Do you use the same bath towel every day??

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  • seal57
    seal57 Posts: 1,259 Member
    Yup, same towel everyday as I only do my laundry once a week......
  • DerDude
    DerDude Posts: 170
    youre CLEAN when you use them haha!

    I prob use 2/3 per week...

    This! :bigsmile:
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    We reuse our towels to conserve wash water and energy. We use the same towel for about a week then wash (hang up to dry so they don't get moldy).
  • BigH80
    BigH80 Posts: 280 Member
    I only use mine once. but i wait to build up a load before washing them,
  • cloveraz
    cloveraz Posts: 332 Member
    Ewe, no...But, my husband, yes...oh, and I use one towel for the body, one towel for my hair, and one small towel for my face, and of course a washcloth...I got a bunch of towels as shower gifts, six years ago.....My peeps knew I was a water baby!
  • honeybee3917
    honeybee3917 Posts: 24 Member
    I wash the towels once a week but we use new ones after every shower or bath. I am so over the top that I buy only white ones and bleach them. I like things to match :)
  • MooMooooo
    MooMooooo Posts: 306 Member
    I use mine until they smell yukky too. Unsure how long that takes - maybe a week. I hang them between showers and they dry thoroughly.

    If we have guests they are washed as soon as the guests leaves, even if that's a single use - because, you know, cooties. lol.

    I love to wash towels - but it's a waste of detergent and electricity - not to mention wear and tear on the fabric to wash too often.
  • _hi_hat3r_
    _hi_hat3r_ Posts: 423 Member
    I wash my bath towels after 2 uses.
  • giggles7706
    giggles7706 Posts: 1,491 Member
    I prefer to wash them after every use but my SO hangs them up and lets them dry and uses them several times. Me and my co-workers have discussed this before and some of them recylce them. Use them to dry their body one day and then use them to step out on the next and then wash. I don't know. It just bugs me and I want to wash them every time I use one.
  • grrrlface
    grrrlface Posts: 1,204 Member
    Once a week when I do my laundry. I'd rather them hung up to dry between use than used once and stinking out my washing basket. :sick:
  • fionarama
    fionarama Posts: 788 Member
    I use my one for days put it in the wash when it needs it. Figure I'm pretty clean when I get out of the shower so that can be a week.
    Of course I do the washing so thats my method.
    Hubby doesn't do washing so he just leaves them on the floor and uses new ones everyday.
    rrrrh.
  • super_monty
    super_monty Posts: 419 Member
    One towel a week, use the same corner for your butt.
  • luvmydog2
    luvmydog2 Posts: 243 Member
    LOL ...
  • dreamshadows
    dreamshadows Posts: 734 Member
    I wash them weekly. the same day as the bed sheets.
  • pinkminy
    pinkminy Posts: 286
    I change the towels a couple of times a week and the bed sheets too
    It just feels nice using a fresh smelling totally dry towel and getting into clean sheets
  • TXPaul
    TXPaul Posts: 74 Member
    I have to have a fresh one every day.
  • chrishgt4
    chrishgt4 Posts: 1,222 Member
    Back when I lived with my parents it was a fresh one every time.

    As soon as I moved out I realised that was ridiculous and it now lasts me at least a week.

    If wet towels breed bacteria, how do you wash and dry them in the first place?
  • va_va_voom
    va_va_voom Posts: 467 Member
    I use my towel 2-3 times, max. Towels get washed in warm water with bleach. My kids use a new towel each time. I thnk I am going to teach them how to wash towels soon. :wink:
  • spade117
    spade117 Posts: 2,466 Member
    2-3 uses before washing.
  • nerdyandilikeit
    nerdyandilikeit Posts: 2,185 Member
    I use my same shower towel for 2 weeks. Washing it eveyday seems OCD to me.

    I go a week and I AM OCD. But I also don't like to do laundry every five seconds.
  • sammys1girly
    sammys1girly Posts: 1,045 Member
    I use the same towel for about a week.
  • shelbysmom08
    shelbysmom08 Posts: 36
    In our house there are 7 of of and i was towels after 1 use!
  • ElleBee615
    ElleBee615 Posts: 177
    I do the same thing!! And to be honest I think it's weird that other people think it's weird that we do that. :laugh:
  • PShep17
    PShep17 Posts: 221 Member
    Not sure how often I change mine. If you're clean after the shower then the towel can't be that dirty! :)
  • blondejester
    blondejester Posts: 63
    i use a new one every time i shower
  • pascale485
    pascale485 Posts: 173 Member
    When you have to smell them to see if they are clean or dirty it's automatic----> Washer!!!!!

    It's like clothes that are on the floor that your not sure if clean or dirty...!!!!!
  • 1546mel
    1546mel Posts: 191
    There would be no such thing as a towel rack if you used it and then washed it. How about hand towels, dry your hands and then wash them? IDK, but i used mine 2-3 times then wash them. If you want to wash each time, to each his own :)
  • dsckrc
    dsckrc Posts: 194 Member
    this topic made me laugh out loud!!! i use mine 3 or 4 times only because i'd be doing towels everyday if we (my family of 4) each used a new towel every time. with the summer and swimming, now we have double towels (and yes, we use our swim towels 3 or 4 times each too):ohwell:
  • tam120
    tam120 Posts: 444 Member
    I have a towel warmer in the bathroom (which I absolutely love!), I use one towel a week.
  • DrJackson6
    DrJackson6 Posts: 156 Member
    Damp towels breed bacteria. I don't think you're weird :flowerforyou: I'm a two-use-max person myself.

    Yes, damp towels do breed bacteria; however, this why they should be hung up after use to allow them to dry.
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