Clothes worn for only a couple of hours...

YORKSHIRELASS

I am another who doesnt like washing clothes after every single wear but feels it is somehow wrong to put them back in the wardrobe! I have a storage basket under my bed where I stash things that needing wearing again. I do use the quick wash on my washing machine for things that need freshening up though.

DH just chucks his on the floor until there is a reasonable pile then he will sort through them, or I will get fed up and do it for him.

I agree with Lyn though, I have a work colleague who sometimes smells sort of stale, not sweaty exactly but just not very fresh either and its made me a bit more conscious about it!

Torry_Quine

I don't understand why if something has only been worn once it won't be worn again the next day?

VfM4meplse

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

I am another who doesnt like washing clothes after every single wear but feels it is somehow wrong to put them back in the wardrobe!

Simple: whilst not dirty, neither must it be allowed to contaminate laundered items.

Feral_Moon

Surely it's just common sense to wash clothes when they either start to smell or have become dirty?

Length of time is irrelevant. I can spend an hour or two in the garden and then go shower and chuck the dirty clothes in the wash. Equally I could wear the same clothes to go walk the dog and assuming I haven't got them muddy, they might be worn two or three times more before being washed.

just_trying

Not o's but I just wash it. My youngest is so paranoid after someone else said someone smelled of Bo. I just wash it all, not good but the peace is worth it.

The sniff test is good enough, but not good enough for my youngest, 13, it has to be washed and smell like it has. Adults know if it needs washed. Yes, I'm minky to I dare wear a bra more than a day, it's cold here ☺, sometimes ha,ha.

trailingspouse

If it's clean it goes back in the drawer/wardrobe. If it's dirty it goes to be washed. Ah, the simple life.

wondercollie

just_trying wrote: »

Not o's but I just wash it. My youngest is so paranoid after someone else said someone smelled of Bo. I just wash it all, not good but the peace is worth it.

The sniff test is good enough, but not good enough for my youngest, 13, it has to be washed and smell like it has. Adults know if it needs washed. Yes, I'm minky to I dare wear a bra more than a day, it's cold here ☺, sometimes ha,ha.

Bras should be washed every second wear. Sports Bras after every outing!

I just spent 45 minutes at the bra fitters with my DIL. Who recieved a lecture on bra care by the fitter. She stressed cold, hand washing. I feel for the girl, 32J all natural and waiting for a breast reduction surgery.

Me, I bung them in a mesh bag and through them in the cold wash.

GreyQueen

I think I fall in with the majority here; I'd never ever put worn clothing back in the drawer but I don't automatically launder everything (except socks and undies) after one wash, either.

I change into work clothes just before leaving home and out of them asap I come home, and work an office job so not normally in a muck sweat. Work trousers will go 2-3 wears, work blouses will go 1-3 wears, depending.

I hang clothes up to air once removed, blouses on hangers and trousers on a rack. There is one end of my hanging rail (which is open not inside a wardrobe) where once-worn blouses live and I have a mental note of how many times they've been worn and don't let them get past the sniff test.

Gardening duds get laundered 1-2 a week, depending on how hot and mucky I've been getting.

Laundering clothes too often gets them worn out the sooner, as well as being wasteful of water, detergent, electical energy and personal energy.

Prinzessilein

Worn clothing gets aired and then hung at the front of the clothes rail, so I know it has been worn and will choose this again before 'unworn' items.

My bras get machine-washed...skin conditions mean that I get through a LOT of underwear in a week (especially cotton vests...I change those twice daily in the heat)...and it all goes in one wash. ....The bras are really just boulder-holder type affairs (despite HUGE weight loss I am still well-endowed...currently wearing a 48EE) nothing lacy or delicate about them.

Pollycat

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I don't understand why if something has only been worn once it won't be worn again the next day?

I never wear the same thing on consecutive days (talking about 'going out' stuff here).

So I wore a nice linen Next dress yesterday with contrasting cardigan.
I wouldn't want to wear the same thing today to the same place (OK, I know only me would know) but after only being worn for maybe 4 hours, I don't think it needs washing.

So I hang it in the spare bedroom over the wardrobe (not in it) on those plastic hangers that stick out and then will maybe wear it when I go out on Tuesday.