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Suasoria · Chanel

Lame question: How often do you change or wash your towels?

AllieGurl · Marc Jacobs

Daily Here. I only use white towels at home, and it makes it easy to just do a load of white towels every few days.

cahabo · Kate Spade

I use two fresh towels after each shower- one for my body, and one for my hair. I do reuse the one that I use on my hair by hanging it up and use it to dry my hands after I wash them.

FashionPrincess · Hermes

I use a clean, fresh one daily, but hubby will use his 2x before putting it in the hamper.

CarrieS · Marc Jacobs

I think I have to plead the fifth on this one..........

NCshopper · Hermes

I do a big cleaning of the bathroom once a week and I usually change the towels out then.

luckylily · Gucci

CarrieS wrote:

I think I have to plead the fifth on this one..........

I probably should too, but I'll just say whenever they seem like they need a change. biggrin

Kelly · Hermes

It depends. I have enough clothes that I usually don't have to do laundry for about 2 weeks at a time, and I don't because I'm really lazy. Plus, I don't have my own washer/dryer so I like to wait until I visit my parents instead of spending time in the skeezy laundromat down the street. So I guess it's every week or two, depending on how often I make it to my parents' house. But if I forget to bring my towels, I don't consider it a big deal. (I do have multiple towels, but I have two favorites so usually I'll keep using those rather than switch out with a new one) I mean, I only use a towel for 5 minutes a day tops, and it's just to soak up water on my clean body - after the shower is the cleanest I'll be all day, so I don't see a big deal in using it over and over. I wear my clothes for 16 hours at a time, and that's while I get progressively dirtier over the course of a day.

-- Edited by ttara123 at 15:15, 2007-05-12

Willow · Nine West

cahabo wrote:

I use two fresh towels after each shower- one for my body, and one for my hair. I do reuse the one that I use on my hair by hanging it up and use it to dry my hands after I wash them.

This is exactly what I do too

dangergirl · Kate Spade

usually every week, give or take a day or two

lynnie · Chanel

luckylily wrote:

CarrieS wrote:

I think I have to plead the fifth on this one..........

I probably should too, but I'll just say whenever they seem like they need a change.

meee tooo. i'll spin it as water conservation, really, i'm pretty lazy (laundromat- no washing machine here).
i think i'm pretty european when it comes to cleanliness, i don't see the need for daily showers either.

Kitty · Hermes

Yikes. I use a towel a lot before I wash it. I dunno..not like it really gets very dirty since I use it when I'm at my cleanest and then just hang it up to try.

FashionPrincess · Hermes

I guess I also should add that after my shower I use my towel to wipe down the counter and I use it to wipe my hands/brushes on as I do my make up. And I generally use it again at night to dry my face after I wash it before bed.

ILoveChoo · Hermes

not at all often enough. I hate having to pay to do laundry! (I swear they did something to the dryers so they need to run 3 cycles to get stuff dry). I wash my face in the shower though and usually just use my hands, so its not like I'm scrubbing my face with something dirty. I pretty much wash them when they start to smell or when I have extra room in a load of jeans.

Once we have our house with a laundry room, I'll do them much more often. Probably a towel load every week or 2, so new towel every other day?

KaffeeKlatsch · Marc Jacobs

Every three days.

wicked · Coach

Every 2-3 weeks.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I use them 2-3 times before washing.

Once I saw on Oprah that you may be "clean" after you get out of the shower but you're constantly sloughing off dead skin cells which create bacteria on a damp towel. So I think they said you should was them every time you use them, twice at the most. But..it doesn't seem to hurt anybody by using them longer!

alagirl · Kenneth Cole

I'll change every 3-4 days or so.

littlebean · Kate Spade

Uh-oh, now I'm feeling like a total slob! I think I should probably be washing my towels more often...

Elle · Hermes

Once every 3 days or so for us.

If your bathroom has good air circulation and you hang your towels up to dry, you really can get a week out of them before they start to grow mold and bacteria. If your towel stays damp for awhile or is crumpled up, the mold/bacteria grows a lot faster than that ....