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Do you wash your towels separately from clothes?
Laundry Q- Do you wash your towels separately from your clothes?
If yes, then do you wash your colored towels separately from your white towels?
Re: Do you wash your towels separately from clothes?
Yes.
No; half of our kitchen towels are red, and I washed them separately the first few times, but once they stopped bleeding, I combined them with the white/light towels.
Yes.
No. I don't have white towels.
Absolutely! I put colored bath towels with my white ones..with vinegar to eliminate the mildew (yuckkky)
I am a freak though and refuse to wash kitchen towels with anything other than kitchen towels. I find it disgusting to wash my kitchen towels that I use on dished etc with a bath towel that I have dried myself off with..Yucky!
So yes that means more laundry! but I don't mind!
Yes - I was towels sep from clothing b/c I do not use softener with towels.
Most all my towels are white, off-white, beige - so do wash them all together.
Yes - wash clothes separately from towels & bed linens because I was all towels/bed linens in hot water.
I do wash towels together because they are typically med - dark colors.
Yes...
and yes. I only have 2 white kitchen towels and 1 almost all white beach size towel but I wash those in a "mini" load, just to help keep them from getting dingy.
No. I usually have room each load for one or two towels. If I'm doing sheets, sometimes I'll combine towels with those though.
I always do sheets on hot (helps kill allergens) but I do clothes on whatever the normal setting is on the washer for colors or whites.
Not necessarily. I wash towels on warm, and most clothes I was on cold, but if I have extra room in a load of towels, I'll throw some clothes in there also.
Aside from the water temperature issue, I don't really understand why you'd need to wash them separately from clothes. They're all getting tossed around in soapy water, no matter what else is in there with them.
DH and I have yellow towels and bathmats. I usually have enough of those for their own load. Our extra towels are white, and those I wash in the whites load -- with other white clothes, but not with the yellow towels.
Kitchen towels get thrown into whatever load I have going first. I'm pretty germophobic in general, but I really feel like anything that has gone through the laundry is clean, no matter what was in there with it.
I usually wash towels separately but sometimes I throw a few t-shirts or some of DH's boxers into the load as well. It just depends.
We don't have any white towels, except for our kitchen flour sack towels I use to dry dishes.
I am not a germophobe at all, but I do not wash kitchen towels with bath towels and do not wash either with clothes.
I don't have any nice white bath towels, so I wash them all together. I do have dish towels with a lot of white in them, but they all get washed together too (dish towels, dish rags and cloth napkins)
I wash my towels seperate from my clothes.
I wash my cleaning rags by themselves with bleach. Kitchen and bath towels get washed together. (I dont use kitchen rags and towels for nasty stuff, so they arent too gross.)
I wash my towels separately from clothes, but dont really have an issue putting kitchen towels in with bath/hand towels- never thought about it.
I dont separate because of something "icky" - I heard once that since towles are so rough, washing them with other non-sturdy clothes can add to the wear and tear of clothes, so I want to avoid that. I will sometimes put them in with jeans or something if I am trying to combine for a full load.
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Yes.
No, I wash mine all together.
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Sometimes. I try to wash them seperate from clothes just because towels tend to get my clothes all linty, but if I have a small load of clothes with room to spare then I'll usually throw in a towel or two.
Our towels are white so yes I wash them seperate from colors. And I won't wash bath towels with kitchen towels. But I will wash bath towels with sheets if there's room.
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2) I do not have white towels so this isn't an issue for me.
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I wash towels separately from clothes. It has nothing to do with being worried about germs. Washing textured towels with more delicate garments can wear down the fibers of softer fabrics. It isn't a huge deal... I've dumped things together in the past (college years when we had to put quarters in the machine!) I just notice that there is a difference when my laundry is sorted. If you look at tshirts that you've washed with towels, you'll notice that the finish isn't smooth. If you get new ones and don't wash them with towels (or with anything that has zippers, snaps or other areas that could catch the fabric), those shirts will look new for a long time.
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Yes, because we wash all towels in hot water and do not use dryer sheets.
We only have dark colored towels.
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Yep yep! When I used to wash them all together (in apartment complex with pay-per-load machines), I always noticed an odd "film" of fluff or damage on my clothes.
Now I usually do towels separately from clothes, except jeans/undies.
Of course I wash them together. The detergent cleans them, and I'm not a crazy germophobe.
We also do not use fabric softener or dryer sheets on any of our laundry, so thats not an issue for us.
If our towels start to get linty, then we would. That would drive me crazy!.