How often do you change your towels?

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Submitted ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨thisisdee@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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.

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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I change out my towels every day… they are washed weekly.

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lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wash them on saturdays, usually each week but sometimes every other week. The ones for showering get dried quickly after use on the upstairs handrail (bathroom is kinda small). The hand towels have a small heated holder in the bathroom, so they don’t get a chance to ripen as well. Face towels after each use.

Replacement only if they get thin or holey. And then they become cleaning rags.

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nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
almost never because towels are self-cleaning

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Feyd@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Pfft you can’t trick me everyone knows towels are single use

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harrowhawk@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I don’t have a satisfying answer to you. I think once a week wash is perfectly fine and it is roughly what I do.

It depends on how much you’re using them.

If you shower once a day 6 days a week (just as an example), a wash once a week is good. If you’re showering and using the towel multiple times a day it’s getting a lot more use and likely never totally drying out between washes. I’d recommend a second towel and/or more frequent washes of the towels.

If you use the towel for showering at home only 3 times a week (for example you shower at the gym and they provide towels there) then you could radially go multiple weeks without washing your towels just because they aren’t being used.

Finally replacing. I also don’t have a strong answer for that but I replace them when I notice they either stop absorbing water as well or when the threads are getting much thinner. Current set of towels is 3 years old and replaced a set of towels that were 8 years old. Also if the towels get significantly dirty or stained (blood usually in my case) I’ll replace them.

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AyuTsukasa@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I also wash them weekly and I only buy new ones once they start to feel uncomfortable or get holes in them.

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palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I wash them whenever I've dirtied enough for a full load, and if I don't, I'll often throw the bathroom mats in there with them. Frankly though, still nowhere near often enough. If they pass the sniff and squint tests (smell and look fine), I'm usually OK using them again. And again.

There was already a towel wash pencilled in for this week or next, oddly enough, before this question showed up, or else it might have shamed me into considering it. Other laundry is first in the queue though.

As for throwing them out? Never had need in the 20+ years I've had my own towels, and some of those were hand-me-downs.

I remember one particularly large brown bath towel starting to fall apart at my parents' house long before I moved out, and I still kind of miss it, which is kind of funny.

Now, washcloths made of towelling material - I've ruined a fair few of those with careless wringing. PSA: Don't fold them diagonally before wringing them out.

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- netvor@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  Don’t fold them diagonally before wringing them out.
  
  Who does that?
  
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  - palordrolap@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Someone who thinks that it'll be easier or more efficient to wring out if it's 1.4 times as long. And who has a bad memory. And who thinks the first two times were surely a fluke.
    
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