to not put DS into fresh pajamas every night?

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I'm trying to cut down on the amount of washing we do. WIBU to put him in worn pajamas? He has a bath every night and gets changed out of them first thing to go to school, then they just get tossed in the hamper to be washed.

Seems to me he could get more wear out of them but DH thinks I'm being a skanky skank. Am I?

Oh my god those pyjama cases.. I remember having one of those

Like I said unless you're exceptionally crunchy in life. Never drive or use planes.. grow your own.. never heat water up or use heating.. knit jumpers out of balled up hair from your dogs etc or whatever then you can't twist about saving the planet.

I'm biking it to work in the morning rather than using a car.. even though I'll be froze to the bone when I get there. I'm not going to stress about sticking a quick wash on for 40 minutes tonight

Same here bigoldbird . I'm a child of the 80s and we only had one bath and hair wash a week (Sunday nights) and one fresh pair of PJs (after the bath). One woollen vest a week too (under the fresh PJs). Really, I wasn't at all smelly.

We had stand up washes with a flannel at the wash basin every night though.

I really should make it less. I hate washing clothes. This is probably why. From now on, I'm going to go twice weekly.

I feel quite liberated by this. I've always thought I was in the majority. This is a revelation.

I don't wash my own pyjamas everyday. I wonder why I change the kids. I guess it just comes from the baby days where they spill everything on them.

Aero. It's not me being anal, (you should see my house) it's just my mum always put fresh ones on us so I did the same. I thought it was the done thing.

Ah Clara the 'doing things differently from your mum' thing. I get it! In fact, I think there's a whole new thread there. Mine still cleans the bathroom ( including mirror and tap polishing and shaking Bathmats outside) every morning. She is 75....

Clara it's not the norm as you can see. Pj are different to clothes you wear outside and get dirty. The are usually worn after the child has a bath/shower so are clean anyway, and are taken off before you get dressed. It's just more effort and laundry and waste unessesarily IMHO.

Not skanky at all! The madthings change pjs a few times a week, I am not washing five pairs of pjs a day!

Ds has clean pair every night but he is still in pull ups and his bottoms do smell a bit of wee.

Every night here, all three of us. It's how we like it. Nice fresh PJ's means a better nights sleep for me. I hate put tim him sweaty, wrinkly clothes.

I change my own every night but it wouldn't even occur to me to do fresh pjs every night for toddler DD! She has a bath every evening and is changed out of them for breakfast and unless there's a (v v rare) nappy leak they are perfectly fresh for several days. Growing up I think we wore nightclothes for up to a week - that was what nightdress cases were for! (But then we wore nighties and knickers - the knickers were changed every day obviously - but the nighties didn't really get dirty or smell in the same way adults' clothes do.)

I wear clean nightwear every night (I do tend to stick it on as soon as I get in after work though and weekends are loungewear when I am not out)

I am pregnant and sweaty though!!!

I also put DS in fresh PJ's every night but he eats his breakfast in his most days and he makes a mess. He is 2.

When little, my son had terrible eczema and we were told by the dermatologist that changing PJ's daily does not protect skin and contributes to skin conditions. Told in no uncertain terms that he absolutely did not need clean PJ's daily and should not be bathed daily as it strips the skin of natural oils.

Yes, I stopped bathing DS so much, even as a baby, because of his eczema.
Usually weekly and if he had had an explosive nappy.

How much do some of you/your DC sweat at night that you always need clean pyjamas?

It's not that the 4 of us here sweat that much that we have clean PJs everyday but we like fresh pj's.
After all I wouldn't wear the same clothes two days on the trot so why should I wear unwashed pj's and nighties.
I like the fresh smell of them. It's the same reason why I wash my towels every other day and bedding every third day.
It really isn't a big deal. One of us just throws the stuff on an eco wash for 30 mins except for the bedding which gets a full wash on Sundays.

Really not a problem or loads of extra work.

Do you really jeans once?

I tend to wear clothes once due to having a refluxy baby, bedding gets washed once a week, sometimes less. Washing bedding every third day or having fresh pyjamas nightly just seems a bit neurotic.

It would send me into a terminal decline to issue clean pyjamas every night. I'd either have to wash pyjamas every night, or buy more pyjamas. And where would I put them? I do not have that much space, or drying space. The tumble dryer is not that effective unless you leave it on for ages, and I can't actually have the washing machine and tumble dryer on at the same time, due to a socket shortage.

I hate washing.
I hate washing up.
I hate cooking.

I hate the fact that after I've done it I have to do it all over again six months later.

So....I'd never ever heard of changing pyjamas every night until now. Mine last at least a week, or sometimes more if I've gone a few nights without wearing them.

Maybe I'm gross?

I change them more often than the sheets (every week or two), but way less often than day clothes.

Don't even get me started on how often I wash my bras.

The more I write, the more I think that maybe I AM gross. But I do save on washing, and nobody's complained about the smell so far.

Don't normally post but am slightly embaressed to say that mine DC only have clean pj's once a week - they don't eat breakfast in them and are 5 &6 so don't get them dirty/sweaty. Am I odd???!

I think clean pyjamas every night is a nice idea but totally unnecessary. All of that extra laundry is very bad for the environment too. Unless children have been sick or had an accident in them overnight, we wear ours for about 4 nights sometimes 5.
We change our beds once a week but often it stretches to a fortnight if im having a busy week.
I think we've become far too worried about what other people are doing; just do what suits your family!

I've never changed PJ's every night.

I don't wear deoderant.

I stopped in the summer. I've probably worn deoderant for 50 years . Think of all the toxins I've been overloading my system with ( I don't use body lotion or talc either.)

So, what to use. I'm trying to give up on aluminium and crystal rock has alum which I'm not sure about.

I'd read about coconut oil. So I started to use that.. Was great. Then it got really hot and that wasn't enough so I put a bit of lavender essential oil on top of the coconut. That did the trick.

For three days , I got a bit smelly. I think it was the toxins leaving my body.

I started using magnesium oil and put a bit of a spray on after washing every morning but then I got a bit sensitive to it.

So now, I just use a bit of coconut oil with lavender or a face cream that I make myself that has no nasty chemicals in it.

Nightdresses are little strappy things that I wear three times.

Sheets are changed every two weeks.

If I was dirty, sweaty and greasy it would be more often but I'm / we are not.

And if things need to be changed more then they are. It's like eating food that is out of its use by/ sell by date. You use your eyes and sense of smell.

That's what they are there for I think.