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to only wear my knickers once, then wash them?

92 replies

nikon1968 · 27/11/2011 08:55

Following on from the towel thread where some people wash their towels once a year Wink how often do you change your knickers?

OP posts:
SchrodingersMew · 27/11/2011 19:10

I normally change my underwear twice a day but can be much more if it's hot or I'm on my period. Blush

Everything else apart from tops and vests are once a day. Tops are twice a day, I can't stand to feel sweaty.

Acandlelitshadow · 27/11/2011 19:22

Once a month whether they need it or not Wink

Gay40 · 27/11/2011 19:23

See, I don't think it does inhibit my social life at all. If I stayed the night at someone's house I'd probably know them pretty well, so I'd know about towels. I wouldn't stay at a stranger's house, and I'm attached so I don't have one night stands either. So the towel thing may appear a bigger deal than it realistically is.
I'm not averse to dirt, either. I do the gardening and mend the car, decorate etc. I don't even do the handgelling routine like others at work (we are not a hospital btw).
I'm sure all this has not been helped by the fact that I found DD (aged about 5 at the time) wiping herself after the toilet on my bath towel, and she'd been doing it for months, she told me.

FirstNoelle · 27/11/2011 19:25

Bed clothes and twoels get washed once a week.

Wear underwear and most other clothes only once, but might wear jeans twice before washing.

cardibach · 27/11/2011 19:34

Knickers - dasily at least.
The rest - well, you lot aren't very green, are you? Clothes and towels realy don't need to be washed every time you use them unless you get hot and sweaty in them.

effingwotsits · 27/11/2011 19:39

knickers daily, or 2ce daily (once in the morning and a clean pair for bed)

Bra's can go weeks without a wash Blush

spilttheteaagain · 27/11/2011 19:40

Oh dear.
I change my knickers everytime I shower, so at least once a day, and sometimes before bed as well.

But everything else Blush
I wear jeans for about a fortnight, jumpers are in circulation for a few weeks before washing, though there are several in circulation at any one time.

Bras, hmm, a few days, which is quite revolting considering am breastfeeding and leaky. But I do wear breastpads, changed v.often.

Towels whenever there is a) space in the machine and b) I remember them.

Lynli · 27/11/2011 19:43

Once a day minimum, would never take them off and put them back on again.
All clothes worn once.

A1980 · 27/11/2011 20:13

Every day or if I'm going to the gym or have a period, I take a spare pair.

A1980 · 27/11/2011 20:15

Also alot of you seem to wear knickers in bed. Really? I only do if I have a period. Good Jesus, give your arse / fanny an airing and leave it knicker free for once Grin

TheOriginalFAB · 27/11/2011 20:19

"i don't wear pjs-i like things to be able to breathe

a bit like fab."

TMMJ means FabbyChic. I do^ wear knickers Grin.

Methe · 28/11/2011 02:12

I've worked shifts all my working life, worked nights and long days (did a 28 hr shift once), there have been weekenders and festivals and camping trips and flu wheredo didn't get out of bed for more than 2 days so I'm pretty sure I've worn knickers for longer than the prescribed amount of time before.

I've im not dead, i've managed not get chuff rot and no-ones passed out from the stench so hey ho it's ok!

sunnydelight · 28/11/2011 04:50

If I take them off I can't put them back on again, I have to have a clean pair. It's Summer here at the moment so i've been swimming twice already so I'm on my third pair. Does that make me really strange?

ragged · 28/11/2011 08:00

I find this idea that your bottom "needs" a nightly airing (to be achieved by no pants in bed, probably inside PJs, under heavy shared duvet, in room with windows tightly shut)... to be quite hilarious.

If your bottom truly needs an airing, you'd be sticking it out the window in the breeze for 5 minutes each evening, no? Wink

StealthPenguin · 28/11/2011 08:19

I'm a little bit more lax, mainly because I'm an absolute sucker for buying things for everyone else. I'll go "Why spend £15 on myself when that could get DS two new outfits from ASDA?!"

Saying that, I still manage to change my knickers once every two days. Once a day if I've got the painters in.

DP though is an absolute flamin' nightmare. He will wear pats and t-shirts to the point where I can't bear to have him hug me and even then I have to wrestle them away from him, but he changes his socks twice a day, possibly even three! I just don't get it!!!

StealthPenguin · 28/11/2011 08:19

pants !!! not Pats!

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