Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wash all towels used on my body (pool towels and bath/shower towels) after each use.


Honestly I reused towels when I was in college but I didn't realize upper middle-class adults really did that.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, I wash all towels used on my body (pool towels and bath/shower towels) after each use.

Honestly I reused towels when I was in college but I didn't realize upper middle-class adults really did that.

It’s about being environmentally conscious. Don’t you read the Times or listen to NPR? Perhaps you’re not as UMC as you think you are.

Wow, I wash all towels used on my body (pool towels and bath/shower towels) after each use.

Honestly I reused towels when I was in college but I didn't realize upper middle-class adults really did that.

I hang it and reuse once, but that’s because I only use the towel on my body and I don’t drape it on public chairs or anything. I pull it out of my bag, use it, hang it on a hook while I change, and go home to hang it up.

Local pool, one time. On vacation beach/pool towel? A few times before wash, unless it is obviously gross or sopping wet.

After every use. I go to community pool. It' just one load of laundry. We go a few times of week, not every day.

What about a bathing suit? TBh I just rinse with cold water and hang to dry.

After every use.

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.

We wash them every time we go to the pool. If I had my own pool and a place to hang then, I’d likely go 3 days or so.

So we have a pool and this is basically my worst summer nightmare. I can do a load or two of towels a day if we aren't careful and hang them. Im basically walking around the yard the whole summer hanging them over the deck. I try and get a few uses out of them before they hit the laundry. I am really strict with my own kids and they know they get ONE towel a day LOL!

Once if I’m at a public pool. I come home with a sopping wet bag of stuff that goes straight into the washer.

Several times (just like bath towels) if I’m at a private pool and can hang them right up.

Our's usually end up on the ground either by the pool or dropped in the locker room after swim practice so I wash those after one use because they're now officially gross. If DH or I swim and gently towel off, I dry and reuse those towels.

Is it your pool? I go to a public pool and the towel gets on the floor of the locker room, etc. I wash every time.

How many times do you use a pool towel before washing it? We dry them out between uses and then wash it after the third use, but I’m wondering if this is unusual. It seems like such a waste to wash them after one use, and that’s a lot of laundry since we hit the pool at least once almost every day.