re: Should towels be used once for showers?

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I throw mine away after one use

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the only proper thing to do

I use a towel for about a week in the winter. I go through 2 or 3 towels a week in the summer because I take more showers when it's hot.

A towel can be used for several days as long as it completely dries between uses.

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The wife and I share towels. Cuts down on laundry. It's not like I'm dirtying the towel when I get out the shower.

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bullshite. Drying off with a semi-wet, cold towel is not comfortable.

I use it until it stinks.

Use the main dry towel multiple times before I get a new one. Although the smaller separate towel I use for the important parts gets used once only.

I use towels once. More than that is disgusting.

2-3 uses at home
I make it a point to use as many as possible at hotels

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damp towels that sit out attract bacteria even in the cleanest of houses. So yeah. I'm sticking with twice and then it's to the laundry.

Putting damp towels in the laundry makes them mildew. You want them to "sit out".

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Totally agree. But if they're in the laundry, they're getting washed is what I'm saying.

Towels are the assholes of a household laundry cycle. They take forever to dry and just slow down the process.

You want to cut down on those as much as possible and this factors exponentially once there are kids.

I proclaim that you are a fancy boy if you are repulsed by using a towel more than once. I have a hook next to my shower door and may use the same one for a couple of weeks or more and I am a very clean person.

Needing a new towel every time you shower is ridiculous.

Serious question for those that use a new towel everyday. How often do you change your bed sheets? I would think that sleeping more than one night on a set of sheets would be worse germ/dirt wise than re-using towels.

Full disclosure: I change towels and bed sheets weekly.