in the washing. My toddler and my towels get washed after every wash 😳 even if it’s just a quick dry off when I come (clean) out a bath

Ours get washed every day.

Can the people who wash their towels every day explain why...

My toddler and my towels get washed after every wash 😳 even if it’s just a quick dry off when I come (clean) out a bath

Why? How has it got dirty?

Whenever I remember or feel they need doing. I cannot imagine a life so empty and banal that I have a schedule for washing my towels.

once a week and face cloths every two days

Only use towels once. They get thrown in the towel basket in the bathroom and I do a towel wash a couple of times a week.

Not sure I’d like to dry my bits on a towel someone else has used 🙃

🤣

@notangelinajolie towel basket sounds like you have lots of towels & space. I wish I had such space (genuine)

Except your partner? And maybe kids?

Once a week for bath towels, change the hand towels twice a week, kitchen towels daily, cloots daily or more often.

After 2-3 uses.

I like a clean towel after every 2-3 showers, once it loses that just washed nice fresh smell, it’s done. We all have our own colours, and separate guest towels.