Wearing pyjamas around the house?

I love staying in my PJs on a slow morning. But just to confuse everyone, I don’t wear slippers with them - I wear trainers, usually without socks, because I like going in the garden, weather permitting.

Yes! just in the neighbourhood, drop by. Entirely normal.

Genuine question-no friends randomly arriving? No lost delivery people? No quick trip to the shops? I don't want to be in pyjamas when there are other people around or even possibly around.

They just turn up on your doorstep? They don’t send a message first to make sure you’re in?? The only person who turns up at ours unannounced is my Mum and I love it when she does but then she wouldn’t judge me if I was in pjs.

Close friends of mine still do that.

I find it more weird that your have friends that would drop round unannounced 😂.. Do people still do that? If one of my friends showed up unexpectedly I’d assume something was up and me being in my PJs would be the last of my worries!

I wear PJs a greater part of the time. I wfh in my bed with the dog at my feet, get up and dressed when I've got stuff to do and then back into PJs once it's done. I walk the dog in my PJs (I live in a tiny hamlet in the middle of nowhere and can go DAYS without seeing another soul). I eat dinner in my PJs. I'm sitting here in my Christmas PJs right now. They are comfortable, wash and dry quickly, perfectly respectable (although I would want to meet my agent or bank manager in them) and I can't see any sensible reason for wearing anything else.

Absolutely not. Have some self respect and get dressed… is what I think but I KNOW in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really matter.

I think it's quite common. I rarely do it myself as I rarely wear pyjamas unless it's really cold. I also like to have a bath just before bed so my nightwear goes onto a clean body. But when I get home from work I do change into leggings/tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt/hoodie which is similarly "loungey".

I don't pass any judgement on people being comfy in their own homes.

My pyjamas are mostly more like loungewear anyway and if I’m at home, that’s what I’ll be wearing

I wear pj's most of the time. I WFH.

A lot of MN posters seem to think it means something terrible about your character or life but I think it's grand.

I don’t wear PJs or any other nightwear come to that, but there is nothing unreasonable in you wearing what you want in your own home.

Is she assuming you don’t change your pyjamas frequently enough?

To stay in the same pjs all day and then go to bed in them would feel grungy to me. But I also find the ritual of getting ready for bed and changing into night clothes helps me get a good nights sleep. I’ve just made sure I’ve got a lot of pairs of lovely Jim jams. Thinking about it, I could probably go days without wearing out door clothes and not get smelly. 😀

Your friend is crazy. No one wears pjs just in the bedroom!

I WFH and feel grotty wearing pjs all day. I do it all the time, which is how I know how grotty it feels! (Depression.)

At the other end of the day, 8pm earliest is pj time for me.

I do lounge about in them on weekend mornings, but I feel mentally healthier if I manage to get up and dressed by around 9. Not that that happens very often!

The nation became wedded to our pjs during lockdown, imo.

While I don't do it myself it's certainly not unusual.

I will wake up, spend 2 hours cleaning in pjs from night before. Shower. Change into different set of pjs on the weekend if im not going anywhere. Then at night, change into another pair of pjs because I would have more than likely spilled dinner or a drink droplet on myself in the day - or smell of cooking from where I'd cooked in the pjs.

Yes I’m a pyjama person. I’ll change into them when I’m home after work.
If I have nothing to go out for on a Saturday I’ll get up and shower, do my hair and makeup and put on my nice Saturday jammies 😂. Festive ones this month.
I don’t sleep in them, only relax around the house in them.

My sister thinks it is a terrible situation and told me she had to bring it up within discussions from friends .She has not told me what her friends reckon so I don't tell her any more about this .If I have no plans to go out I tend to stay in my PJ's. My friends agree with me and if any sales people call I always say Oh I work shifts and have just got up so I can't make any decisions. I am actually retired .My sister reacted so badly, it was like admitting to murder as far as she was concerned. When it was lockdown I only put outdoor clothes on when we went for a walk. I got use to it.

It’s not 1950.

I’ve got plenty of friends but none of us would randomly turn up at each other’s houses unannounced in the evening because we’re all considerate, thoughtful people who are aware that on a normal evening any one of us will likely be in the middle of cooking or eating dinner, putting kids to bed, enjoying a film with our partner, taking a long bath with a glass of wine and a book, etc. Therefore we would pick up the phone and call/message to check rather than just turning up unannounced.

Also, I aim only to be friends with nice, warm, kind people who aren’t shallower than a puddle on the pavement and therefore wouldn’t mind a bit what I was wearing in my own home. Consequently it wouldn’t matter if they saw me in pyjamas anyway. If I spend weekends with friends, we all see each other in PJs in the mornings and evenings, and the sky has yet to fall in.

It’s not compulsory to go bra-less if you’re wearing pyjamas. If I’m wearing pyjamas to relax in the evening (I never wear pyjamas in bed), I’ve always got a bra on. I don’t find it comfortable to go bra-less. I only take my bra off to go to bed and even then I frequently swap my bra for a non-wired bralette to sleep in.

It blows my mind that you know no one who’d do this!! And like you I am fascinated every time I read one of these threads, for the opposite reason. I find it amazing how annoyed some people (not you) seem to get, and fling about words like ‘slovenly’.

Are you really confident that no one you know does this? I’d love it if you asked your friends and report back!

I do have friends but few who would drop round unannounced of an evening. And any close friend who did because they needed me - I’d not care at all about them seeing me in my jammies. They are people I go on holidays with and they’ve seen it all before, hell even sat in both our pjs together - that’ll tip you over the edge 😆

I got my teenage DD pjs that said ‘weekend uniform’ on it - so yea if she wasn’t going out she’d wear them all weekend.
If I’m not going out on a Sunday I might stay in pjs all day (I’m usually out with the dog but she’s 14 and starting to struggle m, so if the weather is poor she’s happier just doing her thing in the garden).

Your house, your business but I wouldn't wear my PJs round the house. I don't feel quite comfortable being up and about without my bra on. I'm not sat there in a dress and heels, I happily go about the place in my lounge wear over my bra and knickers, but the PJs don't make an appearance until I'm getting in bed.

For me pyjamas are just comfortable house clothes. If I'm chilling out at home, pyjamas are what I'm wearing. I don't actually wear mine to bed, as I prefer to sleep in my underwear. So in the morning, I get up and put my pyjamas and robe on to go downstairs. I only really get properly dressed to leave the house.