what do you do with wet towels after your shower?

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I don't want to wash them after only one use. If there's room on the bathroom rail I hang mine there, or over a door, or outside in good weather.... No real system, and I usually forget to fetch it and then we have several "in use" towels floating around the house!

Does anyone have a system that is easy for the whole family to use and actually works??

My towels get used then go straight in wash.

Washed once a week by the cleaner.
After my shower mine goes on my radiator in my en suite bathroom. My daughter has hers oer the towel rail over her en suite bathroom radiator. Two of the children have theirs on a towel rail over their bathroom radiator. Other son seems to keep his in his bed room.

I'm surprised how many people don't use towel rails for their bath towels.

I have a big towel rail that can hold 2 big towels so they air well and dry. It is next to radiator for when that is on in the winter. 3 of us share 2 towels most of the time.

And another one next to sink for the hand towels.

and if we need to hang extra towels they go on hooks on the back of the door.

MinimilistMommi hello how are you? It may well be unhygienic but we've never caught anything from each other. I got conjunctivitis recently and kept a separate towel until that cleared up, but the DC didn't get it.

I have far fewer towels and sheets etc these days, inspired greatly by you on the mini threads last year. And I tend to get most towels and sheets washed in the morning and back on the rail or bed by the evening :) Thank you

Dressing gowns are the answer. Put on absorbent towelling dressing gown, you're dry in 5 minutes and then you hang them up on hook. Hey presto they are dry overnight

BeCool I'm OK thank you! I'm a glad it helped, we still have the same amount of towels and sheets as last year and still working well. We're without a tumble dryer now though as it wouldn't fit in our house so I'm finding that challenging. Thinking of swapping fluffy towels with microfiber ones because they would dry quicker and be lighter to hang on back off door. About the unhygienic comment, I had a vision of me sharing a towel with DH LOL I'm always tell him to make sure he uses his own towel and doesn't touch anyone else's LOL

Mine goes on the heated towel rail in our ensuite.
DH's goes on the back of the ensuite door. Sometimes it also goes on the towel rail - in winter the heated rail is on longer as it comes on with the normal heating, etc.
DD's goes on the heated towel rail in her bathroom.

minimalistMommi have you considered hammam towels instead of microfibre? Light and thin so they dry well but made of cotton so they don't 'catch' like microfibre.

There are (occasionally) heated towel rails in both bathrooms, and that is where I put my towel (in the summer the rail is not heated, although they could be (have electric elements as well as being radiators) but enough air circulates to dry them anyway).

If you ask my DH or DC, then the answer is just to drop it where it falls, from where the towel fairy will pick it up and return it to the rail. If the towel fairy fails to do so, or finds it when it is already manky and smelly and consigns it to the washing basket, then you are well within your rights to wander dripping wet and naked through the house yelling that you can't find a towel

Hung on the banister or radiators and washed once a week. Different colour for each family member so no sharing going on. We each have 2 bath towels, one in use and one in laundry and about a million more in the airing cupboard that rarely get used The bathroom hand towel gets washed every day or two.

I use a bathrobe mostly...out of shower....hair in small towel, robe on or, less often a big towel

grown ups are allowed to use the towels in the bathroom, and the children have their own. Although I do need to get ds2 some new ones as he only has skimpy bath towels and not lovely bath sheets.

The older two have two hand towels, two bath towels and two mahhhhoooooosive bath sheets each, and it's their own silly business if they want to leave them festering on the floor or use the towel airer on their radiators. I remind them weekly to wash them... 60 or 90 degree once in a while, again if they cba then it;s not me drying myself on skanky towels.

airing cupboard here and they go straight back in, over the rail. We shower in the evening usually when the hot water has been on, so the cupboard is warm. If there is a morning shower the towel goes on the line if the weather is suitable.

towels get washed when they start to smell, usually about once a week.

damp towels round the house makes a damp and smelly house.

sharing towels is fine as long as no-one has a skin infection.

This thread has served a useful purpose of reminding me to change our towels.....

We have electric towel rails which are kept on the low setting, so they dry on there even in summer when heating isn't on. Kids have their own towels, but every two or three days they are all washed and replaced anyway.

@KatyTheCleaningLady

Thank god you don’t clean my house. Luckily I’m a professional housekeeper and would never dream of wiping a towel over the toilet.

On the subject I’m afraid as a family of four we are wash after each use, which is every day. DD uses two, one for her hair which she does use twice. Her boyfriend comes to stay and he works as a barista so showers before work and when he gets back as he smells of coffee. That’s two towels. When my other two daughters and their partners stay that’s a towel each per day, and when my stepsons used to stay that was a towel each too. They are given a quick hot wash.
They do get dirty as we are rubbing skin onto them, putting them into our arse cracks and lady parts, men rub their bits about on them as whatever else men do after a shower. They are getting washed. I have a wooden towel box. They all get washed, folded and put away. My washing machine is set twice a day, once last thing at night to have a wash starting at 5am so it’s ready to go on the line, another is then set to be ready for when I get home from work at 6pm. Some of the last wash goes on an indoor line overnight, the rest goes in the dryer. Any build up, which usually isn’t too bad, gets done at the weekend.

Wow I would even think of washing my towels every day after each use.Why I wouldn’t think of washing my jeans after each use either
Answering the question on the heat rail in the bath rooms

I don't think washing towels after every use is environmentally sound, but damp towels are grim. I have my own towels that I hang over the radiator in our bedroom. Husband and adult sons share two bath sheets and a couple of hand towels between three of them and they're over a heated towel rail. In the summer, they still dry with the window open.

There's also a small hand towel, well they're about half the size of a hand towel by the wash basin and that's changed at least every day because it looks grubby.

Meant to add that bath towels washed once a week.

Aware this is a very old thread, just hear to say EURGH to that lady who cleans the toilet with people's towels 😂

Over the banister, they dry out there really quickly. If I'm expecting visitors they go over the bathroom or ensuite radiators.

Over the landing bannister here, used 2-3 times

why wash towels after every use ?
are you not washing yourself properly ?

Mine goes on the en-suite door, husbands goes on a hook in the en-suite. My children usually leave theirs on my bed for me to discover when I go up and find my bed cold and damp. 🙄

I couldn't find a system TBH, so in the wash they go. Hate drying with damp towels!

Dcs get put over a bedroom door to dry, mine and dps go on hooks on our bedroom door, they get washed about once a week. Hand towels we go through anywhere from 1-5 a day-5 of us and we wash our hands a lot so they get soaked quickly and once soaking wet they go into the laundry.

I’ve got a couple of hooks on the inside of my full length airing cupboard door.