How often do you wash your towels? And how often do you completely change them with brand new towels?

I wash them weekly and was just wondering recently if I should be buying new towels to replace my 8+ year old towels.

Edit to add: I wash towels by themselves so it’s a separate load to my regular laundry. I don’t know why but the different materials seem to clean better separately. But I also have a separate towels load for dirty/oily towels (kitchen towels, cleaning rags)

  • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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    6 hours ago

    Depends. I have an accuute sense of smell. Before it smells bad, it stops “smelling nice” usually a 3-4 day grace period. In that range, I wash them. It varies because in winter, the heat register dries them pretty fast, in summer, less so, but the HVAC fan constantly circulates so since they dry fast, they keep longer.

    In the summer, I’ll do less than a week sometimes because I’ll shower more than once a day because sweat. They stay wet longer and get “unfresh” faster.