How often do you wash your towels? And how often do you completely change them with brand new towels?
I wash them weekly and was just wondering recently if I should be buying new towels to replace my 8+ year old towels.
Edit to add: I wash towels by themselves so it’s a separate load to my regular laundry. I don’t know why but the different materials seem to clean better separately. But I also have a separate towels load for dirty/oily towels (kitchen towels, cleaning rags)
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I change my towel when it starts making me stink again right after a shower.
I change my towels once a week. I have a special hand towel to dry my nether regions.
For towels that are sized for hands, I change those once every 1 - 2 months.
For towels used on the body, about 2 - 3 months.
Usually wash them about once every 3-6 months. I don’t think I’ve ever replaced a towel in my adult life, had my absorbent bath robe for 9 years so far.
There are three of us in the house, and I wash them weekly, more or less.
As for replacing them, I don’t know what to say. We destroy towels in about ten years. My mom had towels that were 20-30 years old and as good as new.
Did your mum have more towels to rotate through, or higher gsm?
Their mom is a part-time Terry Fairy™ and she would periodically use her magic to restore full towel integrity.
I swap out my bath towel once every 3-4 days. When there’s 3 or more in the hamper, I wash them.
I’ll use these towels until they wear out.
I change out my towels every day… they are washed weekly.
I wash weekly. My bathroom has a tendency towards dampness.
They stay around until they start fraying and then they go in the retired towels pile, for pets and spills and such, and once they are embarrassing to hang on my outside line i throw them out.
I’ll soak in vinegar water every so often to reduce the limescale that builds over time and that helps keep them fresher looking, but mostly that is a losing battle.
Pro tip: don’t use scent beads or softener products. They reduce absorbency (and they’re nasty chemicals that smell terrible but apparently I’m the only person who thinks that).
Citric acid as a softener works great. Also removes scents and does a much better job than vinegar. Also neutralizes any detergent that was not rinsed out.
Good tip. I know this as a fact but haven’t connected it.
My dishwasher suggests replacing the rinse aid with up to 2(?)% solution citric acid, which I haven’t tried but I’m going to give it a shot when I run low.
Yup. I also use citric acid for dishwasher rinse aid. 2 tablespoons of citric acid powder to 100 ml of warm water. Let mixture cool and pour into dispenser.
Yep, you shouldn’t use fabric softener on anything you WANT to be absorbent. Towels, workout clothes, undergarments, etc.
You are not the only person that hates those scents! But we are rare. I usually get deer in headlights look when I explain it to someone.
I wash mine about the same, but I only buy new if they start to fall apart or no longer dry properly. Even then, they go into the scrap towel drawer and are used for dirty jobs. Eventually they’ll get too dirty and I’ll get rid of them.
Whenever I can hold them flat and horizontal without bending when grabbed by a corner.
When they start to bend and crack
We wash them after using them. Replace when broken after years.
So that’s where Nick learned it
Ah that’s why he’s small and bald: he cleans so hard he scrapes a layer of himself off every time.
I replace them as soon as they don’t feel “rough” anymore. I hate soft towels. That ends up being probably once a week. Never bought new ones.
Washing machines create rough towels. Rough towels create dry bodies. Dry bodies create soft towels. Soft towels go in washing machines.
Exactly, this is the way!
You guys have more than one towel???
Gotta rotate between two in case you want to swap them and not do laundry just yet.
Im a hirsute guy, I use 2 just to dry off from my shower in the morning. Big fluffy one gets me 90% dry, then the second one gets me the rest of the way. Ive got those 2, one that lives in my work bag, and a full sized microfiber beach towel that does double duty for yoga mat during the winter.
Might try to squeegee yourself in the shower (just using your hands… not an actual squeegee), before toweling the first time.
