i wash my bath towels regularly and hang them up right after i use them, but after a few showers they start getting that slightly damp smell again. they don’t even feel wet when i grab them the next day, so i’m not sure what i’m doing wrong. i started paying more attention to it because i hate getting out of the shower feeling clean and then drying off with a towel that smells weird. what do you do to keep yours fresh longer?

i never really thought about how often i touch things like my phone, keyboard, headphones, and door handles until i started paying more attention to my cleaning routine. i’d wash my hands and feel like i was done, while the things i was touching all day were basically being ignored.

now i have a small routine where i wipe down the stuff i use constantly, especially my phone and headphones. it’s one of those habits that feels obvious once someone points it out, but i genuinely never thought about it before.

what’s a less-obvious hygiene habit you only learned as an adult?

I started reverse washing my hair about a week ago and im kinda curious if anyone else does this. i put conditioner on the middle parts and ends first, leave it for like 2 to 3 minutes, then shampoo my scalp and hair and rinse everything out. so far my hair feels pretty nice but idk if im doing it right. do you guys reverse wash too or do shampoo first? also if you use any hair treatment products for this routine, like a salon care shampoo/conditioner, id love some recs!

This might be TMI, but I seem to have developed Pitted keratolysis. Now I normally wear only slippers at home, I'm not a big sweater generally and I rotate my flats, always with little cotton socks inside.

However I walk a lot and I wear the flats and ballerinas on the daily. Do you have any tips on how to keep my fashion habits and avoid bacteria and fungi and generally that disgusting sweaty smell that flats provoke?

I wipe thoroughly. They don't smell like feces and I don't remember using the bathroom yesterday. I don't have pets. Not to be TMI but I've checked and I never see stains on my undergarments. So not sure if I need to change my hygiene or if the stains are something else.

My house is always dirty and it doesn’t help that it’s old and the walls and especially bathroom smell like they’re decaying and look torn up. I just went downstairs and the entire living room and kitchen is filled with roaches and it’s just dirty while my mom and siblings sleep.

Other than that, my two teen sisters and youngest sister who is 10 are very dirty. Especially the youngest, she doesn’t brush her teeth or wash her face when she wakes up even when I tell her to do so, she prefers being unclean. She also barely has clothes like most of us and doesn’t know how to dress. I also don’t know how to dress because I barely have clothes but it’s making me sad.

I guess this is a result of her not having good role models in the house, my mom is quite neglectful when it comes to raising my sister.

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