I will. I’m unconcerned. 
So, Omega Glory, you do three loads each week, then? Or do you break down your laundry in some other way?
I just don’t see the towel thing as that big of a deal. I mean, I wash my butt just like everything else in the shower.
Yes, about that. Every once in awhile there’s enough stuff to warrant a seperate load for whites. That’s not often though, because I don’t own many pure white things.
Every 4-5 days.
At the risk of a slight hijack, what really squicks me out is going into friends houses or apartments and seeing that they not only have no hand towels (meaning the only towel present when I wash my hands is the same one they’ve been using to shower with), but that it’s the same crusty, mold infested towel that’s been there for the last month or more. :eek:
Wait a minute. You use the same towel for a MONTH, and it’s the same towel that you and all your guests are expected to use when they wash their hands???
:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :mad:
On the rare occasion when I touch one of these things before realizing my mistake, I have to wash all over again and dry my hands on my pants.
Then it’s back to the recurring nightmare thread where people are talking about dreams of nasty bathrooms. Just…EEEEWWWWW!!!
Fortunately, I am ‘in between’ knowing anyone like this.
Well, I wasn’t referring to the monetary cost at all, but rather to the 25-50 gallons of water that you’ve pointed out (is it really that much?!), as well as the half cupful of detergent and the electricity, however much, that just doesn’t need to be used. I know someone will say, eh, it’s a pittance, but if I can reduce by a couple of loads per week, that’s 50 to a 100 gallons of water. Seems a pretty easy trade-off to me.
This would be exactly my response. Word for word.
Bath towels get changed once a week, hand towels get changed about every three days. I use a fresh washcloth every time I shower, though.
Now see, I don’t really use handtowels much, but when I have a guest I always go around and replace them. Dear Og, it’s one thing if I’m using the same towel, but my guests? Nah, that seems too icky.
Word.
And laundry isn’t a big deal because I just toss whatever towels/washcloths in with my own clothes, or my son’s clothes, or mine and my son’s clothes, which I’d be washing regardless and, especially my son’s tiny clothes, probably wouldn’t have been a full load anyway. Who the hell has time to separate, you know?
I don’t think people who do this ever actually wash their hands. :eek: If they did, they’d think about having a seperate hand towel. I’m paranoid about this also, Whenever I have guests, I hide my bath towel, just to make sure nobody accidentally uses it.
BTW, washing bath towels? Now that I have a washer and dryer, weekly. When Iw as using the laundromat, every couple of weeks. I hate doing laundry and my towels don’t stand up by themselves even after a couple of weeks. I don’t now what y’all are doing that gets them so grubby.
Hey man, I am with you on this one. I change my bath towel when I get around to it and my washcloth when it starts to smell sour. How many towels do you people have?!
Maybe - maybe once a month if I really think about it.
You know, water isn’t “used up” by washing your clothes. The water that goes down your drain eventually evaporates up, rains down, and fills up lakes, rivers, reservoirs, and ground aquifers. It goes round and round and round, and it has for millennia.
I, when I lived in the dorms, had two towels. I could make do with one, but if I’ve got…um…company over…that…would…want to shower…and be dry afterwards, two is a necessity.
I’d say about once every two weeks. My sheets I’m even worse with…maybe once a month with those bad boys…I know, I’m a disgusting person. The problem arises in that I forget to take them with me when I go to the laundromat, then say to hell with it I’m not making another trip. Once I move at the end of July I’ll be in a place with its own washer and dryer, so in theory I can wash them more often.
I’m with you on the sheets…unless something was done in them that would necessitate a prompt washing.
Reading this thread, I’m reminded of why I have no desire to go to a StraightDope get-together.
I’m with you on the sheets, too. I know I’m not really a dirty person. I never get sick, nor does my SO. It’s just not in me to go crazy over germs considering how many of them are teeming over my body at any given time. Not to mention how long I have lived/spent in India…it’s not remotely dirty here.
You sure you don’t wanna share a face towel? Huh? nudge nudge
Well? Eh? It’s purple! Huh? Well? nudge nudge
Oh yeah.
gives ** Walloon* a great big hug*
I usually wash a load of towels about every two weeks. I’m in an apartment and it costs $4 per load ($2 to wash and $2 to dry).
I have two large towels that I alternate, and three microfiber hand towels that are really absorbent. I also wash a cloth bathroom floormat along with the towels, since they’re all the same color. Since I have two large towels and I probably take a shower most days (maybe not one day on the weekend if I’m not going out), then each towel gets used about six times before it gets washed. They’re not noticable smelly or anything though - if they are, I wash them sooner.
If I had guests over, I have some nice towels that I don’t use very often and keep as “backup.” That way my guests can use some nice embroidered towels instead of my regular plain towels that might have been used a few times already.