When you buy new bath towels and washcloths, individually sold, unwrapped on a store's shelf, do you throw them in the washing machine before using them?
Do you wash brand new towels and washcloths before you use them?
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Not washcloths... you can get a pack of 6-12 at Burlington coat factory for like 5-6 bucks...it’s tied up in a ribbon.. pick the cloths from the middle of the stock
Yes
If shit is packaged I consider it sterile. Why would you wash, and risk fading, a brand new unopened t-shirt?
To me, it makes the fibers softer, plus cant stand that plastic smell or dye smell that comes with new fabric.
I wash every piece of new clothing that is washable before wearing it the first time. The majority of clothing is manufactured in foreign countries with health standards that are not even close to what they should be. Just imagine how many unclean hands handled that garment you're about to put on your back. 
Maybe you meant clean, but packaged clothes or cloths are not sterile. In my opinion, although new, they're not clean and would all need to be washed before wear or use. They might be safe to use, but much like the previous comment, the manufacturer may be not be in the cleanest facility. We would never know.
I wash every piece of new clothing that is washable before wearing it the first time. The majority of clothing is manufactured in foreign countries with health standards that are not even close to what they should be. Just imagine how many unclean hands handled that garment you're about to put on your back.
Shit, imagine the unclean hands that made your Whopper with cheese yesterday. LOL
Man you got it TOTALLY backwards! Most fucked up stuff is allowed in the USA and banned in other countries!
Brominated vegetable oil
Genetically modified vegetables
FDC yellow #5, red #40, yellow #6
rBST growth hormone
Potassium bromate in breads
Carrageenan
chickens industrially washed in chlorine
azodicarbonamide in breads
Butylated hydroxy anisole (BHA)
Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT)
Olestra (remember that shit?)
Propyl paraben
Many GMO seedless fruits
and more........
And while we're on the subject, why are you guys that germ conscious? Have you any idea how many germs your body has to fight off in a day? That's why we have an immune system! Matter of fact, if you DIDN'T come across germs in your daily life, your immune system would get weaker PLUS never make certain antibodies, PLUS eventually disappear through the evolutionary process. Not saying go out and drink vomit off the pavement in a bar parking lot, but just saying that for the general daily encountered rank and file germs, you already have the antibodies in you and possibly the germ too. Go spit on a glass slide and put it under a microscope and tell me if you don't see more creepy crawly shit than you ever imagined were living in your mouth. Wanna scare yourself? Go spit in a sterile agar petri dish .... cover it and come back in 2 weeks and see the bacteria, and mold forest that grew out of your saliva! You ain't sterile, why does your T shirt have to be?
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Okay, a lot of things are contaminated, but because there are you shouldn't take precautions against being infected by unclean manufactured new clothing simply by washing it first? Well don't then, no one is forcing you. For me the old adage "a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" still rings true and simply means it's easier to stop something from happening in the first place than to repair the damage after it has happened.
Hell yeah
I wash all clothing that I buy from stores, and I wash and rinse my meat with vinegar and a little salt as well.
Its all in how you wanna view it. You ever been to a matinee theater? So you take that new shirt AFTER you sterilize it and go to see a movie. You sit in a theater seat that held a different humans body every few hours, most of them eating, touch their mouths eating popcorn, candy, wiping their nose, digging in their ear, coughing, sneezing farting silently and enjoying the movie. You sit in that same seat for 2 hours or so, then go on with your day in a shirt that really is now toxically contaminated with the germ residue of hundreds of people on it and you'll likely wear it the rest of the day .... maybe even lay on your bed in it! Maybe even across your pillow. But when it came out the package it wasn't sanitary enough cause Won Yung Ho somewhere in Cambodia folded it by hand and put it in a plastic bag. Hmmmmm .... It's a mental game we play with ourselves. Kinda like if I had a hard butterscotch candy, and dropped it in a pile of pig shit, there is no method on Earth to clean that piece of candy to the point where you'd eat it. But many people would gladly go eat a bowl of chitterlings after refusing the candy. We are programmed to be who we are, not educated to be who we are.Okay, a lot of things are contaminated, but because there are you shouldn't take precautions against being infected by unclean manufactured new clothing simply by washing it first? Well don't then, no one is forcing you. For me the old adage "a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" still rings true and simply means it's easier to stop something from happening in the first place than to repair the damage after it has happened.
Like I said; ... We are programmed to be who we are, not educated to be who we are.
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I am not washing raw meat to improve safety. I am washing it because I like clean meat. I wash it to remove fat,dirt, and other impurities. You stop rinsing your meat and cook it the white way. I digress.Like I said; ... We are programmed to be who we are, not educated to be who we are.
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Short answer: Your attempt to wash away germs can backfire in a big way.
I take it you thought I was being insulting to point out that health professionals say you're doing a dangerous thing. I never even said what I thought. Lesson learned.
Always wash new towels, clothing, sheets, anything contacting my skin. That shit is shipped and stored from who knows where. Most shipping containers and warehouses/DCs are filthy.
I don't disagree. In the final analysis we live in a dirty world and that being the case we minimize the risk of infection to the extent we can by simply doing the things we know that aid in that effort. By way of analogy our bodies are exposed to contaminants we cannot avoid, but knowing that do we stop washing because we cannot avoid them? Of course not. Again, in my opinion, all we can do is inhibit the risk to our health the extent possible and not operate from the viewpoint that it's just a exercise in futility.
pretty much true.... and try to to lose sight of the fact that VERY few people ever end up dying because of a germ they crossed paths with. MOST people, by far, die due to their lifestyle choices such as dietary, smoking, alcohol and drugs, genetic susceptibility to some nongermicidal disease, or simply old age, not some renegade germ.I don't disagree. In the final analysis we live in a dirty world and that being the case we minimize the risk of infection to the extent we can by simply doing the things we know that aid in that effort. By way of analogy our bodies are exposed to contaminants we cannot avoid, but knowing that do we stop washing because we cannot avoid them? Of course not. Again, in my opinion, all we can do is inhibit the risk to our health the extent possible and not operate from the viewpoint that it's just a exercise in futility.
Yes.
Definitely....especially in these days and times.
Of course.. They get washed throughly then they're marinated in fabric softener before being treated to dryer sheets. Not only is my shit clean and smelling fresh, it's more absorbent when I get out of the shower
I thought that was the norm. With all the dust and people that touch it, plus what happens in transportation, it only seems like the right thing to do.
Hell yeah.
I wash everything before I use them including towels/washcloths, all clothing, and dishes/utensils.
I wash everything before I use them including towels/washcloths, all clothing, and dishes/utensils.
In today's world I would suggest washing anything that wasn't factory sealed. People are nasty and you have no clue who touched (or whatever) those towels, especially towels on shelves in a department store.
A friend recently gave me a house warming gift of new towels and she told me wash them before I use them. Her reason was Covid.
Guess what I did?
A friend recently gave me a house warming gift of new towels and she told me wash them before I use them. Her reason was Covid.
Guess what I did?
Co/Sign!!! Wash everything first!
Well if you going off the past 8 months understandable... if you going over previous yrs each situation is different
Yeah.... that will protect you from possibly grabbing a bundle that fell on the floor when they were putting them on the shelf.... on the floor where the employee was walking after he came from the restroom after standing in front of the urinal with the piss drops on the floor.... either your all in and wash them first.... or you don't .... end of story
sidebarr: unless you work at Burlington and stocked the shelves yourself.... there are not safe spots
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The virus has been with us practically all year, people have been nasty forever.
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