How many fresh towels a day is average? My son uses 2 clean towels a day. He used to use 4 a day.?

Question

He thinks I'm crazy now cuz I am going to limit him to 1 clean towel per day. We have a family of 5, was 6. I told him that if we all used 2-4 towels a day that would be a whole load of laundry per day not counting clothing! He thinks I'm crazy and using 2 clean towels a day is the norm. I wan't you guys and gals opinion.

Answer 1

I saw a news report about this. Germs and bacteria starts to grow in a used towel.... dead skin that shed, etc and the towel is moist so perfect breeding ground for bacteria to grow!

Yes I used to think "your clean" when you get out of the shower.

Now I would NEVER use a towel more than twice.

READ the report.... WATCH the VIDEO (video link under blue special report banner) http://www3.whdh.com/features/articles/specialreport/BO13692/

On the same subject...you'd be surprised how many people DO NOT wash their hands in a public bathroom. So your clean hands aren't so clean when you touch the handle to get out!

If using a public restroom, use a paper towel to shut off the faucet and open the bathroom door.

I took Early Childhood Education in college we had a "field trip to the bathroom" to practice (practice? ...silly I know).

Answer 2

I use one fresh towel a day for my body after showering.
I use one separate towel for my hair, which I use for two or three days in a row.
Daily, I replace the hand towel in the bathroom.
When my children got to junior high age, they were responsible for all of their own laundry (but I still did the towels).
You could have him wash his own towels.
Maybe he has some type of germ phobia, OCD or something - keep on eye on the situation and see if he develops "rituals," or has anxiety about germs or cleanliness. If that seems to be an issue, get him professional help without making fun of him.

Answer 3

Okay, first of all, Randy D has spent too much time thinking about this question. Why he gave everyone thumbs down is beyond me given that this is an opinion question and there is NO wrong answer. One clean towel per WEEK is sufficient for your son and if he insists on using two per day then he can do his own laundry - you aren't on this earth to cater to everyone's crazy whims.

Answer 4

This is your home and you need to set the rules and if your rule is 1 towel a day then your son will have to adjust !
Personaly I use a clean towel every time I bath and one for my hair .I may go through several towel aday but that is my house and your house has many people and you have different rules..Take control mom.

Answer 5

i use 1 clean towel per week. yes, if you get clean in the shower and dont wipe your ******** with the towel, then hang it up properly you can get it to go a week between launderings. 2 per day is wasteful. 4 per day is unbeliveably wasteful and probably costs a lot to heat the wash water to wash 4 towels per day. you spend time washing and folding towels so your kid can go through 2 per day? that comes out to 14 per week. probably 2 wash loads of JUST TOWELS per week for 1 person.

Answer 6

so your son is at THAT age now ! Tell him 1 bath and 1 towel per day is the limit, when he gets his own place he can do as he pleases

Answer 7

Now let me give you an answer that contradicts every other answer I've read so far. I have always been a "one-towel" guy, despite the very accurate feeling that one towel DOES NOT do the job of drying one's body, especially if you have to dry your hair. Most of what happens, and we're forced to accept it, is as my father used to say about the cheaper brand towels, "All you're doing is spreading the water around. You're not actually drying anything." Now that I'm older and retired early, and get to enjoy the "finer things in life", such as actually getting dry after showering, I use three (3) towels every time I shower! The first towel gets the major part of the water off of your body and hair. The second towel gets the remnants left behind by the first towel, and believe me, there are plenty of "remants" of water that the first towel DOES NOT get, and the third towel, which is really getting down to the finer points, gets all the really small areas that the first two couldn't and didn't get, and yes, there's plenty for the third towel, although that one barely gets wet compared to the first two. Now, maybe I can demand such "perfection" since I'm retired and have the money to afford the extra towel and the extra laundry, but, if you really look at it, it's really no expense at all. Maybe your son is not as good about hanging his towels back up in an orderly fashion as I am, and that wouldn't be unusual, depending on his age, but the use of three, (yes, I said three - 3 - full size bath towels) every time I shower is what I demand so that I won't feel as tacky and messy going out of the bathroom as I felt going in. If your son needs some training on how to pick up after himself, as my 22 year old Army son needs, well, that I can understand, but those who use only one towel, no matter the quality of the towel, are going out of the bathroom as tacky as when they went in, and since they demand that one towel do the job that should be allocated to at least two towels, they're not giving their towels time enough to truly dry off before they shower again, and then they get moldy and mildewy as well as wet on their subsequent shower. So, praise your son for being sensitive and smart enough to know that one towel won't do the job, and train him to pick up after himself if he needs it. God Bless you.

Answer 8

I use the same towel the whole week (after hanging it to dry). I would suggest if your son wants to have two clean towels a day, then he can pay at the laundry mat to have them clean!

Answer 9

How old is this son? If he is old enough let him wash the towels..maybe by hand and hang them outside to dry..He may decide 1 towel is enough.

Answer 10

Washing a towel after one day is a ridiculous and selfish waste of resources. Take control of your home.