I guess it’s to conserve potable water on a ship…so they make us do it at boot camp. I used to have a tiny shower like that too…I miss that apartment…I could cook on the stove from the shower.
A topical thought–and I hit “New Posts” like 40 minutes ago and don’t feel like waiting another 20 to search for the thread–I remember something about whether people use bath cloths or not? I never understood how people just use the bar of soap. I suppose it’s cleaner than just rinsing, and you probably smell fine, but I like to exfoliate and scrub. A slimy bar of soap, I feel, would just slide right over natural (stanky) oils.
My ex was a soap bar kinda guy. I never got the sense he was dirty, by any means, but I was completely cool with buying him a poof when he asked for it (which I know is another bacterial nightmare in itself, but unless we’re in an OR or some other sterile field, how clean are we really gonna get).
I go somewhere between 1 and 4 showers between washing towels, depending entirely on how dirty the towel gets. I also work enough of a desk job that I basically don’t sweat all week, so.
Well I hope you don’t mean me!
I guess I’m just fussy, that’s all. To me, they don’t “smell funky”, I just feel better when I have a clean fresh towel. Plus, like I said, it’s not really all that much of a hassle washing towels everyday. shrugs
Clothing wash – yeah, that’s not as frequent, I admit, since it’s not like I don’t have clean clothes. I wash them a few times a week. But towels? Meh, who cares? It’s not a big deal, it doesn’t take that long, and I really don’t care.
And no, my crotch isn’t dirty, nor are my feet. That doesn’t mean I want to rub my face in the same towel I used for them.
(I at least hope you people don’t use the same washcloth. THAT is disgusting)
I guess the issue of laundering and substituting in a new towel should be addressed. I have enough towels and clothes that the issue of when I launder is subject only to the vagaries of my schedule.
I change to a new towel when the old one gets funky (which I take measures to prevent).
Who is doing laundry daily? Who has storage for a fresh towels for an entire family that is swapped out daily?
Everybody in my family has their own towel and washes it accordingly. I wash mine something like bi-weekly. My wife and daughter do theirs more. I don’t want to think how often my son’s gets washed.
Fundamentally, I don’t understand people freaking out about germs. Dude, you just finished cleaning yourself. If you think you’re depositing disgusting filth onto your towels, you need to rethink your showering technique.
Hehe, I can do that, but HAVING to have done that makes me appreciate just having a good, long shower without worries that I’ll be left with soap all over when the water’s turned off. In fact, one of the best Christmas presents I ever got was a 10 minute hot shower with fresh water; the captain was feeling generous
One boat I worked on had salt showers, which sounds…weird…and feels a little…weird…slippery, sort of…but it was all-you-could-use, which was wonderful. Fresh 3 minute showers twice a week just don’t cut it when you’re up to your pits all day in crab or fish, yuck.
There are three adults living in this house and I do a load of towels weekly. I have enough towels and storage space in both bathrooms that we don’t run out. I don’t consider my habits wasteful (of power or water) or exceptionally dirty.
I do laundry almost every day, but there’s no real schedule to my towel washing. One kid hangs his towel to dry, another leaves hers on her floor, I’m not consistent myself (I usually hang one and carry the other around til my hair is dryish). Anything on the floor gets washed, otherwise we use them a few times. And…I hope you’re sitting down…we SHARE them. Not to put too fine a point on it, but if I’m willing to go down on my partner I can hardly pretend to be prissy about germs.
I have no kids. I use two towels at a time, one to dry my face and then wrap my hair in, and one for the rest of me.
I wash them about once a week. It’s just me and the SO and we both work in offices and take daily showers. I certainly have no need to wash them more often than that. Why make more work for myself? We only have enough to do laundry once a week, so I do it all at once.
I take short showers, too. 3-7 minutes on average. Sometimes I’m really tired and try to take an extra long shower…which I find out takes me about 10-12 minutes even when I try.
My SO on the other hand takes 20 minute showers minimum. I get bored and pruny if I take that long.
No, I have two. The towel which has become the floor towel goes to the laundry when I’ve finished the ablutions. Tomorrow, I’ll get a fresh towel from the cupboard for my face and hair and rotate the others as described.
They get washed when they smell like mildew. when I was in the northeast, that could be every other day, in the southwest, every 3 months, or even 6 months.
I’m a “guy”, not a “man” so none of this really counts. I spent a year in college sleeping on a plain mattress because I was too lazy to put the mattress pad and sheet on that my mom had bought me.
If it doesn’t stink too bad, I’ll dry my self with it or sleep on it. I’m not too picky, I’ve dried my self with a curtain when I had all my towels in the washer. I’ve showered with a garden hose and dried my self with a T-shirt.
As long as I smell better than when I started, I was successful.
I use them 2-3 before washing them usually. I don’t really have a method, I reuse the towel a couple times and then at the end of the week throw what’s on the floor or hanging on the hook into the washer.
