Laundry Tip
A blog reader sent the following laundry tip:
I'm still single, but here's a laundry tip that helps reduce my laundry (plus it reduces what I spend at the laundromat):
Use one large towel per person per week. You're only drying off a clean body! ;-) I got this idea from The Complete Tightwad Gazette.
I grew up in a home with both parents and a slightly younger brother. We almost always had to do one load of towels a day. The washing of towels would have been greatly reduced if we had followed the one towel per person per week rule.
I use a hand towel to dry my hair (I have short hair) - one per week as well - and a new washcloth each day. I also have about 10 kitchen dish towels to enable me to get through a week. With a child, you might have more, due to messes.
posted by Crystal Paine at 12:48 PM
5 Comments:
If you are going to bed clean (taking showers before bed) I only wash my PJs every few days.
We do the one towel per person per week thing, too. We each have our own different colored beach towel which we use to dry off. These are often cheaper than bath sheets.
My whole family uses beach towels, but we use 2 per week (changed on Wednesday & Saturday) as they get a bit damp-smelling otherwise. When we lived in North Carolina and Hawaii, we put the towels into the dryer after use so that they wouldn't get mildewed :)
People wash towels more than once a week?? Lol...just goes to show you how I was brought up. Once a week was definitely the rule in my family. 9 towels per day or even twice a week would be a pain! :)
We have always abided by the one towel per person per week rule... With five children at home, the towels would really be used up in a hurry otherwise! We make sure to hang them to dry immediately so they don't sour. This is a great habit to get into and one more people should try. Think of the energy conserved as well as the longer lasting towels!
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