A question about your use of towels
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Either the answer is "not very", or you're being irrational. I'm not sure what either has to do with living in a first world country.
I'd probably wash my towels more often if I didn't have to pay to do laundry in my building. One day I'll grow up and actually own a washer and dryer.
Do you always dry your towel in the dryer? I don't have a dryer and I imagine that a towel hanging on the line drying would attract just as much bacteria as a towel drying in a bathroom.
I use a couple of towels a week.
A towel dries in a bout half an hour or so, right? What's the big deal?
...dependable electricity and plumbing, all the clean water I could want for pennies. Why reuse a towel laced with dead skin cells, bacteria and who knows what else if I don't have to? They smell after a while for some reason.
Even if I didn't think it was gross, in the humid climate I live in I'd probably be asking for a fungal infection or something.
I use a new on each time I bathe...purely because in this house, if you leave a wet towel to dry in the bathroom, someone's gonna use it to dry their hands, face, or to remove makeup...not stuff I want on my clean body. I'm sure when I move out of the house in a few years that I'll probably use one a week. Too much laundry for my taste otherwise.
I use a body towel and a face towel, and wash both on a weekly basis. Any less, and I can't see the point; they still feel and smell fresh enough. Any longer and it starts to be icky (psychologically, anyway, though I actually doubt it's any worse in reality). Besides, weekly makes it easy for me to remember to do them, since I do the rest of my laundry on a weekly basis too. I live alone, so I guess the issues about others using them or them getting dirty from other events you know nothing about don't apply. I'd probably be much more likely to change them daily in a shared house.
As for the moisture "attracting bacteria", they dry quickly enough anyway and besides I doubt enough grows for it to be an issue. It's a towel, not a bioweapon.
As for the moisture "attracting bacteria", they dry quickly enough anyway and besides I doubt enough grows for it to be an issue. It's a towel, not a bioweapon.
My towels are pretty thick, so I make sure they're not folded over on themselves when I dry them on the rack between uses. This way, they get dry very quickly.
^What's wasteful about it if you have the towels and have to wash them anyway?
It waste water and power as you have more loads.
No, it's not a waste of water. I would do the same number of loads whether I used 1 or 2 towels a week or used 1 every day.
See, it would be wasteful for me because we have maybe six towels at most, so I'd have to do an extra load or two during the week, which I don't need to right now. So for me it would mean adding a load of laundry during the week which would make it wasteful.
If you have a large number of towels or already find the need to wash clothes on more than a weekly basis, then it's a different situation.
With 2 towels you can set the water level on low, with 7 towels the water level would have to be on high.
For me, if we each use two towels a week (4 towels) it would amount to one medium load, if we each used a towel each day (14 towels) that would be 2 loads on high.
It is also far easier to dry 4 towels than 14. I can dry 4 towels easily on the line uncer the car port but for 14 towels I would have to use the line and rely on some dry weather (which we are not getting at the moment).
Not with my washer.
Once a week. I have a floor towel (hate walking around with wet feet), a body towel and a "hair towel" just for wrapping around my head when I wash my hair.
