in thinking that there is no real reason for most people to SMELL is there?

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unless have run a marathon etc.
WASH yourselves and please wash your clothes you stinkers

Summer rain - oh no...you didnt have to do that did you..now I'm going to have to look!!

I don't wash my fucking arse with my fucking fanjo juice!

FFS!
I use the fabric part of my knickers that has only touched my skin, I do not use my fucking gussets to wash with!

bacteria can spread through 4 layers of bog roll in a few seconds. You think they haven't spread all through your cotton knickers in 24 hours?

your pants will be swarming with bacteria that should not be passed from one orifice to another...making the pants warm and moist before washing just enables the bacteria to multiply and spread quicker

what do you do with the wet pants afterwards?

As soon as i start getting poorly and nasty infections, I'll let you know.

The wet knickers are washed with the normal washing afterwards.
They usually sit in the bath during the day to dry, so that the rest of the washing doesn't go moudly from the damp, then put into the washing basket.

You are both being really really precious about germs.

Warm, moist pants swarming with bacteria we're all doomed.

Nickelbabe - it's entirely your choice and i respect your right to wash how you see fit. But what i have said about bacteria is fact, and you are lucky not to have got any infections.

I think that people should leave nickelbabe alone. Each to their own and all that. Why should she change because a load of women she doesn't know have got all sensitive? Some people are being extremely rude.

No one has said what is wrong with a bit of bacteria, as long as they don't make you actually ill. And if she doesn't smell, why does it bother you so much? And even if your terribly sensitive noses could detect a hint of something, again why does it bother you what she does?

I don't think it's down to luck, i think it's down to physiology - in the same way that I don't have excessive sweat, and am lucky only to have to strip wash every day, I am also built not to harbour nasty infections.

As I said - if there had been a problem with my genital hygiene, I would review the way I wash down below.

limitedperiodonly -I'm not doomed thanks cos i dont have underwear like that lying around

i'm entitled to my opinion and i have stated that i respect nickelbabes right to do what she wants, i also respect her for not backing down and remaining calm about this

but i cant help having an opinion that clashes and i am entitled to voice it

you are indeed entitled to air it.

Oh and by the way "hand hot water" is hotter than the standard 30 degree wash. It's temperature that cleans clothes, not washing powder or soap, as the real nappy people tell us.

Agree with Dropdeadfred, nickel has remained calm and polite mostly! How you have done so, I don't know.

lol... if you could see my house and kids you'd know i'm not, by any stretch of the imagination, precious about germs. And I have no particular issue with people flannel washing (although I don't enjoy it). But washing with dirty kacks is...

unneccessary and quite unpleasant

perhaps I am bringing too much of my study into this...I am studying microbiology as part of my degree and it can scare the bejeezus out of you

Nickelbabe - it's entirely your choice and i respect your right to wash how you see fit. But what i have said about bacteria is fact, and you are lucky not to have got any infections.

Some very wise words spoken on this thread by Dropdeadfred. I for one won't forget them in a hurry.

Think on Nickelbabe, you biohazard, you.

am actually now sitting her ewith my legs wide open, jsut in case of any sweaty infection-making bacteria

(sorry, it's an instinctic reaction - I did it automatically when you talked about germs )

IMO opinion there is nothing wrong with strip washes, but simply can't get my head round washing yourself clean with dirty pants!

I don't know if it's an Irish expression but when I was growing up, a strip wash was known as 'A dirty woman's wash' Lol

nickelbabe you are obviously some kind of medical marvel, quite possibly indestructable, I would suggest you take yourself off for testing at the earlest possible opportunity.

What other expanation can there possibly be for you not dropping dead from washing with your pants?

Ffs.

According to the scary 'your pants are full of shit' link, most of it stays in the machine and contaminates all of your other washing anyway, unless you wash with bleach or at temperatures higher than the sun, lets hope none of the germs fearers wash their tea towels in the machine eh? Hate to think of you all smearing poo over your freshly washed plates.

I do everything I shouldn't apparently, I strip wash, I sometimes miss a day and don't wash at all, I certainly don't wear clean clothes everyday, sometimes when it is frigging cold and I am camping I don't even wear clean knickers everyday.

I haven't ever washed with my pants, but actually I think it is quite a good idea and I may take it up.

If you are using a flannel for your face and pits why not just use the flannel last and then bung it in the wash?

agree with the others though.... I've been rude and you've been exceedingly calm and resonable. Whatever you want to do is your choice obviously. Although posting it on an internet forum did somewhat invite comments.

I wish you continued good luck on the infection front, not something i'd wish on anyone.

Surely flannels are cheap though. Why not just buy a few more?

Explain in terms better than 'ewwwww' what is wrong with washing at a sink anyway? It's good enough for hands which are by far the dirtiest, bacteria laden area of the body.