BBC article on towel washing frequency. How very MN!

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https://www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66735226.amp?

Personally I wash mine everytime someone looks at them.

Nightmare when someone opens the airing cupboard.

Every two weeks. Nobody has complained or died. Good enough for me.

Sounds like students featured heavily in the survey 🤷‍♀️

I'm a Saturday morning towel washer too. Perhaps we should start a club 😀

Strip bed and clean bathroom Saturday morning. Before dh messed his knee up we would then go for breakfast.

When we were moving dd from one Uni accommodation to another the other week, she mentioned not washing towels for months! 😱 I was more shocked as when at home she uses a towel once and throws it in the laundry basket! She has a washing machine in her shared flat this year so I live in hope 😀

Weekly or when they start to pong. Why would you keep using a smelly towel when you could easily change it for a fresh clean one?

The disregard for climate change on this thread is remarkable

Once a week here as well

Apart from those doing 60 degree washes, what does this have to do with climate😂😂😂

Washing once a year has fuck all to do with climate change. I'm conscious of climate. I still wash towels with my other dirty laundry 🙃

People are just minging.

Three months!😱You'd smell worse after your shower than before it. Towels are so easy to wash.

@HuneyBuns assume referring to those who wash towels daily

Oh, got you

I think it's fair enough if you've got a load on. Having said that, I once lived with someone who put a single oven glove in the tumble drier, so...

Everyone has 2 towels each and they get washed Saturday mornings.

Weekly and more for hand towels and Dave towels.

Saturday morning towel washer here too!

Oh god I wash towels at 60 or 90 once a week ... am I a planet killer ?!

My health comes first however

@marmaladeandpeanutbutter

Dave towels??

I wash mine when they start to smell like biscuits - after approximately 3 uses.

After siting around damp for a few days, a 60 degree wash (they need very little detergent though) is about all that keeps bath towels fit for use and not landfill. (and M not exaggerating. It's been so damp/humid here, this past few days, that stuff is taking forever to dry, indoors. Yesterday's face cloth stinks.)

Once a week

No idea. I'd guess we use them three times maybe and then wash, so every three/four days? We have loads of towels though so we are probably a bit profligate with them.

Ours just go in with normal washing though, which I'm sure makes us criminals in the eyes of MN. They just go in the laundry basket with everything else.

I don’t believe the headline about the 3 months at all. It sounds like a completely bogus, made up survey to get publicity for the shower company which issued it. (I know someone who makes up this sort of stuff for a living.)

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Bedding and towels go in a 60° wash once a week.

I remember staying at a friends many years ago (we were late teens but all still lived with mum and dad) . She used three towels a day just for herself and her mum washed them daily! I was amazed- I had my own 2 towels that lived in my bedroom and were dried out daily and they got washed once a week.
Now I'm the 'grown up' DH and I share 2 big bath sheets- DS had his own- all washed weekly. If they smell less than fresh though they get chucked in the wash that day- especially in Summer- Love a line dried fresh towel- same with bedding- normally once a week but if it's a nice day it may get done mid week as well.

Of those asked, 44% said they would wash their towels after three months or more.

This is extremely worrying