I use 2 towels 1for face and hair and another for the rest and throw the second towel and use the face towel as the second one next time and get a new one for face and hair
I figure I wipe my vagina with the second one so I put it straight in the wash just
I usually use them a couple of times before I wash them.
Unless I use them at the gym. I stand on them after I have showered at the gym so they go straight in the machine when I get home.
We only use towels once, its what I grew up with. For years I thought that was normal until I met dh and his family and found out we were doing something unusual lol. Even using towels once I have clothes needing to be washed more than towels a week.
We wash them once a week, sometimes a bit longer. We all share towels, don't know whose is whose, but we don't really care either haha. The only towel with a specific owner is the 5th towel on the rack, which is for putting my hair straightener on/wiping excess makeup on/whatever other beauty related use I need it for.
We generally reuse until something gets spilled and I use a towel to clean it up or if I can smell it. Everyone uses any. I hang them in the hot water cupboard so they are always dry by the next night.
I grew up in a use once family but have changed my ways since laundry became my job
My plan is to change them twice a week. My children find it far easier to toss them in the laundry than to hang them up, so they often end up being single use! If I discover them right away, I hang them up - or tell the kids to! - but if they have sat on the floor for a few hours I wash them. No one has their own towel, we use whichever is closest!
Not one of my kids know how to hang up a towel. So some will be single use.
We all have towels we own, so use our own usually. Til we're at the dregs of the pile, then we (they ) use what ever is left. I only wash them on sundays, so if they've left theirs on the floor & they smell, too bad.
I use towels (try for used ones) to clean up spills etc too.
MIL washes after each use. I hang mine when there, because I really don't think its necessary.
Once a week, but I do them twice a week when my mum is here, lol! Wouldn't want her to think she didn't raise me properly...
We all have our own towels - if someone else uses my towel though, straight in the wash. And, we have a hand towel in the bathroom for drying hands. I'd wash more often if we didn't have hand towels.
As an aside, DH got DS his own towel, bath mat and hand towel with his name embroidered on them for his second Xmas present!
We all have our own towels plus I have a separate hair towel and we also have a hand towel. I wash once a week if I remember but the hand towel gets washed more often. I never wipe up anything other than bodies with the bath towels. Our towel rail is above the heating duct so they dry quickly and if anyone forgets to hang their towel up, tough - they have to get dried with a damp towel. They don't seem to forget too often after that
I can't bear the thought of wasting that much water and electricity on washing towels that have just been used to dry something that has been washed - but that's me. I'm more of an enviro green freak than a clean freak so my priorities may be different
We all have own own towels (cause I'm sick of not being able to find a dry towel when I want a shower cause they're all in the kids bedrooms!) and they get washed once a week.
We also have 3 sets of spare towels for visitors
Tea towels and kitchen hand towels get washed once a week too, they only get used for a day before they're replaced and they get washed separately to the bathroom towels.
2-3 weeks unless people are particularly grubby and they start to smell. We can't afford to waste water on washing towels that often because we're only on tank water.
At least once a week, but I change individual towels in between if they are getting ponky (but still wash them once a week). Our bathroom is cold and damp so in winter towels take turns in front of the heater. Getting them dry quickly seems to keep the ponk-factor to a minimum.
Kitchen hand towels & tea towels get changed more often, every day or two usually, but I wash them all together when there's enough for a full load.
FWIW I think the once-a-week thing came from my Nanna and Grandma who both had once-a-week washing days. For Grandma this meant Monday was washing day and Tuesday was ironing day, Wednesday she visited, Thursday was shopping day, and on Fridays she baked in readiness for the weekend when people would come from near and far to eat her baked goods.
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) use what ever is left. I only wash them on sundays, so if they've left theirs on the floor & they smell, too bad.
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