For those peas who thought towels didn't need to be washed

Please tell me I'm not the only one who didn't know you could wash a pillow. I buy new ones pretty much every year. Yikes!

My bath mat gets washed seasonally. I never walk on it with street shoes. I think it's pretty clean and takes up too much space in the washing machine.

Finally something where I can say that I am "normal"  

I feel so validated.

You are drying off a clean body that just came out of the shower...I usually get 4 uses out of it before I change them out. 4 people in my house (3 of them use 2 towels)...hell no would I wash towels after one use.

That article is pretty much my schedule.

I'm with freebird.  There is zero need to wash bath towels after a single use. Cumulatively the effect of all the unnecessary washing on the environment is horrendous. 

Not to mention that we have a real water problem right now, and we need to wash smarter not more often. It's a huge water waste to never use anything ever more than one time. 

It's really ridiculous. 

I work with a microbiologist that is frequently contacted for articles like this and she is crazy about infections, disease spread and her home is immaculate. But she is also well aware of weighing out risk. That's a really important part of this equation that gets missed often. 

There is a lot of risk in not having enough water...is it worse than using a towel 2 or 3 times before you wash it again? Skeeved out or not, we need to start making better judgments and acting like we only have one planet. 

All I am going to say is that I absolutely feel better-this place makes me feel like a was a dirty freak of nature.

I guess I'm above the norm in some areas and probably below in others. We have a heated towel rack, so towels dry off quickly and stay nice and fluffy. We probably get 4-5 days use out of them before I change them out. I use a style of bathmats similar to hotels where they are sort of like bathmat sized thick towels. I love those because I have 2-3 and I just change them out and wash them with the towels - no rubber backing to worry about and they don't take up more space in the washer than any other towel.

I'm not sure I get only changing out the kitchen towel once a week though unless they are talking about an entirely different type of kitchen towel than I use. I change mine at least daily if not 2-3 times a day. I use the good old fashioned flour sack dishtowels and we use them to dry off hands, clean up spills, dry dishes, etc. I wouldn't use the same one that I've wiped up foods spills with to dry my hands or dishes. If I cook a couple of meals a day, it's not unusual for me to have 2-3 that go into the laundry that night (I don't actually wash them - just put them in a basket until I have a load).

I aim for once a week for sheets and once a month or so for blankets, but I'll admit that it's sort of a "do I have time to do 3 loads right now" kind of thing. There's nothing worse than being busy and then realizing at bedtime that the sheets are in the dryer and the blankets in the washing machine.

mine too....who knew we were so trendy!

I wash my sheets once a week. I am so glad my kids have flown the nest though and only have ONE bed to do.

I put a new hand towel in the bathroom every morning. DH washes his hands in there before he eats and he has icky dirty farmer/rancher hands.

Bath towels get used a couple times, but they must be hung on a rack so air can flow. I hate musty towels. Heaven help the person who leaves their wet towel in a lump on the floor.

I use at least one or two fresh towels in my kitchen every day, but I cook 3 meals daily, but other stuff.

I am not opposed to a little dirt. Having cow or horse poop flung at me on a routine basis - I have learned that it won't kill you. You do need to keep your mouth shut though, when those critters on running by you. Patoooie....pfftt..pfftt....

I live on a farm and hate housecleaning. When my kids were little my husband literally smelled like pigs 24/7 (not anymore since we only buy outdoor feeder pigs now). My daughter has food allergies. I'm not buying it. 

I am always glad we only have cattle and not hogs. I know exactly what you mean by that smell. I even think a lot of pork from the grocery store tastes like 'confinement' now. I had some pork the other night that was raised outside... doh... it was gooood.

One of my kids has terrible allergies (grass). So I don't know if I buy the 'farm kids don't have allergies' either. He walked out into a field of polinating corn a couple years ago and swelled up like a balloon. He couldn't hardly see out of his eyes. DH sent him home to shower. He has been getting shots for it ever since, but stays out of the pollen.