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Post by cadoodlebug on Sept 4, 2015 18:10:09 GMT
After reading your post I thought I was being slack. Nope, I'm pretty much on schedule with everything in the article. Washing bath towels after every use is obsessive, especially if you live in CA. JMHO of course.
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Post by ametallichick on Sept 4, 2015 18:36:56 GMT
I wash my sheets once a week. Towels, not as often as I should but I always air my towels out before I hang them up. I need new towels tho and I am having trouble finding new bath sheets. Guess I could use beach towels. No one sees them anyway and they're nice and big. I have plenty of them because my MIL used to give them to my kids for Christmas
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 18:44:17 GMT
From the article:
I don't get that. Are they implying that those who physically labor are less clean AFTER a shower?
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Post by AnastasiaBeaverhausn on Sept 4, 2015 19:16:17 GMT
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! This makes me smile. My ex-dh didn't think anyone washed pillows and was sure his mother never did - until he called her. She told him that of course she washed his pillows!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 19:40:16 GMT
2 peas is the biggest bunch of germaphobes I've ever seen in my life. It's quite fascinating. I often wonder if scrapbooking attracted germaphobes, or if 2 peas discussions made everyone paranoid. I just saw this interesting articlecome across my news feed this morning. You need more dirt in your life people. Says freebird as she scrapes chicken shit off her shoes. 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. Hog barn??? I know that smell.....ick!! the only thing worse is chicken barn!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 19:51:36 GMT
Please tell me I am not the only one that thinks the towel rules are a bit gross. We go through at least 3 kitchen towels and 1 dish cloth a day and if I am making a big meal or baking, it could be 2-3 times that. Bath towels are not reused around here, except for my husband who was trained that way and I have not "broke" him from the habit. Every towel is ugly because I bleach them every time too.
When it comes to sheets, I wash around once a week because everyone here showers every day plus our house is cold year round and people are not sweating a lot at night.
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Post by scrappinghappy on Sept 4, 2015 19:55:54 GMT
That's pretty much us except kitchen towels go into the laundry after every use, bleached and laundered twice a week then tossed every 6 months or less when they wear out.
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Post by gale w on Sept 4, 2015 19:59:46 GMT
That's pretty much us except kitchen towels go into the laundry after every use, bleached and laundered twice a week then tossed every 6 months or less when they wear out. By "every use" does that mean if you dry your hands it goes right into the wash? Or after a whole day of hand drying?
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Post by gar on Sept 4, 2015 20:26:07 GMT
Please tell me I am not the only one that thinks the towel rules are a bit gross. We go through at least 3 kitchen towels and 1 dish cloth a day and if I am making a big meal or baking, it could be 2-3 times that. Bath towels are not reused around here, except for my husband who was trained that way and I have not "broke" him from the habit. Every towel is ugly because I bleach them every time too. What are you so concerned about that makes you feel this is necessary? That's an insane amount of washing and bleach!
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Post by breetheflea on Sept 4, 2015 20:34:06 GMT
Since I don't eat or lick my bath towels I will use them several times before washing.
Dishtowels get washed frequently because I wipe the counters and around the sink with them.
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Post by milocat on Sept 4, 2015 20:40:07 GMT
I agree with weekly uses for bath towels, weekly for sheets etc. But kitchen towels and dish cloth once a week or less - EWW! Especially when my family seems to think that the towel can be used for half clean hands and to wipe up things. That is what the cloth is for. The cloth gets pretty ripe smelling after a day or two. You're using kitchen towels and cloths to clean and wipe up food, meat and other things. Whereas a bath towel is used to dry your clean body.
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Post by katieanna on Sept 4, 2015 20:40:28 GMT
Thanks for posting. That schedule is the one I've always followed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 20:42:34 GMT
So I guess I'm a freak of nature germaphobe and a disgusting slob according to that article.
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Post by anniebygaslight on Sept 4, 2015 20:45:25 GMT
All towels used after every use here. Bedding changed every week and tea towels changed a couple of times a day. Mainly because my beloved uses them to mop up spills.
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Post by akathy on Sept 4, 2015 20:45:57 GMT
Because you're washing things that aren't dirty......but 'you' feel need cleaning. I guess some people do it with sheets etc because they like the feel of getting into fresh sheets, who doesn't, but not enough to warrant daily washing imho. Germaphobe - a person with an extreme fear of germs and an obsession with cleanliness. I don't have either so really not a germaphobe just someone who likes clean, dry towels. I wouldn't dream of changing the bedding everyday, that's just over the top. Changing the towels everyday doesn't equal washing the towels everyday, I wait til there's enough for a full load then do them. I use a clean bath towel every time I shower, change out hand towels frequently and wear everything but jeans only once but I only do laundry about every 10 days.
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Post by monklady123 on Sept 4, 2015 20:48:41 GMT
Interesting. There is no way I'd ever wash bath towels that often! Waste of water and electricity for one thing. And also mine don't smell because we hang them properly, so they dry out.
Also, the kitchen towel thing is interesting, but in the other direction. My kitchen towels are the ones that everyone wipes their hands on after washing hands at the kitchen sink. I use them to dry my hands after I've washed them while cooking. Occasionally they fall off the oven door handle onto the floor. Sometimes I use them to wipe up water around the sink (not food though, there's something else for that). There is no way I'd only wash those once a week, not with all the germs that are possible in the kitchen.
And there's no way my bath mat gets washed every one to two weeks. lol. The article said to prolong its use we could hang it over the side of the tub to dry. Well where do most people hang their bath mat? I mean do people leave it on the floor wet for everyone to walk on with their street shoes? ick. We have a rug in the bathroom, then the bath mat which gets put down only to step out of the shower on. With clean feet. Then it gets hung back up. It's too much trouble to wash them really often because they always throw my old washing machine off balance.
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Post by snugglebutter on Sept 4, 2015 21:03:32 GMT
I follow their recommendations for bath towels, sheets and a few of the others. I change the hand towel in the hall bathroom almost daily because my four kids use it as well as anyone that might come over. We also go through 1-2 kitchen towels a day, plus a few dishcloths because I try to limit paper towels. It doesn't create excess laundry for us. I do a load of bath towels about every 10 days and a load of kitchen/hand towels etc every 5-7 days.
We wash quilts/blankets more like 4 times a year instead of their recommended 2. I don't track it though. I am hardly a germaphobe and honestly I should probably step it up in other housekeeping areas.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2015 21:04:22 GMT
Hey, I've finally discovered an area in which I'm mostly Normal!
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Post by gale w on Sept 4, 2015 21:23:07 GMT
I agree with weekly uses for bath towels, weekly for sheets etc. But kitchen towels and dish cloth once a week or less - EWW! Especially when my family seems to think that the towel can be used for half clean hands and to wipe up things. That is what the cloth is for. The cloth gets pretty ripe smelling after a day or two. You're using kitchen towels and cloths to clean and wipe up food, meat and other things. Whereas a bath towel is used to dry your clean body. Our kitchen towel hangs and is only used for drying clean hands. Cleaning spills is done with paper towels or washcloths and those go right into the trash/hamper.
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Post by ~Susan~ on Sept 4, 2015 21:29:18 GMT
After having pork from outdoor hogs you can really tell the difference. The only ones we ever had confined were sows with babies so our home-grown pork has always been from outdoor hogs. But my ex-boss had hogs 100% in confinement and one time when we didn't have any hogs we bought a half from him. It wasn't nearly as good as ones kept outdoors. So maybe it just isn't my taste changing. I can't stand to eat chops or pork roasts anymore. They taste to "porky" to me. I still eat bacon and bbq pork with no problem though.
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Post by raindancer on Sept 4, 2015 22:34:56 GMT
2 peas is the biggest bunch of germaphobes I've ever seen in my life. It's quite fascinating. I often wonder if scrapbooking attracted germaphobes, or if 2 peas discussions made everyone paranoid. I just saw this interesting articlecome across my news feed this morning. You need more dirt in your life people. Says freebird as she scrapes chicken shit off her shoes. 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. Again. Anecdotal evidence does not make good science. Our over cleanliness has a lot of research to show we are causing issues for ourselves. Science is not based on individual experience. Saying you have an n of 1 would make you look incompetent in any field of science. It's not meaningful to only look at one.
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Post by DinCA on Sept 4, 2015 23:06:11 GMT
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! I knew about it but I've never had a pillow survive a washing, even the expensive ones, so I just buy new ones, too.
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Post by scrappinghappy on Sept 4, 2015 23:25:06 GMT
That's pretty much us except kitchen towels go into the laundry after every use, bleached and laundered twice a week then tossed every 6 months or less when they wear out. By "every use" does that mean if you dry your hands it goes right into the wash? Or after a whole day of hand drying? A whole day of hand drying but single use for drying dishes or wiping the counters.
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Post by epeanymous on Sept 4, 2015 23:28:57 GMT
I grew up in a house where nothing was ever,never reused or reworn, and my mother ran tiny laundry loads as well. It was hard to untrain myself and I finally gave up the wash-bath-towels-after-each-use this summer, I am sad to say. But hey, at least I am not doing that anymore. I change sheets once a week and hand towels every few days. Bath towels get about three uses. The only rule there I do not follow is kitchen towels -- mine get gross super fast from food cleanup, and I toss them in the laundry basket every day and run a load of them about once a week (we have a lot).
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Post by elaine on Sept 5, 2015 0:09:25 GMT
I think it is funny that a number of people on page 1 clearly didn't READ the article, because it says things you mentioned ARE obsessive. LOL! Dish towels are recommended to be washed ONCE PER WEEK, for example. And, while they recommend washing sheets every 1 to 2 weeks, say it is fine to go longer...
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Post by myboysnme on Sept 5, 2015 0:42:50 GMT
I don't wash my curtains. They are probably full of dust but I don't check.
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Post by TheOtherMeg on Sept 5, 2015 1:29:52 GMT
Kitchen towel, dishcloth, and downstairs bathroom hand towels> dirty ones thrown in laundry each night and clean ones set out for the next day.
Bathroom (shower) towels> every person has his/her own towels, hangs them spread out on separate bars, and showers at least once a day, so towels are switched out weekly or sooner if I need to fill a load.
Sheets> every week, perhaps more frequently in the summer. According to the pillow protector washing schedule in the article, I get an F there. While the pillow cases get changed at least once a week, the protectors stay on about a month between changes. Meh.
If someone is sick, everything gets washed more often.
Bath mats are washed once in a while -- maybe every other month? We don't wear shoes in the house, and there are no mats/rugs near the toilets, so I don't feel the need to wash them more often than that. I make a point to buy the type that don't have any sort of backing so they wash and dry nicely.
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Post by TheOtherMeg on Sept 5, 2015 1:47:34 GMT
I also fail the curtain washing test. I only have valences and they get dusted regularly, but they're certainly not washed yearly.
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Post by scrappington on Sept 5, 2015 1:51:46 GMT
I have been using a towel for a bathmat lately so mine is done twice a week. Towels twice a week. I use a j cloth so disposable. Tea towels pending what has been done with it twice a week Hand towels twice a week Sheets once a week. Comforters every three weeks. But now I live alone I'm not doing as much laundry and throwing in the towels helps fill a load.
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Post by anxiousmom on Sept 5, 2015 2:02:40 GMT
I also fail the curtain washing test. I only have valences and they get dusted regularly, but they're certainly not washed yearly. Gah. Me too. I do run them through the dryer about once a year to fluff off the dust and then spray them with an ammonia/water solution when I think about it to freshen them (my grandmother swore by this to freshen upholstery, rugs and curtains and so did my mother and who am I to argue with my grandmother and mother? ) But to have a real schedule for when that happens? ummm...I can hardly remember my kid's birthdays so remembering the last time I washed the curtains is not ever going to happen.
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