How many times would you wear a pair of trousers....

tea_lover

Trousers maybe two days at a push, usually one. Jeans up to a week, but that's a couple of evenings for a couple of hours each time. Everything else is washed after it's worn, personally I think it would be pretty minging not to.

paulineb_2

Well, no one has sent me a PM yet calling me a clatty minger, but theres still time

Torry_Quine

paulineb wrote: »

I think the suggestion was that the not so sweetly smelling clothes might somehow make the fresh clothes smell a bit, like if you wear something once and its a bit pongy it might make the clothes that are sweeter smelling a bit whiffy, so you wouldnt want to hang them up together.

Idiophreak wrote: »

So you're really going to take something off that smells *so bad* that the smell would permeate other clothes if left nearby and think "yep, I'll wear that again"? I just don't follow at all.

Exactly, it makes no sense that something whiffy wouldn't be in the wash. The clothes I'm wearing come off at night and are left on the back of the settee to put on the next day, why would I put them away with non-worn clothes.

paulineb_2

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Exactly, it makes no sense that something whiffy wouldn't be in the wash. The clothes I'm wearing come off at night and are left on the back of the settee to put on the next day, why would I put them away with non-worn clothes.

The thing is, everyones definition of pongy will be a bit different.

Some people wouldnt hang up a T shirt thats been worn once even if it doesnt smell, or I assume they wouldnt, because Im also assuming the people who will only wear a T shirt once, will put it into the laundry basket after its been taken off

So if you dont wear anything twice yourself and people do, maybe you wonder what you do with the discarded clothes if you are planning to wear them again.

paulineb_2

Torry_Quine wrote: »

Exactly, it makes no sense that something whiffy wouldn't be in the wash. The clothes I'm wearing come off at night and are left on the back of the settee to put on the next day, why would I put them away with non-worn clothes.

Maybe if you wanted to hang something up in a wardrobe and wear it later in the week?

Torry_Quine

paulineb wrote: »

Maybe if you wanted to hang something up in a wardrobe and wear it later in the week?

Seems strange to me. If for instance I'm wearing a skirt (as I am this week) and then it's necessary to put on trousers as there's heavy rain then I wouldn't put the skirt away if it can still be worn but leave it out until I can wear it again.:p

tea_lover

The putting clothes away when they've been worn thing is confusing me too. If people wear things twice does it always have to be the next day then?? If not, where do the clothes go?

paulineb_2

tea_lover wrote: »

The putting clothes away when they've been worn thing is confusing me too. If people wear things twice does it always have to be the next day then?? If not, where do the clothes go?

I dont hang clothes back up if Ive worn them as a rule. Ive got 2 bedrooms in my flat, plenty of places to put a T shirt or a pair of leggings if Ive worn it once and am going to wear it again.

System

Dunroamin wrote: »

Do you have a medical problem?

No but I do tend to bark a lot.

Brighton_belle

I can't help feeling the 20th Century invention of washing machines was supposed to release us (particularly women) from relentless drudgery. What is has done is make us create 5 times more washing and ironing.