Monthly shower towels

[scorpmatt]

Jesus fuck this isn't difficult.
Yes towels used to dry you after properly showering get dirty eventually. Once per use is OCD weird shit, but once a week is fine.

It's almost as if life likes damp and dark environments. So short of having your towel perfectly dried rapidly in the sun after each use, yes it will eventually not be so clean.

my towel rack is right above the heater vent in the bathroom.... quick dry towels in the winter and frozen towels in the summer (central a/c ftw)

 

[GodisanAtheist]

We generally go two weeks per change in my house, although a common sense sniff test is employed regularly to ensure towels that need a change sooner are changed sooner.

Additionally, we're a Japanese washcloth household, so all the dark smelly crevices on our bodies are scrubbed clean before we leave the bath. None of this slap some body wash on it and call it clean crap.

 

[Stiff Clamp]

several days elapse before a fresh towel is deployed . . . in these parts

It's how God intended, I reckon

 

[Red Squirrel]

By the 2nd week those towels must smell pretty bad. Does not matter if you're clean when you use them it's still something that got wet without soap, then air dried, then got wet again. After a while that will start to smell.

Once a week seems to be a fairly decent happy medium imo. If I try to go past that they will start to have a musty smell. Same with hand towels after washing hands.

 

[Meghan54]

If you shower properly, ie clean your ass, then monthly is fine. Your body should be clean when using the towel, so therefore the towel should be mostly clean as well. Just sayin. I myself change em weekly but I live alone so its only me.

That's funny. Doubt anyone here actually scrubs enough to leave a towel clean enough to be used for weeks. Skin cells slough...a lot...and can encourage bacterial/whatever growth that accompanies the skin cells. Add in a warm, moist, dark environment and those towels are just a petri dish of growing crap.

It's not always about the dirt.

 

[snoopy7548]

I use two towels each week, alternating between them. So Monday is Towel A, Tuesday is Towel B, Wednesday is Towel A, etc.

 

[VashHT]

LoL don't think I should even mention how long it's been since I changed the towel I'm currently using...

 

[IronWing]

Stable Diffusion says:

 

[MrSquished]

umm you have a bath towel, a hand towel next to your sink for when you wash your hands, and a face towel for washing your face. anything less is uncivilized.

please pass the grey poupon

 

[MtnMan]

Most of the time the humidity in the house is controlled, either because the AC is running, or the heat. A towel that is hung on a rack, over the shower door frame, etc., will dry in an hour or so. Nothing has a chance to grow.

The waste of water, soap, and energy to wash and dry towels after every use is completely unnecessary. Detergents in wastewater is also a pollutant, and leads to cancer causing chemicals in drinking water from any source downstream from a sewage treatment plant.

 

[MrSquished]

Why take a shower every day anyways? Do you sweat profusely just breathing?

Unless you do some work or activity everyday that is manual and sweaty and dirty, you don't need to shower every day.

Be more European. Maybe we'll get more healthcare too

 

[BudAshes]

When I lived in Arizona I didn't even need a towel. Just shake off and you are dry.

 

[dank69]

I bet you're the type of person who changes their underwear more than once a week as well.

You guys are wearing underwear?

 

[dank69]

yeah, no

i ain't drying my face today with the same cloth i used to dry my butt yesterday

anyone who does that is not to be trusted

I always dry my crotch area first. That way all the pheromones get distributed all over my body as I dry the rest of myself. When I don't I actually have to put in a little effort to land the next supermodel. This way, they come to me.

 

[RPD]

Most of the time the humidity in the house is controlled, either because the AC is running, or the heat. A towel that is hung on a rack, over the shower door frame, etc., will dry in an hour or so. Nothing has a chance to grow.

Wrong.

 

[MtnMan]

Wrong.

Well, maybe the humidity is higher in mom's basement?

 

[Mermaidman]

From the clinic in Cleveland:

How Often Should You Wash Your (Germ Magnet of a) Bath Towel?

You step out of the tub or shower feeling clean and fresh — but do you wipe away all that healthy hygiene with a dirty towel? A dermatologist offers 5 tips on fresh towel tactics.

health.clevelandclinic.org

 

[snoopy7548]

Well, maybe the humidity is higher in mom's basement?

Is that some sort of euphemism?

 

[RPD]

Well, maybe the humidity is higher in mom's basement?

What's the saying here, oh, the lady doth protest too much methinks.

 

[MtnMan]

What's the saying here, oh, the lady doth protest too much methinks.

An observation from mom's basement?

 

[Exterous]

I checked with my maid and apparently we incinerate our towels after every use.

 

[blankslate]

Valiryo White Air Body Dryer - A&E Bath and Shower BD-01-W (totallyfurniture.com)

people still use towels?

barbaric....




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j/k

 

[Red Squirrel]

I remember as a kid thinking it would be cool if they made a shower where you just stand in, and it power washes you then drys you all in one go. I guess we're not that far from that!

 

[MtnMan]

I remember as a kid thinking it would be cool if they made a shower where you just stand in, and it power washes you then drys you all in one go. I guess we're not that far from that!

I have bits and pieces that might find that a bit extreme.

 

[JEDI]

I have bits and pieces that might find that a bit extreme.

wrong type of blow job?