Question Re: towel usage.

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jmpet

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This is something me (the youngest of five kids) and my wife (the only child) disagree on, I would like to hear some input on it from you folks.

You take a shower, you finish. You take a clean towel and dry off your clean body, drying yourself in the process. Question: is the towel dirty? Should it go into the hamper?

As the youngest of five growing up in a large family the answer is no- your clean body and that clean towel remain clean- it only gets wet and needs to be dried (hung on the shower rod to dry off). To my wife the clean towel on your clean body somehow become dirty and needs to go into the hamper.

So who is right?
 
As a bachelor...I used the tried and tested "smell rule"....if it doesn't smell...it's clean. :)
 
jmpet said:
This is something me (the youngest of five kids) and my wife (the only child) disagree on, I would like to hear some input on it from you folks.

You take a shower, you finish. You take a clean towel and dry off your clean body, drying yourself in the process. Question: is the towel dirty? Should it go into the hamper?

As the youngest of five growing up in a large family the answer is no- your clean body and that clean towel remain clean- it only gets wet and needs to be dried (hung on the shower rod to dry off). To my wife the clean towel on your clean body somehow become dirty and needs to go into the hamper.

So who is right?
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All I can say is ewwww! As one of four children in a family I strongly support the "to each his own towel" movement. Strange to say, I do not wish to wipe myself down with the same towel that has been in someone else's ass crack :eek:
 
The question of "multi-user" was not a part of the OP. The question of "multi-use" has multi-answers, based on the cost-per-use of washing and drying the towel, and totally removing the dead skin cells from the towel. One could say the towel has on it's surface, after the first use, a minimum amount of "loose-but-clean" dead skin cells that remained from the rinsing. Remember, shower water rinses, bath water immerses.
 
Gremmie said:
The day before laundry day, you can just turn that last pair inside-out, or just go "commando".:eek:
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I'd recommend the inside-out method to extend wear time by 3 weeks. Besides, last pair/only pair - it's a fine line. ;)
 
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And there I was thinking as to if this thread would be about "How you use a towel?".

I mean as in; you dry the major part of your body on the middle of the towel and perhaps dry your face after brushing your teeth on one of the corner's, so you don't transfer bacteria from one region of your body to the other. (Obviously ideally a separate facial towel makes all the difference, but we are talking about cost effectiveness and efficiency here.)

In all essence though, you shower in an attempt to remove bacteria, you use shower gels in an attempt to aid removal. Using a towel is just removing the water, however some types of dirt might not wash off unless you are using a sponge, flannel or other type of apparatus. So you could potentially transfer that "grime" to a clean towel.

Obviously in Hotels they tend to replace towels on a day to day basis, this is understandable though considering they will constantly have laundry on the go, which most common households might save up for a large enough load etc.

(This post is just a lesson in the versatility of talking about random stuff lol)
 
Twice.

I use a towel twice.

I shower in the morning when I get up and again in the evening before bed (or when I get home from work). After each showering the towel goes on a warmer that dries it (the warmer is timed to turn off after an hour; I don't need a warm towel when I get out of the shower).

It lasts exactly one day and is tossed in the hamper.

Wet towels (especially those that hang around and don't dry within an hour) collect all sorts of nasty smelly germs that grow in bathrooms--and I'm a fan of bleach in the bathroom. Re-use is really gross especially if shared between people.

~String
 
If you wash thoroughly, and I do, there should be no need
to change towels more than once every two weeks or so.

I have two towels in use at any one time, used alternately.
 
OMG..search for 'are you clean after shower' brought 'how to shower'

here is a more pertinent link 'why do we wash our towels'

there are bacteria that does not get washed off during a shower that can accumulate in the towel..

i tend to be a 'wash it when it starts to smell' person..

and i don't own any underwear..
 
NMSquirrel said:
i tend to be a "WASH IT WHEN IT STARTS TO SMELL" person..

and i don't own any underwear..
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I'm sure there are people who DO wear underwear, that share the same philosophy when it comes to washing them, as you do for washing towels. :p
 
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