Re-wear your clothes?

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Do you do that? Re-wear them?

What do you do when you wear your clothes again (apart from keep downwind of other people of course!)

This post an dithers mentioning chairs has reminded me of an ex who had a chair in the bedroom... A chair i wasn't allowed to actually sit in.. I called it the forbidden seat.

"That's where my almost dirty clothes go."
"Wtf are almost dirty clothes?"
"Ones I've worn, they're not clean, but they're not dirty, they're almost dirty"

Trousers and jeans over the arms, tops and thirty folded on the seat, shirts and such hung on the back. A whole set in stone system..

I'll wear jeans twice or possibly 3 times if they don't get muddy great paw prints on and jumpers a few times, but everything else gets worn once.

👏👏👏

I’m disappointed that no one has turned up yet to tell us all with complete confidence that they know every detail of the personal hygiene habits of complete strangers they pass in the street (obviously when said strangers are not meeting the poster’s standards in some way). They never speak to these people as far as I can tell, or bother to explain how they know the intimate details of their lives. But they Just Know.

Also, I confidently expect someone to turn up and tell us that it is because All Brits Are Dirty Mingers. Because that’s a thing too.

Still, the day is young!

Yes I will deek in with my tick list of how disgusting we all are and how other people can definitely smell us. Yay!

I re-wear jeans, trousers, jumpers and jackets. Wash everything else after one use.

I wash bra, pants and socks every day. T-shirts and tops every day in the Summer when it's hot, after two days wear in the winter as I don't sweat much and they don't smell. Jeans, jumpers etc far less regularly.

Yeah, jeans, skirts and trousers I rewear on the rare occasion I haven't spilled anything on them. Starting to do it more in terms of environment-friendliness by avoiding excess washes.

Some people must love the absolutely vile smell of fabric detergent, or be completely desensitised to overpowering scents. Advertising people's wet dream the stupidity of some 🙂

Oh do fuck off, like wearing jeans or a jumper twice makes someone a minger. Unless you stink to high heaven it's perfectly fine. Idiot.

I shower every morning and am not generally a sweaty person, so aside from underwear and socks I wear more than once. Wearing once is not good for your clothes or for the planet (or for your bank account with the cost of energy).

If it's been very hot or I've been very active, the clothes go in the wash.

Yes @Asimhereanyway same here, I also use my Chairdrobe and Floordrobe for clothes awaiting their next wear too
Floor is for housework/gardening/slobby-comfy stuff and chairdrobe is for ‘out of the house’ jeans and t-shirts, trousers etc.
Posher items (eg/smart top, or rarely a dress) will go on a coat hanger on the back of the bedroom door. Only freshly laundered items go back in the wardrobe.

I change underwear, socks and tops daily (sweaty armpits/hot flushes) but jeans, skirts, trackie bottoms, sweatshirts and jumpers/cardigans all go several days unless marked or fail the sniff test.

Jeans get worn loads… don’t count days, throw in with next convenient wash.

I try and wear bras 2 or possibly 3 days - but it depends on the style (eg/ how close to the armpit) and weather, and how ‘menopausal’ I’ve been. Sometimes a bra might be just once - but then it messes up my system because I always buy matching sets, with one bra and either 2 or 3 knickers (2x thongs/briefs and 1 x Big girl Bridget pants).

Sports wear is same. Leggings worn few times but tops and socks just once - even though it will only be for about 2 hours max.

oh - exception is if anyone important is coming round or to stay and likely to see bedroom - then Chairdrobe things go on hangers at one end of wardrobe, and Floor things (which are already folded) get moved to the floor of the wardrobe. Family & good friends can see it in the wild - not ashamed of the system 😄

Like most here, I change knickers and socks daily but try to get longer out of other clothes.
Bras are the anomaly; I don't change them daily, perhaps after 3 days, unless it's very hot or I've been doing something very sweaty.
Might get a second day out of T-shirts (sniff test on the armpits ) but would definitely try and get 3-5 wears out of jumpers and jeans. It doesn't do them any favours to wash so frequently.

Is 'minger' back? Haven't heard it since the 90s!

@StopStartStop same here, fresh on everyday. Always been the way with me and for my DC. Personally I couldn't imagine putting clothes back on that I'd been wearing all day but each to their own.

I only wash clothes that are dirty. This means only knickers, socks and tights get washed after one wear.
I don't smell because I wash and wear anti-perspirant deodorant.

You are wasting energy, both your own (and your time!) and the planet's. Irresponsible.

I have a bad skin condition and cannot rewear clothes, I understand the environmental aspect but tbh I probably have less of an environmental impact generally than those who are on their high horses over someone washing their clothes after one wear, I have to do what is right for me medically.

Thats fair enough.

I have friends who have medical conditions where they sweat excessively or their genitals smell so they have to change every day, if not multiple times a day.

But most of us don’t have a medical condition that makes us smell - that doesn’t mean where ‘mingers’ as PPs have suggested.

"I have a bad skin condition and cannot rewear clothes,"

Well, that's totally different.

"tbh I probably have less of an environmental impact generally than those who are on their high horses over someone washing their clothes after one wear"

How could you possible know other people's environmental impact?

I rewear everything except underwear and socks until they’re dirty or smell. I have a very strong sense of smell though so I would know before others noticed.

@Gwenhwyfar it's personal choice, I wouldn't feel clean re wearing clothes (live on a farm and am active all day getting grubby with horses and dogs etc). I don't criticise others for their choices and frankly couldn't care a toss how often they re wear clothes. I like fresh clothes on everyday and that's that. We are all entitled to do as we want.

It's threads like these that remind me not to listen to many mothers who complain they have too much housework - so many women are obviously just doing unnecessary work. This and the other thread where people said they washed clothes after a holiday even if they hadn't been worn AT ALL because they didn't separate clean and dirty or because they needed to be ironed.

I'm not sure we're morally entitled to do anything we want. Obviously, legally you can.

However, I also said I wash my clothes if they are actually dirty, which you say is the case with your farm clothes. Personally, I think I might wear overalls like farmers wear though and wash those rather than ruin my nice clothes with constant washing.

I only wear tops once because I sweat a lot and do a lot of walking because I don't own a car. I rewear jeans and trousers multiple times before I wash them though!

@Gwenhwyfar then don't listen to others with differing opinions from your own. You'll always find those who don't agree with you and that's fine😁as long as they are not asking you to do their laundry it's nothing to do with you.