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to ask how many pairs of knickers you go through in a day?

273 replies

passingtime · 12/08/2011 10:42

DP has just text me saying he is putting the washing away and most of it is my knickers.

I wear 2-3 pairs per day and I don't think this is unusual or excessive...

OP posts:
GlitterySkulls · 12/08/2011 15:53

2-3 for the average day, and an extra pair if i'm going out (meal, pub, etc)... didn't realise i was odd Confused

melika · 12/08/2011 16:08

Never more than 2, usually just one!

LoopyLoopsTootyFroots · 12/08/2011 16:09

All you three a dayers: how many pairs of knickers do you own? And how often do you do a clothes wash?

TalcAndTurnips · 12/08/2011 16:09

Now to log on to Mumsnet - let's hope for feck's sake it's not all F&B paints and mothers-in-law this afternoon

Sweet baby Jesus and the orphans - there is a God!!

KatieScarlett2833 · 12/08/2011 16:11

One pair on my head in the morning (instant clean headband for putting on slap)
One pair after shower
Sleep naked

so, 2 but only one has been near my fanjo.

TobyLerone · 12/08/2011 16:12

Grin Talc.

I'm a 2-a-dayer and I probably own about 20 pairs of knickers. I do clothes washes most days.

MardyBra · 12/08/2011 16:33

KatieScarlett - er, why not use a headband?

And do you wash that pair every day?

Isn't there a MNer called knickersonmyhead.

MardyBra · 12/08/2011 16:33

Grin at Talc.

Clothilde · 12/08/2011 16:38

Same as KatieScarlett - knickers work far better than proper headbands at keeping my hair off my face. Although if I've been doing really sweaty exercise, I'll wear a clean pair after my shower, but if I'm exercising in the morning, I'll wear the revious day's knickers, and last thing at night I just change into pyjamas.

TimeWasting · 12/08/2011 16:59

My knickers are much bigger than my head. Sad

KatieScarlett2833 · 12/08/2011 17:24

Headbands get dirty so I'd need several to wash on rotation and are costly

Of course they are washed afterwards, usually have foundation on them, if I wore them it would look like I had a dose of the Earthas.

Pants are the perfect size and instantly available.

Shodan · 12/08/2011 17:47
Blush

I've just done a quick mental tally and realised that at least once a week I go through four pairs in a day. That's a day when I go to the gym in the morning and karate in the evening so:

1 pair in the morning to the gym.
Next pair after showering at the gym.
Change into next pair for karate.
Then last pair after my bath after karate, until I go to bed.

But mostly only 2 pairs a day, unless it's hot, then three. maybe four

But then I figure, I do the washing, so who cares?

(I also own approx. 30 pairs of knicks)

TheGhostNotMe · 12/08/2011 17:55

I normally wear 2 pairs a day - one for day, one for night under my PJs. I am most definitely a PJ girl, and socks in bed most months too.

heleninahandcart · 12/08/2011 18:20

1 to 2 depending on my day.

Bunbaker · 12/08/2011 18:38

"First thing in the morning: get up, shower, clean knickers.
Last thing at night, knickers off, shower, into bed au naturelle.
Didn't think there was any other way!"

That sounds normal to me. 2 -3 pairs every day sounds a little OCD. If I am going out in the evening and having a shower beforehand I would put a clean pair on, but I never wear them in bed.

DizzyKipper · 12/08/2011 18:44

Amusing thread. I'm rather curious OP about what you actually expected other posters to say, are you surprised that most people only use 1 per day?

2littlegreenmonkeys · 12/08/2011 18:45

Just one pair for me, unless I am getting changed to go out and need my sucky in knickers. Or if I have been doing something that gets me sweaty Wink like cleaning Grin I will shower then wear new ones

adamschic · 12/08/2011 18:46

I wear knickers in bed too, feel cold otherwise. Sometimes one pair a day and sometimes two especially if I'm going out and/or had a bath.

catgirl1976 · 12/08/2011 18:51

Haven't read the whole thread but could someone explain

  1. Why someone would wear knickers in bed?

  2. Why someone would wear more than 1 pair of knickers in a day aside from having some sort of accident, or going out somewhere nice in the evening and changing?

Thanks.....am confused

Shoutymomma · 12/08/2011 19:03

Are we talking sequentially or simultaneously?

AuntieMaggie · 12/08/2011 19:08

lmao at this thread

2 pairs sometimes 3 depending on what exercise I've done during the day.

And Shock i sometimes wear knickers to bed sometimes PJs depending on how warm it is... and I must be a complete minger cos I don't change my PJs every night Blush but then my fanjo is clean when I go to bed :o

Shodan · 12/08/2011 19:09

"Are we talking sequentially or simultaneously?"

I only wear four pairs at once when playing Pass the Parcel with DH in bed. Prolongs the anticipation.

Grin
ShellingPeas · 12/08/2011 19:14

"Just one pair for me, unless I am getting changed to go out and need my sucky in knickers."

What does this mean? Is sucky a new euphamism I need to know about?

susiedaisy · 12/08/2011 19:16

Ok get up in morning shower fresh knickers on, go to work my job very physical work in health care get very hot and sweaty and covered in alsorts, come home freshen up fresh clothes including one pair of knickers as others are now minging, fast forward to bedtime, quick shower and another pair of fresh knickers for bed!!! GrinGrin

Schulte · 12/08/2011 19:18

LOL at Pass the Parcel in bed.

I wouldn't have dreamt that anyone needed more than 1 pair per day!