IDK about all those towels, but perhaps if you teach the teens how to do Laundry they might actually hang them to dry and get more than 1 shower out of one?
@Mandamm
Reusing a towel can cause female problems for those with that kind of anatomy. That said, I’ll still use mine about 3 times before washing. When I visit my parents house my dad refuses to let anyone reuse a towel, especially my mom or me. He washes laundry almost daily.
@Mandamm@nostromo_
You’re right, there’s not a single possibility in the world that a bacterium could get on a towel and then replicate on the warm moist environment if somebody is washing in the shower.
The research says otherwise, but microbiologist and gynecologist be damned. People on meh know better.
@kittykat9180@Mandamm@nostromo_ unless you live in a humid environment, there’s no reason to wash towels that frequently, assuming they are used after bathing.
@Mandamm I’ve known more than one person where 1 shower = 1 towel. They’ll wear the same underwear for two weeks in a row but the idea of using a towel more than once is too much for them.
I think some people are doing something fundamentally different with bath towels, though. I had a roommate whose towel would smell disgusting after only one or uses. Like, to the point it was uncomfortable to be in the same room as it. I’ve been in hog confinements that were less unpleasant. I never brought it up because she had no other apparent hygiene issues and I have no idea what could have been causing it.
When I need to.
It’s much less often now that I can’t run due to plantar fasciitis. It was every 4-6 days before but now it’s more like every 8-10 days.
Laundry gets done based on outside weather since I primarily use a 30 ft solar clothes dryer… AKA clothesline.
I have roughly 14 pair (of the same style) underwear. Ditto pairs of socks though I don’t use them nearly as often now that I’m not working much. I have over 30 t-shirts and probably the same number of button-down “dress” shirts. I have roughly a month’s worth of scrub sets for when I worked 7 on/7 off. We have at least four sets of sheets, as well as towels which get reused before they get washed.
Note: there seems to be a small window of opportunity today so there are currently a set of sheets, placemats and napkins in the washer. I’m hoping to get them out on the line by 8:00 so that they’ll be dry and smell fantastic by late morning when the (recently frequent) rains start.
I do our laundry pretty standard. I add Biz, per reddit. The only thing that stands out to people is that both my wife and I worked in kitchens, and we have and use tons of kitchen towels and keep a small hamper in the kitchen for them.
Of course we have paper towels, and use them like most people. Yet if you watch us cook a meal, we may go through a few, grabbing cleans ones often. It isn’t really a save the trees, but a habit we both kept.
@KNmeh7
I agree. I buy “bar mops” at Sam’s in 12 packs for that very reason. They’re cheap, the right size, and you can bleach them. A Sam’s mega roll package of paper towels will last me a couple of years since they are reserved for typically picking up stuff that’s too nasty to put in a towel (e.g. random lizard or frog pieces that the cat ‘deposited’ for me to show me what a good boy he’s been!)
My wife and I share laundry duties: once a week, I gather up the dirty items in a basket and haul it downstairs to the laundry room. She then works her magic with the forbidden machines* and puts the clean and dried items back in the basket. I haul the load back upstairs and sort/fold/distribute them as necessary. Works for us.
(* I am forbidden to use the machines after that unfortunate shrunken sweater “accident” )
Whenever the need arises.
I’m gonna sound awful but whenever my wife says “I’m doing a load of colors/whites/etc.” I do help with the folding, at least. She’s the best!
Laundry. Every. Day. Often multiple times a day. A household of 2 adults, 2 teenagers. Why so many towels?!?!?
@hdog35 why not have teenagers do it
IDK about all those towels, but perhaps if you teach the teens how to do Laundry they might actually hang them to dry and get more than 1 shower out of one?
@Mandamm
Reusing a towel can cause female problems for those with that kind of anatomy. That said, I’ll still use mine about 3 times before washing. When I visit my parents house my dad refuses to let anyone reuse a towel, especially my mom or me. He washes laundry almost daily.
@kittykat9180 @Mandamm Hogwash! If yall wash that funky thing it ain’t no big deal
@Mandamm @nostromo_
You’re right, there’s not a single possibility in the world that a bacterium could get on a towel and then replicate on the warm moist environment if somebody is washing in the shower.
The research says otherwise, but microbiologist and gynecologist be damned. People on meh know better.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10172380/
@kittykat9180 @Mandamm @nostromo_ unless you live in a humid environment, there’s no reason to wash towels that frequently, assuming they are used after bathing.
@Mandamm I’ve known more than one person where 1 shower = 1 towel. They’ll wear the same underwear for two weeks in a row but the idea of using a towel more than once is too much for them.
I think some people are doing something fundamentally different with bath towels, though. I had a roommate whose towel would smell disgusting after only one or uses. Like, to the point it was uncomfortable to be in the same room as it. I’ve been in hog confinements that were less unpleasant. I never brought it up because she had no other apparent hygiene issues and I have no idea what could have been causing it.
About every three weeks. Determined by my clean towel supply.
When I need to.
It’s much less often now that I can’t run due to plantar fasciitis. It was every 4-6 days before but now it’s more like every 8-10 days.
Laundry gets done based on outside weather since I primarily use a 30 ft solar clothes dryer… AKA clothesline.
I have roughly 14 pair (of the same style) underwear. Ditto pairs of socks though I don’t use them nearly as often now that I’m not working much. I have over 30 t-shirts and probably the same number of button-down “dress” shirts. I have roughly a month’s worth of scrub sets for when I worked 7 on/7 off. We have at least four sets of sheets, as well as towels which get reused before they get washed.
Note: there seems to be a small window of opportunity today so there are currently a set of sheets, placemats and napkins in the washer. I’m hoping to get them out on the line by 8:00 so that they’ll be dry and smell fantastic by late morning when the (recently frequent) rains start.
I do our laundry pretty standard. I add Biz, per reddit. The only thing that stands out to people is that both my wife and I worked in kitchens, and we have and use tons of kitchen towels and keep a small hamper in the kitchen for them.
Of course we have paper towels, and use them like most people. Yet if you watch us cook a meal, we may go through a few, grabbing cleans ones often. It isn’t really a save the trees, but a habit we both kept.
@KNmeh7
I agree. I buy “bar mops” at Sam’s in 12 packs for that very reason. They’re cheap, the right size, and you can bleach them. A Sam’s mega roll package of paper towels will last me a couple of years since they are reserved for typically picking up stuff that’s too nasty to put in a towel (e.g. random lizard or frog pieces that the cat ‘deposited’ for me to show me what a good boy he’s been!)
My wife and I share laundry duties: once a week, I gather up the dirty items in a basket and haul it downstairs to the laundry room. She then works her magic with the forbidden machines* and puts the clean and dried items back in the basket. I haul the load back upstairs and sort/fold/distribute them as necessary. Works for us.
(* I am forbidden to use the machines after that unfortunate shrunken sweater “accident”
)
@macromeh
My access is limited to anything that’s NOT in the gentle (ie SWMBO’s stuff) hamper.