How many times do you use a pool towel before washing it?
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Anonymous
| every use |
Anonymous
You wash your shower towel every day? I can't imagine that -- for my family, I'd be washing 21 towels per week. That would be 4-5 loads of laundry for towels alone, and where would you keep them all? |
Anonymous
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No pool but we use bath towels once.
Not worth the risk of any bacteria. |
Anonymous
Your poor kids. |
Anonymous
+1 yikes. |
Anonymous
| We have a pool. My nephews are visiting my two kids this week. The 4 kids have been in and out of the pool 3 seperate times today. The past week the 4 kids have probably been in and out of the pool 15 tines. No way am I washing 60 towels! They each have one. If they don't hang it up on pool fence after they use it they can drip dry or use their wet towel. I wash pool towels once a week. |
Anonymous
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I have three swimmers. We are the family that is at the pool twice a day from memorial day through the end of july, and then we cut back to once a day until the pool closes.
Summer towels are used 3 times or sooner if there is actual, visible dirt on the towel or it is SOAKED. (Our only true soaking happened in a rainstorm at a B meet this year and that involved 5 towels that I had to spin out before I could run the wash cycle.) My kids go to swim practice and then shower in the locker room with that towel; one kid swam 2 practices a day for most of the summer. Used towels get hung out in the sun or in the bathroom over a vent. Divisionals are tomorrow and no one has caught the plague get! I have one year round swimmer who probably uses one towel per week when he remembers to hang it up after practice. So, that really means he uses two towels per week! We generally use shower towels 4 times or so before washing. We're clean when we're using them, so why wash it after one use? |
Anonymous
Every single thing in your house has bacteria on it. Including e cold, staph etc. it’s everywhere. Washing pool towels is the least of it. So unless you disnefecf your house, cel phone, iPad, doorknobs, cardoor handles etc every single day multiple times a day, all of it has bacteria. Your body is fighting almost all of it through a good immune system. You folks sound nuts. Or need to get jobs or hobbies other than washing pool towels. |
Anonymous
| I wash pool towels and shower towels once a week. |
Anonymous
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I am shocked how many people seem to say they wash towels after one use - both bath towels and pool towels. So incredibly wasteful. What about hand towels and kitchen towels? Do you really dry your hands on them one time and then wash them? I change these more often than the bath towels. I use bath towels to dry off when I’m CLEAN.
Sometimes I will wash the pool towels after one use if they get dropped on a wet floor or are sopping or smelly. But sometimes I dry off at the pool without a towel and it barely gets wet and then I will hang it and use it again. Bath towels I will use for several days. After I use them I hang them and they get dry. When they don’t seem fresh any longer then I will replace. |
Anonymous
Same here. I hang the towels to dry on a clothesline & wash after 3ish uses. They aren’t on the ground. Wear jeans & bras repeatedly as well.... |
Anonymous
You're right, but not everything is wet after I use it or touch it, and then try to use it again after it dries but still contains bacteria. I disinfect my hands after touching my phone/ doorknobs/ car doors. I don''t have an Ipad. I disinfect my hands when I enter my car after touching the security sign pad, and again when I get in my house after touching the mailbox. |
Anonymous
This does not apply to pool towels that you hang out to dry in the sunshine, like over a fence or on a clothesline.
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Anonymous
This is actually pretty gross. |