To not wear clean clothes everyday

[Happyhippy45]

Clothes are not "dirty," they don't smell and I don't want to wash them. I hang them up on a peg/chair to air and wear another couple of times over the course of the week.
DH doesn't understand this and thinks it's a bit minky.
Talking about tops, jeans etc......not pants and socks. Bras are a whole nother subject.

I wear clothes once and they get washed, same with my kids. Every morning fresh socks,underwear, tops and pants.
I wouldn't feel right wearing anything twice.
The amount of skin we shed over a day, we sweat without knowing etc.
Wearing clothes more than once without washing isn't for me.

Oh and yes I do wash coats and jackets several times each winter... because they smell of sweat!

Not sure how sweat percolates through clothes to a coat in winter ... Unless you are truly drenched in sweat!

bananabread it does if you go on a rush hour central line tube. And depends on the individual and what the clothes are made of. Some thermal/wool tops for example are designed to wick the sweat away from the skin so feel pleasant to wear (say for skiing) and keep you warm and dry but means they smell quite a bit, particularly as to be properly effective you aren't supposed to wear deodorant.

Anyway, it surely doesn't matter how long it takes the clothes to get dirty (an hour, a day, a week) so long as they are washed when that threshold is reached. (I guess the argument we are all having is when that threshold isn't clear cut - something that smells or is covered in food is clearly dirty but the line is clearly a sliding one for other definitions of "dirty")

I'm not quite sure why my spelling or punctuation is now being brought up? I spend much of my day having to check and recheck copy written by colleagues, if the bloody iPad wants to change some of my rapidly written words, I can't really be arsed to go back and change po to pp or Abu to And or write out tumble dryer or rewrite it when spellcheck has decided to change it for me for its own quite deluded purposes.

But back to the point, nothing in this house stays clean if not work clothes, jeans are probably the least washed but are generally jegging types and so not keen on having too much man made fibre near lady parts, in winter tops last longer as layered, summer not so much but then they are dried outside weather permitting. Jumpers remain unwashed for as long as humanly possible, sheets weekly, towels changed as required (1-2 x per week), things generally get washed one day per week so we go over into over drive at the weekend, but wash like with like. DH works in a small offie with lots of people and it doesn't get much "air" through it which makes him do that conscious thing of smelling what it actually smells like if he's been out of it then come back in (stale boy smell). Therefore he likes to change his shirt daily, and isn't vaguely the Imelda Marcos of shirts and in male form.
If the weather is rubbish, the tumble dryer does get used, if not then it won't get used as much but will do for towels (swimming, general, the towels etc).

The other greatest invention is the heated clothing rail, which is clothes are still slightly damp at the end of the day is a godsend for not having to iron/ finishing off that last edge of dampness that can cause that fusty smell.

And that fusty smell does smell like wee, mainly cat wee (boak).

"so I'm not sure why tumble drying, which isn't exactly frivolous, had got a hard time..... "

Because it's particularly energy consuming and also, for those who wash clothes after one wear, just not necessary.

oh ffs office not offie. Although if he did I'd like a frigging discount (off subject I know 😂)

OhtoblazeswithElvira - There's something wrong if your COAT smells of sweat. Are you wearing it with nothing underneath??
Also, coats can't be washed, they're dry cleaned. Once a season for me.

you just have to get hot enough. I normally wear a dress and a cardigan under my coat. Not sure what difference it makes, I find that once you break into a sweat all layers are iffy.

I have a couple of coats, M&S and New Look, I think. Both machine washable at 40 degrees. They wash well and dry very quickly.

I wear a top, a jumper and sometimes another cardigan too under my coat. Nothing but the first top would ever get sweaty.

"I find that once you break into a sweat all layers are iffy."

You're either sweatier than anyone else I've ever heard of or you're imagining it. Can you really smell sweat on your coat?

Yep I am a proper stinker you better believe it!

I know there are more like me other there, there are threads about us on MN, you know?

Urgh after reading this I have come to the conclusion that I'm obviously a complete skank

What on earth is the point of that non rinse stuff up thread? Who is it aimed at,people who have never heard of hand washing and can't manage to turn a tap on to rinse ?

I wash coats too,more people should by the smell of some people when out and about!

I'm terrible with this. My partner's clothes get washed daily due to his type of work, our daughter's if actually dirty (she's 2) and mine when they are smelly or visibly dirty and obviously undies clean every day although I actually hate wearing them . I don't go out every day and bath every morning so dont actually get dirty and if no one is likely to turn up then pjs go on and bra comes off! I find it funny the amount of people who say not to ask about the bra!

I would also like to add that up until a week ago we had to hang dry everything, only for 2 years but with a newborn-2years you can understand my hate to wash clothes! Especially over winter when it just made out house damp

Yep one wearing for most clothes and in the wash.

I work in the city, I dont have a car, I use public transport. Hot buses, sweaty tubes, dirty trains. Offices arent exactly sterile. Office bathrooms with sanitary bins close enough to touch your skin next to the loo. I'm in my clothes for more than 12 hours on work day. I'm not wearing those again another day.

I wash bras after one wear too as if you dont it leads to them going grey and dingy, white ones especially.

well it isn't clean anymore is it? (after one day of wear)
by the same logic it isn't clean anymore - if you mean just out of the drawer - after 1 hour, 3 hours, (gasp) 5 hours! So would you change at work at lunchtime or around 4pm before commuting?
So people use deodorant and possibly perfume, knowing than any person isn't shower-fresh in the course of the day. People are not supposed to smell like something plastic - they can still be individual but obviously not smell sweaty in public. Also people who do wear clean clothes every day STILL can have an individual smell when you get close - it's the hair etc - so if you wear a cardi twice in a row, or jeans, it's not going to make you smell more than someone in daily clean clothes after half a day.

Also it is very individual and also climate-related,, some people have much more subtle scent of their skin than the others - they can wear a t-shirt two days in a row (with showering and a deodorant) and no one would know..

So would you change at work at lunchtime or around 4pm before commuting? no,mbecausnei the whole point of my 'it isn't clean anymore' comment was that I don't put previously worn clothes on after I shower of a morning. So no unless I shower at work before lunch or just before the 4pm commute I am unlikely to randomly change into clean clothes. Let's keep some context when quoting!

Just to add, for the people who wear the same jeans for 2/3/4 days in a row, you do know you LOOK like you have been wearing them for days? Jeans tend to crease really badly behind the knee and across the crotch area. So for all you people who plan to wear your jeans for the 4th day running on tomorrow's school run, please don't. You look like an utter skank!

I just couldn't be arsed to wash clothes so often- I have better things to do with my time, thanks! Clean socks and pants every day- obv- but will wear trousers and tops for 2-3 days sometimes, and maybe 2.bras a week. Showers most days, and a bedding change once a week. That's it, really- unless you have an unfortunate sweating problem or commute on tube etc, I can't imagine why you'd need to be so obsessed with washing stuff?

I change all my clothes every day, including jeans
The jeans thing is relatively new as I love the "clean jeans" feeling, and so have nominated daily clean jeans as my little treat to myself

DH can wear things for a couple days without looking scruffy, whereas I look like I've been pulled through a hedge backwards by the end of the first day

Meadows I can kind of understand noticing the backs of people's knees but why are you staring at their crotches?!

I'm not quite sure why my spelling or punctuation is now being brought up

It wasn't - I was referring to the spelling and punctuation in the sentence I had just written. It was a bit "Eats shoots and leaves".

Or do you berate people for holidaying abroad, having baths and going for a Sunday afternoon drive

Not on a thread about washing, no. On a thread about those things I might well discuss their impact too. E.g. holidays abroad, depends in part on how you get there. Also has to be offset against the importance of tourism to the local area. Baths - well depends how often. Also, they don't always use as much water as you might think vs e.g. a power shower. Driving on a Sunday afternoon for the sake of driving rather than getting somewhere? Well I wouldn't lecture someone on it but if someone started a thread saying "aibu to drive 50 miles every Sunday for the pleasure of driving rather than to get somewhere" I'd say yes, yabu.

I do love a Mumsnet clean / dirty thread. ❤️
You Filthy Beasts! vs You Fastidious Planet-Wreckers!

~pulls up chair, grabs popcorn~

Mumsnet seems to be full of extremes. Threads are either full of people who only wear anything for 1 day before washing it and claim anyone who does't smells, or full of people who wear the same bra for months at a time without washing it. I suspect most people are somewhere in the middle.