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What things are acceptable to do in your PJs then?

312 replies

EphraimLevi · 04/04/2018 23:40

Answer the door

Put the bins out.

Go down to breakfast in someone’s house.

Go down to breakfast in a hotel

Early morning dog walk

Go to the shops.

Do the school run.

??

I would (and do!) do all except the last three because I am terminally lazy and rarely dressed before noon if I don’t have to be. AIBU and a dreadful skank?

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LakieLady · 05/04/2018 07:56

Definitely 1 & 2, and 3 if they are close friends/family.

I've done the early morning dog walk with pj's under trackie bottoms and a jumper though, but only in winter when my unrestrained norkage is concealed by a coat. Wouldn't want to frighten the horses.

That can also include popping into the corner shop on the way back. I only do that at weekends though, and I really like just peeling off the outer layers and getting straight back into bed to drink tea and read the papers.

I'd like to live in my pj's. I sometimes think it would be great to wear a burqa, so I could just pop it on on top of my pj's and go to work.

Sparklingbrook · 05/04/2018 07:58

For me PJs are for indoors, in your own home.

JustDanceAddict · 05/04/2018 07:59

Go to bed
Lounge round the house in the morning /late evening
Go to a pyjama party

JustDanceAddict · 05/04/2018 08:06

Tbh I don’t even wear pjs in bed only put on if I have a shower in the evening or instead of dressing gown in morning.

IIlustriouslyIllogical · 05/04/2018 08:06

Re the hotel, I’m talking Premier Inn rather than a boutique hotel.

It doesn't matter - I still don't want to see you in your sweaty, rank PJ's.

First 3 are OK, anyone who does the others is a skank & I will judge you, take a sneaky pic & mock you openly on Facebook!!

ThisIsTheFirstStep · 05/04/2018 08:23

illogical I’d say your attitude is way skankier tbh. And I’m not any kind of advocate of pyjama wearing.

thecatsthecats · 05/04/2018 08:52

Answer the door.
Put bins out.
Mooch around the garden.
Last minute emergency dash of fiance to the station in the car when he's desperate for a lift.

My boobs are K cups, and I let them roam wild and free when at home. Any company I keep clearly likes my company enough to put up with the beasts.

FleurDelacoeur · 05/04/2018 08:57

Nothing which involves leaving the house, whether it's your house or someone else's. Putting bins out excepted.

I would never take the kids to school in pyjamas, or take the dog out, or wander around a supermarket. It's slobby and awful. Once i had to go to the out of hours GP as I was so ill (ended up being sent to hospital) and DH practically had to drag me off the sofa and into the car. I was mortified to be there in my pyjamas and apologised to everyone.

bobstersmum · 05/04/2018 09:03

Sleep, and anything inside the house.

MirandaWest · 05/04/2018 09:04

I answer the door wearing pyjamas. Or just a dressing gown as don’t generally wear pyjamas to sleep in.

Would probably put the bins out wearing them if I’d forgotten to put them out.

Would also wear pyjamas to breakfast at a close friend or family’s house.

Wouldn’t wear them for any other one. I don’t really like hotels - prefer self catering where you can do what you want

BestBeforeYesterday · 05/04/2018 09:05

I would do none.
I would consider people who do all of these "skanks", as you put it.

IMO it's acceptable to do the following in PJs:
sleep
have breakfast in your home if no guests present
wear them at the end of the day in your home, before going to bed.

Gillian1980 · 05/04/2018 09:06

First 2.
Maybe number 3 depending on whose house it was.
No way any of the others.

turnipfarmers · 05/04/2018 09:11

I don't do any of those. I will pop out to put the rubbish in the bin but it's right outside the kitchen door so nobody can see me.

I do go into the garden to hang the laundry out, if people want to watch me in the garden hanging the laundry out then I don't much care what they think of me.

Ivorbig1 · 05/04/2018 09:11

None. I send my dh.

BarricadesBabe · 05/04/2018 09:13

I work from home and wear what is effectively pyjamas all day (joggers/leggings/PJ bottoms and sloppy T-shirt/sweatshirt). However, as I sleep naked I put these on when I get up and it is effectively my "work uniform".

I answer the door like this (hall/porch is my private space), but always get properly dressed to go out. For me it's about public vs. private space.

And if I slept in my pyjamas I'd put fresh ones on to work in.

turnipfarmers · 05/04/2018 09:14

If it's ok to wear them in public (in a hotel for b/fast) then why isn't it also ok to wear them for work?

I've been to work in a pair of pyjamas. What's not to like?

Teachtolive · 05/04/2018 09:16

1, 2 and 4 but only if it's the kind of hotel where they tell you to come for breakfast in their lovely fluffy robes

speakout · 05/04/2018 09:18

I don't care if people wear their PJs all day long- as long as I don't get a wiff of their crotch or smelly pits in the supermarket.

Otherwise I don't care. People can go shopping, go to the cinema, on the bus theatre,
Totally their choice.

And I think it't a bit of a sexist topic- it's usually women who are being criticised for wearin PJs in public.

For me personally them, PJs are for sleeping in, or with a robe to pad down to the kitchen for an early morning coffee which I take back upstairs.

I never spend the day in PJs. I shower and dress early. I would never answer the door in PJs or even sit in my own kitchen in them.
I wouldn't take bins out or hang washing out in them either.

I wear casual comfortable day clothes.

Because of work I get a lot of deliveries- _ would feel uncomfortable signing for stuff in my nightwear.

I have a busy family life and often have to dash out to pick stuff up, give people lifts etc.
I don't want to decide to do something than have all the fuss of having to shower and get dressed in the middle of the day.

I am up and dressed every day by 7.30am.
That way I can be out of the door in 30 seconds if need be, fully ready.

Elphame · 05/04/2018 09:19

None of them

HeadingForSunshine · 05/04/2018 09:22

Answer the door - if it rings and i'm in pj's it's an emergency.

Put out the bins but we are not overlooked by anybody.

Come downstairs before 6am to make tea.

There was one morning when I overslept and the only way to get ds to school on time was to give him toast and juice in the car and while breadbwas in toaster I brushed my hair and whipped on boots and a coat.

speakout · 05/04/2018 09:22

I find PJs quite impractical for day wear.

Too cold to wear by themselves without a robe, which usually has a belt tie.
Going to the loo means too much fabric around, the ties has to be constantly re tied durin the day, sleeves are long and cumbersome, a nightmare if you are trying to wash up or cook, and I like to wear a bra.
I don't wear underwear under my PJs and I don't really want the same fabric next to my intimate areas all day when I have slept in them.

That's like wearing the same pair of knickers for two days.

EphraimLevi · 05/04/2018 09:22

Gosh, it’s quite divisive, innit?

I wear clean pjs every day. And I haven’t usually slept in the bottoms, just a vest top. So I get up, pull on the bottoms, put a hoody on and my trusty boot slippers and I’m set for the day. I don’t always do the morning school run so I stay in pjs until I actually need to go out.

So if the bins need to go out or I need to drop a parcel to a neighbour, they get to see me in my pyjamas.

Tbf my day wear is either jeans or yoga pants so only marginally more ‘acceptable’ and I wear the same range of tops to bed and out in public mostly. I am all about the lounge wear.

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speakout · 05/04/2018 09:23

And in answer to the OP- I would do none of these things.

EphraimLevi · 05/04/2018 09:24

Are the non pj rockers also the full makeup, hair done everyday type as well?

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cherish123 · 05/04/2018 09:24

Number 2 is fine. Number 1 ok if before 9or 10 at weekend. Others - totally unacceptable chav type behaviour. If you are late for school quickly slip on jeans/leggings and anorak. No excuse.

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