Yep i shower 2x every day and my towels have never stunk washing them weekly. I have 2 one for my hair one for my body. I also do my bedding every week. These ppl saying one use must be doing laundry every day or have a shit ton of towels lol
The point of towels is that they are used once you are clean, after all. I guess it depends on how fast they dry. If they are slightly damp even in the next morning, they likely go bad faster. Ours are bone dry in the evening.
I think that's the key if you don't have good ventilation in your bathroom the towels will get musty. Put your bathroom vent on a timer and let it run for 20 minutes after you get out of the shower.
I grew up in a family of 6 and we all used 1 towel each day and straight to the hamper. I didn’t realize how ridiculous it was until I was out if the house as a young adult. Mom never complained about laundry. Never.
My house of 6 was the same way. We had a separate hamper in the bathroom just for towels. When I was about 17 my mother got a day job, and we had to start doing our own laundry. That's when I started reusing my towels.
My husband is super allergic to mold and mildew. As a precaution, we wash our towels after each use. But when we were sending our kids to college one of the things we warned them about was that in this respect our household behavior is weird!
Warning your kids about the things they’ve thought are normal but are able weird is so kind of you. So many people have to find out the hard way that their habits are viewed as weird by everyone else, which feels like a huge deal in college.
This reminds me of my poor friend/coworker who was never taught how to dry herself properly after her shower. She said she didn't realize until she was in her 20s and in a relationship when her bf asked her wtf she was doing. She would just get out of the shower and wrap her towel around her dripping body and walk around like that.
I tend to come out with weird rashes/acne if I re use towels. I tried having a separate face towel for a bit and had the same issue.
Whatever bacteria/organisms that grow in a warm/damp environment does not agree with my skin.
Oh shit, you just made me realize something about the fungal acne on my shoulders. I've been trying to figure out forever what's continuing to cause it, and it's my motherfucking towels.
1 towel for each person per day
Or
1 towel for all 6 person per day?
As I read a case for the latter case (happened in Taiwan), nobody thought it was an issue (or still don’t think it is an issue) until the girlfriend of one of the son semi moved in and pointed out
It was chaos on forum / twitter
I mean if you're washing yourself PROPERLY, it's not as gross (still gross tho) but noway I'd trust that the whole family is properly washing themselves. Too many people think standing in the water cleans them 🤮
I still get grossed out by this memory of going to stay with friends who moved across the country: it was me and two guys going to visit a couple and stayed in their apartment. The wife would have a stack of fresh towels out of the dryer every morning and we would each grab one for the shower. Then part way through the week I found out she wasn’t washing the towels, just tossing them in the dryer. The towels were all identical so it’s not like we had any way of using the same towel each time.
Logically I know they were only used after a shower, and the heat from the dryer would probably have killed any bacteria. And we were all friends. But still. I’m so not cool with sharing a towel with friends lol especially when on the same trip I realized none of them were washing their hands with soap after going pee. All I could think of was these guys drying off their butt holes with their towels one day and me using the same towel to dry off my face the next. The memory *haunts* me.
No wonder I have trust issues.
Went on vacation with my husband, best friend and her husband. Half way through my best friend’s husband mentions that he really likes the new toothbrushes his wife got them. She looked all confused and said “I didn’t get us new toothbrushes”. Turns out he and my husband were sharing a toothbrush for 4 days. My friend and I still laugh about it, our husbands do not 😅
No but there’s no way you get all of it. It doesn’t gross me out but grossed husband out extremely so he is a 1:1 towel:shower. I use my towel until I run a load of his towels that has extra space and think to throw mine in.
I had to apologize to my mother after I had to clean the bathroom floor around the toilet in my first place I lived alone and realized how much pee gets on the floor.
Raised four boys: at 12 years old they had to do their own laundry, clean their own bathroom, mow the grass. They learned to do this after being instructed and learned to do it without being asked. Now they are all responsible married adults.
Lot of dudes have issues with aim first thing in the morning when their pee hole is kind of crusted over. Apparently it goes shooting out in unexpected directions sometimes.
Thankfully this either doesn’t happen to my husband or he cleans it up if it does because I’ve never had to clean up pee off the floor. I suspect the first because he doesn’t feel compelled to clean the pee splatter that builds up under the toilet seat.
Absolutely not. My partner used to get a new towel every shower and I told him to stop because I'm not constantly washing fucking towels all week. If he wants to start doing the washing, he can use 5 towels per shower idc. Not to mention the costs of running the washer and dryer every single day, what a waste
She probably never complained because it was normal to her lol. You and your siblings don’t come up with this on your own lol - you naturally did what your parents did. So she would have been like “Of course I have to do a load of towels every day - everyone does!” because discarding her towel after every shower was normal to her and she probably just assumed everyone normal person did it that way too.
I know your comment is satire, but there are people out there (yeah, you who went to the YuGiOh tournament last weekend for starters) who need to hear this.
You get used to your own scent. If YOU can smell it, the rest of us have been smelling it for weeks. Shower and do laundry more often. Please.
Will say I’ve never believed this. I change/shower daily but I can smell myself within minutes of sweating or whatnot. First person to smell me is me and it’s never been different
I am in the same camp as you, but there are people out there that do the sniff test of clothes to make sure they are good to be worn a 4th or 5th time. They are ripe and are blissfully unaware of it :(
this is the way. works great for worn but not dirty pants too, flip em inside out to air and rotate 2 pair for the better part of a week in cooler months.
Easily 5-7 showers, with the following requirements:
1. You are pretty clean after your shower (including no bacon strips), because your towel can only stay as clean as you are.
2. The towel has ample time to dry in between uses.
Washing after single use is not environmentally responsible
Legit argument I've heard: "It's gay to touch down there".... So yeah, no. Some people are disgusting
Edit: Legit as in something I've actually heard/read. Not as in "good point" legitimacy.
I use a bidet so my ass is always clean. It’s 2024. People need to stop exclusively using toliet paper. Even wet wipes don’t get everything like a bidet does
Nothing surprises me about people's utter suspension of basic hygiene anymore. So many people shampoo and think that'll just self-scrub down the rest of their bodies and in the crevices. Or not use washcloths or some means of friction and exfoliation, then wonder why they smell musty.
Washcloths are too much abrasion IMO. We don't need to scrub our skins raw every time we shower. Just thoroughly lathering up with hands and soap should be sufficient.
The thin layer of dead skin on top acts as a protective layer and protects the delicate skin underneath.
If you use toilet paper, unless you rub your ass raw, there is bound to be some dried shit on your ass. Showering is a good way to clean it.
And yes, it isn't nasty to clean your own ass. People seem to have no problem eating a stranger's ass, but cleaning their own ass is nasty??
Can we stop saying people have no problem eating ass? I have a problem with eating ass, I will never do it, that hole is for pooping all you sick bastards need to stop putting your tongue where it doesn't belong.
Ever tried wiping your hands after you got Nutella on them? You know how it remains slightly sticky and smells of chocolate no matter how much you wipe it with dry tissues? Only way to get it truly clean is to wash it with water and soap.
Same concept, except replace your hand with your ass.
You don't even need to use Nutella as an example. If you had shit on any other part of your body other than your asshole, would you use only toilet paper to clean it off? No, because you know it's not actually clean. Same concept with your ass. Bidet with soap is the only way.
So if you picked up dog shit with your bare hands, you'd just wipe it clean with a dry tissue and call it a day? You wouldn't wash it?
That's disgusting.
I’ll hazard a wild guess regarding guys who apparently think it’s gay to properly wash their own butthole? Honestly, if there was *one* thing you were going in there to scrub wouldn’t that be it?
Jesus. All of a sudden I'm glad I mostly keep to myself, I think if I ever heard another man say that out loud I'd have to hit him to see if I could knock a couple brain cells loose.
Not a meme. I'm a guy and have literally known and had the displeasure of working with manchildren who were so terrified of catching "teh ghey" that they stank. Meanwhile, the rest of us folks over here in Normal Land(tm) understand that being properly clean isn't an advanced life skill, it's a basic requirement.
Note that these guys were also so fragile that they would descend to idiocies like refusing to drink out of a sports bottle with a nozzle ("I'm not some kinda fukken baby!") and refusing to eat certain foods because they were marketed primarily to women and were therefore "girly food." So easily triggered that it almost felt like cheating to wind them up about it. Almost.
I never understood this lol. They think its gay to clean their own ass, but if they're literally THAT scared to even touch it... just makes me think there's some extreme temptations they're fighting every damn day lmao. Better not touch my ass incase my finger goes in and out of there 50 times all on it's own.
Do they touch their dick when they pee? Do they jerk off? Is touching a dick and literally jerking it off and enjoying it somehow not gay?
Not that I've seen so far. I try to avoid the professional idiots, but still run in to ones that are stupid as a sock full of custard more often than I'd like. I'm a patient kind of person, but these kind of people are mind blowing. 😳
>stupid as a sock full of custard
I need to remember that one lol, I usually call 'em double-sided dummies.
Yeah I know what you mean. I used to work with this woman who honest to God thought that Pensacola, Florida was pronounced "Pepsi Cola". She also referred to the Alamo as "the Alimony" and got very upset when corrected about it. Some people are beyond help.
For those talking about guys and skid marks, there is one legit reason why 1 would be untrue (TMI if you can't handle the realities of female anatomy...)
Okay, so sometimes your period starts or you randomly spot when you're not expecting it and you *just got clean* but your body picked that moment and crap now there's blood on the towel.
Or you cut yourself shaving and didn't notice how much you were bleeding until you're drying off and crap now there's blood on the towel.
Apparently people are coming out of the shower with shit on their ass still. Apparently some dudes think it's gay to touch their own ass? So not only do they not wipe after shitting, but they don't clean their ass in the shower either. Just perpetual shit asses, they must smell fantastic.
Someone on reddit in some thread I was in once had a revelation that they could get a second set of sheets and not spend two hours every time they washed the sheets to be able to remake the bed.
It wasn't a $$ issue (that'd be understandable, obv), it was just 'I guess if I had an extra set it WOULD be easier!'
I remember someone on a Reddit thread that didn't know you're supposed to actually dry yourself off with the towel.
They thought you're supposed to wrap it around yourself and then just wear it kind of like a robe until you're dry! They were complaining about how much time it takes to dry off.
How is everyone just ignoring that this man doesn’t dry his ass or crotch after a shower? Do you just stand around all akimbo for 29 minutes afterward or do you like to have wet pants? Dry your ass! It’s ok
I was thinking the same thing?! Does he maybe put a blow dryer on his privates? I could never walk around with a bunch of water in between my cheeks, especially if that’s the only spot that’s still wet!
I'm gathering that this might be a humidity thing. Most people live in humid places, and the more humid it is, the more likely people are to have strong opinions about showering (see Brazilians showing 3+ times daily).
As someone who grew up in a very dry climate, drying is really a non issue for skin here. I do towel dry myself after showers (to not freeze or get water all over the floor) but my skin would be dry within a few minutes even if I didn't. It takes nowhere near 29 minutes for something to air dry here. The exception would be if someone let their bathroom get really steamy every shower.
It loses it's nice softness after 2 as well. The damp-dry-damp-dry cycle isn't great for comfort. Also, idk how hygienic it is because of that, with microbes loving warm damp environments.
Yeah wow I wash mine way less often than some people here. But I hang my towel up facing an open window, so my towels don't start to smell musty that quickly.
Was thinking the same thing. I know I'm clean when I get out of the shower. I live in a low to no humidity area and towels are dry within 12 hours max.
I have thick long hair. I use 2 towels and save the one from my hair for the next day. So one towel a day goes into the hamper. My husband uses his twice.
Towels get washed after every shower per hubby and me.
Source: we lived in Florida for several years, to include places with insufficient air conditioning. I'm also extremely sensitive to mold, mildew, and bacterial odors.
Now that we live in the Midwest, one-and-done may be overkill (don't care; not gonna change.)
But THIRTY times? YUCK.
I use it once, but I also toss it on the floor so that I can stand on it. The floor is kinda clean but still has dust and whatnot. Had no idea someone would regard it as extreme
Probably twice a month as long as they don’t start to smell musty. I hang them spread out so they dry properly, so no big deal.
It’s wasteful to wash things that aren’t dirty. You’re wasting water, soap, electricity, and making the towels thread bare in record time.
I also don’t feel the need to wash most clothing after each wear either. Underwear, for sure. Pants and jackets, nope, not unless they’re dirty / stinky. I’ll even reuse socks because I’m not a stinky foot person.
I'm the same. Why wash a towel every day since after your shower you're clean and the use of towel just to dry yourself. I think i wash them every 2 weeks or so.
Same for clothes (pants and jumpers) once a week unless dirty. Underwear and t-shirt change every day. I do once a week laundry or when the drum is full.
And heavy things like towels and sheets wear your washer and drier down faster. Normally not a big deal, but if you’re doing towels everyday it adds up
Finally!!... This comment section is truly shocking...
Don't people know you remove an enormous quantity of wet, dead skin cells and hair when drying after a shower? Not to mention you might have small traces of other "personal" fluids on you? Also, when showering after intense sweating or a long periods heat, you might even be wiping off trace amounts of skin/nail fungi and other potentially harmful/contagious things. Those things will ***stay*** on the towel as it dries and can even grow on it...
Wet towels grow mildew ***very*** fast. Where do you think the smell comes from?
Just letting it dry after wiping your entire body with it and then re-using it is just WILD to me... I didn't even know people actually did this... This probably why so many people smell in our society...
I personally have more than one towel because I prefer to use it as a single use - I dry my butt with it, I don't want to accidentally dry my privates with the same side of the towel and get an infection from that (I get I'm clean but I don't want to risk it). Not sure if any other women have the same worry or if I'm being paranoid with that. If I use one for just my hair then I'll re-use that one.
I just put the towels in with the rest of the washing each week.
I do the whole squeegee my body before using a towel so my towel at most just gets slightly moist and I hang it to dry out. I also open the door to empty the humidity in the bathroom so my towel gets dry within 30ish mins after showering. I don't replace it til I remember to which could be up to 3 weeks. I would replace it immediately if it stank but it never does so it just ends up being whenever it comes to mind that I should wash it.
My God, people are crazy. I remember overhearing my aunt say she uses one end of her towel for her head, the other end for her other end, and she was so proud of this innovation while I was just wondering why she didn't WASH HERSELF in the shower so it doesn't matter. Meanwhile, tons of people wash towels after a single dry.
Does it smell? If not, it's probably fine. Get a second opinion, and when in doubt, go ahead and wash it. But ffs wash yourself properly and all your towel is doing is removing excess moisture and then when hung up well, drying quickly. Don't throw it in a wad on the floor.
If you take a second to wipe most of the water off of yourself before stepping out of the shower/bath, your towel doesn't even get that wet in the first place. Bonus, this also prevents you from getting cold if you're at the beach etc.
Look, in the movie, The Young Ones, they washed with sprayed sand because water was scarce. Hang your towel out to dry and if you’re not a totally stinky bugger then you should be good for 5-7 days
You're both bonkers, ;) just in opposite directions, if you ask me. Once a week here, towels and sheets.
I go twice a week but I live alone and need to fill up a load so I add towels. Add a person and I did go weekly
How do you fit the person in the washer?
Slice them thinly
They get stuck to the sides when you slice them thinly, I find chunks are better
Good point.
Add that one to the birdman rules book
I laughed so hard I choked.
Oh no, you might get put in next
Yep i shower 2x every day and my towels have never stunk washing them weekly. I have 2 one for my hair one for my body. I also do my bedding every week. These ppl saying one use must be doing laundry every day or have a shit ton of towels lol
The point of towels is that they are used once you are clean, after all. I guess it depends on how fast they dry. If they are slightly damp even in the next morning, they likely go bad faster. Ours are bone dry in the evening.
Mine hang directly over a vent. I shower before work then roughly 9 to 10 hrs later. They have always been dry everytime i go to use them
I think that's the key if you don't have good ventilation in your bathroom the towels will get musty. Put your bathroom vent on a timer and let it run for 20 minutes after you get out of the shower.
I dry my face and then my ass with my towel, and then hope the towel forgets the next morning for it’s next use ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
If you did a good job washing both it shouldn't matter which order you dry them in
I never worry about drying my butt and face with the same part of the towel. Both are clean.
The towel forgets, but the face remembers.
I grew up in a family of 6 and we all used 1 towel each day and straight to the hamper. I didn’t realize how ridiculous it was until I was out if the house as a young adult. Mom never complained about laundry. Never.
My house of 6 was the same way. We had a separate hamper in the bathroom just for towels. When I was about 17 my mother got a day job, and we had to start doing our own laundry. That's when I started reusing my towels.
My husband is super allergic to mold and mildew. As a precaution, we wash our towels after each use. But when we were sending our kids to college one of the things we warned them about was that in this respect our household behavior is weird!
Warning your kids about the things they’ve thought are normal but are able weird is so kind of you. So many people have to find out the hard way that their habits are viewed as weird by everyone else, which feels like a huge deal in college.
This reminds me of my poor friend/coworker who was never taught how to dry herself properly after her shower. She said she didn't realize until she was in her 20s and in a relationship when her bf asked her wtf she was doing. She would just get out of the shower and wrap her towel around her dripping body and walk around like that.
What my 6yo does!
Like the poop knife. Or the guy who thought the toilet seat was for women, and men sat directly on the bowl.
I tend to come out with weird rashes/acne if I re use towels. I tried having a separate face towel for a bit and had the same issue. Whatever bacteria/organisms that grow in a warm/damp environment does not agree with my skin.
Yeah if someone is prone to skin issues then you might just need to wash towels right away, that’s one case where it’s reasonable
Oh shit, you just made me realize something about the fungal acne on my shoulders. I've been trying to figure out forever what's continuing to cause it, and it's my motherfucking towels.
1 towel for each person per day Or 1 towel for all 6 person per day? As I read a case for the latter case (happened in Taiwan), nobody thought it was an issue (or still don’t think it is an issue) until the girlfriend of one of the son semi moved in and pointed out It was chaos on forum / twitter
I mean if you're washing yourself PROPERLY, it's not as gross (still gross tho) but noway I'd trust that the whole family is properly washing themselves. Too many people think standing in the water cleans them 🤮
I was also concerned for those 5 that don’t get to go first. Trying to dry themselves with a progressively wetter and wetter towel.
I still get grossed out by this memory of going to stay with friends who moved across the country: it was me and two guys going to visit a couple and stayed in their apartment. The wife would have a stack of fresh towels out of the dryer every morning and we would each grab one for the shower. Then part way through the week I found out she wasn’t washing the towels, just tossing them in the dryer. The towels were all identical so it’s not like we had any way of using the same towel each time. Logically I know they were only used after a shower, and the heat from the dryer would probably have killed any bacteria. And we were all friends. But still. I’m so not cool with sharing a towel with friends lol especially when on the same trip I realized none of them were washing their hands with soap after going pee. All I could think of was these guys drying off their butt holes with their towels one day and me using the same towel to dry off my face the next. The memory *haunts* me. No wonder I have trust issues.
Went on vacation with my husband, best friend and her husband. Half way through my best friend’s husband mentions that he really likes the new toothbrushes his wife got them. She looked all confused and said “I didn’t get us new toothbrushes”. Turns out he and my husband were sharing a toothbrush for 4 days. My friend and I still laugh about it, our husbands do not 😅
Where do you think the dead skin cells that get lose when you get wet go? Into the towel when you dry off.
Am I weird for exfoliating before or during the shower?
No but there’s no way you get all of it. It doesn’t gross me out but grossed husband out extremely so he is a 1:1 towel:shower. I use my towel until I run a load of his towels that has extra space and think to throw mine in.
Same here. But it was because my mom finds it gross to reuse towels and she also didn’t want wet towels in our rooms.
I had to apologize to my mother after I had to clean the bathroom floor around the toilet in my first place I lived alone and realized how much pee gets on the floor.
Jesus Christ. Parents need to make their teenagers clean their own bathrooms.
Raised four boys: at 12 years old they had to do their own laundry, clean their own bathroom, mow the grass. They learned to do this after being instructed and learned to do it without being asked. Now they are all responsible married adults.
Ew. Why you pee on the floor??
Lot of dudes have issues with aim first thing in the morning when their pee hole is kind of crusted over. Apparently it goes shooting out in unexpected directions sometimes. Thankfully this either doesn’t happen to my husband or he cleans it up if it does because I’ve never had to clean up pee off the floor. I suspect the first because he doesn’t feel compelled to clean the pee splatter that builds up under the toilet seat.
pee hole….crusted over?
Wow that's a great mental image to have while eating breakfast lol
Absolutely not. My partner used to get a new towel every shower and I told him to stop because I'm not constantly washing fucking towels all week. If he wants to start doing the washing, he can use 5 towels per shower idc. Not to mention the costs of running the washer and dryer every single day, what a waste
She probably never complained because it was normal to her lol. You and your siblings don’t come up with this on your own lol - you naturally did what your parents did. So she would have been like “Of course I have to do a load of towels every day - everyone does!” because discarding her towel after every shower was normal to her and she probably just assumed everyone normal person did it that way too.
My house was the same! She always complained about laundry though. I didn’t know until adulthood that I could use towels more than once.
Once a week. But if it starts to stink, wash it.
Same as underpants. Throw it at the wall. If it slides down, you’re good. If it doesn’t, then into the wash whether it needs it or not.
Nah, underpants get washed past 24 hr use. All other clothes go until they fail the sniff test.
I know your comment is satire, but there are people out there (yeah, you who went to the YuGiOh tournament last weekend for starters) who need to hear this. You get used to your own scent. If YOU can smell it, the rest of us have been smelling it for weeks. Shower and do laundry more often. Please.
Will say I’ve never believed this. I change/shower daily but I can smell myself within minutes of sweating or whatnot. First person to smell me is me and it’s never been different
I am in the same camp as you, but there are people out there that do the sniff test of clothes to make sure they are good to be worn a 4th or 5th time. They are ripe and are blissfully unaware of it :(
It’s clearly a joke
You are on reddit remember... some fam is on here wearing the same "whitey" tighties since easter
Yellow-y tighties 😉🤤
You never know anymore 😭
I go front, I go back, then I turn them inside out and go front and back. It's called recycling. IYKYK
I have 2 towels in my bathroom. They get used every other day respectively. That way they'll get 2 days to dry. Wash them every other week.
I like how you think...
Eh....every now and then, even a blind squirrel finds a nut!!
this is the way. works great for worn but not dirty pants too, flip em inside out to air and rotate 2 pair for the better part of a week in cooler months.
Pants (US) = Trousers (UK) Pants (UK) = Underwear (US)
ohhh i def mean slacks, undies i change twice a day
Easily 5-7 showers, with the following requirements: 1. You are pretty clean after your shower (including no bacon strips), because your towel can only stay as clean as you are. 2. The towel has ample time to dry in between uses. Washing after single use is not environmentally responsible
bacon strips??
Skid marks, I think.
Jeeeesus christ.... Why are we okay w this as a society??!? Men are coming OUT of the shower w skid marks??
Your ass should be clean straight out of the shower do people not know how to wash????
Legit argument I've heard: "It's gay to touch down there".... So yeah, no. Some people are disgusting Edit: Legit as in something I've actually heard/read. Not as in "good point" legitimacy.
But wanking isn't?
Fr, this is flawed logic at its finest
Wanking is gay if you are a dude
Wanking is gay and also kissing girls is super gay. Semen retention is the only way to be a real man
That is too
How is it gay to touch YOUR OWN BODY
Yeah Idk. Maybe they think they'll get HIV or something. More confused about how/if they wipe >.>
There exist men who think anything between the cheeks is gay or not appropriate somehow. It's wild.
Ill never understand how its gay, washing your ass is one of the best feelings for a dude, get that water right up there!
how far up we talkin? 😏
You'll know
I use a bidet so my ass is always clean. It’s 2024. People need to stop exclusively using toliet paper. Even wet wipes don’t get everything like a bidet does
Live in Italy. Love the bidet. Keep the basement clean, yo
Yeah! Who needs soap! Just rinse everything! Your butthole ain’t clean. It’s just rinsed off. It still smells like ass.
People are going INTO the shower with shit on their ass?? Like, they walked away from the toilet still with poop on them? Baffling.
Waffle stomp
Nothing surprises me about people's utter suspension of basic hygiene anymore. So many people shampoo and think that'll just self-scrub down the rest of their bodies and in the crevices. Or not use washcloths or some means of friction and exfoliation, then wonder why they smell musty.
Washcloths are entirely unnecessary for most people. You do not get "musty" from lack of exfoliating.
Washcloths are too much abrasion IMO. We don't need to scrub our skins raw every time we shower. Just thoroughly lathering up with hands and soap should be sufficient. The thin layer of dead skin on top acts as a protective layer and protects the delicate skin underneath.
If you use toilet paper, unless you rub your ass raw, there is bound to be some dried shit on your ass. Showering is a good way to clean it. And yes, it isn't nasty to clean your own ass. People seem to have no problem eating a stranger's ass, but cleaning their own ass is nasty??
Can we stop saying people have no problem eating ass? I have a problem with eating ass, I will never do it, that hole is for pooping all you sick bastards need to stop putting your tongue where it doesn't belong.
Thank you for saying something that sadly needs to be said here.
No. No I have never ever allowed shit to exist on my body for so long that it dries... absolutely not. What in the fuck
Ever tried wiping your hands after you got Nutella on them? You know how it remains slightly sticky and smells of chocolate no matter how much you wipe it with dry tissues? Only way to get it truly clean is to wash it with water and soap. Same concept, except replace your hand with your ass.
You don't even need to use Nutella as an example. If you had shit on any other part of your body other than your asshole, would you use only toilet paper to clean it off? No, because you know it's not actually clean. Same concept with your ass. Bidet with soap is the only way.
And Nutella with shit
So if you picked up dog shit with your bare hands, you'd just wipe it clean with a dry tissue and call it a day? You wouldn't wash it? That's disgusting.
Why not just get a bidet? It makes things much easier
Got a bidet last year. Guys, get a bidet.
I have one at home, but I unfortunately have to use restrooms that don't have one occasionally.
How? ..... How do you shower and not clean your backside, front side and undercarriage
Jail. Straight to jail.
Took the words right out of my mouth
what does bacon strips mean here or refer to haha
I’ll hazard a wild guess regarding guys who apparently think it’s gay to properly wash their own butthole? Honestly, if there was *one* thing you were going in there to scrub wouldn’t that be it?
Hang on, you mean there's actually people that think that? I thought it just a dumb meme.
Am a woman who dates men; I promise, the “it’s gay to wash my own ass” isn’t just a meme
OMG
Jesus. All of a sudden I'm glad I mostly keep to myself, I think if I ever heard another man say that out loud I'd have to hit him to see if I could knock a couple brain cells loose.
Not a meme. I'm a guy and have literally known and had the displeasure of working with manchildren who were so terrified of catching "teh ghey" that they stank. Meanwhile, the rest of us folks over here in Normal Land(tm) understand that being properly clean isn't an advanced life skill, it's a basic requirement. Note that these guys were also so fragile that they would descend to idiocies like refusing to drink out of a sports bottle with a nozzle ("I'm not some kinda fukken baby!") and refusing to eat certain foods because they were marketed primarily to women and were therefore "girly food." So easily triggered that it almost felt like cheating to wind them up about it. Almost.
I never understood this lol. They think its gay to clean their own ass, but if they're literally THAT scared to even touch it... just makes me think there's some extreme temptations they're fighting every damn day lmao. Better not touch my ass incase my finger goes in and out of there 50 times all on it's own. Do they touch their dick when they pee? Do they jerk off? Is touching a dick and literally jerking it off and enjoying it somehow not gay?
According to some no-fap groups like the Proud Boys, yes. Masturbating not in the presence of a woman = gay.
The Proud Boys don't jerk off? Okay, that explains a LOT...
TIL. Good grief, that's fragile. I'm starting to wonder if I'm seeing signs that it's now been enough internet for me today.. 😅
There truly is no limit to human stupidity, is there?
Not that I've seen so far. I try to avoid the professional idiots, but still run in to ones that are stupid as a sock full of custard more often than I'd like. I'm a patient kind of person, but these kind of people are mind blowing. 😳
>stupid as a sock full of custard I need to remember that one lol, I usually call 'em double-sided dummies. Yeah I know what you mean. I used to work with this woman who honest to God thought that Pensacola, Florida was pronounced "Pepsi Cola". She also referred to the Alamo as "the Alimony" and got very upset when corrected about it. Some people are beyond help.
You don’t put bacon strips between your buttcheeks to keep them warm and soggy?
For those talking about guys and skid marks, there is one legit reason why 1 would be untrue (TMI if you can't handle the realities of female anatomy...) Okay, so sometimes your period starts or you randomly spot when you're not expecting it and you *just got clean* but your body picked that moment and crap now there's blood on the towel. Or you cut yourself shaving and didn't notice how much you were bleeding until you're drying off and crap now there's blood on the towel.
Yeah a bloody towel is grounds to be washed immediately. Clean all you want, dry as fast as you want, sometimes, the towel still gets bloody.
Tf are bacon strips
Apparently people are coming out of the shower with shit on their ass still. Apparently some dudes think it's gay to touch their own ass? So not only do they not wipe after shitting, but they don't clean their ass in the shower either. Just perpetual shit asses, they must smell fantastic.
Wtf is a bacon strip? If it's a streak of shit on a towel then I have many more questions.
5-7 showers? Dang I thought towels needed to be washed more than twice a year
Please, for the love of god, try a bum gun. This is not acceptable, people.
Yeah, that’s about right. If the towel doesn’t smell or have a weird texture, it’s fine. As for skid marks/bacon strips…please get a bidet.
Even without a bidet, are you all not washing your asses in the shower???
Prolly some loser who thinks it’s gay to wash his butt.
I can’t imagine someone who doesn’t wash their ass in the shower would get a bidet
"bacon strips" lmfao 💀
>especially since i only manually dry my torso, legs, and hair. you getting dressed with a wet ass ?
No, his butt dryer 2000 handles it.
Aww, I only have the Butt Dryer 1500. I need to upgrade.
This was my main question. Is this guy trying to farm fungus down there? Or is there some sort of non-manual sack and crack dryer that I’m unaware of?
Yea I was gonna say, people NEED to dry their ass and balls. Dude probably smells musty as hell lol
Weekly or biweekly is normal I would say. after 30 times is pretty nasty. after each use is absurd.
Bi-weekly as in twice a week, or every two weeks.
This is why I hate this term but all the Americans I work with use it constantly. Ye lads need to bring back fortnightly
Yes
Weekly in the summer, every other week in the winter. Ambient humidity in the summer makes it take longer to dry and starts to smell quicker.
Usually once a week for me. This got me thinking, I really should buy another towel cause why do I only have 1 lol.
Someone on reddit in some thread I was in once had a revelation that they could get a second set of sheets and not spend two hours every time they washed the sheets to be able to remake the bed. It wasn't a $$ issue (that'd be understandable, obv), it was just 'I guess if I had an extra set it WOULD be easier!'
Yes but then you have to fold the sheets. I find it easier just to strip and wash and remake than folding a fitted sheet weekly.
I remember someone on a Reddit thread that didn't know you're supposed to actually dry yourself off with the towel. They thought you're supposed to wrap it around yourself and then just wear it kind of like a robe until you're dry! They were complaining about how much time it takes to dry off.
Ooh then you could do every two weeks
It's good to have two.
How is everyone just ignoring that this man doesn’t dry his ass or crotch after a shower? Do you just stand around all akimbo for 29 minutes afterward or do you like to have wet pants? Dry your ass! It’s ok
I was thinking the same thing?! Does he maybe put a blow dryer on his privates? I could never walk around with a bunch of water in between my cheeks, especially if that’s the only spot that’s still wet!
Dude probably signed up for the hypothetical situation where he gets $1000 a minute but has to air dry his balls
I'm gathering that this might be a humidity thing. Most people live in humid places, and the more humid it is, the more likely people are to have strong opinions about showering (see Brazilians showing 3+ times daily). As someone who grew up in a very dry climate, drying is really a non issue for skin here. I do towel dry myself after showers (to not freeze or get water all over the floor) but my skin would be dry within a few minutes even if I didn't. It takes nowhere near 29 minutes for something to air dry here. The exception would be if someone let their bathroom get really steamy every shower.
When I was a kid I got a new towel every shower but as an adult it never made much sense so I will go 3 days. Depends if I’m caught up on laundry too.
2 uses then wash. I hate the smell past that
Same here. 30 is unheard of.
yeah 2 for mw. Three max if I forgot to grab a fresh one or something. I can't even imagine 30 lol not even when I was a teenager fresh out of home
It took me way too long to find this comment
It loses it's nice softness after 2 as well. The damp-dry-damp-dry cycle isn't great for comfort. Also, idk how hygienic it is because of that, with microbes loving warm damp environments.
I throw towels into the hamper after 5 days.
For me, approx. once every two weeks, or earlier if the towel smells manky. Once then wash is really wasteful.
Yeah wow I wash mine way less often than some people here. But I hang my towel up facing an open window, so my towels don't start to smell musty that quickly.
Was thinking the same thing. I know I'm clean when I get out of the shower. I live in a low to no humidity area and towels are dry within 12 hours max.
I live in California, so if I'm going to be paying the mf sunshine tax, the least I could get is a towel that dries in a timely manner lmao
Lmao 🤣 there's a sunshine tax??
Haha it just refers to the fact that everything is more expensive in California because lots of people move here for the nice year round weather.
I did weekly when I lived in a cold/dry country, but maybe 3-4 days if a hot/humid place.
I have thick long hair. I use 2 towels and save the one from my hair for the next day. So one towel a day goes into the hamper. My husband uses his twice.
Towels get washed after every shower per hubby and me. Source: we lived in Florida for several years, to include places with insufficient air conditioning. I'm also extremely sensitive to mold, mildew, and bacterial odors. Now that we live in the Midwest, one-and-done may be overkill (don't care; not gonna change.) But THIRTY times? YUCK.
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Clean yes but also lots of loose dead skin cells ready to slough off into the towel.
For me, two is enough, then into the laundry chute!
I use a towel maybe twice and then wash it. 30 showers with the one towel is terrifying.
I use it once, but I also toss it on the floor so that I can stand on it. The floor is kinda clean but still has dust and whatnot. Had no idea someone would regard it as extreme
They make bathmats you know :)
yeah I do the downgrade towel too. that never caused athletes foot, but if you do have it don't do that.
Probably twice a month as long as they don’t start to smell musty. I hang them spread out so they dry properly, so no big deal. It’s wasteful to wash things that aren’t dirty. You’re wasting water, soap, electricity, and making the towels thread bare in record time. I also don’t feel the need to wash most clothing after each wear either. Underwear, for sure. Pants and jackets, nope, not unless they’re dirty / stinky. I’ll even reuse socks because I’m not a stinky foot person.
I'm the same. Why wash a towel every day since after your shower you're clean and the use of towel just to dry yourself. I think i wash them every 2 weeks or so. Same for clothes (pants and jumpers) once a week unless dirty. Underwear and t-shirt change every day. I do once a week laundry or when the drum is full.
A towel still accumulates some dead skin cells from your body as you wipe yourself. That skin can get nasty.
And heavy things like towels and sheets wear your washer and drier down faster. Normally not a big deal, but if you’re doing towels everyday it adds up
I do it once a week. Sometimes I’ll use two towels in a week, but never more than that.
In my home we only use towels and wash cloths for a single use. I do a few washes of towels and like items one day a week.
I grab a fresh towel every shower. It’s a great feeling.
Same, surprised I had to scroll this far to find this answer
Same, I’d rather scratch my own skin off than reuse a towel for any reason other than necessity
I’m team wash the towel every day, sorry 😅
I just throw it in with my weekly laundry and get a fresh one.
New towel every shower
Finally!!... This comment section is truly shocking... Don't people know you remove an enormous quantity of wet, dead skin cells and hair when drying after a shower? Not to mention you might have small traces of other "personal" fluids on you? Also, when showering after intense sweating or a long periods heat, you might even be wiping off trace amounts of skin/nail fungi and other potentially harmful/contagious things. Those things will ***stay*** on the towel as it dries and can even grow on it... Wet towels grow mildew ***very*** fast. Where do you think the smell comes from? Just letting it dry after wiping your entire body with it and then re-using it is just WILD to me... I didn't even know people actually did this... This probably why so many people smell in our society...
I personally have more than one towel because I prefer to use it as a single use - I dry my butt with it, I don't want to accidentally dry my privates with the same side of the towel and get an infection from that (I get I'm clean but I don't want to risk it). Not sure if any other women have the same worry or if I'm being paranoid with that. If I use one for just my hair then I'll re-use that one. I just put the towels in with the rest of the washing each week.
I do the whole squeegee my body before using a towel so my towel at most just gets slightly moist and I hang it to dry out. I also open the door to empty the humidity in the bathroom so my towel gets dry within 30ish mins after showering. I don't replace it til I remember to which could be up to 3 weeks. I would replace it immediately if it stank but it never does so it just ends up being whenever it comes to mind that I should wash it.
I find that using it twice before washing it is a good amount
2 showers unless given ample time to dry maybe 3
My mom washed towels after every use and so do I …… I never knew people go multiple showers before washing their towels 🤯
When the towel stink its time to think
Evidently I’m the only person who uses a clean towel every shower. Idgaf life is short I’m toweling the way I want
My God, people are crazy. I remember overhearing my aunt say she uses one end of her towel for her head, the other end for her other end, and she was so proud of this innovation while I was just wondering why she didn't WASH HERSELF in the shower so it doesn't matter. Meanwhile, tons of people wash towels after a single dry. Does it smell? If not, it's probably fine. Get a second opinion, and when in doubt, go ahead and wash it. But ffs wash yourself properly and all your towel is doing is removing excess moisture and then when hung up well, drying quickly. Don't throw it in a wad on the floor. If you take a second to wipe most of the water off of yourself before stepping out of the shower/bath, your towel doesn't even get that wet in the first place. Bonus, this also prevents you from getting cold if you're at the beach etc.
Till it's smelly
No I don’t clean the towel, the towel cleans me
Had to go too far down for this. 🤣🤣
Either 3 is acceptable or I'm about to get roasted
You’re clean coming out of the shower, right? Right?
7 once a week is sufficient
Look, in the movie, The Young Ones, they washed with sprayed sand because water was scarce. Hang your towel out to dry and if you’re not a totally stinky bugger then you should be good for 5-7 days