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)

  • AA5B@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Huh, I never thought about replacing them ….

    • used to wash towels when they stink, and I was good about hanging them to dry so I didn’t have to wash them
    • now I wash towels weekly, religiously
    • beach towels never get replaced. They tend to be cheap scratchy towels anyway, rarely used and easily get lost, so keep them until I no longer have them. Actually these days they’re more likely used to dry my dogs feet
    • bath towels … huh. Still on my first “real” family set and my kids are in college. They still work, but new ones are probably fluffier. The benefits of buying in bulk from Costco