How often do you change your dish towel?

[House4Me]

Kind of a random question…. How often do you change your kitchen dish towels? I was just reading up on an organizing blog and she changes her kitchen dish towels every night to a new set -- I never even thought about that but I guess it makes sense with young kids in the house…thoughts? I guess for me it just seems like more laundry but maybe everyone changes their dish towels every day and I am the dirty one -- 

[everafter07]

Daily or up to a week, depending on use and how wet they get. We just dry out hands on them, we don't dry dishes.

[dcn]

2-3 times a week, depending on how much wiping up of yogurt and Mac n cheese I do with it . We don't use paper towels much so I use dish towels or cloth napkins for spills if I don't have a kid cloth handy.

[Deleted]

Too long, lol. I usually only use towels to lay down on the counter and air dry hand washed dishes, and then I use the other ones to mop up the freaking floor when the dog splashes it every where.

Ain't nobody got time to switch daily. Fuck that laundry.

[Ashley&Scott]

Every 1-2 days. 

We use paper towels to wipe up messy hands/face & spills on the floor. 

[mlt]

I don't consciously change them daily but I grab a fresh one out of the drawer every night when I'm making dinner.

[tacokick]

2-3 days + any time it looks dirty

[shellbear09]

Every few days unless they get dirty obvs. We just dry hands and and occasional dish.

[loreleigilmore]

1-2 days. But our kids have a habit of grabbing them to use as napkins or to clean up floor spills, so sometimes it's even more often!

[drloretta]

Every Friday

[Willis Jackson]

Several times a day. I rarely towel-dry dishes, but I do use them to dry my hands and produce. It automatically goes into the hamper after drying produce.

[anaps28]

I don't use dish towels, I have a mat to air dry stuff and just use paper towels for spills etc.

[Deleted]

Probably weekly. We don't dry dishes with them though. I just grab them andnthey them in the wash each week.

[ginkgoleaf]

Maybe twice a week, or if they're soaking wet or visibly dirty. I only use them for drying my hands or to lay things on to air dry. I have a little container of washcloths on the counter that I use to wipe DS' face and hands. I'll use them either once or maybe for a day and then they go in the wash.

[meltoine]

Once a week I wash it with the rest of the kitchen rags.

[undecidedowl]

Weekly for the regular dish towel. Daily for the one we clean DS's messes up with.

[Deleted]

every day to every other.
Quite often. I use mine for all sorts of things, the kids wipe their slime on them, I rarely use paper towels, so sometimes by lunch they're GROSS.

[ewall]

Every day or every other day. We have a ton of dish towels so we use them frequently.

[deo]

Every 1-2 days. I don't make a point of changing them daily but I rarely use paper towels so sometimes I go through 2 or 3 in a day if I am cleaning up stuff off the floor or wiping chairs, etc.

[Deleted]

Dec 19, 2014 11:59:24 GMT -5 @fivedogs said:

We barely use paper towels, so we go through a lot of dishtowels and microfiber rags. We also live in a humid swamp, so it doesn't tend to dry well after we dry our hands. If it has just been used for hand-drying, I'll leave it hanging up, but as soon as I wipe the counter with it, it goes in the laundry.

I don't change anything on a schedule - more like a maximum, LOL.  Because I know that if I hang up new towels, put on fresh sheets, etc., that will be the exact minute that someone will mess them up and they will go in the laundry anyway.  

It's pretty dry here in the dead of the Midwest in winter and even I don't think my kitchen towels and rags ever dry. If they do I think they smell. (Please note this is probably all psychological. I have never had this problem with bath towels..lol).
I'm also not a germaphobe by a long shot but I think there's something gross about using the same rag to CLEAN dishes after it sat and dried all night and did godknowswhat the day before.

I also do 43634643 loads of laundry a week I swear...5 dishtowels and 7 rags is the least of laundry concerns.  

[catbus]

Dec 19, 2014 11:25:17 GMT -5 @mrswindycity said:

The rag we use to handwash dishes, daily, but just the one hanging that I wipe my hands on and stuff? Weekly.

Ditto. I have a hanging wetbag in the kitchen for dirty towels, cloths, and napkins, as we rarely use paper versions. 

Edit: This doesn't really increase the number of loads of laundry we do, but our washer is huge. Usually one load clothes, one load towels (includes kitchen), one load sheets weekly, so three loads total. Occasionally we separate jeans from other clothes if the load just looks too full, so four loads in those cases. 

[gibbinator]

Probably twice a week. Not so much from use drying dishes but because we don't usually have paper towels in the house and the dish cloth and towel are usually the closest things on hand to clean up floor messes.

[shelbyann]

Uhh…not often enough apparently if this thread represents the norm.

LOL.

[spanikopita]

Daily, for sure. They get nasty.

[runblondie26]

Daily. We have a lot of dish towels and I seem to been running loads of laundry constantly anyway.

[brooklyn]

Once a week. I only use them to dry my hands.

[galaxy8227]

Probably every 2-3 days at the most, sometimes daily depending on what I'm making, how messy the table is, how often DS needs to clean up etc.

[cjeanette]

When it looks gross. Sometimes that is a week and sometimes that is more than once a day.

[halfpint]

Probably every 1-2 days. It mostly only gets used for wiping hands, but if I need to use one to dry a dish or dry his highchair tray, I grab a fresh one and throw the old one in the hamper.

[motzie]

Sometimes every day. 3 days max.