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Original poster

To ask how often you wash your dressing gown

89 replies

DirtyDancing · 01/02/2016 22:40

I am at the conservative end of the spectrum on washing. Eg Towels are weekly. Wear my gown daily just to and from shower and bedroom, but bit worried - AIBU with lack of dressing gown washing in my house..

How often do you wash yours?

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Lweji · 01/02/2016 22:42

When I think it needs washing. Not very regularly.

Original poster
DirtyDancing · 01/02/2016 22:43

You have already made me feel a lot better. My friend this evening in the pub said weekly. Mine is more like 2-3 times year (gulp)

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NoCapes · 01/02/2016 22:43

I'm supposed to wash it?! Wink

ColdCottage · 01/02/2016 22:43

I don't wear mine that often, maybe once a week in the winter and always over pjs so maybe a couple of times a year if that. It just hangs on the back of the door.

Bodicea · 01/02/2016 22:44

When I spill something down it/ get vomited on.

SmallGreenBouncyBall · 01/02/2016 22:45

what? it should be washed?
sorry I missed this brief.

shiteforbrains · 01/02/2016 22:45

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elQuintoConyo · 01/02/2016 22:45

End of March before it goes back into storage until mid-November.

ManneryTowers · 01/02/2016 22:46

All ours are white towelling so I just chuck them in with the hot white wash on a Friday evening. Then they're dry and cosy and back on door hooks ready for Saturday morning tv time.

CantChoose · 01/02/2016 22:47

When it smells :s I'm a skank but at least it seems I'm not alone!

gingerboy1912 · 01/02/2016 22:47

About once a month

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DirtyDancing · 01/02/2016 22:48

Hurrah I seem to be above the MN average on this one!

I kind of feel it's an item that is meant to fester a bit?

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GrumpyOldBag · 01/02/2016 22:48

Twice a year, maybe?

StrawberryDelight · 01/02/2016 22:49

Less now I have a new dark one that doesn't show up marks Grin

Whenever it needs doing...i'd say every few weeks/couple of months

BoboChic · 01/02/2016 22:49

Every fortnight or more if it looks grubby.

GingerMerkin · 01/02/2016 22:49

When there is more food encrusted on it than is on my dinner plate.

pigsDOfly · 01/02/2016 22:50

Winter one, when I think of it and it looks as if it needs it.

Lighter ones I tend to wash more often, probably because they get more crinkled than the thick fluffy one, maybe once a month.

DangerousBeanz · 01/02/2016 22:51

i caught mine trying to crawl to the washer by itself last week. I dragged it back to the bedroom and chained it there until we get warmer weather. Maybe it was trying to tell me something.

GrumpyOldBag · 01/02/2016 22:51

I have also had my dressing gown for 14 years.

Trusty Boden one.

whois · 01/02/2016 22:53

When it needs it. Once a year? Gets worn over PJs so no armpits or anything touching it, probably only work for a couple of hours every week over winter. Tho winter hardly st all!

Original poster
DirtyDancing · 01/02/2016 22:53

DangerousBeanz GrinGrin

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StrugglingFool · 01/02/2016 22:54

Less often than I should. I keep meaning to but every time it occurs to me I'm wearing it. And it's warm. And I don't wanna take it off. Oops.

Original poster
DirtyDancing · 01/02/2016 22:54

Think my error was a pink one with white spots. The white bits show up all the tea stains Grin

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elephantoverthehill · 01/02/2016 22:55

Ahem, I have one fleece, one towelling, one cotton and one satin. So probably 3 times a year for each. The fleece one is probably due for sheep dip a wash soon. Smile

Tillyscoutsmum · 01/02/2016 22:55

I'm not sure but put it this way, it still has a Santa sticker on it that DS put on it on Christmas morning Wink