to ask how many times you dcs wear their uniforms before you wash them?

[ditsydoll]

Dr is a very clean little girl and always has a fresh polo for school but I have to admit if her dress and cardigan are clean after school she will sometimes wear them for a second day.
Do your dcs have a freshly washed uniform every day? Am I a terrible mother lol...

So there are children who don't come home filthy everyday?

Seriously everyday DS1 has at a minimum:

Grass stains on shorts and shirt.
Mud/dust on the lower back of his shirt and bum of shorts.
Food of some description on front of shirt.
Paint/pen/chalk on front of shirt/shorts.
Sweat on the collar/pits/crotch.

Even his hat needs washing some days.

He leaves here pristine every morning (he isn't allowed to put his uniform on until we are just about to leave or breakfast will end up on it/he will decide to wrestle his brother on the trampoline etc).

And everyday he comes home covered in dirt/grass/food.

Ds1 is very clean, uniform can go days looking like its unworn!
Ds2 due to start school in September, he is so into anything messy I guarantee he will need a hose down at 3.30 each day and his uniform going in for decontamination work!

DSS clean shirt every 2 days, trousers and jumper all week unless spilt on/ covered in mud. He's 9 and not smelly yet, when he is it'll be clean shirt daily and jumper as necessary.

Often blood as well.

In the spring/summer he gets hay fever and rubs at his nose which causes it to bleed.

Then there is the rugby at lunch time and kids here are still allowed to climb trees so there can bark ground in.

My two have clean polo shirt every day, but try and make trousers/pinafore and jumpers last as long as poss. This is sometimes 2-3 days, if I'm lucky it's the whole week.

It would be madness to have a complete freshly laundered set every day. And their logo-ed school jumper costs something like £15 a pop, they only have 2 each.

DD has never had fresh uniform every day. Fresh tights/socks and underwear daily. Rest - no. She never got them dirty enough to warrant it, and I hate washing for the sake of it.

So - 2 sets per week when she was at primary, changed Wed or Thur. If particularly warm she changed her shirt a little more often. Her cardi and tie would be changed/washed weekly.

She is at secondary now - Y7. Blouse changed daily. 2 skirts per week. 1 jumper.

She has always been clean and tidy. Has showered daily, each morning, for years so she just isn't really getting stuff unclean much.

Clean underwear/tights everyday. Everything else when needed. Polo shirts usually last 2/3 days (sometimes with a quick sponge.) Skirt and cardigan sometimes last a full week, otherwise get changed mid week if grubby. Basically clothes (adult or child) are only washed if dirty or smelly. Hence 2 washes a week. 3 inc bedding/towels.

Clean every day. They rarely get dirty so we could get away with wearing for more days but I prefer them to have clean each day.

I'm often to be found at 7.30am on school mornings vigorously scrubbing at school trousers and jumpers with wet wipes to remove the worst of the damage of the day before - I like to 'make them last' for 2 days if possible, but my DS (age 6) can be mucky.

Everything clean on a Monday - lasts all week.

New shirt, pants and socks every day
Trousers & jumper changed half way through week unless there's been spilt food/mud/ paint etc
Both boys been like that since they started one in yr 3 and one in yr 11
Don't do unnecessary washing there is enough to do without cleaning stuff that doesn't need it.

that's a lot of washing