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!!

This is as bonkers as the dog bowl/dishwasher thread

Kitchen towels are only used for drying hands ( I use paper towels for pots/glassware etc), so in together they go.
It's probably fine at high temps in any case.

The point of the washing machine is it gets things clean

If I washed underwear at 95 degrees it would wreck it! I only use that cycle for maintenance washes.

I've only just gone back to read the thread. . Some very funny not to mention wasteful ideas about cleanliness and hygiene.

MN is obsessed with 'faecal matter' it always crops up on washing threads

My teen showers 3x a day, he's cleaner than me or his dad!

I love the panic about germs on clothes on mumsnet!

Whe my husband was seriously ill and on a neutropenic plan and severely immunosurpressed there were lots of rules. So no drying plates with tea towels, no raw food (salad or fruit), boiled water only, no air con. Washing at 60.

If you are not immuno supressed this level of anxiety about washing and germs is just taking up space in your head that can be better used on something else!

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.

Interesting that you wash your pot drying towels at 95 but your arse towels at 60 just

Yes tea towels I've heard mentioned before about not being the most hygienic option for pots. What say you to that people who are going to great lengths to wash them separately and over sanitise them

Wow! I didn't expect this to take off! Thanks for all the view points, I'm a lot happier now with my mixed towel wash!

My mind has melted. When you go to the loo you generally wear clothes so your clothes will have traces of faecal bacteria on them, won't they? What happens if your tea towel brushes against your top when you're drying a very heavy saucepan? Surely then your teatowel has bum germs on it too and you're now going to die?

All cottons go in together on 40, unless they're really filthy in which case 60 (separated colours of course, though ). Noone ever gets sick in this house.

I have no idea where the hyper-germphobia in this country comes from.

All towelling material goes in one wash (at 60 when I remember), wherever it comes from. And there are no faecal bits on my towels because my bumcrack dries all by itself without the insertion of fabric to help. Do people really do that ?

I do dry my bum. But it's been thoroughly cleaned with water and soap before I do so.

May I point out that probably everyone on this thread has given and received oral sex at some point. That's far more germy (even if you've both just had showers) than mixing different types of towels in a washing machine.

Gosh this thread is mad. And I thought I was pernickety about housekeeping

Wash gets separated into darks, lights, and whites. All bedding is white and gets done at 60 (more in the interests of keeping it white than hygienic)

But towels, teatowels, everything else, simply go in the wash according to their colour and get done at 40.

As for teenagers, it depends. I've one very clean one and one that needs nagging to get in the shower.

I don't have a hot wash option so I wash them separately.

Towels at 60 from both kitchen and bathroom then line dried which kills germs too.

Obviously tumbling if weather is rubbish

Same rock, same river regardless of what I'm washing. Everything gets a good pounding and slapping, rinsed then thrown onto bushes to dry.

This has opened a whole can of worms for me.

We wash clothes incl underwear at 40. Pants get v sweaty and no doubt poo-ey too.

Yet towels, only ever used to dry AFTER washing the bottom, must be kept separate and done at at least 60 if not 95?

Mind is boggling.

This has opened a whole can of worms for me.

We wash clothes incl underwear at 40. Pants get v sweaty and no doubt poo-ey too.

Yet towels, only ever used to dry AFTER washing the bottom, must be kept separate and done at at least 60 if not 95?

Mind is boggling.

I use my bath towels after I shower so I am 'relatively' clean and use kitchen tea towels when utensils are washed so again 'relatively' clean. I wash everything together. Never been an issue!

All in together here on 60c for towels. think you are over thinking. Not aware of anyone being ill from mixing washing, surely washing is the important thing here. Towels are for drying CLEAN hands and bodies after all.

Yep OP, you're crazy.
The clothes are being washed.
It's a washing machine, not a 'germ-mixer'.

There are lots and lots of people with germ fear on this website.

The way I wash clothes is as follows.

1. drag linen basket downstairs
2. fight the two children out the garage so I can try and sort through it
3. give up and accept the kids won't stay the other side of the door and just shove some white or dark stuff in there with some detergent.
4. select either 40 or 60 degree wash
5. hit start

Towels/tea towels, 60 degree wash.
Persil non bio capsule, scoop of vanish, Lenor, tumble dry, done.

Sometimes I come on mumsnet and can't decide if i'm a filthy minging troll or one of the only sane people on here!

Washing all goes in the machine and gets separated by colour + whites not by which part of my body it's touched.