Ok then - how often do you change your tea towels?

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I've just been hanging the washing out and neighbour said I had a lot of tea towels. I said I change them almost every day, and she said "Oh I don't I just change them when they need it".

Weekly or when they are manky.

I get through a couple a day - just slap them in the machine after I've finished with them.

Depnds if there is a spliiage or something or they get food on them. If not every few days. When they seem to need it.

Hmm, I must be odd then if I change mine almost every day. I don't iron them, god no. Or towels either, but MIL does, she irons socks and pants and bras and even dusters

Well it is very important for household dust extraction that there is a smooth surface for maximal removal rates IMO.

every day

kitchen cleaned at night, new teatowel and dishcloth put out

I use 2 or 3 a day - like clean ones
same with a dishcloth

I don't use tea towels I just drain and put away once dry. I read somewhere this was more hygienic.

we drain too and don't dry

but I like a clean cloth to wipe my hands on

Ahh I just use my jeans.

every day or two - depends !

Usually every day sometimes we go through a few in a day as the kids or dh will use one to mop up something rather than go find a cloth Plus I always use the dishcloth and teatowel to rinse out the cat/dog bowls at the end of the night then throw them in the laundry (is that a bad thing to do????) That way I know the animal bowls are cleaned each day plus I can guarantee that those towels will not be re-used until washed

At least daily and some times more depending on many things have been spilt.

Every day (You have a very nosy neighbour?)

both the teatowel and the kitchen hand towel get slung in whenever I do a white wash ie about every other day

but dishwasher means teatowel doesn't get much use

once or twice a week.
don't dry many dishes, so tea towels stay good for a while, but the hand towel mysteriously gets filthy.

no mystery re filthy handtowel
tis always DH

One a day, unless doing something mucky like roast dinner

About once or twice a week I'd say, unless the dog has pinched one...

Every day. We use 1-3 every day, depending on how much stuff has been hand-washed (most goes in the dishwasher).

Leaving it to drain is probably more hygienic if you don't change tea-towels regularly, but it looks messier, and if we're doing a lot of washing-up it doesn't all fit on the draining board!

Anyway, isn't that what the kids are for - drying up!

When they are wet/dirty, but having said that, we use the dishwasher so don't generally use tea towels for drying up. They are more used as wiping the odd thing up.

I use 1 a day. I don't use them for drying things, just for getting stuff out of the oven. They get filthy though because dh insists on wiping his hands on them, and wiping spillages up with them, for reasons I can't fathom.

God, dya know, I have no idea!

as and whe they ge dirty.
can be three a day. or one every two days. depends whats happening at home.