You know, that’s an excellent point. I just bought my boyfriend a new towel and washed all the towels in the house (serendipitously, everyone’s out of town for the holidays). I also want to note that we no longer really have this problem, and that the smell—at least the ambient smell—has never been very bad. Although, yeah, when I stick my face in some of the towels and smell them I… wish I hadn’t. I’m also a female with good hygiene, moderate OCD, and an unusually good sense of smell, so. Yeah, I hear you.
Also, re: the two months thing—the guest towels would generally just remain hanging up after one or two uses, while housemates generally would each wash their own towels regularly like normal adults. So it’s not quite as bad as it sounds, though it’s still not exactly ideal.
Time to clean everything! Thank you for your input.
You know, that’s an excellent point. I just bought my boyfriend a new towel and washed all the towels in the house (serendipitously, everyone’s out of town for the holidays). I also want to note that we no longer really have this problem, and that the smell—at least the ambient smell—has never been very bad. Although, yeah, when I stick my face in some of the towels and smell them I… wish I hadn’t. I’m also a female with good hygiene, moderate OCD, and an unusually good sense of smell, so. Yeah, I hear you.
Also, re: the two months thing—the guest towels would generally just remain hanging up after one or two uses, while housemates generally would each wash their own towels regularly like normal adults. So it’s not quite as bad as it sounds, though it’s still not exactly ideal.
Time to clean everything! Thank you for your input.
That all makes more sense now :)
In our case the towel rack was right in front of the toilet, so it didn’t have to be an ambient thing haha