Do you wear your clothes more than once before wash?

matty17r

So how often do all you mse wash your bedding? Mine's done once a month - used to do it fortnightly.

Torry_Quine

matty17r wrote: »

So how often do all you mse wash your bedding? Mine's done once a month - used to do it fortnightly.

I'm monthly as well. Just doing mine now.

DUKE

Another riffy mare here I change every day except jeans I sometimes wear for 3 :eek: days, & trousers for 2. Thick jumpers that ain't been next to my skin I'll wear for 2 days, 1 otherwise. I've tried to go for 3 days with a big thick jumper but never managed it yet. Obviously if I spill something down myself then I have to change immediately.

Always hang your clothes up rather than leave them on the chair as it'll give them a good airing.

Bedding gets washed every week.

Tropez

matty17r wrote: »

So how often do all you mse wash your bedding? Mine's done once a month - used to do it fortnightly.

We have three sets of bedding.

Bedding gets changed once a week and then every fortnight we wash the two most recently used sets.

BlueC

Surely the correct answer is... underwear and socks after one day, t-shirts or skin-touching garments after one day (2 at a push with a smell test), and everything else when it is actually dirty, smelly, or out of shape. Why would you wash a jumper just because you've worn it once and it isn't actually smell or dirty or out of shape? Weird.

Am I the only person here that wears a pair of jeans for several weeks without washing them? You lot are making me feel like a filthy tramp!

Jacks_xxx

No correct answers - it's horses for courses surely?

Oh blimey! I'm a "full set of clean clothes every day" girlie. Well, every time I have a shower I put clean clothes on, sometimes that's more often than once a day.

When I come home from work my clothes and hair smell of me. cooking. smoke and traffic at the very least.

If I'm going out for the evening I will shower, wash my hair, style my hair, put on a whole fresh face of make up and a whole new set of clean clothes right down to underwear. (Partly because going out clothes need different underwear to work clothes, and partly because the layer closest to groin and arm pits is the stinkiest of the lot.)

If I'm going to the gym, or for a run, I will often shower just to freshen up, but at the very least I'll wash my stinky bits and take my make up off, take all my clothes off, tie my hair back and put on exercise clothes, including exercise underwear.

If I'm working in the evening I will also shower, wash and style my hair and put appropriate fresh clothes and make up on.

If I'm staying in I will shower and put on a clean set of comfies, including fresh underwear.

I find changing clothes for a different activity usually means a change of underwear (supportive for exercise, push you up and pull you in for nights out and supportive and invisible under light coloured clothes for work.) and it seems odd to me to put clean underwear on a dirty body.

Even though I'm going to sweat at Body Pump it seems wrong to turn up there already smelly from a days work.

YORKSHIRELASS

Since becoming MSE I value my clothes a lot more and I believe that washing them a lot does wear them out quicker. Undies, socks and tights get changed daily but everything else gets washed as it needs it. This depends on what I am doing/what I have been wearing/whether its summer or winter etc.

I shower every morning and would shower and put on a full set of clean clothes on to go out in the evening, just because it feels fresher. Have never thought to shower before an exercise class or running though - but its each to their own.

I have a big fluffy fleece jumper that I put on over the top of everything else at home if its chilly. I confess this rarely gets washed, unless I spill something on it. Its a bit of a standing joke in our family.

luxor4t

andrealm wrote: »

As a grown man, was there anything to stop him doing his own washing?

I asked that but never got a valid answer. I think it was a combination of laziness and the apron strings being kept very short & very tight.

One of the many, many reasons he became the 'ex'

onlyroz

luxor4t wrote: »

He was expected to wear underpants and socks 2 days, work and casual shirts two days, work trousers and PJs a week!

Sounds about right to me...

Torry_Quine

luxor4t wrote: »

He was expected to wear underpants and socks 2 days, work and casual shirts two days, work trousers and PJs a week! I had to steal his jeans when he wasn't looking or it would have been once a month :eek:

May I add, he considered one bath a week 'normal' with'a good wash' daily.

That sounds fair enough to me.

Until relatively recently it was the norm to have a bath once a week and a wash at the sink in between.