Well, of course they (being all republican guys) ask "eco-kim" first... that is what they nicknamed me because I yell at them for burning furniture and tires, throwing away pop can's etc... and i answer, "two weeks ish." They did not like that attttttt allll! Every other guy said about 3 or 4 times... WHAT... one guy even said "once, just once"... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! ONCE. If everyone used their towel only once soooo much water would be wasted.
We continued on the conversation and they realized that I may keep the same set of towels for 2 weeks but I don't use them everyday because I don't shower everyday. I'm a girl darnit I don't smell!!! Boy's smell at the end of the day, girls (well not all girls, but some) don't. If I don't need to shower then i won't so it worked out to be about 6 times that I use my towel (days after I run, because then yes I do smell... after 6 or 8 miles... anyone smells hehehe.
The whole point that I was trying to make is this... you are clean when you get out of the shower, that's why you take showers; to get clean. If you are clean and you use a clean towel to dry off how nasty can the towel get? I understand it gets odd, but I use one towel for my face (which i use twice daily if not more...oily skin, and that i do switch out more often) then I have a hair towel (what girl only uses one towel, wet hair drips down our backs and gets us wet again, you have to wrap it up) and then a third towel for my body... everything is separate. If I were to wash them all after 3 uses... that would be ridiculous... so i don't... i wait 2 weeks or so, becasue they don't get nasty!!! Anyway... i was seen as smelly hippie chic for a while but thats what i get for being honest heheheheh.
So I ask you, how long is too long to use the same towel? think green here, not OCD, hehe.
Namaste till another day : )
I wash my bathrobe and my hair towel every weekend, but during the week I use two bathrobe and two hair towel, I feel much better and totally dried.
ReplyDeleteMelly
ok so you are going to love this...i use the same towel for two weeks to dry off after a shower, pat dry my face after i rinse off the sweat of texas heat, dry my hair, and drum roll....get out of a chlorinated pool. but i have my reasons. ONE: you would think after running in the morning and working in 100degree heat all day i would shower everyday, but after doing that all day im too damn tired to even take a shower TWO: i dont get smelly and my hair doesnt get oily so i dont have to shower as much THREE: my boyfriend thinks i smell better the "dirtier" i get FOUR: with amerilife, you dont care as much how often you shower or wash your towel, at least i dont, cause i only packed one towel, and if we get $25 from the government to wash our clothes in a laundry mat...im gonna wash my stuff as least as possible so i can use that money for other fun things hehe. FIVE: when i get home, i wont be any different. my mom usually puts the towels in the hamper so i will have no control over that, but i can control how often i shower. so i guess this makes me the smelly hippie chic. except the smelly part.haha
ReplyDeleteoh i forgot one more thing, i also use my towel to dry my hands after washing them because i would rather not use the paper towels in the bathroom if my handy towel is right there!! :)
ReplyDeleteahhh I love it. Thanks for being honest ladies!!!
ReplyDeleteSarah, you are a dirty hippie chic, but you never guess it by looking at you : ) and that's why you are extremely amazing, way to save the planet but not washing...although pools... eww, but I guess i have sensative skin so chlorine and I don't like each other much hehe... but i would reuse my pool towel probably all summer if i could (although i tend to play in mud) but i just hang it in the sun to dry and bam, good as clean for me!!!