I'm fond of brown towels and wash cloths...you don't even have to wash them...EVER!

I'd like to add a rant to the rant.

To all of the houses I've stayed in lately - Stop putting fabric softener on your towels. It's an oily substance that makes them less absorbent. If I wanted to dry off with a greasy rag, I'd shower in the garage.

In our house towels with color or decoration are for "display purposes only".
The bleached towels whatever the color, usually white or off white, come out of the closet at bath time.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
I'll typically use them 2-3 times before washing and drying them.

Something ain't right with your towels, but it isn't the color.

This.

During the summer when it's really humid here my towels will take a lot longer to hang dry. So I tend to rotate them more often as after the third day you will start to notice a musty smell.

If some towels are further along in the mustiness smell (my son likes to NOT hang his towel after each shower ) I will run them twice in a row, once using apple cider vinegar and then the second time with some detergent and baking powder. I won't use fabric softener with towels.

I very strongly agree. I got with grey or green usually. My towels don't smell like ass because I only use them AFTER I shower using soap...

There are these things called hotels. Oh, never mind

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
I'm fond of brown towels and wash cloths...you don't even have to wash them...EVER!

Some of my best towels are brown.

This thread gave me some good chuckles.

Not quite Taco Bell Haiku good...but good.

I really miss the Taco Bell Haiku thread.

Please don't visit my house.

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Originally posted by fpuhan:
Please don't visit my house.

Yeah... You don't want your towels smelling like balls and ass afterwards.

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In our house towels with color or decoration are for "display purposes only".

I thought only my Grandmother did that. Do you also have plastic coverings on your furniture and car seats?

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Originally posted by bubbatime:
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You wipe your balls, ass, and lady bits on your towels, and if not bleached, they smell like balls, ass, and lady bits.
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Hey now Bruce Caitlyn, I don't have any lady bits. Why no love for Frank?

There are bleach alternatives that are safe for colors.

Remember, colors and prints can be fabulous and whites after Labor Day are just tacky.

Only white towels and sheets for me too. I love the smell of cleaned and bleached towels and sheets. I do run them a second time with no soap or bleach to mild the bleach smell a bit though.

balls n ass
worst cologne , ever!

if I were in 6th grade , I'd ask
how do You know what balls n ass smell like ?

Add VINEGAR to the wishy washy machine. I put it in the softener dispenser when washing towels.
After washing this way, then I run a 2nd wash, water only, no soap etc, using the Quick Wash Setting on my machine.

EDIT for clarification. My towels don't get dirty dirty. I run a regular normal full wash cycle with just a little detergent and add some vinegar to the softener dispenser. After this is done, I run a Quick Wash cycle with water only.

And don't use fabric softener on towels!

Male: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

Female: The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.

Male: The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.

Female: No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.

Male: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.

Female: Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!

Male: Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.



It's a good day when you can use a quote from Airplane!.

Not a white towel, sheet, washcloth, dishrag, dishtowel...nothing - in my house.

I don't plan on surrendering.

If you're clean when you get out of the shower, then why would your towels ever need laundering in the first place?

May I add to the rant, please do not give your guest (me) a towel that is as scratchy as sandpaper. Of course if you are using such towels yourself then such is life. You will enjoy life more if you use a nice soft towel.

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:
I'd like to add a rant to the rant.

To all of the houses I've stayed in lately - Stop putting fabric softener on your towels. It's an oily substance that makes them less absorbent. If I wanted to dry off with a greasy rag, I'd shower in the garage.

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Originally posted by OKCGene:
Add VINEGAR to the wishy washy machine. I put it in the softener dispenser when washing towels.
After washing this way, then I run a 2nd wash, water only, no soap etc, using the Quick Wash Setting on my machine.

EDIT for clarification. My towels don't get dirty dirty. I run a regular normal full wash cycle with just a little detergent and add some vinegar to the softener dispenser. After this is done, I run a Quick Wash cycle with water only.

And don't use fabric softener on towels!

It's been 5+ years since I bought fabric softener after reading a thread on Sigforum. I've been using vinegar instead of fabric softener, and the benefits are that it's much cheaper and towels actually absorb water. There is zero carry through on the vinegar smell.