Do you use the same bath towel every day??

I use mine for about three or four showers, but I hang it to dry in between and I alternate between two towels. To be honest, I wish I could wash it more often, but that would mean more trips to the laundromat and I really don't want to/don't have enough quarters to do that!

You're all washed and clean after a bath and you use the towel only to dry yourself. So why wash the towel after every use? Once a week is good enough IMO.

I agree!

I wash mine once a week and always hang towels out to dry after use. I think it's a total waste of detergent, water and energy to wash them after each use. I also wouldn't get the time or space to do this if i washed towels for every person in the house after each use.

One use and they get washed. But we have enough towels so that we only have to wash a load of towels about once a week.

About once a week, maybe a little more often if they have any kind of stale funk. I use one on my hair, turban style, and one on my body, and hang them to dry when I'm done.

Wednesday - new sheets, new towels.

Then again, I take 5 showers a week at the gym, with their towels, so mine only gets used once or twice per week.

3 x is the max in our house

I use the same one Monday - Saturday then wash them on Sunday. I don't have my own washer and dryer so I only do laundry once a week at a laundrymat. When I lived at home, my mom washed them after every use and I believe she still does. This was something I started when I moved out on my own to college to save money on laundry, etc. I generally only do laundry once a week even when I did have a washer and dryer in my apartment.

They just get wet and then when I hang it up over the shower, it's dry by the next day. No big deal.

Hmmm, maybe that's why my towels unravel so often! I know I'm clean when I use them, but it still makes me think, yuck!

This, I use different one every time I take shower and I use small one for my hair, even though I am clean you would not know if you dried your butt or your feet with that part of the towel and then your face the next day lol. Or even worse when you hang your towel up in the bathroom to reuse anybody might use the towel to dry their hands the kids could get the floor wet and use your towel to sop it up and you would never know hehe

Once per week:bigsmile:

Until I remember to wash it

I use them until they stink.. I really HATE the smell of bad towels..

Me too on both accounts.

After one use for me, its been my way since forever. If I was to reuse a towel it would freak me out, which isn't saying its the dirty, just not my way...ok that sounded OCDish :S

Use one towel a week thereabouts, face clothes I'll wash every couple days..

Depends on the weather. It gets pretty humid down here in the south east, so some weeks it has to be a one and done sort of use for towels, and guests always get fresh towels every day.

But usually for personal use it's more like a rotation of a few towels over the course of a week. (actual color patterns vary, but you get the idea)

Monday--orange towel
Tuesday--blue towel (because orange is a tab bit damp)
Wednesday--back to the orange towel, then toss in hamper
Thursday--blue towel again, then toss in hamper)
Friday--brown towel
Saturday--purple towel
Sunday--brown towel again, then into the hamper (and time to do laundry)
Etc. With laundry day rotating as the need for clean clothes and towels dictates.

My dad is a microbiologist and our family still reused bath towels growing up, so long as they got dry enough first. As with many things, if it wasn't enough to freak out the microbiologist, then it usually doesn't phase me. (And a few things that did freak him out--like wooden spoons--I don't worry about... although I never use a wooden cutting board for meat.) Your bathroom door and sink handles are probably a heck of a lot ickier than a twice used bath towel.

Now as for kitchen towels and dish cloths--those were changed out multiple times a day and sponges were absolutely banned from the kitchen, let alone reused. My SO and I have gotten into it (mildly) over sponges. He buys them and I trash them. End result is that I end up cleaning the kitchen regardless of who made the mess. :P