Do you wash towels separately in their own load?

[JacknDiane]

I've always bunged them in with the rest of the washing, am I doing it wrong?

Yes but only because once the towels are in there's no room for anything else. If I just had one towel to wash I wouldn't.

I wasn’t trying to be smart or prove a point, it’s just how we work things.

Yeah I would never have that much in one day to be fair. My ds wears a tracksuit to school most days so he will usually change one or both components of that, the polo shirt he would wear twice. I have loads of uniform so I don’t HAVE to wash through the week. No blazers here for school thank god.

I do towels and bathmats with sheets and other stuff that can go in a hot wash.

Oh okay 😁 I thought I was getting a lesson on how not to be profligate launderer. We are a family of five, four adult-sized and one pre-teen. We switch our clothes out more regularly than you describe but, on top of the usual uniforms/ clothes/ bedding/ towels, we also have a constant stream of gym clothes, muddy bike clothes, swim gear and trade work wear through the machine.

I am guilty of not completely filling the machine all of the time but it's the habit that keeps the plates spinning without it taking up too much headspace.

Yes but mostly becasue they are all the same colour and make up one load. I would chuck one in with other laundry if I needed to.

No, everything gets bunged in unless it’s particularly delicate.

I agree…

But towels get wet, unlike most clothes, and that's where germs can start to breed, especially if they are hung in moist bathrooms.

Meh, I don't need a towel to be sterile. The bulk of bacteria is destroyed in a usual 40 degree cycle with detergent.

I'd stick it in on a 60 degree wash if anyone had a stomach bug, along with the sheets, but I don't think that has happened for years and years.

I have very yucky towels from drying off the dogs tbf

I do because I put vinegar in the wash to get them soft.

5 hours!!!! Thank goodness I have a top loader and a clothes line.

Agreed.

Yes a seperate load at 75 degrees with white socks! The friction of the fabric seems to be the only thing that gets the socks clean!

Yes, mostly, also because they’re white.

Send a soft towel over this way and I'll swap you it for my sandpaper one! 😆

Nope.

Is that all ? So you don't use the hydrochloric acid cycle you mean ? Tut, tut!