Bin or keep; pants!

[Whyismycatanasshat]

is it gross to keep worn once pants in case you have another child?

DN, lives with us, 4yo, various ND traits, wanted boxer shorts a few weeks ago; he’s only just toilet trained and learning about pantsasaurus, bodily autonomy etc; so we’re all for encouraging ownership of what he wears except this week he’s not managing the boxers at all and wants his old y front shape pants back. All fine, no problems there, we kept the other pants in case this happened.

The boxers have been worn once, some not at all. Is it totally horrid to pack them away for a future child?

As long as you clean them 😅

It's fine

Ooo yes they’ve been washed at 60 with laundry cleanser as DN adores the smell!

DP thinks it’s disgusting that I’m saving “used pants” as he puts it but if we were to have another I bet he’d not complain at the saving for the sake of pants worn for a day!

No it's what most parents do with small childrens pants, those worn far more than once!! Perfectly fine.

Is it the Dettol laundry cleanse! I love the smell of that!

If mine had been the same sex I’d have passed down pants worn a lot more than once! Not once they get older, but at the “just toilet trained so we have loads of spares so we can have them in every bag we own plus the car boot stage” I’d happily hand down clean and good condition pants.

@WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody It is!
DN is very sensitive to smells and some scents can really unsettle him - there’s early childhood trauma to unpack around smell - but he fell in love with the dettol scent when it came as a substitute for the comfort softener he tolerated!
It genuinely brings him joy and has made mornings and getting dressed much less of a battle.

@Whyismycatanasshat

weird substitution!!😂but lucky find!!

I started using it when covid first hit. I have always washed my dishcloths & t towels together, separate from anything else & started soaking them in the detol cleanse first. I've continued doing this as I love the smell. I don't use it with everything so I don't get immune to the smell 😂😂

no point in an argument with DH, just put them away! If you ever use them he'll never recognise/remember them!!

if you decide not to keep them, the local nursery would be glad if the 'spares'. DN might decide to wear them next week anyway 🙄😊

@WhoNeedsSleepNotISaidMyBody

I hadn’t thought of the nursery; thank you! DN attends one a bit more set up for additional needs and they’d probably have use for them!

If you get rid they can go in textile recycling. Don't need to bin.