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to not put DS into fresh pajamas every night?

222 replies

OstentatiousBreastfeeder · 11/12/2014 12:02

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?

OP posts:
flipchart · 12/12/2014 19:39

theorientcalf yes I only wear jeans once. Why? I would never wear the same clothes two days running. I've said that (exception jackets and coats)

Theorientcalf · 12/12/2014 20:30

Because that's just weird. Jeans are their worst when you just put them on freshly washed, they're much nicer when they've had a day or two to soften them up. How dirty can jeans get in a normal day?

Some of you really are making unnecessary work for yourselves.

Hulababy · 12/12/2014 20:34

We change PJs 1-2 times a week; me, DH and 12y DD. We dont feel the need to change them daily - we shower daily and we don;t sweat lots or spill things down them. Me and DH don;t even wear htem in bed.

gotthearse · 12/12/2014 21:20

Wearing jammie bottoms for more than a day is gross, unless your wear fresh knickers underneath. DS can go a few days in a pair, dd has clean bottoms each night. You wouldn't wear pants for more than a day so why pj's. Or am I getting this wrong (always slept in buff, since I was a nipper. Don't own any nightwear)

Phoenixfrights · 12/12/2014 22:01

Clean PJs every night? Bloody hell. I's such a slattern.

Actually ours have given up wearing PJs completely. Just wear pants, like me and DH.

I've always considered PJs a sort of unnecessary thing. You don't actually need clothes in bed after all, not unless your house is bloody freezinhg.

Moniker1 · 13/12/2014 06:59

I would say that jammie bottoms aren't up against your privates like tight fitting knickers so don't get gross. And nightlies certainly don't.

I'm an old gimmer and remember washing being something DM did once a week, using the same water, sorting clothes so the dirty outdoor working clothes were done last and hung on the line, brought in, taken out again, depending on teh weather, hung on pulley, hung on clothes horse. A pia all in.

It's the ease with which they are chucked in the drier etc that allows people to be so fussy.

Moniker1 · 13/12/2014 07:04

and do people realize that the detergents and soap powders they are using are made from oil.

Soap is made from animal fats or vegetable oil

So all that frothy waste going into the sewage system is a petrochemical by- product, it's not going back to where it came from but somewhere on earth to stay.

Scottishcrumpets · 13/12/2014 07:50

I'm a bit of a washing freak, I don't wear pyjamas to sleep in, but do put them on when just out the shower, and rarely wear them twice. Ds generally gets clean pyjamas every night, and the bedding gets washed every Monday the ozone layer is probably solely down to me

gamerchick · 13/12/2014 08:02

When you pass wind a bit of shit comes out... it's not just gas so it doesn't matter whether you're wearing duds.. loose crotch pjs , a nightie or sleep in the nude. They all get covered with shit.

Now people might be perfectly fine with putting an item of clothing on that is smeared... It is their own shit after all and nobody will die or be harmed granted. Couples who sleep nude might be perfectly fine in sleeping in their weeks/months worth of smatterings of shit because they don't change t sheets. It won't harm them after all.

Some people don't and no amount of meeping on about saving the planet is going to change that.

claraschu · 13/12/2014 08:12

The slatterns and skanky people are the ones who are littering the planet with their effluents. I think it is not just dirty but immoral to wash PJs and jeans so often. All that water being wasted; all that detergent being spread around the earth. This is UNCONSCIONABLE.

Does everyone realise that the garbage, waste water and fuel we use and produce in our homes takes energy to produce, and doesn't just vanish when it leaves the house?

Stop washing so much!

LillianGish · 13/12/2014 08:34

Why the laundry obsession? We have this thread, another one about towels and I just clicked on one about cleaning your washing machine??!!! (Hope you are all cleaning your washing machines regularly or your obsessive washing might be to no avail Wink)

Lweji · 13/12/2014 08:41

Some, shall we say, ahem, anal people about cleanliness may not be aware of the hygiene theory. Our civilisation has become so sterile that we have many more allergies and autoimmune diseases.
No, a few E. coli never hurt anyone. Unless they are particularly virulent.

I get anal when DS has norovirus or similar, and will overwash and disinfect. Otherwise, we are full of bacteria and we need them.
In fact, I'm one of the people who has suffered the least from d&v when abroad. Maybe because I'm skanky. :)

Lweji · 13/12/2014 08:45

But a skanky slattern who always wears underwear for bed.

Carrierpenguin · 13/12/2014 08:47

I think the detergent companies have a lot to answer for in making some people paranoid about washing excessively. It isn't necessary unless you have a health reason to do so.

If you make your home so germ free by washing everything to within an inch of its life, what will you do when you encounter germs, viruses in the outside world? Run to the doctor for antibiotics which won't work due to overuse?

I'm all for clean and tidy, but not washing clothes daily/dettolling the house as I believe as humans we have the need and capability to deal with bacteria and viruses in order to maintain a healthy immune system.

Moniker1 · 13/12/2014 09:02

Jeesh, my sh**t stays where it's supposed to stay, no dribbling or splattering here!

gamerchick · 13/12/2014 09:17

You never fart then? Good for you Grin

It's the tellys fault for doing those programs. I watched one where they monitored what happened at a party and people didn't shut the toilet lid when they flushed.

I don't watch them anymore. Ignorance is bliss Wink

itsonlysubterfuge · 13/12/2014 09:19

My DD likes to wear her PJ's all day, so we change them every night. However, she wears an all in one on top of her pyjamas and that gets worn multiple nights before being washed.

Moniker1 · 13/12/2014 10:47

No point complaining about advertising as it obviously works.

It will go away if we stop being influenced by it.

ArgyMargy · 13/12/2014 11:40

Gamer do you change your clothes every time you fart?

gamerchick · 13/12/2014 11:56

Of course not that would be just daft Hmm

SparkleZilla · 13/12/2014 12:22

I'm obviously a skanky skank too
pj's once a week (in a good week)
Shower every night, clean pants on
Towels used repeatedly as after use they are hung up to dry (we have a bathmat for feet)

I can't fathom washing jeans, or towels or pj's after one use unless you have spilt something

Lweji · 13/12/2014 13:04

BTW, for those washing pj bottoms in a quick 30ºC, do you realise that there will still be fecal bacteria there after the wash?
30ºC doesn't kill bacteria that are used to living at close to 40ºC (your gut). At best, some are washed away with the water and the soap. But then, they will also be killed by drying outside the body in the pj bottoms.

Lweji · 13/12/2014 13:05

Of course not that would be just daft hmm

Just your pants, then? Grin

WanderingTrolley1 · 13/12/2014 13:11

Yanbu.

My LOs get fresh jimjams every 2/3 nights, barring any accidents or spillages, of course.

Dropdeadfred2 · 13/12/2014 19:31

clean pjs every day... it's just like clean underwear every day