You’re not wrong, it’s not like the Towel Police are going to bust you. However, you do seem to be using more towels than average.
I use a new washcloth for every shower/bath as does my spouse, but the same two bath towels hang on the rack for a week. As others have said, you’re supposed to use the towels when you’re clean. We have two towels so that there is a dry one if both of wash in close proximity time-wise.
If you have a houseguest supplying a towel just for them is polite, and serves the same purpose of making sure bathers have a dry one available.
I guess it’s from my school and college days with not-too-clean locker room floors, occasional athlete’s foot infections and all that, but the thought of vigorously rubbing my hair and face with a towel that has been used in my ass and on my feet just gives me the creeps. Ew.
More direct midsection-to-face contact, like oral sex, is far from icky, though, so I’ll probably have to blame it on an irrational mind
Ours get washed once a week when the cleaning lady comes. Before we had a regular cleaning person, it was probably something in the ballpark of once a week, but probably a bit less frequent.
I mean, there are four people in our house. I don’t think we could reasonably store or wash 28 towels for regular use, plus guest and beach towels and whatnot! What would really big families do? I suppose more frequent laundry is the answer, but that’s not really an answer I care for much.
I drip dry a bit while I squeegee my shower. I then dry with one of two very big, fluffy towels which I alternate daily. Every two to three weeks I wash the towels.
I use a towel for a few days before washing, but am sure this comes from being one of eight kids. If we all would’ve used clean towles every day, my mom would have spent her life doing laundry. (though I think she pretty much did that anyway!)
I am in the one towel for a week (or so ;)) camp. I do go through a couple of facecloths a day however as I find that they just don’t feel the same after they drip dry.
I use a new towel every time. My body might be the cleanest its going to be, after a shower, but it’s not going to be bacteria-free and I’m not going to rub bacteria from other parts of my body onto my face if I don’t have to.
I use my bath towel for 1-2 weeks, then it gets washed. I can’t imagine doing laundry every day or going through a new towel every day. They seem to dry just fine between uses for me.
I rotate the same two towels for two weeks before washing. So one week. As long as you take a properly thorough shower, you’re clean and the towel should be clean.
Growing up I had to use a fresh towel every time, but the towels we had were practically threadbare. With a thicker towel, I find it’s easier to re-use.
I can see someone washing their towel after every use IF they both:
have skin issues (as Queen T. mentioned upthread)
AND
have the means to wash them conveniently (i.e. an in-house, non-pay washing machine)
The OP does not have the latter and never mentioned the former. I, for one, am of the make-life-easier camp and can’t imagine putting myself through all that extra trouble for no discernible reason.
That said, to answer the OP:
The SO and I each have a designated towel that is hung to dry after each use, and washed once per week. No heated racks here, but then again, we have 100+ summers - there’s not much heated anything, really - and we don’t have humidity issues.
I can’t speak for Mr. Horseshoe here, but I actually use a bit of toilet paper to dry my nether regions, which is probably irrelevant because we have a detachable (handheld) showerhead and I wash those bits very thoroughly beforehand anyway.
That, altho I change towels every *four *days the same as I do my bed linens.
I should add that I have a separate towel for my hair, which is below shoulder-length and holds an astonishing amount of water even after I squeeze it out in the tub before getting out. Everything gets changed every four days as noted above.
I don’t think I ever use a full size bath sheet towel - they’re too big. I do like a big towel for my body and one of my slightly smaller towels for my hair. They get replaced every four or five days. More often if I need them to make a full load for the laundry, or it’s been hot and I’ve showered morning and evening to cool off, less often if I forget to change them or don’t bother to shower for a day or two.
