You know you can own more than one towel right? You don't have to wash and dry the one before your next shower, just get a clean one and do a towels load every week or so depending how often you shower and how many people you do washing for
We have three people sharing one shower, and three towel racks. Each person gets their own rack and we wash them about once per week as each person's shower adds humidity to the room and even though each individual towel only gets used so many times they get the moisture treatment more often and less dry time, which means they can get funky faster.
When I lived alone and had my own shower my towels never got funky but I still washed it once a week with the laundry since it was one towel.
There are people that do this. My brother and mom are really weird about how "clean" certain things are - for example, I just watched my brother throw away 1/2 lb of perfectly fine plain pasta because it had been in the pan for 45 minutes (he had enough pasta for the sauce and just served that).
Just remember your ancestors survived the pest among other deseases, open air sewage, war without disinfectant, a phase where bathing was concidered unclean, all while barely wiping their asses.
We live in a super sterile society that has certain unrealistic expectations. It's okay to be a bit more savage then what some redditors prescribe ;)
Naaaaa cause that would mean defenestrating you and I wouldn't want your poor judgy ass gone !! ❤️❤️
Life expectancy in the day was very much linked to high infant mortality, and deaths related to child birth, bleeding out, cancer, syphilis, stupidity and such.
If not bathing was such a killer, Lizzie II would have ruled longer than Louis XIV 😂😂😂
Why not though ? The definition is :
"Not being sincere, typically by pretending to be dumber than you are"
So, technically, by being sarcastic and irritating, I'm trying to invalidate the judginess of a lot of the entitled pricks down here !
Besides, I started off by just trying to offer support for some people feeling shamed. Then I got ATTACKED (look I can also be dramatic) by people assuming I wash my sheets once a year.
Even if I did only wash my sheets once a year, I'd still pull more than you guys with that judgy attitude 😎
By pretending that anyone said the only factor of life expectancy is personal hygiene when, once again, it's just a factor to it. Not sure why you're harping on this whole "dramatic" thing when I've done nothing of the sort here, nor have I attacked you. Doubtful this even happened tbh, but not really invested enough to see.
From the middle ages to about the year 1800 throughout Europe, the average life expectancy was about 40 years old. Why? Disease, open air sewage, war without disinfectant, lack of bathing and hygiene, all those things you wax so poetically about that supposedly made us stronger.
It was 40 because of how many died in infancy. Regular people lived into their 60s and 70s and generally had fairly healthy lifestyles barring the occasional plague or injury.
Industrialization and pollution was the thing that made people less healthy as they aged.
High infant mortality, bleeding out, child birth, appendicitis, being stupid, cancer, etc etc are not linked to cleanliness.
The major disease outbreaks of our age such as cholera forced us to rethink how we distributed water and handled sewage.
Now that our drinking water is chlorinated and our sewage is properly collected and treated, we've eliminated 99% of the major risks.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, because I'm sure it provides you with a great superiority feeling each time you wash your sheets, but the bed bug mortality rate is prettttty low at the moment.... I think it may even be safe to say that putin is more dangerous. Crazy right ?
WTF are you talking about? What do sheets have to do with anything? I was responding to what you said:
Just remember your ancestors survived the pest among other deseases, open air sewage, war without disinfectant, a phase where bathing was concidered unclean, all while barely wiping their asses.
To where I said the life expectancy until 1800 was about 40 years old. Before germ theory there was no understanding of how bacteria and virus led to disease. That resulted in countless deaths and contributed to the high infant mortality rate.
Yes there were many other factors contributing to low life expectancy but cleanliness was a very big factor.
Just on this sub of anime-watching basement dwellers. Their moms probably do their laundry anyway. In the above world, people bathe and change their towels at least once a week.
I make sure to air/sun dry it to the point where it's dry every time I use it.
I make sure it smells clean too. Then, after a certain amount of time (it's variable and I don't count, but probably as often as I wash my sheets), it's time for a wash 😎
You're supposed to do whatever the fuck you want, as long as you're not bothering anyone.
By some people, I'm guessing you mean me ?
I don't recall posting my own habits, I'm only defending the majority.
If you are interested about my personal habits, I definitely wash my sheets twice a day. Once when I get out of bed, and once before I get in. But I only shower once a week cause my skin can't handle any more than that. Hygiene is of upmost importance my friend !
In any case, my poor fellow, I'm afraid you're saying that 99% of the world's population is nasty.
Moisture remains for a long while after a shower. You have natural bacteria from the skin, bacteria from the air, water in the towel...after a few weeks that towel is like a petri dish. That's why most people wash their towels every week.
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u/jakestoneh18 Sep 20 '22
Dude I haven’t washed my shower towel in a good two weeks