How many times will you re-use a towel ?

SexBobomb

How many times is it acceptable to use the same bath towel at home not on holiday or anything.
Just wondering what the general consensus is and is it different for women and men?
3 times is my limit right now, I use my towel and hang it on a clothes horse so Im never using a wet towel exactly but Im training four times a week and Im not using a new towel every time its way too much washing and I don’t have a dryer.

Dakotabigone

Depends on how often one showers.

Dial Hard

I read an article on this before (which wasn't nearly as boring as it sounds) and if it's a towel that only you're using and it's hanging somewhere it can dry completely between uses, then 3-5 uses is fine.

Communal towels or ones that don't dry properly between uses need to be washed more often.

Alun

Dakotabigone wrote: »

Depends on how often one showers.

Grabs popcorn ...

Feisar

I usually use one for a week, do the washing at the weekend and get a fresh one out. Wash, rinse, repeat.

Yer supposed to be drying a clean body so I don't see the issue.

jim-mcdee

Alun wrote: »

Grabs popcorn ...

Failing to see the connection between popcorn and showering

blade1

Depends on how much toilet paper is there.

Fann Linn

blade1 wrote: »

Them on how much toilet paper is there.

Or baby oil or body chocolate.

SEPT 23 1989

Until it starts to smell

Dakotabigone

Dial Hard wrote: »

I read an article on this before (which wasn't nearly as boring as it sounds) and if it's a towel that only you're using and it's hanging somewhere it can dry completely between uses, then 3-5 uses is fine.

Communal towels or ones that don't dry properly between uses need to be washed more often.

Communal towels are very unhygienic, faeces, other bodily fluids.

Dial Hard

Dakotabigone wrote: »

Communal towels are very unhygienic, faeces, other bodily fluids.

Depends. Monogamous couples fairly quickly reach a state called homeostasis where they essentially become immune to eachother's germs, including coliform bacteria. My parents would think nothing of grabbing a towel the other person had used off the rack after a shower. I would have done the same when I was married, as long as it was dry.

Ariadne

I usually use my towel for about a week and then wash it. I always let it dry in between washes though. It wouldn't bother me to use my wife's towel or if she used mine but I don't generally tend to do it.

Mefistofelino

Sabre0001

EDIT: Snap! Beaten to the punch!

Jamemid

If you throw it at the wall and it sticks,it's time to wash it.

House4596

SexBobomb wrote: »

How many times is it acceptable to use the same bath towel at home not on holiday or anything.
Just wondering what the general consensus is and is it different for women and men?
3 times is my limit right now, I use my towel and hang it on a clothes horse so Im never using a wet towel exactly but Im training four times a week and Im not using a new towel every time its way too much washing and I don’t have a dryer.

You are discusting I never use the same towel I use two different towels every day

Dakotabigone

The two times rule works. After two showers wash it. If you haven’t showered in two weeks or just showered once in two weeks the towel needs changing.

Usually 3 times. Just hang it over the banister outside the bathroom and it’s dry for the following day.

lertsnim

Dakotabigone wrote: »

If you haven’t showered in two weeks or just showered once in two weeks the towel needs changing.

Unless you are in the middle of the Amazon or something then there's no excuse.

Boom_Bap

I hired help look after that type of thing.

Muckka

2 uses at the most.
As I've loads of towels, maybe 30
I like towels, can never have enough of them.

Foweva Awone

Bath-towels and hair-towels, I wash every use.

I wash bath mats and hand towels maybe twice a week.

wakka12

Probably dozens of times tbh. It smells absolutely fine,my body is smelling nice when im using the towel... so dont see the need to wash it very often

Boom_Bap

How many dirty towel related deaths are there every year, anyone have the stats?

Jamemid

Jamemid wrote: »

If you throw it at the wall and it sticks,it's time to wash it.

Oh look! The baby needs a bath so!

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Dakotabigone wrote: »

Communal towels are very unhygienic, faeces, other bodily fluids.

How dirty are you when drying yourself off?

lawred2

Dakotabigone wrote: »

The two times rule works. After two showers wash it. If you haven’t showered in two weeks or just showered once in two weeks the towel needs changing.

wut?

kneemos

Dakotabigone wrote: »

The two times rule works. After two showers wash it. If you haven’t showered in two weeks or just showered once in two weeks the towel needs changing.

If you haven't showered in two weeks the towel is not the main issue.

JohnnyFlash

Use them two or three times for drying the hair and body. Then give it a final ‘run out’ by using it to dry the cock, balls, and that bit between your cluster and nipsy. Use the classic seesaw manoeuvre.

LirW

I'd say around a hundred million times. Be grand.

lbc2019

I use a Dyson Aeroblade.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Use them two or three times for drying the hair and body. Then give it a final ‘run out’ by using it to dry the cock, balls, and that bit between your cluster and nipsy. Use the classic seesaw manoeuvre.

Ah yes, I love when there’s a towel ripe for washing that you can use for the dirtier jobs. Ahem, the stuff you just mentioned but also like if you spill a big drink on the ground or something. Get the towel that you know needs to be washed anyway to soak up the bulk before getting the mop out.

Muckka

Interesting fact, when you whip a towel supposedly it break's the sound barrier...

Remember those days, when someone called Jason would corner you in the changing rooms, then whop you goodo with his impersonation of Indiana Jones...

Then you'd go home and do it to your brother....

T'was a sore dose getting whipped by a towel.

The trick was to wet a corner of it..

Dangerous stuff, could cause serious damage.

Dial Hard

Foweva Awone wrote: »

Bath-towels and hair-towels, I wash every use.

I wash bath mats and hand towels maybe twice a week.

Genuinely curious as to the logic behind this? Your hand towel is getting a lot more use than your hair one, presumably?

retro:electro

Fresh towel for every shower. I know the old ones are probably perfectly clean but I just can’t reuse

Foweva Awone

Dial Hard wrote: »

Genuinely curious as to the logic behind this? Your hand towel is getting a lot more use than your hair one, presumably?

I'm a girl, half my hair falls out every time I have a shower, I don't want to dry my hair the next time with a hairy towel! Plus of course residue from hair dye, conditioner etc ends up on the towel.

Dial Hard

Foweva Awone wrote: »

I'm a girl, half my hair falls out every time I have a shower, I don't want to dry my hair the next time with a hairy towel! Plus of course residue from hair dye, conditioner etc ends up on the towel.

Same, and my hair comes out in clumps, but I can't say it ever really ends up in the towel. The hair trap I have in the drain and the hairbrush when I comb it out are the fun parts.

Conditioner I have to rinse til literally not an iota remains or I get build-up, so that's not an issue for me.

Feisar

Dial Hard wrote: »

Depends. Monogamous couples fairly quickly reach a state called homeostasis where they essentially become immune to eachother's germs, including coliform bacteria. My parents would think nothing of grabbing a towel the other person had used off the rack after a shower. I would have done the same when I was married, as long as it was dry.

To be honest, swapping towels is the least of our concerns.:o