Which is really best?

I don't know how many of you have seen this commercial so I'm including it in my post.  I have to say that it has been making me thoroughly crazy for the past week.   Granted, I'm probably not their target audience...

So I'll let you watch before I continue.




I have found this commercial to be completely frustrating.  Kleenex is making the statement that by reusing a towel, we are passing germs from one person to the next.  And that instead we should use a new towel each time we wash our hands so that we don't transmit germs.


I have a few problems with this.  First, isn't the point of washing our hands in the first place to get rid of the germs???  Second, let's see there are 3 of us in my house, and I'd say we wash our hand maybe 5 times a day (and if I'm cooking that could be 5 in an hour), which means we will be throwing out 15 towels a day.  And at 60 towels a box, that means we will need a new box every 4 days.  Okay, not only is that not environmentally sound, it's going to get expensive!


Now, I admit that I use wipes for my daughter when wiping her face and hands after meals because the washcloths were getting moldy and yucky, and I had to throw them out because I couldn't wash the mold out.  But I do rinse out the wipes and and use them a couple times before throwing them out.


Isn't there a happy medium between germs on towels and throwing out a ton of towels everyday???