Do you wash your bathroom towels with your kitchen towels?

[Bluerose27]

Just that really.
I like to keep on top of washing, especially when the sun is shining. So today I had half a load of bathroom towels and half a load of kitchen towels so I threw them all in on a high temperature.

I feel like it's two different types of germs mixing though.

But I feel a bit silly as I type this. If I'm crazy to worry about this please let me know gently!!

FungusAndFecalMatter i feel a name change coming on...

I shove everything in at 40 - towels, sheets (I wash them far less frequently that most people on here), dish clothes (ditto), pants, jeans, gym clothes...

I'm confused. Do people use tea towels on dirty crockery? Or bath towels on skin that hasn't just been washed? I do split my laundry to a certain extent but I don't have many tea towels to wash as the dishwasher has a drying cycle so things come out kind of erm, dry. There is also a hand towel in the kitchen to use when hands have been washed in the kitchen, hence the name 'hand' towel.

Teenaged boys are disgusting creatures who seem to leave everything everywhere.

They don't wash properly and you can't "wash your children" when they're 14.

And i HAVE a life, thanks, it's just full of teenaged boys and filth

Well, if it's so disgusting to wash everything on 40 degrees why aren't we all sick all the time? I shove everything in together, with vague sorting by colour. Every so often I wash bedding or towels at 60. We're all perfectly healthy, including the teenage boys.

I have teenaged boys and can assure you they are nothing like the filthy creatures you seem to be rearing, but the point here is you have a cheek calling other people disgusting!

I think if my teen son was so rank that he left skidders on a bath towel, I would bloody well wash him. In the garden with a hose and deck brush.

I tried, poppy, but someone called the RSPCA and said I was abusing a pig.

I've gone through the stage of having teenage boys and they aren't disgusting at all, quite the opposite in fact. They keep themselves perfectly clean and make a mess of the bathroom while doing it, but they certainly aren't disgusting.

It constantly amazes me how my family and I are alive! All laundry goes in the same wash, cold water and Eco-blah powder (because it is better for the worms in our sewage system). No stomach problems, vomiting or sickness. Occasionally sniffling cold. You people have WAY too much time on your hands!

Yep towels go in with clothes. So teatowels and knickers and socks get washed together. I do 3 washes a week. Whites, darks, colours. Depending on which colour the towels are depends on which wash it's in.

I've got OCD around germ contamination and even with that I wash all my towels, clothes, bath mats, linen etc together on a 40 degree wash. The only things I wash separately are my running kit as use the dettol stuff so it doesn't smell of BO, and the dogs stuff as on higher temp but again with dettol stuff.

NO!

Not putting in towels that wipe peoples arses in with towels that wipe pots.

Bath towels will go on their own usually on a 60 wash. Pot towels on their own with cleaning cloths on a 95.

What difference does it make when the point is to come out clean? If you are wiping your pots with arsey towels then you haven't washed them properly!

I'm sure this is completely ott but I wash towels (plus tea towels, flannels, oven gloves, bath mats) twice - with bio at 40 degrees & again with non-bio at 60.

Probably very excessive but I'm happy with the results

I used to wash everything at 40 with liquid detergent but started washing the towels and sheets at 60 because a hotter wash with powder is supposed to keep your machine fresher and it is easiest doing it with towels and sheets in

My DS when he was a teenager was the clean, showering daily, stinking the house out with Lynx type rather than the non washing type but that also can be a pain, there seem to be no happy medium with teenage boys.

My teenage boy uses an excessive number of towels if not prevented from doing so but is otherwise fairly normal. It's my daughter that's a bit grimy. They both do their own washing though and I really don't care too much about how they do it. We have a North American washing machine. It has cold, warm and hot settings (and settings for how soiled stuff is). Hot only gets used when one of the cats has peed on bedding.

Everything in my house goes in on a 40 if the towels make a load up they go in together if not they go with clothes. I have teenagers and they are not dirty creatures at all. Maybe I am lucky.

Tea towels washed at 90

White towels/ flannels washed at 90

Coloured towels /flannels washed at 60

Sheets (separated by colour ) and duvet covers/pillow cases washed at 60

Washed in bio powder with napisan

I don't even have kitchen towels
I use the tea towel
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Jeez, it is a washing machine designed to get things clean. It's a bit first world problem to have collywobbles over separate towel washing.
Obviously shitty/vomity items should be washed separately but otherwise chuck everything in and stop worrying.

I love MN's obsession with dead skin! Even if you sprinkled it on your muesli and ate it every day for breakfast it won't kill you. Thank goodness for elQuinto and the voice of reason

I don't think I've ever washed an oven glove in all of my 50 years...

How do people cope bringing the faecal bacteria and skin fungus on their towels into the kitchen? Do they disinfect the room instead of cross contamination? Wear gloves whilst putting the laundry on? Don't teatowels get covered in skin fungus from your touching them when drying up? This thread has made me question far too much.

I'm a separate by colour and wash at 40 type. We haven't caught any form of bum or fungus disease as a result.

Noveau
I outsource it
I have a lovely man that collects it in a yellow hazard waste bag
He washes it in his special industrial faecal matter remover
He then returns it in sealed bags
Very reasonable, only £100 a load
It's an awful job so I'm so glad I've found him
He's a godsend