⊠you people use towels more than once?
By definition youâre clean when you use it. If you hang it to dry itâs perfectly fine to use more than once
I was always taught that the towelâs final role is to abrade and collect the dirt/grime/skin that has been loosened by showering, but that wasnât washed away (which iirc is mostly just the skin and oily grime, not dirt or other large particulates).
If it works for you then you do you! Itâs just odd to discover that people think towels are somehow clean after being rubbed all over your body. Itâs probably fine, the literature Iâve just dug up seems to indicate that itâs not ideal but safe to use the same towel for 1-3 days so long as youâre not sharing it, (depending on environment, it seems that they get a âdisconcertingly large bacteriological loadâ (heh) if left in a humid bathroom) but still. ew.
I was always taught that the towelâs final role is to abrade and collect the dirt/grime/skin that has been loosened by showering, but that wasnât washed away (which iirc is mostly just the skin and oily grime, not dirt or other large particulates).
This is nasty to me. Do you not scrub yourself in the shower? Like, if you have dirty hands, and wash them in the sink, you can dry your hands on a white towel and it should not get dirty. Same for your body except you usually have more scrubbing tools to exfoliate your skin and remove the dirt so you should be even cleaner come dry time.
I donât know that Iâd call my used towel âcleanâ per se, but itâs certainly not dirty. Itâs not doing any cleaning or removal of anything, just patting up water.
And Iâm pretty clean each time too so itâs not exactly collecting a ton of dirty. If itâs used for something other than me fresh out of the shower then it goes straight in the wash. Otherwise it gets washed when I do laundry each week.
Youâre not clean, though. Youâre really, really not. Youâre cleaner, but humans are disgusting and a residential shower is in no way getting you anything close to actually âcleanâ. You donât have to be insane like I am and swap them out every shower, all the literature I can find says 1-3 days is probably fine, but please please get a couple more towels and swap out for a clean one every few days at least, right now youâre just culturing some very nasty bacteria and then rubbing it all over yourself.
Why would I change either?
I mean, Iâm a hoopy frood, So I know where my towel is, and itâs full of all kinds of nutrients due to the competing microbes that compose its flora. You donât just waste that kind of ecosystem by changing towels every decade.
And sheets? What about the memories? Every stain is a mark of something wonderful that happened. Except the ones that are marks of something horrific that happened. Or the ones that are just spilled beverages. But, you know, thatâs still plenty of good memories you want washed down the drain, you animal you.
Best be careful when changing sheets anyway. Itâd be a shame if your mattress wasnât properly killed before being shipped from Sqornshellous Zeta and it went on a flollop rampage after being exposed to too much sunlight.
Change to what? Money?
Mattress, about five years. Towels, every decade or so.
Just keep the ones you have clean with regular washing, and they donât wear out that fast.
