Do you wash swim suits every day?

[Anonymous]

How do you all handle washing swim suits? I wash them immediately after wearing, but am realizing in the summer this means every single day. We are coming off a week of camp that included swim, so every night I emptied the backpack and washed the swimsuit and towel. And then we swam today so another load, and same tomorrow. Is this normal, or do you have another system for how you handle daily swimsuits? How about when you're at the beach? Just curious, not looking for judgy or mean responses please.

[Anonymous]

Lord no I definitely do not. In the weekly wash with everything else. They are in chlorine I don’t know I’ve never worried about it to be honest. And each kid has a couple suits so not wearing the same one each day

[Anonymous]

The “lord no” was not meant to be snarky just my genuine oh heck no I don’t

[Anonymous]

I don't wash them every day, but I have enough to go through the week of camp or vacation so that no suits are re-used before being washed.

I will re-use pool towels that fully dried out.

I probably end up doing laundry 2x a week rather than 1x on weeks like this so the wet towels don't sit around too much.

[Anonymous]

No, just rinse and air dry. Never in the dryer. I learned the hard way. My kids swim year round.

[Anonymous]

OK OP here with a follow up question. Where do you store the damp suit if not washing it? I just cannot throw it in the laundry basket wet. Do you hang it in the bathroom? Do you have another wet laundry spot? Leave it outside? I realize I sound like a crazy laundry person but have just always assumed if it's wet it needs to be washed... Im going to take your tips here! We also have multiple suits so don't need to wash and rewear.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK OP here with a follow up question. Where do you store the damp suit if not washing it? I just cannot throw it in the laundry basket wet. Do you hang it in the bathroom? Do you have another wet laundry spot? Leave it outside? I realize I sound like a crazy laundry person but have just always assumed if it's wet it needs to be washed... Im going to take your tips here! We also have multiple suits so don't need to wash and rewear.

Command hooks off the tub in the kids bathroom.

[Anonymous]

I just hang them in the laundry room or on a towel hook or something until I have gathered enough for a load. I do the pool towels at the same time.

[Anonymous]

Kids have two suits each. They wear one, then we wash/rinse in the shower and hang. Next day, they use the second one and repeat. Third day, back to the first suit. Wash the suits on the weekends. We alternate because sometimes the suits aren't always dry and the kids prefer not to put on and hang out in the damp suits. Alternating two seems to solve the issue.

[Anonymous]

I put over the door towel racks in each kids room. They hang their suit and towel on the rack (and put their swim bag on the rack hook). Wash them sometimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK OP here with a follow up question. Where do you store the damp suit if not washing it? I just cannot throw it in the laundry basket wet. Do you hang it in the bathroom? Do you have another wet laundry spot? Leave it outside? I realize I sound like a crazy laundry person but have just always assumed if it's wet it needs to be washed... Im going to take your tips here! We also have multiple suits so don't need to wash and rewear.

I either leave them on the unfinished cement floor of the basement laundry, drape them over a chairr, or toss in the bathroom laundry hamper.

These are when things are damp. If it's really wet, I hang in the bathroom somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OK OP here with a follow up question. Where do you store the damp suit if not washing it? I just cannot throw it in the laundry basket wet. Do you hang it in the bathroom? Do you have another wet laundry spot? Leave it outside? I realize I sound like a crazy laundry person but have just always assumed if it's wet it needs to be washed... Im going to take your tips here! We also have multiple suits so don't need to wash and rewear.

I have a metal foldable drying rack from Walmart (about $15) that is in the garage next to the laundry area. Wet suits and towels live there. In a former house without a garage, it lived on the back porch.

[Anonymous]

I have boys so you can get swim trunks at the end of the season for $5-10. My kids each have five or six, but with three boys I can pass them down and it’s not really buying that many suits overall.

We throw them in the laundry room and they get done with the regular laundry. We can also put them in the dryer because they are not Lycra.

[Anonymous]

1. My kids each have multiple swimsuits.
2. No, we don’t wash them daily. We hang them to dry on hooks in the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

I rinse them in warm water when i rinse the kid. Hang dry in a bathroom. We installed a retractable clothesline in the basement bathroom just for this.
I dona full wash of suits and towels once a week.