How many dish drying towels do you have and more questions..

I think I have about 10 tea towels and 30 dish cloths.

A whole drawer full, at least 40.

I switch them frequently. Every time dishes are dried, I get out a new towel. It doesn’t make sense to me to use a towel that has been used to dry hands or wipe up counters to dry clean dishes. If the dishes are clean, you need to dry them with a clean towel, otherwise you’re just making them dirty again.

I have two in the daily rotation. About a dozen is reserves. They are used to dry dishes and hands only. Every few days they get tossed in the laundry and fresh towels replace them.

When one is wet, it hangs over the end of raised microwave stand, that has small appliances (GF Grill, toaster, chopper, etc...) on and under it.

I use disposable paper towels to clean the counter, especially when wiping up any food or cleansers. Never cloth towels or wipes.

We currently have about 15 dish towels that we use. We use one a day. When the last one is used, the basket goes into the wash. They're all white so I bleach them. I don't like washing them every other week so I'm adding more to a point where we have a new spot for them that will hold at least 10 more than what we have now. When they get a hole or too thin or stains that just won't come out, they go into the basement for cleaning or the garage.

Once we use one a day, I think three weeks worth is enough but wouldn't mind more. No more than 30 though.

I finally got rid of all my crappy small dish towels and bought some really nice KitchenAid towels when they were on clearance at Costco a couple years back. Like an idiot, I only bought one pack (about 6-8 towels) and now I wish I would have bought more because they’re my favorites. They’re a good size for drying my silpats (roll up the mats in the towel one by one and they’re instantly dry and they can be put away right away). Having said that, I have to add that I also have a few thinner, larger towels that I use when I bake bread to cover my dough while it rises, but that’s all I use those towels for. I also have about 6-8 Norwex microfiber towels that we use for kitchen hand towels, those are antimicrobial and only used for drying hands.

I don’t typically use a towel to dry dishes unless I need the thing again immediately. For the most part I let any hand washed dishes air dry because I’m lazy like that. Even with the dishwasher washed items that don’t get totally dry, we prop the door open and leave it that way until the dishes have air dried and then they can just be put away, so I don’t hand dry dishes much at all. Most of the time if I use a dish towel to dry dishes and it gets wet, I just hang it up on the oven door to dry out and reuse later. I mean, all it was used for was to dry clean water off of clean dishes, so to me that towel isn’t “dirty” and can be used again.

Sorry, I don't mean to be quoting you everywhere, but you said exactly what we do. Hand-drying dishes is foreign to me. Even when we handwash a few dishes we use the dishwasher as a drainer, so no need for tons of dish towels.

I got rid of sooooo many towels when I downsized in November ... now I have about 10 dish towels that I really like and that coordinate with my kitchen decor ... no more mismatched and stained ones!

I hardly hand wash anything so my dish towels are mostly used for hands ...

A lot. lol. Every once in awhile I buy a pack at Costco... That's usually 8 or 10 of them. I buy them because I like the color and/or pattern. I toss them in the laundry after a couple of days. I probably wash a load of dish towels, regular towels, sheets, etc. every week. 

eta: these are not for drying dishes, only hands, or maybe drying the odd pot or lid. We don't have a dishwasher so I let the dishes air dry. 

ETA: I usually toss them in the laundry room once they are wet. I always have one I use to dry hands, one for drying dishes, and one for wiping the counters.

I have about 30, use about one per day. I mostly use them to dry large pots and pans so they don’t stick out above the rest of my dishes. I don’t have a dishwasher.
I do laundry weekly and find that I’m using the same 7 dish towels continuously and never use the rest.

MOUTH'S?!?! I could see drying poorly washed hands, but who uses a dish towel on their face? Sorry distracted by this thought.

We have a couple dozen?  One is pulled out in the morning for hands. And then when pans are being drying one after dinner, an additional one or two is used for that depending on how many pans and how many are helping. Afterwards they're all thrown in the laundry room at the end of the night. I use a clorox wipes on our countertops not dishtowels - and yes, yes I know all the granite manufacturers say you can't - I've done it for 20 years and it works for me.  

I don’t dry dishes—I let the dishwasher do that. But I have a zillion of IKEA’s cotton dish towel packs that I use when I’m cooking and I also use them as bibs so I don’t stain my shirts. Yeah, it looks snazzy. I have some fancy tea towels that I’ve gotten as presents over the years that I take out for parties, including one I bought for my son to give me from our local British imports store that says something like “You are the best Mum”. Once in my life I wanted to be called “Mum”.

Too many. I change them every few days. I only use them to dry clean dishes. I have other cloths that I use for cleaning counters.

Trust me, we buy paper towels at Costco. He takes about 10 with every meal. We have to label food so he doesn’t eat everything that goes in the fridge, like other people’s half eaten leftovers that they are saving for lunch. Live and learn.