Anonymous wrote: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.

This.

Anonymous wrote:I make my kids drip dry. Towels are gross.

I make my kids drip dry. Towels are gross.

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 disease do you catch from a towel. I wash my kids swim towel once a week. And bath towels twice a week tops. I swam competivsly growing up and my never washed towels more than once a week. You guys sound nuts.

Anonymous wrote:I am pretty lame on washing pool towels before they smell -I dry thoroughly on the yard line.

Pretty bad about jeans & bras too

You are my kind of people

I am seriously always shocked by people who wash everything after they touch it. Are they the majority or just the vocal minority?

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.

Like what? What dread disease can one catch from a dirty towel?

I am pretty lame on washing pool towels before they smell -I dry thoroughly on the yard line.

Pretty bad about jeans & bras too

After every single time, because chlorine is gross smelling.

Bath towels at home every 4-5 days or so for me, but I use them to dry off a clean body. Not a chlorinated body coming out of a public bathtub.

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.

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.

Every few days or if they get dropped. I hang them outside when we get home.

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.

Same here.

1 time...

I have my own backyard pool and probably go a week without washing my towel unless it gets some unusual dirt on it.

Every time.