Following the prior Lemmy post about towels…
I wash once a week, is that sufficient or need I more frequency?
I wash mine when it starts growing mold. So anywhere from every 3 years to every 6 years.
I had a roommate in college who just never washed his towel (singular) all semester.
It was fucking disgusting and made the whole bathroom smell like BO, to the point that every time I needed to use the bathroom, I’d put on my trusty rubber gloves and throw it up against his door.
His argument was that he only ever used it after he showered, on his clean body, so using it to dry a clean body was effectively washing it too.
It became routine for me and the other roommate to warn him when we were bringing a girl over that if he didn’t get his towel out of the fucking bathroom, we’d exact nuclear revenge.
We must have had the same roommate. Did he also stay up late at night screaming and clapping at movies alone in his room?
Not that I recall!
The towel thing attained a new level the next year: he moved in with two of my other friends (who didn’t think to ask me instead, or even ask me about how he was to live with), and when they noticed the same behavior, they decided to test him: they put a few pieces of fruit under the other towels in his towel drawer to see how long it’d take him to get down there and find them.
The fruit rotted and was stinking up the whole apartment and attracting flies before he noticed.
What the fuck
I use bath towels for two times, three if I can’t be bothered.
I only clean mine once a week; but that’s like 7 towels at a time. I use a fresh one every time I take a bath/shower and toss them in a hamper when done. The only towel that gets used more than once without being washed until the rest is the one towel I use as a floor mat because I’m too cheap to buy a floor mat.
Twice a week.
I usually go for once a week to once every two weeks. But I do have a heated towel dryer, and k think that helps to keep bacteria to grow in them. My advice is to make sure you hang your towl somewhere they can air out well
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Nice
Also, never ever ever use fabric softener on towels. It ruins them by covering them in an oily thin compound that nullifies their ability to absorb water. And it takes so much work and many washings to fix them.
I wish I could make my wife understand this :-(
You could do the laundry yourself and then she’d be the one sitting complaining on Reddit—uh, Lemmdit
I was expecting this comment :-) I do actually do the laundry and she complains that I don’t use softener.
Get some wool laundry balls and whatever scent she’d like in essential oil, add a couple of drops to one of them, or 1-2 drops to each ball if you want to be fancy. If that isn’t enough for her, pour white vinegar in the fabric softener compartment of your washer.
Replace the wife.
I use the smell test. If it smells weird in any way, it goes to the wash.
Same. If it smells clean and looks clean, then it’s clean enough for my needs. Any mustiness though, and in the wash it goes.
I’ve found that in the summer, I’m lucky if it still smells good in two days, but in the winter it can sometimes last 4-5 days.
I also wash them once a week
Me too. And I use a face towel instead of a full sized one so that I can wash it more frequently if I need, and it’s taking half the space in the washer. Maybe with long hair it wouldn’t be big enough, but for me it works.
Body, one use. Then it’s on hand duty until next towel takes its place.
I’ll agree.
If you asked my wife, the answer would be that you use them for a day or two tops, but the important part is that you throw them in the hamper wet, and then make sure to put other clothes and stuff on top of them so they sit there damp and mouldering until laundry day comes around.
Our towel bar is directly above the heating grate, so towels, properly hung, will dry fairly quickly there. Considering that towels are typically only used to dry you once you’ve just thoroughly cleaned yourself, they won’t smell like much of anything but maybe soap and shampoo for many days of use, assuming they are able to dry out. But apparently it’s more of a priority that they get put in the laundry basket immediately, moisture be damned. I gave up trying to fight that fight long ago.
Should do malicious compliance and drench the towels till they are soaking and dripping wet, then put them in the laundry basket.
I thought sarcasm music but I couldn’t hear anything.
Once a week for me too.
Same here
Argh
I wash towels one week and sheets the next. Everything is on and alternating cycle.
