Kerri W
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Post by Kerri W on Jul 15, 2024 18:12:21 GMT
If you have a swimming pool, do you launder the towels every time they are used?
I have noticed on two different TikTok's (that have nothing to do with the pool) that the owners just folded up used towels and put them back in the place they keep towels. The towels were not washed between uses. Is that normal?
I do not have a pool. My only point of reference for this is my sister who has a pool and does a significant amount of complaining about everything pool. I don't live in the same state as my sister, but when I use her pool I either bring my own towel or make darn stinking sure I gather the towels my family has used and wash, dry, fold and take care of the ones we used. (see previous comment about the incessant complaining)
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Post by Tearisci on Jul 15, 2024 18:15:11 GMT
We swim in my sister's pool and leave the towels and our suits to dry on her patio. I'm assuming she washes them because they're wet, but if I swim two days in a row, sometimes my suit and towel are still on the patio so I'll reuse them.
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Post by workingclassdog on Jul 15, 2024 18:16:18 GMT
My dad and stepmom had a pool when I lived with them for a few years. I believe (it's been awhile) we would just hang our towels out in the sun to dry and reuse a few times. They really weren't dirty as in you weren't using a pool towel to use after showering. It was just used at the pool again.
I really don't see the point in washing after every use unless there is obvious muck on it. Just as long as they are dried out nicely.
Edited to add.. we wouldn't use each other's towels... just our own..
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Post by pantsonfire on Jul 15, 2024 18:17:48 GMT
No. I hang them to air dry in the sun or in the hot garage on a clothing rack. I was with towels on Sunday. Like if they got soaking wet then I would wash right away. But I treat them like bath towels. Once a week. Not like we are dirty after swimming.
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Post by mom on Jul 15, 2024 18:22:19 GMT
If it's just DH and I, we reuse our towels. He has one that he likes and I have one I like and we just hang them up when we are done. If other people --- and especially kids --- are swimming in our pool, we wash those towels and fold before putting them away. I've been around kids enough to know they wipe snot and god knows what else on clean clothing and towels to not trust the towels to be clean after they use them.
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Post by Laurie on Jul 15, 2024 18:23:32 GMT
Yes and no. I tell the girls when they get done drying off with them to hang them on the porch rail and re-use each time they go into the pool during the day. At the end of the day they then go into the laundry hamper.
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Post by cmpeter on Jul 15, 2024 18:47:09 GMT
When we had a pool we would hang and air dry and use them for a couple days before washing them.
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Post by Kerri W on Jul 15, 2024 18:56:28 GMT
I tell the girls when they get done drying off with them to hang them on the porch rail and re-use each time they go into the pool during the day. At the end of the day they then go into the laundry hamper. This is what I would be comfortable with as well. Use it all day or for a couple days then launder. Each person using their own towel. mom-Snot was exactly what I thought of! Both of the videos I saw were people cleaning up after a party, so presumably multiple people (not just family) using the towels and they were just folded up and put away. That icks me right out! |
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Post by mom on Jul 15, 2024 18:59:48 GMT
I tell the girls when they get done drying off with them to hang them on the porch rail and re-use each time they go into the pool during the day. At the end of the day they then go into the laundry hamper. This is what I would be comfortable with as well. Use it all day or for a couple days then launder. Each person using their own towel. mom -Snot was exactly what I thought of! Both of the videos I saw were people cleaning up after a party, so presumably multiple people (not just family) using the towels and they were just folded up and put away. That icks me right out! There is zero chance of that happening at my house. Gross! I go as far to have included a rolling wire basket to put the dirty towels in on my patio, right before you come into the house. |
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Post by Laurie on Jul 15, 2024 19:00:56 GMT
I tell the girls when they get done drying off with them to hang them on the porch rail and re-use each time they go into the pool during the day. At the end of the day they then go into the laundry hamper. This is what I would be comfortable with as well. Use it all day or for a couple days then launder. Each person using their own towel. mom -Snot was exactly what I thought of! Both of the videos I saw were people cleaning up after a party, so presumably multiple people (not just family) using the towels and they were just folded up and put away. That icks me right out! That gives me the ick too. |
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Post by dawnnikol on Jul 15, 2024 19:02:29 GMT
We don't have our own personal pool, but a neighborhood pool. So, yes, we wash them afterwards as well as the swimsuits.
Funnily enough, when we go to the beach, we just leave them to dry and then re-use them. :X
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Post by snugglebutter on Jul 15, 2024 19:09:37 GMT
At my dad's house we would hang them up to reuse. There were clean towels available if we had guests but they would bring their own towels sometimes too.
Folding them up to reuse would be a no for me because of mildew.
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Post by milocat on Jul 15, 2024 19:15:56 GMT
My aunt had a pool when we were growing up, we'd go vacagion there. When it was mainly my sister and I in the pool we'd hang our towels on the clothesline to dry and then reuse them. We usually had 2 each, using one and drying one. I'm fine reusing my own towel.
I would hope if I was a guest at someone's house they would be offering a clean towel. Sucks to wash them after one use but it would be the same if you had a houseguest for only 1 night, you'd give them fresh towels and sheets....I hope!
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Post by smasonnc on Jul 15, 2024 20:01:59 GMT
Both of the videos I saw were people cleaning up after a party, so presumably multiple people (not just family) using the towels and they were just folded up and put away. That icks me right out! Impetigo, anyone? I might use my own towel a couple of times if it's been hung up in the sun, but anything that has been wet gets germs. Gotta wash them frequently. |
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Post by caangel on Jul 15, 2024 20:08:25 GMT
My kids swim competitively, 6 days a week. My goal is that they use 1 towel all week. But many times they forget to hang up their towel to dry so they grab another one. I only wash towels once a week.
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Post by melanell on Jul 15, 2024 20:10:45 GMT
If you have a swimming pool, do you launder the towels every time they are used? I have noticed on two different TikTok's (that have nothing to do with the pool) that the owners just folded up used towels and put them back in the place they keep towels. The towels were not washed between uses. Is that normal? Okay, my answer to your 1st paragraph is "No". We have never laundered pool towels after every use, unless of course, in the case of kids who may very well drag them all over creation with them after exiting the pool. If they've been laying in the grass (or the driveway--yes my kids did that sometimes--your guess is as good as mine) then I'd launder them because they would literally be dirty. But my answer to your 2nd paragraph is also "No". We never put them back in the linen closet without laundering them. Now, we did not have a pool house, but even if we did, I wouldn't put them back on shelves in there, either if they hadn't been washed yet. We typically just hung wet towels on the clothesline, or sometimes draped them over the back of a chair or deck rail, and they usually dried within a very short amount of time--unless we were swimming at night, of course. Then we'd either just take them off the line and immediately use them, or we'd take them down, fold them, and stack them on a little table inside the screened in porch. (We accessed the clothes line from a deck which was attached to that porch, so it was very convenient to have them there.) |
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 15, 2024 20:11:40 GMT
I keep stacks of towels in a storage chest on the deck of a gazebo next to our pool. Most folks who come regularly to our pool know I have them so they don't usually bring their own so they can avoid having to schlep wet towels home.
My husband and I will reuse a towel for a day or two or three. Guests who stay for several days sometimes declare "I'm hanging mine here to use again tomorrow." Any unclaimed/unknown go into the laundry room. It's not really a problem.
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Post by bbkeef on Jul 15, 2024 21:03:42 GMT
If I'm a guest at someone's pool, I am bringing my own towel. And I'm using it once. I would never expect to be provided one unless I forgot mine (I would think kids, teens tend to forget that kind of stuff). Plus, it's a lot of work for the pool owner to do extra towels all the time. Plus some of you pay city water and it's wear and tear on your laundry machines.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 15, 2024 21:09:06 GMT
When we were kids down the shore we would hang towels over the railing and reuse. There was no wash machine at the shore houses back then. It was where all the older thin towels went to end their lives before the dogs got them.
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Post by naby64 on Jul 15, 2024 21:12:37 GMT
I have a very jokey pool. An inflatable that is 10x8 ft wide and 18 inches deep. And perfect for what I need. It's also only me using it. After my Friday afternoon use, I hang up my towel and suit in the bathroom. If I use it Saturday, it may get washed. On Sunday, if used, then it definitely gets hung up to dry and then thrown in with other towels to wash. I don't get much of a chance during the week to use it.
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Post by Gennifer on Jul 15, 2024 21:14:44 GMT
No pool, but we do have designated towels for our hot tub. They are washed after every use and put back into the outdoor lockers next to the hot tub.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jul 15, 2024 21:22:06 GMT
Not a pool owner but we have a lake home so we have a lot of bath sheet sized beach towels that we use and that we provide for guests who might need one. If it’s just us and if we *might* use it again the next day we would just hang them up to dry somewhere and reuse it once or maybe twice at the most. But after that they go in the wash. I would never just fold up a used towel and put it back on the pile for anyone to use. That’s just gross. We just had a bunch of guests at our place last weekend and it took three loads of laundry to wash them all after everyone left.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 15, 2024 21:35:54 GMT
We don't have a pool but belong to a sport's club that has 2 pools and a spa. We take beach towels and just hang them up in the laundry room when we get home. When dry, I put them back in my big bag that we take. They aren't dirty so I don't waste resources to wash/dry them every time.
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Post by whipea on Jul 16, 2024 1:07:14 GMT
Have a pool and wash towels after use. It is so humid here even hang them out things don't truly dry.
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Post by monklady123 on Jul 16, 2024 1:15:18 GMT
I've never had a pool at my house, but when my kids were little we belonged to a local pool. I never washed the towels after every use. omg, I would have been doing towels constantly.  We'd bring them home and fling them over the deck rail in the sun. They would dry quickly and we'd use them the next day. They smelled like sun and chlorine, two smells that say "summer" to me. I think I washed them every few days depending on how many days that week we'd been to the pool. |
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Post by SAHM wannabe on Jul 16, 2024 3:37:48 GMT
We reuse our towels. We usually drape them over a patio chair or on the back of a chaise lounge. I'm in Las Vegas, so it takes very little time for the towels to completely dry.
Guests get clean towels. Their towels are also washed after each use.
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Post by Zee on Jul 16, 2024 4:52:09 GMT
It's just me and DH going to the pool and we each have our own towels.
I throw them in the dryer when we get home and we reuse them a couple times that way, since they get thoroughly dried .
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Post by kristi521 on Jul 16, 2024 13:48:53 GMT
No. I hang them to air dry in the sun or in the hot garage on a clothing rack. I was with towels on Sunday. Like if they got soaking wet then I would wash right away. But I treat them like bath towels. Once a week. Not like we are dirty after swimming. Same here, except even if they get soaking wet, I let them dry in the sun. They dry very fast in the summer sun. |
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Post by Peace Sign on Jul 16, 2024 17:31:24 GMT
No, I alternate. While yesterday's towel is drying, I am using another towel. Then I switch back. I can do this all week and wash on the weekend. I don't have time to be washing towels every day!!
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We'd bring them home and fling them over the deck rail in the sun. They would dry quickly and we'd use them the next day. They smelled like sun and chlorine, two smells that say "summer" to me. I think I washed them every few days depending on how many days that week we'd been to the pool.
