@catthegreat@hdog35 Yes. Mine was doing her own laundry in 4th grade. I told her if she cleaned up her room putting the clean clothes in the dirty clothes rather than putting them away I was not going to do her laundry. I am sure we all know what happened next.
So when she finally ran out of clothes and started wearing dirty ones I took all the dirty ones and locked them in the shed. The next morning she wanted to know what she would wear. I pointed out what she had left. She said she hate those. I told her well then go to school in your PJ’s (I had warned the teacher what was going on and not be surprised with what she came to school wearing in the next few days). She said, “No way!”. I said, well then go there naked.
So that night she asked how to do laundry. There were a few all pink loads as she refused to sort them, but learned that the hard way (good thing they grow fast in 4th grade). I also heard her boasting to a 4th grade friend that she was doing her own laundry as much as she bitched about that to me.
But by high school it was safe to let her add my clothes to hers. She always wanted to do laundry then with only 2 or 3 things in there. She had even learned to air dry somethings.
IDK about all those towels, but perhaps if you teach the teens how to do Laundry they might actually hang them to dry and get more than 1 shower out of one?
@Mandamm
Reusing a towel can cause female problems for those with that kind of anatomy. That said, I’ll still use mine about 3 times before washing. When I visit my parents house my dad refuses to let anyone reuse a towel, especially my mom or me. He washes laundry almost daily.
@Mandamm@nostromo_
You’re right, there’s not a single possibility in the world that a bacterium could get on a towel and then replicate on the warm moist environment if somebody is washing in the shower.
The research says otherwise, but microbiologist and gynecologist be damned. People on meh know better.
@kittykat9180@Mandamm@nostromo_ unless you live in a humid environment, there’s no reason to wash towels that frequently, assuming they are used after bathing.
@Mandamm I’ve known more than one person where 1 shower = 1 towel. They’ll wear the same underwear for two weeks in a row but the idea of using a towel more than once is too much for them.
I think some people are doing something fundamentally different with bath towels, though. I had a roommate whose towel would smell disgusting after only one or uses. Like, to the point it was uncomfortable to be in the same room as it. I’ve been in hog confinements that were less unpleasant. I never brought it up because she had no other apparent hygiene issues and I have no idea what could have been causing it.
@brennyn
Two weeks with the same underwear! Disgusting.
I briefly had a roommate whose bathroom I could not even enter because the smell of his towel was so disgusting.
One time while he was at work, I ran it through the washing machine three times on hot water with a cup of vinegar. It still stink. I honestly don’t know how he could use it and not realize that it smelled that bad.
He moved out, without notice, after about five or six months because he developed a crush on me and I wouldn’t date him.
@catthegreat
Daily seems excessive to me, but my dad insists and he’s the one doing the work.
Perhaps my mom is prone to female infections. I know I get UTIs rather easily, but I do fine with washing my towels every three or four uses. I also wash with a cup of vinegar and dye and perfume free laundry soap.
When I need to.
It’s much less often now that I can’t run due to plantar fasciitis. It was every 4-6 days before but now it’s more like every 8-10 days.
Laundry gets done based on outside weather since I primarily use a 30 ft solar clothes dryer… AKA clothesline.
I have roughly 14 pair (of the same style) underwear. Ditto pairs of socks though I don’t use them nearly as often now that I’m not working much. I have over 30 t-shirts and probably the same number of button-down “dress” shirts. I have roughly a month’s worth of scrub sets for when I worked 7 on/7 off. We have at least four sets of sheets, as well as towels which get reused before they get washed.
Note: there seems to be a small window of opportunity today so there are currently a set of sheets, placemats and napkins in the washer. I’m hoping to get them out on the line by 8:00 so that they’ll be dry and smell fantastic by late morning when the (recently frequent) rains start.
I do our laundry pretty standard. I add Biz, per reddit. The only thing that stands out to people is that both my wife and I worked in kitchens, and we have and use tons of kitchen towels and keep a small hamper in the kitchen for them.
Of course we have paper towels, and use them like most people. Yet if you watch us cook a meal, we may go through a few, grabbing cleans ones often. It isn’t really a save the trees, but a habit we both kept.
@KNmeh7
I agree. I buy “bar mops” at Sam’s in 12 packs for that very reason. They’re cheap, the right size, and you can bleach them. A Sam’s mega roll package of paper towels will last me a couple of years since they are reserved for typically picking up stuff that’s too nasty to put in a towel (e.g. random lizard or frog pieces that the cat ‘deposited’ for me to show me what a good boy he’s been!)
My wife and I share laundry duties: once a week, I gather up the dirty items in a basket and haul it downstairs to the laundry room. She then works her magic with the forbidden machines* and puts the clean and dried items back in the basket. I haul the load back upstairs and sort/fold/distribute them as necessary. Works for us.
(* I am forbidden to use the machines after that unfortunate shrunken sweater “accident” )
I use my washer as my clothes hamper. Put a pod in the bottom, then make sure ALL pockets are cleaned out Before putting in the washer, one used per towel/wash cloth. When the washer gets about 3/4 full, I close the lid and push the Wash button. No matter what day it is. BTW towels & other thick items I use the latest & greatest in Solar drying!
The light weight weigh stuff goes into the dryer, which is lined with dried towels, to help Absorb the moisture in the clothes, since the towels are dry, they just get nice and soft
@mycya4me
Well, that schedule makes perfect sense to me, but my wife would have a shit fit. The thought of her gentles being in with my jeans would drive her bat shit crazy. Plus, due to the lint factor, I don’t like washing towels (especially bath towels) with much of anything else. My wife nearly ruined a few sets of scrubs when she washed them with a brand new towel one time. I looked like a Care Bear…
Washing happen when there’s a full load. Usually every 2 weeks now that the kids are grown and gone. Cold water wash mostly. Line dried during acceptable weather otherwise hung on the shower rod and towel bars. Some times the dryer is used with the air only cycle during rainy weather. Winter weather makes drying more challenging because most of the items require hanging or flat drying and NoDryer warnings on the labels.
@jkawaguchi
But on the bright side, during the winter it’s a good way to humidify your air!
I bought a hanger that fits over the door which is super handy. I used it a couple of days ago when rain popped up before my shirts got totally dried and I had to rescue them off the clothesline.
@jkawaguchi
TBH I’m not sure where it came from. Wife bought it over a year ago to use in an RV. A quick ‘googling’ results in several different styles and sources. I’ll try to remember to go look and see if it has a brand name on it a little later. But yes I thought it was genius. I particularly like that you are able to adjust the hanger height so the shelf was higher or lower depending on door height etc. Currently resides in our laundry room hanging from the back of our PVC framed rolling hampers taking up about 1-2 inches of space between the hamper and the wall.
Edit: IIRC I may have been a bit loose with the term “I bought”. While Idid technically pay for it, it seems like my wife is the one that actually found the source initially.
@chienfou@jkawaguchi I did a google image search, and I’m guessing your wife got it at Aldi. But being Aldi they’re probably not in stock anymore. The Container store has the most similar one but for a much higher price. There are lots of other designs on Amazon and elsewhere, but yours seems especially nice.
@jkawaguchi@Kyeh
I bow to your research skills!!
I do believe you are correct. Must have been an Aldi ‘aisle of shame’ item at a time we were in the market for this.
Good eye.
Whenever the need arises.
I’m gonna sound awful but whenever my wife says “I’m doing a load of colors/whites/etc.” I do help with the folding, at least. She’s the best!
Laundry. Every. Day. Often multiple times a day. A household of 2 adults, 2 teenagers. Why so many towels?!?!?
@hdog35 why not have teenagers do it
@catthegreat @hdog35 that’s like herding cats.
@catthegreat @hdog35 @pakopako Hmmm …
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@catthegreat @hdog35 Yes. Mine was doing her own laundry in 4th grade. I told her if she cleaned up her room putting the clean clothes in the dirty clothes rather than putting them away I was not going to do her laundry. I am sure we all know what happened next.
So when she finally ran out of clothes and started wearing dirty ones I took all the dirty ones and locked them in the shed. The next morning she wanted to know what she would wear. I pointed out what she had left. She said she hate those. I told her well then go to school in your PJ’s (I had warned the teacher what was going on and not be surprised with what she came to school wearing in the next few days). She said, “No way!”. I said, well then go there naked.
So that night she asked how to do laundry. There were a few all pink loads as she refused to sort them, but learned that the hard way (good thing they grow fast in 4th grade). I also heard her boasting to a 4th grade friend that she was doing her own laundry as much as she bitched about that to me.
But by high school it was safe to let her add my clothes to hers. She always wanted to do laundry then with only 2 or 3 things in there. She had even learned to air dry somethings.
IDK about all those towels, but perhaps if you teach the teens how to do Laundry they might actually hang them to dry and get more than 1 shower out of one?
@Mandamm
Reusing a towel can cause female problems for those with that kind of anatomy. That said, I’ll still use mine about 3 times before washing. When I visit my parents house my dad refuses to let anyone reuse a towel, especially my mom or me. He washes laundry almost daily.
@kittykat9180 @Mandamm Hogwash! If yall wash that funky thing it ain’t no big deal
@Mandamm @nostromo_
You’re right, there’s not a single possibility in the world that a bacterium could get on a towel and then replicate on the warm moist environment if somebody is washing in the shower.
The research says otherwise, but microbiologist and gynecologist be damned. People on meh know better.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10172380/
@kittykat9180 @Mandamm @nostromo_ unless you live in a humid environment, there’s no reason to wash towels that frequently, assuming they are used after bathing.
@Mandamm I’ve known more than one person where 1 shower = 1 towel. They’ll wear the same underwear for two weeks in a row but the idea of using a towel more than once is too much for them.
I think some people are doing something fundamentally different with bath towels, though. I had a roommate whose towel would smell disgusting after only one or uses. Like, to the point it was uncomfortable to be in the same room as it. I’ve been in hog confinements that were less unpleasant. I never brought it up because she had no other apparent hygiene issues and I have no idea what could have been causing it.
@brennyn
Two weeks with the same underwear! Disgusting.
I briefly had a roommate whose bathroom I could not even enter because the smell of his towel was so disgusting.
One time while he was at work, I ran it through the washing machine three times on hot water with a cup of vinegar. It still stink. I honestly don’t know how he could use it and not realize that it smelled that bad.
He moved out, without notice, after about five or six months because he developed a crush on me and I wouldn’t date him.
@catthegreat
Daily seems excessive to me, but my dad insists and he’s the one doing the work.
Perhaps my mom is prone to female infections. I know I get UTIs rather easily, but I do fine with washing my towels every three or four uses. I also wash with a cup of vinegar and dye and perfume free laundry soap.
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About every three weeks. Determined by my clean towel supply.
When I need to.
It’s much less often now that I can’t run due to plantar fasciitis. It was every 4-6 days before but now it’s more like every 8-10 days.
Laundry gets done based on outside weather since I primarily use a 30 ft solar clothes dryer… AKA clothesline.
I have roughly 14 pair (of the same style) underwear. Ditto pairs of socks though I don’t use them nearly as often now that I’m not working much. I have over 30 t-shirts and probably the same number of button-down “dress” shirts. I have roughly a month’s worth of scrub sets for when I worked 7 on/7 off. We have at least four sets of sheets, as well as towels which get reused before they get washed.
Note: there seems to be a small window of opportunity today so there are currently a set of sheets, placemats and napkins in the washer. I’m hoping to get them out on the line by 8:00 so that they’ll be dry and smell fantastic by late morning when the (recently frequent) rains start.
I do our laundry pretty standard. I add Biz, per reddit. The only thing that stands out to people is that both my wife and I worked in kitchens, and we have and use tons of kitchen towels and keep a small hamper in the kitchen for them.
Of course we have paper towels, and use them like most people. Yet if you watch us cook a meal, we may go through a few, grabbing cleans ones often. It isn’t really a save the trees, but a habit we both kept.
@KNmeh7
I agree. I buy “bar mops” at Sam’s in 12 packs for that very reason. They’re cheap, the right size, and you can bleach them. A Sam’s mega roll package of paper towels will last me a couple of years since they are reserved for typically picking up stuff that’s too nasty to put in a towel (e.g. random lizard or frog pieces that the cat ‘deposited’ for me to show me what a good boy he’s been!)
My wife and I share laundry duties: once a week, I gather up the dirty items in a basket and haul it downstairs to the laundry room. She then works her magic with the forbidden machines* and puts the clean and dried items back in the basket. I haul the load back upstairs and sort/fold/distribute them as necessary. Works for us.
(* I am forbidden to use the machines after that unfortunate shrunken sweater “accident”
)
@macromeh
My access is limited to anything that’s NOT in the gentle (ie SWMBO’s stuff) hamper.
I use my washer as my clothes hamper. Put a pod in the bottom, then make sure ALL pockets are cleaned out Before putting in the washer, one used per towel/wash cloth. When the washer gets about 3/4 full, I close the lid and push the Wash button. No matter what day it is. BTW towels & other thick items I use the latest & greatest in Solar drying!
The light weight weigh stuff goes into the dryer, which is lined with dried towels, to help Absorb the moisture in the clothes, since the towels are dry, they just get nice and soft
@mycya4me
Well, that schedule makes perfect sense to me, but my wife would have a shit fit. The thought of her gentles being in with my jeans would drive her bat shit crazy. Plus, due to the lint factor, I don’t like washing towels (especially bath towels) with much of anything else. My wife nearly ruined a few sets of scrubs when she washed them with a brand new towel one time. I looked like a Care Bear…
@chienfou But what color Care Bear! hehehe
Washing happen when there’s a full load. Usually every 2 weeks now that the kids are grown and gone. Cold water wash mostly. Line dried during acceptable weather otherwise hung on the shower rod and towel bars. Some times the dryer is used with the air only cycle during rainy weather. Winter weather makes drying more challenging because most of the items require hanging or flat drying and NoDryer warnings on the labels.
@jkawaguchi
But on the bright side, during the winter it’s a good way to humidify your air!
I bought a hanger that fits over the door which is super handy. I used it a couple of days ago when rain popped up before my shirts got totally dried and I had to rescue them off the clothesline.
@chienfou
That’s really cool! Where did you find it? That could be a great idea for us. Thanks for a great idea!
@jkawaguchi
TBH I’m not sure where it came from. Wife bought it over a year ago to use in an RV. A quick ‘googling’ results in several different styles and sources. I’ll try to remember to go look and see if it has a brand name on it a little later. But yes I thought it was genius. I particularly like that you are able to adjust the hanger height so the shelf was higher or lower depending on door height etc. Currently resides in our laundry room hanging from the back of our PVC framed rolling hampers taking up about 1-2 inches of space between the hamper and the wall.
Edit: IIRC I may have been a bit loose with the term “I bought”. While I did technically pay for it, it seems like my wife is the one that actually found the source initially.
@chienfou @jkawaguchi I did a google image search, and I’m guessing your wife got it at Aldi. But being Aldi they’re probably not in stock anymore. The Container store has the most similar one but for a much higher price. There are lots of other designs on Amazon and elsewhere, but yours seems especially nice.
@jkawaguchi @Kyeh
I bow to your research skills!!
I do believe you are correct. Must have been an Aldi ‘aisle of shame’ item at a time we were in the market for this.
Good eye.
@chienfou @jkawaguchi Oh, thanks! I thought it was a nice device too, very well designed.
@jkawaguchi @Kyeh
the AoS at Aldi is ‘da bomb’ as the kids say (well at least they did 30 yrs ago!)
@chienfou @jkawaguchi
I wish we had Aldis here.
@jkawaguchi @Kyeh
Well. At least *his brother" has YOU covered!
I wish WE had a TJs closer that 100 miles.
@chienfou @jkawaguchi I do like TJs, but they don’t have housewares.
@jkawaguchi @Kyeh
Yep. They both cover different niches. Always viewed them as sort of like Walmart vs Target.
With spring sports we’re doing at least 1-2 loads a day.
I need to do mine bi-weekly. Underwear and socks always pile up.
… in bed.
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