How often do you swop towels?
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Topic: How often do you swop towels?
Posted By: SMoody
Subject: How often do you swop towels?
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 11:57am
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:00pm
Every few days or so. Depends on how much mess my DP makes all over the bathroom floor and how much grease and dust and man things he puts on them. 
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Posted By: AlyAyde
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:02pm
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after every use. ------------- Jayde 25/12/04 Alyssa 08/04/03 http://Alyayde.bebo.com |
Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:02pm
Man things???? oooooo sounds gross. |
eomachine wrote:Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:05pm
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lol I realised that after I said it. It does sound gross. I meant the things he collects on himself at work like grease, dirt, dust, metal shards, alsorts. So I wash those ones after every use. The other ones usually dry quickly in my bathroom as it gets sunny in there.
Heh, man things.. 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:05pm
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Our big towels I use twice usually at night and then the next morning, others just the once. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:13pm
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just once, ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:14pm
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I change ours every 1-2 days. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: nictoddie
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:26pm
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after each use. ------------- 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:36pm
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I change our towels after 1 or 2 uses. My DH thinks I'm crazy to change them that often but I hate the smell of damp towels (especially if they get left on the bed, but he's getting better!) -------------  |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 12:39pm
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Ok so maybe I need to be doing ours more often....I change them once a week. My beautician changes her towels after every use....and that is twice a day....imagine her washing! |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:05pm
| I change mine every 2 or 3 showers. But DH is lazy and won't change his for a week. It's usually when the smell of damp towel annoys me that I just throw it in the washing machine to make him have a clean one lol |
Posted By: peachy
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:18pm
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When I first met DH he used a new towel every day, obviously he did NOT do the washing at home, his Mum did everything for all 4 of her children!
When we moved in together I advised him that if he was going to use a new towel every day, he would be doing all the washing, he soon got used to the fact that a towel can last 3 or 4 days without having to be changed. When you actually hang them up after use and not leave them on the floor to get manky they do dry and they are still clean, after all you have just had a shower for goodness sake!! So, we change them every 3 or 4 days, or if they get gross, we change them more often! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:22pm
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Probably twice a week ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: Bel
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:23pm
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Yeah we change ours every 4 days to a week. The best thing we installed last winter was a heated towel rail - means that towels last heaps longer, they dry up quick and don't get damp smell. ------------- Mum to two beautiful kids
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 1:24pm
| I change mine every week if i remember to hang it on the heated towel rail. DF tries to tell me he changes his weekly too but if I dont wash it it will be there for weeks! They usually get washed as soon as he starts using mine!!! |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:18pm
Dh changes his every 2nd day and I rely on the sniff test for mine, usually after 3 showers, and my hair towel once a week (I only wash my hair every 2nd day anyhow) Te childrens towels get changed once a week, they get hung up over the fire rail after night bath, so they dry out nicely. DSS (GGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ) uses 2 yes 2 towels for his twice daily showers, and point blank refuses to reuse, so when he is here, I have 4 towels a day from him. (so 12 towels after a weekend) His mother is his slave, but I make him fold them all becasue I get sick of it! I do 2 towel loads a week for us if i'm unlucky but when he is here it more than doubles!------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: my4beauties
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:21pm
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I use my towel twice, kids usually 3 times as they hardly really dry themselves with it (they run around the house & airdry). DH uses a fresh towel every shower! Frustrates me so bad as there are towels for africa some days! My washing is usually just towels & more towels. He just leaves them on the floor, never hangs it up to dry & reuse. I ask him to use them twice but he never does. ------------- My babies: R (9),G (7), J (5) http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 2:23pm
| everyday - because in our house the only one who hangs up[ the towels is me, and consequently, MY towels stay good for a while and hubby's get stinky cause thewy are left on the floor. jake insists on powdering himself and Taine on a towel which when it's wet goes all gluggy. handtowel gets changed every 4-5 days though, depending on how manky it is, and how nice the weather is outside (for drying) |
Posted By: Red
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 3:19pm
| I only change them once a week, heated towel rail is great, so maybe even though I am using more electricity, I am actually doing less washing! |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 4:25pm
Every Wednesday, and god help anyone who doesn't hang their towel back up after their shower, that has to be one of my pet hates is finding towels on the floor, or hanging on the door or laying on the bed... they wouldn't dare forget to hang them back up  ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 4:36pm
Ohhhh I hate towels on the bed with a passion. DH learnt very very quickly not to leave them on the bed because I was a meanie and if I found them lying around I'd put them on top of his clean clothes.. He quickly learnt that I don't appreciate wet towels on my bed 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 7:15pm
| Ooh, I do that too! But the towels go on his "box" because he got lazy about leaving clothes around soi piled them all in a box to teach him a lesson - dirty and clean. he has since decided he likes the box and it is now permanent! |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 7:24pm
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I wash the gremlins towels every day (no idea why, I just do) and Maya's and mine every couple of days or so. Willie just throws his in the basket when he thinks it needs washing, but he spends more time in the bathroom than I do so he probably changes his towel more often too, he's a bit of a clean freak. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: linda
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 8:24pm
| Once a week...but our towels are on a heated towel rail so they dry well after we use them. Maybe if I wasn't working I'd do it more often...on second thoughts, nah, would probably still be every week |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 8:38pm
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:00pm
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Gosh this is funny, it looks like one half of every couple wants their towel washed daily LOL ------------- |
Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:05pm
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and it looks like the half that dosen't do the washing or folding... ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: Mazzy
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:07pm
| Ours get washed every four days to a week, unless they get left on the floor or bed (which I also get annoyed about!) and don't dry, then they go straight in the wash. |
Posted By: hailstones
Date Posted: 09 May 2007 at 9:18pm
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I usually stretch mine out to 2 or 3 showers but Dh is hopeless and likes to create washing ( by leaving his towels on the floor) so usually his everyday ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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