How many times do you use a pool towel before washing it?

[Anonymous]

Every time. Athletes foot... plantar warts... primordial ooze .

[Anonymous]

I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At any private pool, I wash it after one use.

Even if I didn’t DIRECTLY put the towel on the ground, who knows if it cross contaminated w/anything.

Sure adds more to the wash load, but better than catching any infectious disease.

What would it be cross contaminated with...?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:every 2-3 days? three kids on the swim team with practice 5x/week + weekend meets.

Kids don't go into locker room, so they go from backpack to body, hung around their neck when they walk home, and home to be hung up.

+1. We’re at the pool most days. When possible I hang a damp towel over a breezy railing in the sun and it dries pretty quickly. I don’t like reusing a towel that was damp very long, though. I let pool towels that dry quickly in the sun ride longer than shower towels that hang in a dim, humid bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

Wet towels grow bacteria while they dry. It's disgusting not to wash them. http://time.com/4918624/wash-towels-bacteria/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

Wet towels grow bacteria while they dry. It's disgusting not to wash them. http://time.com/4918624/wash-towels-bacteria/

That article applies to towels used and hung in bathrooms and kitchens, not outdoor pool towels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

Wet towels grow bacteria while they dry. It's disgusting not to wash them. http://time.com/4918624/wash-towels-bacteria/

Bacteria is GOOD. We need to stop coddling our immune systems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

Wet towels grow bacteria while they dry. It's disgusting not to wash them. http://time.com/4918624/wash-towels-bacteria/

That article applies to towels used and hung in bathrooms and kitchens, not outdoor pool towels.

I posted about towels in bathrooms, as did the poster responding to me. If it makes you feel better, I would always wash a pool towel after one use.

[Anonymous]

Daily

[Anonymous]

“bacteria is GOOD. We need to stop coddling our immune systems”
+1
There is such a thing as too clean. We are not arriving to get there in my house and we are generally pretty healthy with only seasonal / pollen allergies.

[Anonymous]

Not “striving “^

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

Wet towels grow bacteria while they dry. It's disgusting not to wash them. http://time.com/4918624/wash-towels-bacteria/

That article applies to towels used and hung in bathrooms and kitchens, not outdoor pool towels.

I posted about towels in bathrooms, as did the poster responding to me. If it makes you feel better, I would always wash a pool towel after one use.

Why would you wasting water make anyone feel better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't go to the pool but one bath towel= one use.

So wasteful. Wow.

Wet towels grow bacteria while they dry. It's disgusting not to wash them. http://time.com/4918624/wash-towels-bacteria/

That article applies to towels used and hung in bathrooms and kitchens, not outdoor pool towels.

I posted about towels in bathrooms, as did the poster responding to me. If it makes you feel better, I would always wash a pool towel after one use.

Why would you wasting water make anyone feel better?

I'm PP. Because it's on-topic water wasting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow.. I can't believe people wash towels that often.

We go to the pool a lot in the summer. And wash our towels maybe every other week. We're all still alive and our skin hasn't fallen off yet. We just use them to dry off and hang them outside when we get home. They don't touch the locker room floor or anything.

I am clearly not a clean freak. On the flip side my kids have a great immune systems and haven't missed a day of school in years.

This.