To think that my family should go naked

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For just one day.

Just the one. We could all stay inside. No one would need to see the pale wobbly bits.

I would just like to have 24 hours where I could say that all the laundry was done. All of it. Not one single stray sock or a lonely pair of knickers. All absolutely done.

Washed
Dried
Folded (don't so ironing)
Put away

For just 24 hours.

Am I really being so unreasonable?

I now have a mental image of many households completely bollock naked behind the net curtains

I have vertical blinds. And I don't close them right over. And I live on a main road.

I think my neighbours must hate me.

And the commuters too!

When I asked the DDs at 2pm why they were still in their PJs, they replied they were reducing the laundry pile.

Or maybe not det.

Maybe your road is unusually busy at certain times of day.

My laundry pile currently consists of two wool dresses, a gardening glove and the corset from my wedding 18 months ago.

Maybe I should wear these items tomorrow as well as today's pants.

You are considering exposing naked kneecaps?

I need my fainting couch immediately!

Oh bugger! Knees.

Are naked breasticles better than knees? Or is an aerated fanjo better?

Yes, silly, of course naked breasticles are infinitely more acceptable than naked kneecaps! Actually, (and you're going to be so jealous when you read this) I am particularly fortunate that whenever I'm naked my breasticles completely cover my knees. It saves a bloomin' fortune on modesty knee-cosies.

Which is nice.

Dd 13 and ds 10 would have a meltdown if we got naked in front of them!

That's because you have brought them up to hide their bodies, and you have hidden yours.
If they had grown up in a household where the human body was accepted in its natural unclothed state, they would not even notice.

DD1 (15) read over my shoulder, and told me if I went naked, she'd be forced to kill me, and argue it was self defence in court

Tbh, it's not that they're ashamed of their bodies, but I'm a fairly old, saggy and, in reality, not exactly nice body to look at!

DS is 5 and would happily (and all too often DOES) go around naked, and wouldn't bat an eyelid at me though.

Sallyingforth Actually that isn't the case we have always been open about nakedness. When they were little one would shout "Lets get naked" and we'd all take our clothes off. It's their age, ds won't even look at people kissing on the tv.
Don't judge my parenting from one sentence.

I suppose it does depend on nakedness in general though.

Ie in the uk swimming pools have seperate changing cubicles per person, in comparison Germany has large communal rooms, sometimes gender segregated but often not. Hence every day exposure

In our home we undress in bedroom, then wander to shower/ bath, then go back into bedroom to change. So would be naked in between. We actually don't currently have a door on the bathroom ( long story), so everyone just wanders in and out as they fancy

I was surprised recently when at the beach ( abroad), with friends when they were shocked that girls of 7/8/9 years were in the sea in just swim bottoms, insisting they should have worn a bikini top. Why?

"What if there's a fire? "

It'll be fine. Everyone on Mumsnet knows fires only happen when there is no mother in the house.

Dd1 just came down stairs naked I say just, it was about an hour ago having been told to change after going fishing. dd2 (SNs), who is usually to be found in a state of undress, pointed and laughed.
Apparently today is not a naked day.

I am usually in a state of undress in my house, am Breastfeeding a recently tongue tie snipped 12wk old, so the breasticles are usually hanging out.
Poor postie had an eyeful the other day not literally, they're not that big because I forgot to put them away before I answered the door.

I'm with Sallyingforth - we are very much a nudey household. DD & I are often naked or just in knickers while DS & DH usually wear shorts or boxers. It's always been this way as DC were growing up and they are totally relaxed about their bodies and have never shown any desire to cover up or have more privacy. I have also got a towel on my office chair as I often work from home and love the fact that I don't need to get dressed - thankfully my clients can't see who they are talking to on the phone

Love the idea of 'naked days'

Ok. My dd is 9 months old so frankly she couldn't care less. I think that the answer is that DH and I wear paper crime scene suits.

Any other bright ideas?

The corset is still lying in the pile BTW. Alongside the frocks and the gardening glove.

Here is a question for the friends of aerated parts. How do you cope with brushing against a wobbly part and the realisation that you are not as trim and firm as wearing jeans would have you believe. Or is that just me?

I would really really not like to wander around naked. I'm just way too repressed. But I do like the paper crime suits idea lots.

I dealt with laundry for ages today - and all the time, those bastards posing as my immediate family were wondering around dirtying clothes. It's like there's a conspiracy or summat.

wandering. They may also have been wondering about things.

Fuckers, hassled.

They were probably wondering what else they could dirty!

I have actually tried to do this, over the strenuous objections of dh. He wants to send me to Laundry Anonymous.

:o

Hmm. Considering my only other chat thread was about laundry I am starting to wonder the same myself microserf.