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AIBU?

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Lounging in pyjamas - disgusts me. AIBU

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Mumoflil1 · 20/02/2020 10:25

Hi, so just after opions. So, apart from Christmas, I really don't like my children lounging in the house in their pyjamas - it's a real bug bear or mine. So, it's half term and my SS is staying with us. My bio kids are up, fed and dressed by 8.30. SS is older so wakes at 10am (I have no problem with that) but his dad has no problem with him staying in pyjamas until after mid-day. I think it sets a lazy precedent and personally find it quite disgusting. AIBU? Bit too extreme?

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vodkaredbullgirl · 20/02/2020 13:06

Like i said before i work nights so i come home change my work pjs for my home pjs. I just tell them i was working a nightshift.

Iminaglasscaseofemotion · 20/02/2020 13:07

I dont know why anyone would want to sit around in jeans or their outside clothes, if they are just in the house.

FamilyOfAliens · 20/02/2020 13:07

I can’t believe I’ve just read that someone did their shopping in their pyjamas.

Leflic · 20/02/2020 13:07

How are pyjamas more comfortable though? They are designed to be worn under a duvet. Once you are up is it not freezing? Mine are loose ( I like a nightshirt mostly though) and I find it impossible to get anything done with loose sleeves and baggy bottoms flapping around.

MintyMabel The “ get dressed” brigade do wear their nightwear fir more than 12 hours: you wear the same set a couple of nights running.

RossPoldarkFan · 20/02/2020 13:07

I'm with the OP. I wear a nightie at night, get up for a cup of tea with nightie and dressing gown, then shower and dress. I would feel very uncomfortable dressing like that all day. I don't wear PJs. I don't get changing from one set of nightwear to another when you get up. If I'm not going out, I wear joggers or leggings with a loose top. The men in my family don't possess PJs either and sleep in boxers at the most. I wouldn't expect to see any adult doing that all day.

Insideimsprinting · 20/02/2020 13:08

Brazi103
Yabu and one of those parents. Do you think you are somehow better?

I don't think op does, I get what she's saying. I hate still being in pj's, even if clean ones and I've been showered.

Pj days make me feel slobbish and gross I actually feel much better up and dressed and then I can chill. I dont get Pj days any more than you getting why people hate it. I think this post was supposed to be an eye opener for op to try and get it rather than people being harsh on them.

MintyMabel · 20/02/2020 13:08

as a Pjs put her in the wrong frame of mind for work and productiveness!

This is just getting ridiculous now. I work from home often. What I'm wearing has absolutely no bearing on how productive I am. What a bizarre lesson to be teaching a teenager.

SistersOfPercy · 20/02/2020 13:08

Just got back from Tesco. I'm soaked from getting the shopping between car and house, my feet are wet and I'm cold.
You're damn right I'm heading for my furry PJ bottoms. I'm going to make a cup of tea, eat the large eclair I've purchased and watch the F1 testing.
Bliss.

Straycatstrut · 20/02/2020 13:10

I love my pjs and always wear them in the house.
It's my house so it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks if they dont like it they can piss off back the their own house to lounge about in their clothes.

I do too. Always PJ's when in the house if I'm not going out again. I get really cold really easily (raynauds), house is quite big so I'm not heating the whole place up when I can just put thick PJ's (fleecy primark ones, dead classy like) and slipper socks.

Sitting here in them now, big mug of tea. Been swimming with a 3 and 7 year old for 2.5 hours this morning, swimming breaths with eldest, up and down the big slide repeatedly with youngest, so won't be called a slob

harrietthepie · 20/02/2020 13:12

Those of you who like to wear your nightwear during the day - please tell me you get changed if you have visitors!

I haven't had any visitors for years so it's irrelevant but of course I would. I have clean pjs which I put on to chill in, actually they are leggings and a t-shirt rather than pjs but they never get slept in.

notanotherpothole · 20/02/2020 13:12

I'm only now thinking of getting dressed and stopping lounging in pj's because I need to go out. I love a good lazy day.

adaline · 20/02/2020 13:12

I got up early, walked the dog, had a shower and got dressed into clean pyjamas

MintyMabel · 20/02/2020 13:12

Do you honestly think the only difference between nightwear and daywear is what it’s called?

It can be, especially in kids clothes.

Jersey tops and trousers can be day or nightwear and the only difference is generally colour/pattern.

FamilyOfAliens · 20/02/2020 13:13

I’m relieved you would harriet, but another poster said they wouldn’t and it would be the visitor’s problem.

MintyMabel · 20/02/2020 13:14

you wear the same set a couple of nights running.

How can you possibly know that?

Anyway, my point was being made to those who must put on clean pyjamas if staying in them all day.

Bluewavescrashing · 20/02/2020 13:16

I don't wear PJs. I don't get changing from one set of nightwear to another when you get up. If I'm not going out, I wear joggers or leggings with a loose top. The men in my family don't possess PJs either and sleep in boxers at the most. I wouldn't expect to see any adult doing that all day

Well you won't be seeing me wearing my pjs (which are clean and I have showered today, as well as last night) because I'm in my house. Where I'm comfortable and happy. So, ner.

anotherlittlechicken · 20/02/2020 13:17

@FamilyOfAliens

Here you go hun. Have a clutch of these.

vodkaredbullgirl · 20/02/2020 13:17

@familyOfAliens i dont have many visitors like i said. Also i work nights so if anyone does come it, usually means ive been working that night.

LaurieMarlow · 20/02/2020 13:18

Haven’t RTWT. I’m sure it’s quite the treat though, so will do so later.

However, if you think that people hanging out in their PJs in their own homes are ‘disgusting’ then I think you have some psychological issues.

Do you understand the significance of disgust as an emotion and what it’s there for? I’d hazard not.

TheGoogleMum · 20/02/2020 13:19

If were6not going out we stay in pjs sometimes all day... although I have started getting dressed even when staying in sometimes since being on mat leave and feeling like I needed to make the effort sometimes... maybe too much pyjamas.

curlsnotfrizz · 20/02/2020 13:19

not read the whole thread but 100% agree.

I don't get it either. PJs are for sleeping at night.

YorkshirePud1 · 20/02/2020 13:20

Personally I couldn't lounge about in my PJs for hours. On weekends I'll generally have a shower and get dressed after breakfast, so 10-11ish, depending on how lucky I've been with my lie in. I would never think it's disgusting for other people to chill in their PJs though, it's just not for me. I feel a bit ick until I've had a shower.

elc19 · 20/02/2020 13:20

You'd hate to come to my house, when we get in we shower or bath straight into pjs/loungewear ready for dinner and the night. I only dress to go out of my front door 🤣

Chienloup · 20/02/2020 13:21

I don't like to stay in pyjamas personally myself. I like to get showered and changed into clothes before going downstairs - it reminds me too much of my worst struggles with depression otherwise. My children (5, 9, 10) I prefer to be dressed before 10 at the latest.

madcatladyforever · 20/02/2020 13:22

All I really need to do when I get home is get my bra off!!!

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