So, how often do you change your bath towel? I remember the Dilbert cartoon where the one guy never changes his bath towel because, theoretically, it should be the cleanest item in his house. I was recently visiting a couple who had a disagreement on the matter. The husband felt that you should use a towel for a week. The wife thought that rather disgusting and felt that a new towel for each bath/shower is called for. Personally, I use a new towel each time. On the other hand, my SO uses a new towel whenever I replace hers (I am the one who usually does the laundry).
I use a towel for 3-4 days. I might go a week in dry air, or only two days when it's humid. Much longer and they can develop mildew, I want a new towel before that happens. A new towel every day seems a bit wasteful on resources to me and makes what I view as unecessary work.
I had a landlord in Norway that felt the same way about towels as the Dilbert guy. -He also crashed his BMW, because he let God take the steering wheel, while driving at high speeds on a mountain road. Luckily nobody was killed...
:happy102 :happy093 :signs107 Now that's funny!! I get at least three weeks out of one of my towels. If it starts to stink I'll get another.
Most of the time I use a couple a week. If I put the wrong blade in an open comb I will have to wash it to get the blood out.
Daily during the summer here in Florida otherwise they tend to sour. Might get a week during the winter.
Dont get me started on bacteria again. Epidermididis, E.fecalis, E.coli, etc. I change them with every shower. It was hard when I had to go somewhere else to do the laundry. Now that I have a washer/dryer in the house I have 3 days worth of towels and wash them after I use the 3.
about one a week I feel that's about the right balance between cleanliness and amount of laundry. To me, showering only once a day and letting the towel dry out completely between showers is enough. Hand towels, kitchen/dish towels, any other towel that gets more daily use and has a tendency to stay damp or not dry out thoroughly gets more frequent changing.... That's just how we do things at my house.....
About a week. I am clean when I get out of the shower so I really use the towel to dry off. I cant imagine the amount of laundry we would have if we didnt.
It is interesting that this came up. I would go about a week if it were just me but my wife intervenes and changes my towels for me so I go through about 2-3 per week. My son wrestles and he picked up a fungus on his skin. He started developing white spots all over his body. We read various things about it on the net and what cleared it up was Selsun Blue (shampoo used as a body wash) and changing his bath towels out every time he used them.
3 in a week. I typically rotate between 3 towels and at the end of the week all 3 get washed. I started doing this on deployments because sometimes my towel wouldn't dry fully by the next morning. Then I moved to northern Japan on the coast where the humidity is high most of the year and had the same problem. So I generally keep 3 in rotation and wash all of them every weekend.
