How often do you switch out towels?

Sundry Chitchat
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Hand towels and towels used after a shower.

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Twice a week

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Thread crying out for a pole.

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  • Daily (what?)
  • Twice weekly
  • Weekly
  • Fortnightly
  • Monthly
  • I’m a slob

0 voters

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If I lived alone I’d probably have two towels, alternate, and wash them every other week or so. As it is I can’t keep track and we wash a massive number of towels. One of my kids uses at least two a day.

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Once or twice a week. Hand towels possibly 3 times.

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I do feel like people overwash clothes etc and the thought of someone using 2 towels a day freaks me out, but I don’t own a dryer and it’s winter here atm. Actually washing heaps of laundry now because it’s a decent day.

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:astonished:

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Washing hand towels lol, when I spill something that I clean up with them ok

shower towels 2 uses max

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Hand towels?

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I want to know what the frequency is for people who pick the I’m a slob option?

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I use a bath towel like 2-3x before washing. Don’t use hand towels, just dry my hands on the bath towel hanging on the wall.

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The towel has forgotten everything by tomorrow.

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I bought a second hand book online and it reeked like some strange alien. Laid it out in the sun for a few days, flipped the pages once in a while, and WAPOW! No more stank. The sun don’t fuck around, son.

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I’m a bit quirky I guess, but I like to have a clean towel and washcloth for every shower. And I’m pretty religious about it. But for reasons unknown, hand towels can go for weeks.

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I get the clean washcloth thing but needing a fresh towel but being indifferent to hand towels is just very weird.

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I think there was a thread on exiled about small things we can all do to be more enviromentally friendly … not washing bath towels after a single use should be on there.

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via boingboing

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/plastics-plastics-everywhere

As we clean our clothing, sheets, and towels, tiny threads—commonly called microfibers—break off and wash away. To better understand how microbeads and microfibers—collectively making up microplastics—move through the Great Lakes and other freshwater systems, we wanted to understand whether they are removed at wastewater treatment plants.

After collecting and analyzing 90 samples taken from 17 different facilities across the United States, we confirmed that microplastics travel through wastewater treatment plants. On average, each wastewater treatment facility was releasing more than four million pieces of microplastic into U.S. waterways every day: 60 percent fibers, 34 percent beads, and 6 percent films and foams. With 15,000 such facilities in continual operation around the United States, billions of microplastic particles are finding a pathway through our wastewater from our homes to the fresh water we rely on.

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Fluffy or rough? I love rough towels myself - air dried so they have a bit of bite. Fluffy towels are awful.

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