Bath Towels - Page 2

orthodoc · 10-02-2012, 06:17 PM

I have white towels that I wash after each use and bleach - use them at times that total bacteria avoidance is needed (in another week, they'll be in full-time use). Also have fluffy towels that I spread out to dry but still wash every couple of days. It's the old rubbing off dead skin thing ... can't let that go on too long. Yecch.

Juniper · 10-02-2012, 11:03 PM

Every use. That's four per day, one per family member. We have cheap, smallish bath towels and when they're gone we bust into the beach towels. I do laundry on Mondays and it isn't generally a problem.

limey · 10-03-2012, 11:16 AM

28 bath towels on a wash. Plus clothes, I presume. Crikey!

Sent by thought transference

Gravdigr · 10-03-2012, 03:50 PM

Bath towels, for me, get washed after two or three uses. Big, fluffeh ones. Hang it over the shower door rail, never smells. Fresh (rough) wash cloth every time.

As for the dead skin...aren't you washing/scrubbing that off in the shower?

orthodoc · 10-03-2012, 04:20 PM

Yabbut ... unless you really go to town with a pretty good brush or loofah every time, you're not scrubbing it all off ... probably wanders into OCD territory if you DO go nuts every time. You'd end up with irritation, infection, all that don't-need-it stuff. We're supposed to have a little transitional epidermis; trouble is, it flakes off as it finishes transitioning.

Gravdigr · 10-03-2012, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by orthodoc

Yabbut ... unless you really go to town with a pretty good brush or loofah every time, you're not scrubbing it all off

So, the soft, fluffy towel is gonna get packed with what you missed after "going to town with a pretty good brush or loofah"?

orthodoc · 10-03-2012, 04:34 PM

Something like that. There are always parts you miss ...

footfootfoot · 10-06-2012, 09:05 AM

Years ago I had a housemate who put it like this, "I don't want anyone using my towels. I figure, you dry your face with your towel, and I'll dry my ass with mine."

There's some stark relief for ya.

Happy Monkey · 10-06-2012, 11:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Friends

JOEY: Hey, why can't we use the same toothbrush, but we can use the same soap?

CHANDLER: Because soap is soap. It's self-cleaning.

JOEY: Alright, well next time you take a shower, think about the last thing I wash and the first thing you wash.

Aliantha · 10-06-2012, 09:46 PM

We use ordinary old bath towels and mine goes in the wash once a week. I can't speak for anyone else in the house. They're responsible for putting their own in the wash basket. If it's not in there, it doesn't get washed. I try to keep washing to a minimum because we live on tank water, but water is precious anyway, and I'll be buggered if I'm going to do two or three extra loads of washing per week just to have nice fluffy towels every day.

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10-02-2012, 06:17 PM	#16
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	I have white towels that I wash after each use and bleach - use them at times that total bacteria avoidance is needed (in another week, they'll be in full-time use). Also have fluffy towels that I spread out to dry but still wash every couple of days. It's the old rubbing off dead skin thing ... can't let that go on too long. Yecch. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

10-03-2012, 11:16 AM	#18
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	28 bath towels on a wash. Plus clothes, I presume. Crikey! Sent by thought transference __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

10-03-2012, 03:50 PM	#19
Gravdigr The Un-Tuckian Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: South Central...KY that is Posts: 39,517	Bath towels, for me, get washed after two or three uses. Big, fluffeh ones. Hang it over the shower door rail, never smells. Fresh (rough) wash cloth every time. As for the dead skin...aren't you washing/scrubbing that off in the shower? __________________ These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA, EPA, FBI, DEA, CDC, or FDIC. These statements are not intended to diagnose, cause, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. If you feel you have been harmed/offended by, or, disagree with any of the above statements or images, please feel free to fuck right off.

10-03-2012, 04:20 PM	#20
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Yabbut ... unless you really go to town with a pretty good brush or loofah every time, you're not scrubbing it all off ... probably wanders into OCD territory if you DO go nuts every time. You'd end up with irritation, infection, all that don't-need-it stuff. We're supposed to have a little transitional epidermis; trouble is, it flakes off as it finishes transitioning. __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

10-02-2012, 11:03 PM	#17
Juniper I know, right? Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,539	Every use. That's four per day, one per family member. We have cheap, smallish bath towels and when they're gone we bust into the beach towels. I do laundry on Mondays and it isn't generally a problem.

10-03-2012, 04:34 PM	#22
orthodoc Not Suspicious, Merely Canadian Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3,774	Something like that. There are always parts you miss ... __________________ The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi

10-06-2012, 09:05 AM	#23
footfootfoot To shreds, you say? Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: in the house and on the street-how many, many feet we meet! Posts: 18,449	Years ago I had a housemate who put it like this, "I don't want anyone using my towels. I figure, you dry your face with your towel, and I'll dry my ass with mine." There's some stark relief for ya. __________________ The internet is a hateful stew of vomit you can never take completely seriously. - Her Fobs

10-06-2012, 09:46 PM	#25
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	We use ordinary old bath towels and mine goes in the wash once a week. I can't speak for anyone else in the house. They're responsible for putting their own in the wash basket. If it's not in there, it doesn't get washed. I try to keep washing to a minimum because we live on tank water, but water is precious anyway, and I'll be buggered if I'm going to do two or three extra loads of washing per week just to have nice fluffy towels every day. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

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