AIBU to have only just realised..

[petalsinthegarden]

.. that actually, my toddler and baby don't need fresh PJ's every day?

I complain about the amount of laundry all the time and have only just clocked that I control what the kids wear. They don't need fresh PJ's every day.

What have you realised recently that's actually common sense?

I don’t wash my bra everyday. I don’t have sweaty tits.

The thing is, all you people who can't cope without fresh pyjamas once a day will be absolutely stuffed once - as David Attenborough has said - climate change causes the collapse of civilisation, and you no longer have access to a washing machine!

Whereas all us scuzzballs, who wear something more than once before we wash it, and who will have thus helped to stave off said collapse of civilisation, even if only for a microsecond, will be already acclimatised.

DH and I only last month came to the realisation that DD doesn't actually need her hair washing everyday when she has her bath after nursery so we have cut down to every 2nd or 3rd night. PJ's were already worn multiple times before rewashing unless specifically dirty.

I'll be dead by then!

Can I ask why people wash uniform every day instead of having multiple shirts etc and then doing one big wash at the end of the week?

I was just starting to wonder whether I was a massive weirdo for having 5 sets of (cheapo, supermarket) school uniform,
plus a few spares! It all gets washed in one go at the weekend.

To the pp who said that she washes her DC's clothes every day for infection control as her DC seem to get everything going, imo you are doing your DC no favours by over washing, it has been proven time and again that people need to build resistance to germs to be healthy. Us scuzzies are usually very healthy, and I can honestly say that my DC are very rarely sick and never require antibiotics.

Babies and toddlers do get mucky with food, bodily fluids etc, so their clothes do have a short life between washes. At some point around the pre-school, infant school age they do get much better at staying clean and are capable of re-wearing clothes.

Mine are 5 & 8. I try to encourage items like Beaver uniform or gymnastics kit to go back in the drawers after use. Even running kit doesn't get that sweaty in most weather (unlike mine!).

A couple of years ago I was wondering why there was constantly so much washing and realised pyjamas was a significant proportion of it. Although the youngest still needs pull-ups as he's unreliable through the night, most nights the pyjamas are still fresh in the morning. I ended up confiscating the contents of the pyjama drawer and allocating one pair per week that they had to look after unless it was necessary to change them. It made a notable difference!

DS1 is growing out of wearing half his school dinner through the afternoon and the cardigans/ shorts/ trousers can last more than one day. White t-shirts are always changed. One factor is that sharing a room and being very close in size, I have one set of school uniform between them so don't really want a child wearing his brother's dust and skin cells if they jumble them They do have excellent school attendence and healthy immune systems though

I change my tops daily as well as underwear (not bras). Trousers and jumpers are re-worn unless they are marked. Unlike tops, they rarely fail a sniff test.

Overzealous laundering doesn't really do us, the planet or our clothes any favours.

Can we start a thread for ‘Team Scuzz’ please? 😂

I'll be dead by then!

BumDisease you might be dead very shortly after, but it'll happen within (most) of our lifetimes!

@Sugarcrystal2002 - Huddersfield Giants

@KonaMum TeamScuzz 😂

@Nothisispatrick

I did this because of my mum. She's a clean freak and always runs the dishwasher after the evening meal so that food doesn't dry onto the dishes. I just did what she did, we've only had a dishwasher for a few weeks so I haven't single-handedly destroyed the environment with my wastefulness before I realised I can do it my own way.

you might be dead very shortly after, but it'll happen within (most) of our lifetimes!

Cobblers.

Clean bra, underwear, socks, pj’s and clothes for all of us each day.
Used to use one towel and wash, but have got it to two uses. Bedlinen is changed weekly.
Why? Skanking mum when I was young, so I’ve gone the opposite way. I’m trying though!

I'm actually really that people wash uniforms EVERY DAY! If they're stained or dirty, obviously they need a wash, but otherwise why on earth would you wash them every single day?
Boggles the mind.

School uniform needs to be clean daily with a teenager! Shower and clean clothes. They start to smell otherwise, all those hormones!

I'm 69, and the people who talked about washing uniforms every day made me think about when I was at school. I only had one uniform. Shirts were washed at the weekend, skirts were washed at the end of every half term, because in order to keep the pleats in, you had to tack them in before washing and line drying, and then iron them under a damp cloth before removing the tacking stitches. Because we knew that the uniform needed to look smart, we were careful to stay clean, and got changed straight after school. I don't remember anyone being smelly or dirty.... but maybe we just got used to it!

Chocolatecoffeeaddict

TeamScuzz!

I'm amazed that so many people wash school uniform daily! What a palaver! My DCs used to have 2 pairs of school trousers/skirts and 5 shirts. I only used to wash them once a week, at the weekend. Some folk must generate vast amounts of laundry if they have enough to run a full load every day! Modern washing machines have more than double the capacity of those of 30 years ago!

that people wash uniforms EVERY DAY!

I am more amazed that people would send their kids to school in a uniform covered in food/paint/unknown and weird substances/mud.

If a pair of trousers and jumper are clean, they can get worn again, but if they are dirty? Why on earth wouldn't you put them in the wash?

We found the uniform lists requested by the school for my great-grand-mother recently. She had a lot more than 1 outfit a day! Definitively not a modern thing, that list for primary school was huge!

I check them over, if they have a stain I wash them, if not I give them a sniff and if they smell fresh they wear them again the next day.

This is me with everyone's clothes. If it doesn't look or smell dirty, it's fine (except bedsheets and towels because of all the skin and dust mites etc.)

My old boss at work used to wash all towels after every use, and everyone in her family washed every day. So that's 2 towels per female and 1 per male, every day. How dirty could the towel possibly get from your just washed skin?!

My toddler wears pjs for two days as do I. Baby is very sickly so he gets a fresh best and sleepsuit every night

My baby does need fresh pjs every day, as he possets regularly.

Equally, the toddler does too, as she drools a lot.

I try to get older children to put worn clothes on the chair to wear again but I don't think I am particularly successful.

Thentherewascake nobody is suggesting sending kids in clothes with mud/food/paint on them! Just that if clothes look and smell clean they don’t automatically need to be washed just because they’ve been worn.

My 3 year old is in nappies at night and his pjs would fail a sniff test as the smell seems to transfer. My older girls change them every day too but I'm trying to get them to wear them for two nights as long as they have knickers on too.