To think staying in your pyjamas on stay at home days is minging?

Well it's all about perspective , if it's gonna be the hardest thing you can imagine you are gonna have to face day to day all it's not 'minging' . It's a shocking thing you are lucky you do not have to face and should count your lucky stars every day .

you would put on fresh ones before bed then shower and change them at the end of lazy day.

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Because I don't find bras and jeans comfortable.. That's all there is to it.
Pj's are designed to be loose and elasticated.. I wear more flattering clothes that suck my flabby tummy in that make my figure look good for social occasions but aren't as nice to slob about in.

Maybe she showers in the morning and not before bed. I much prefer to slide into clean sheets after a shower and fresh pjs and only freshen up if I’m feel I need to in the morning. Otherwise you are sleeping in your day’s filth.
OP my dad is like this; it may be a generational thing. He won’t even wear slippers inside because he’s “ not an invalid.”

Obviously yes it’s minging as pyjamas are essentially underwear, you wouldn’t keep the same underwear on for days (I hope).

But for me the bigger problem is not leaving the house all day, no wonder so many of us have fucked hormones. We aren’t designed to stay indoors all day, we need to get natural light in our eyes first thing and then as much as possible throughout the day. Even on our families laziest days if we don’t go for a good walk in the fresh air, we would feel like shite. The people who spend full days in pyjamas aren’t getting any fresh air or exercise, so even hygiene aside it’s just wrong from a heath point of view.

Of course it’s up to people what they do, but they aren’t doing themselves or their DC’s health any favours living like that.

I don’t understand the people saying their normal clothes are uncomfortable. Why do you wear them then? It’s not as though we’re all being laced into corsets and wearing whale bone stays and hairy tweed. I’m wearing jeans and a tee shirt and don’t think I’d be any more comfortable in pjs. Obviously I’m not including people with illnesses and disabilities who absolutely should wear whatever is most comfortable for them.

I think people are talking at cross purposes a little in this thread.

Some are talking about being in PJs as part of a ‘duvet’ day - a chill out relaxing day just doing anything or nothing - watching TV, reading books, napping occasionally etc.

Others are talking about wearing PJs or loungewear things - not going out that day but still having a full day of regular life activities - working, cleaning, laundry, cooking, maybe even gardening etc. My PJs look just like yoga/exercise clothes so being in the garden wouldn’t raise any eyebrows from the neighbours.

Me too! Makes perfect sense.

I enjoy being a bit minging and I don’t care.

I sit on the fence.

I like a PJ day, but i can't do it in the ones i slept in, i will get up, wash, put clean undies/soft bra on and a set of pjs that are more loungewear-ish.

I have to be SICK to stay in my PJs, and that being said, i currently have covid and am sick as a dog, and still did the above.

My teens like a pj day, but i try to enforce the thing about washing/underwear and deoderant at least.

The point earlier in the thread about it being bad and encouraging them to stay in.. it takes 5 mins to put outside clothes on, and they're more of a PITA to wash.. i'd rather they slobbed in pjs i can stick in the tumble dryer, not wear stuff that needs the airer.

I don't actually wear pj's to bed as I sleep naked or in a nighty, I wear them to lounge around the house in as I don't find my regular clothes comfortable...so they are pretty clean.
I don't see the point in getting dressed if I am not going anywhere..the only people who see me in the house are my dh, child and the postmen so no one is judging me.
I also get into comfy clothes as soon as I am done going anywhere for the day,
why would I dress to impress people who won't see me.
If you do it for your mental health that's fine.. I only dress for the school run but as soon as I pick my ds up.. Bra off comfy gown on.

Not to upset the purists but I do housework in my nightie so nightwear clearly doesn't mean you just slob about.
I also can easily laze about in proper clothes although I don't because that might involve ironing.

Personally I can't be laying around in pyjamas all day, I need to be dressed for the day (unless I'm ill). MY kids however will lounge about in pyjamas in preference to clothes and it drives me demented. Their argument is 'well we aren't going anywhere' and my argument is 'well you might be, you don't know yet and if you do need to then you have to do the whole rigmarole of getting ready'. Falls on deaf ears however.

I can't lounge around with pjs that I sleep in! I have lounge wear that is specifically for lounging around the house, never would stay in pjs that I sleep in. Same for kids.

I get dressed when I work from home but apart from sweaty gym clothes always wear everything at least twice before washing and often have clothes on for three days when WFH. Longer for jeans, certainly.

Changing into pjs is part of my bedtimes routine and winding down, telling my body it's ready to sleep. And getting out of them is the opposite. I don't mind what others do though.

We never stay at home all day unless the dcs are very unwell, they tend to sleep a lot then so they stay in PJs. I always get dressed in case I need to go out for meds or take them to see a doctor, or in case they feel better and want to go out.

Maybe they shower and put new PJ's on to laze about. It doesn't necessarily mean they stay in the ones they had on the night before.

Do you change your nightwear every day?

It’s lazy and I judge it.

Agree with you, OP -minging!

No but by getting dressed you are telling your mind the day is starting and helps boost your mind to be productive and get on with the day therefore boosting you mental health and helping with depression

One of the few things my work did when we were all sent home to WFH at beginning of Covid , was have PowerPoint presentations etc to help be productive and i remember clearly that routine of getting up and getting dressed kick starts your mind to get going. I only go into the office once a month, but i get up everyday and get dressed, not fancy clothes but jeans and a hoody or knit. I try and dress warmly as WFH is cold ( i dunno how WFH people wear pyjamas as the are designed to be worn with a duvet over you so i don't find them warm outside of bed )
I also am now trying to wear clothes that make me feel good each day instead of sitting in the wardrobe so wearing a bright yellow light knit today and jeans - the colour - which you actually don't realise- is giving me a boost on a cold June day

I love having nothing planned & can easily spend from Friday finishing work until Monday morning in my pj's laying around all weekend doing sweet fuck all (judge away) nowt better!!!

I don't feel myself if i'm not showered and dressed by at least 10am on days i'm home. I feel like I'm being really lazy, which is nonsense but that's obviously been drilled into me at some point. I also think I associate lounging around in my Pj's with being ill, as it's the only time I do it. But, each to their own. If folk are happy, then who cares. Maybe we should all take a leaf out of their book and relax a bit more.

We love a pj day, everyone showers daily so it’s not like we are unclean, it’s comfy and cosy!

Best thing in the world IMO. People on MN are absolutely obsessed with cleanliness though.