Do you wash your (secondary school) kids uniform every day?

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Just looking for normality check. I have boys so trousers and shirt. I used to wash regularly every day when they were little as they just get muddy all the time. That’s less the case now, but I still feel like I should have clean set every day.

I do this too.

Thankfully they are quite cheap and easy to pick in supermarkets though.

Oh my word! I thought they would stop getting muddy after infants 😳

No.

Clean blouse and tights/socks each day. But kilts go a couple of days and blazer a couple of weeks.

Only wear proper uniform 3 days a week now as school has changed to allowing sports kit all day on days with games.

God no. Shirts are clean daily, skirts are thick woollen kilts and washed as needed.

DS16 gets a clean shirt every day and trousers every other day.
Well thats what is supplied and put in his wardrobe, what he wears may be another matter

My 15 year old son stinks after a day at school I cannot imagine the smell if he wore it more than once without washing

Ds sweated excessively so I washed his shirts every day. He rarely wore a jumper. Trousers he generally wore for 2-3 days. The blazer at the school he went to in Years 7 & 8 was dry clean only so was cleaned every half term.

Years 9-11 was washable. I used to wash it about once a month. The polyester washable blazer smelt sweaty sooner than the breathable wool blazer.

Clean shirt every day, washed together at the end of the week on a hot white wash

Skirt / trousers 2 or 3 days each

Blazer every half term of
Or if it needs it more often

We used to have three polo shirts/3 jumpers/ numerous trousers. So one to wear, one for spare and one drying

absolutely not

Clean shirt every day, trousers may occasionally last 2 days but more often not. Blazer is dry clean only, I'd go bankrupt if I cleaned it every day.

Yes or they stink!
Well yes to shirts, pants, socks.
Their trousers/ blazers last a bit longer.

He washes his own, and not every day.

Clean polo shirt every day
Obviously clean undies and tights
Wash jumper and skirt for on Sundays
Was blazer every two weeks

I too am astounded by this thread and feel that I am obviously really filthy. I would make sure shirts are changed daily but absolutely would not clean jumpers or skirts as often as that. Weekly is absolutely fine in my opinion but I realise I am in the minority

clean shirts trousers and jumpers daily. they can't keep anything clean more than a day as it is despite not being primary age anymore and i don't want any lingering boy odour. they have 5 shirts each so just one whites wash a week as we barely have anything else white. 3 trousers and logo jumpers so i do one midweek wash of those along with other things.
tie and blazer washed every half term it if need it sooner. PE kit at the end of the week unless wet/dirty inbetween.
it keeps the cost of purchase down as one if mine grows like a weed and has already outgrown school trousers so replacing 3 rather than 5 makes a mid week wash that's going on anyway worthwhile.
i did invest in two ties as they are something so easily lost, nicked by one if the cats and hidden etc.
it's shoes and their cost that cripple me.

DD's uniform was polycotton (70% polyester), just two suppliers for that particular shirts, polycotton jumper and polyester blazer. Blazer wasn't allowed to be off unless approved by the head, old 50th/60th style building which was boiling when the sun hit the rooms.

She stunk despite showering with soap, shaving and every deodrant under the sun. I washed her clothes with desinfaction to get rid of the sweat.

She is now in 6th form, different school with decent air conditioning. It was one of the last ones rebuild before the Tories scrapped the programm.
She wears cotton vests or tops underneath a decent cotton or wollen jumper/cardigan. Suddenly she can re-wear a cardigan/jumper for another day and I can be in the same room with her without the need to open every window.

Get rid of stupid uniforms and teens won't be classed as biological weapons anymore.

Why would you feel filthy? I feel like other people are running up their electricity bill and wasting resources through unnecessary washing. These are probably the same people who wash bedding daily 😲.

I'm perfectly confident my kids don't smell or look dirty at all.

No.

They wear clean clothes.
Those may have been worn one two or three days but always clean.

All that extra unnecessary washing makes me shudder.

@PrincessOfPreschool i definitely don't wash bedding daily! can't think of anything more tedious.
i am so glad the children are old enough to strip and make their own now. i just need to get them to be old enough to put petrol in my car and the boring jobs are all gone!

@sevensheds , I miss putting petrol in the car now I have electric! Kids used to sort socks but it seems to have taken by the wayside. I think the most tedious job for me is folding clean clothes so the more washing, the more folding. Urghhhh

Shirt and trousers every day. Blazer every half term (or if obviously manky)

Trousers if dirty , otherwise not daily, shirts yes

I was at boarding school in the 70s. We had a clean shirt once a week. Everything else was dry clean only, so cleaned once a term, in the holidays. I can't remember what we did about sports kits, but I have a feeling that only the socks and shirts were laundered during term time. If that makes you feel queasy, we were rostered to have 3 baths a week, and other days made do with a "nice wash". Hair was washed by hairwash ladies once a week - we weren't allowed to do it ourselves. I suppose our classrooms must have been a bit stinky....