Towel Change

How many times are you supposed to change your towel after a shower?

According to many anonymous girls on the web, it seems like they wash their towel every day.  Is this crazy to me?  I mean, I love a fresh towel, and I know theres a far off place somewhere where toilet paper never runs out, the bathroom’s always clean and the towels are endlessly fresh, but c’mon, using a new towel everyday means you either have a towel room that looks like Inspector Gadget’s wardrobe, or you’re doing a wash everyday, which, while it may be seen as gross to use a towel more than once , is not as gross as to put in a new load of wash (and dry) daily just so your dirty ass is wiped dry with a clean towel.

I’m sorry that I don’t change my towel every day or every two days.  Doing so would mean I’d have 3 1/2 large towels to clean at the end of a week -or 7 at the end of two weeks.  Add my girlfriend, and it would mean 14 large towels that would need to be cleaned every two weeks.  Forget about any other laundry.

But I also found this funny answer that I really liked:

I usually use a wash cloth to start to dry off after a shower it is soaking wet when I am done so it goes into the wash. the towel then is used to finish but hardly even gets damp so it gets reused two or three times. (we used to do this on submarines because washing a towel every day would use up too much water but throwing a small wash cloth into the laundry bag and doing three and a towel every three days was much less water.)

Haha.  ’we used to do this on submarines…’, that’s so funny.

I do some times shake off before i grab my towel so you get the heaviest amount of water off you and thus your towel’s not soaked.  When I was a kid I would try to shake as much like a dog as possible, neked, in my boney flesh, seeing if a towel wouldn’t be necessary but it always way.  Now, there’s no question, you always need a towel.

There’s loads (no pun intended) of stuff on the web on this subject.  And it’s pretty good, thoughtless reading.

Here’s another good list that alot of people responded to.  This is the sort of thing that reminds you of how cool it is to have the web.  You would never head over to the library to find this stuff out, so to type in such an asinine question and get 200 responses is pretty cool.  Any idiot can tell you how long they use their towel for.

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