re: Should towels be used once for showers?

Reuse at home. Different towel after each use at hotel/resort/condo

Reuse like a normal person that knows how to clean themselves... then wash them every time we do laundry.

I never realized people reused towels until I read it on the OT

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I like to use my towel at least twice. However, after one use my wife will come behind me and throw it in the laundry. ETA: She gets worse during the summer months.

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Does worse mean that she washes it before you use it or she starts slacking and washes less often in the summer? ??

A friend of mine used to tell me that when he dried himself after a shower, he'd dry his arse crack last and smell the towel. If the towel smelled like arse, he'd get back into the shower. If I did that, I'd never leave the bathroom. I can wash my a-hole with gasoline and a wire brush and 5 minutes later, it smells like arse. Guess I'm a manly man.

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I use it until it stinks.

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You realize it stinks because it's loaded with bacteria and/or mildew right?

Fresh towel every bath. My wife does the laundry and she's cool with it. Sorry you haven't trained yours right.

Two towel rotation so that the same one has a lot of time to dry.

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your stink hole

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It's very clean after shower.

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I use my towels for 3 days.

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Same here. Prior to 3 days, if the towel smells dirty, it goes to the dirty clothes hamper.

Reusing towels after little kids are dried off is fine. Reusing towels after adults use them is not fine.

My friend had this theory in college only he said he would never wash the towels the entire semester between the 4 guys in the dorm room. That was really gross. The towels certainly smelled like they had not been washed. After that I could never stand to reuse towels ever again.

The true flaw in the argument besides the butt stuff is drying your face and mouth with the towel. After 2-3 uses it really does start to smell bad no matter how clean and neat you are. It really doesn't save that much in energy and water to wash the damn towels.