AIBU to not wash uniform after one days wear?

[mrshess]

I am ready to be told i am but feel there is no need to wash complete uniform after one days wear (unless stained)?

same here sleepingbunny, or its tied round her waist!

Anotherone here - fresh shirt everyday. Try to get the week out of jumper or cardi and skirt or trousers if possible - I have been known to wipe small marks off skirts and trousers especially if on a Thursday!

It's DD1s first week in reception this week - she is on her second cardi, second skirt and second shirt and it's friday...i think as they get older and sweatier they need clean shirts every day but a 4 year old doesn't need it (imo)!!

Please tell me your DCs aren't smelly teens? If so, shirts washed daily, everything else give it a sniff.

Think of the environment and wash only when needed!!

Does the shirt smell or gave visible dinner/ paint- wash it. Sweater- unless you can read their lunch on it it'll do another day ( and a wet flannel will do wonders anyway). Trousers- muddy/ peed on- wash otherwise fine.

At primary after reception skirts/ trousers lasted most of the week and sweaters all week, yoghurt accident excepted. Polls changed every 2-3 days till sweaty smell started then washed daily.

Now ( secondary) shirts changed daily,trousers 1/week unless muddy and jumpers as often as I can grab them ( usually every 2 days) as they smell sweaty.

Another one in the group of 'new blouses every day, and skirts and trousers once a week' My daughter is 14 and she has 2 skirts and 2 pairs of trousers, they can be worn more than once, I just make sure they are done over the weekend. Tie and blazer usually get done when I see they need doing

Surely no-one has a reception aged child that comes home in clean uniform...?

me "looks like you spilled yoghurt on your jumper, there"
ds2 "yes - a massive yoghurt disaster!"
me "who helped mop it up?"
ds2 " no-one, look, its still soggy if you squeeze it..."

(insert words paint/sauce/glitter glue/dairylea triangle for the other four days of the week....)

YANBU, if my DS's clothes weren't so attracted to mud/food/milk/pen/paint/grass/unusual stains that I can never figure out where they came from then I'd gladly try and get another day out of them

YANBU, Wash at the end of the week, unless covered in food. Shirts often do 2 days if collars/cuffs still not looking grubby (thank goodness DS school shirts are blue, not white!)

No its bad for the environment man. Just do the sniff and see test. Pants and socks not withstanding!

Why would you wash any clothes, bar underwear, after just one wear unless it was actually dirty or smelly?

I cannot see any reason for doing so. It's a waste of washing powder, waste of water, not good for the environment and a waste of your time!

TBH for school wear and if still in infants I'd be tempted to send them in with slightly grubby clothes for a couple of days or so anyway. They don't need to come in immaculate. OK - clean faces and hands and hair brushed - yes. A bit of paint on their cuff or sweater - no one is going to be concerned about that!

I work in a y1 class and most parent seem pretty sensible and send them in in normal clothes and most have the odd bit of paint or glue on them from the day before.

Definitely clean polos every day, clean tights and vests every day and DD1 has two skirts and a pinafore plus two cardigans per week. I am also quite fanatical about looking very clean and tidy for school (at least at the start of the day). Having done work experience when I was a 6th former, in a reception class at primary, it was very easy to tell which parents were of the "sod it, one of each item only, washed once a week brigade". It just shows. The clothes don't have to smell or look particularly grubby but you can tell they are not fresh on and have a crumpled, dishevelled look. Usually went hand in hand with hair sliding out of grips/bobbles, bunches where the hair has been haphazardly parted, not quite brushed through etc. And dirty shoes. And my particular bugbear which is coats with filthy cuffs. Like another poster said, not related to wealth at least not judging from the cars/coats/handbags of the parents.

Environmental caring reasons are probably behind 10% of the people who don't wash clothes that often. The other 90% are just lazy/dirty.

Oh don't - when DSS was living with us, EVERY DAY he would come home, put his uniform in the wash. The whole thing. Not his underwear though - that he would get another wear out of.

He would also put everything in the wash that he changed into - so jeans, t shirt - yep, in the wash after scarcely 3 hours wear.

Shame it was me that had to do the sniff test before either slinging it in the washing machine or asking him to put it away!

No - pants and socks gets washed every day obviously, shirts after 2 days, shorts may last a week, and cardies/jumpers after 2-3 days.

yanbu - clothes get washed when they need it. I sponge school sweatshirts and trousers if there's just a little bit of muck on, and wash if there's a lot. Sometimes things last one day, sometimes all week. Children always go to school spotless - but I don't wash things unless I have to.

Well, ds has only been going a week, but the trousers and jumper have been lasting 2-3 days, and probably would go longer, but it is his first week, so I've been a bit paranoid. Polo shirts, he has had a clean one every day, but I'm going to change this and make them go to every second day. He gets changed though as soon as we get in the house, and i check them over for any marks or dirt.

YANBU it has become my mission to get a whole week out of dds school uniform. I have so far managed the same pair of trousers, clean shirt every day...working on 2 days for them but so far not succeeded and 1 cardigan this week.

I'm with cat64 if it's dirty wash it if it isn't don't!
Thus blouses after 1 or 2 days, trousers and high school jumpers weekly. Primary school jumpers slightly more often because of dinner and paint or not for three weeks because it isn't brought home
Skirts weekly in theory, but they often don't look dirty or the DDs swap to trousers at random.

also as most the trousers and skirts are teflon a hot wrung dry flanel will wipe most marks from them and the sweatshirts, not so good on the cotton cardigans though.

that song reminds me of the film with the girl on the bike who gets pregnant. What is it called? she sings cock in that doesnt she.

My DCs wear the same polo, jumper and trousers until they actually need washing. I babywipe the odd mark. Occasionally, the one set of uniform can last the whole week. Everything is washed, dried and put away on Friday nights regardless though so all items will be clean on for Mondays.

Shirts twice a week
Kids bathed twice a week
Jumpers, Skirts & Trousers - once a week,
Knickers & socks evey day

Have 3 kids, they don't get filthy dirty - so don't see the point of washing everything every day! I do spot clean any bits on their uniform as i go along though...

I only wash clothes when I can see or smell dirt.