Tell me the lifecycle of a bath towel in your house.....

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After stuffing another pile of towels back into the airing cupboard I've realised that although we buy new ones occasionally, I don't think we EVER throw any away ...

So in our house it's something like this:

• NEW TOWELS - bought to co-ordinate with new bathroom decor etc. Used regularly (if not in wash) and ESPECIALLY for guests
• Previously new towels - used if new towels not available. Regular family use.
• No-so-new towels - used for kids swimming/ going to the gym
• Old towels - used to keep in car/ dry off children in the garden etc
• Very old towels - kept in garage and used by DH (goodness knows what for!)

But I don't think I've ever thrown one away! I still have a towel from my uni days kicking around (it has my name on a nametape)

How do people with pristine towels for every occasion do it? DO they have a 'towel amnesty' every 12 months and chuck tem all away and buy new??
(I always look rather enviously at those people who don't seem to mind taking big fluffy towels to the gym to get ruined with chlorine )

Thank you Lostinfrance. I too will wipe them from my mind.

Noddy, is your dp like mine?

"How can a towel get dirty when you only use it after you've washed"?

Then we have the same old spat about how clean his bum was before he dried it.

We have towels bought to match each bathroom, the downstairs toilet and kitchen. These are various ages - none of them more than 6 years old. We then have the old towels that were bought for wedding presents at our old house which are 8 years old and used as spares/for swimming. Then we have the very old towels which are used for me getting my hair done - mobile hairdresser so use own towel and get hair dye/bleach on it. Then they get downgraded to cleaning mess off the floor/cleaning DH's golf clubs (at home not at the golf club obviously)/wiping off wellies etc. Some of these arrive mysteriously in the garage.

I too had an airing cupboard full of old towels, never have thrown the old ones away when I bought new ones.
But then...... I had a home water birth!
And boy, did those old towels come in handy.

wheresthehamster I think that is dp's logic too Weird!