Pants!

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DH and I do our own laundry, but he was stressing this week as he's got his first business trip since last year and he was fretting about having enough clean pants and socks.

I said if he was running that low he should just buy some more, but apparently NINE pairs is a perfectly adequate number of pants for a man to own already.

AIBU to think that owning at least two week's worth of pants is a basic adult thing to do?

But...but ...but...you need more than one pair for every day when on holidays because if you go out for the daytime then come home and you get a shower ready to go out again for the evening you use 2 pairs a day.

I have a drawer full of knickers, l like to match with my bras (mother’s upbringing) live life in full colour and need different styles for wearing with different things. In addition, l usually change twice a day. I would expect a man to change after work too. I like to feel clean and would expect that of a man.

In the warm weather, l often don’t wear any 🤫, with skirts and dresses.

By the time he's fully worn (right side out &r ight way round, right side out & back to front, inside out & right way round, and inside out & back to front) for the full period (at least 3 days each) those 9 pairs should last over 100 days.

@Lactarius

By the time he's fully worn (right side out &r ight way round, right side out & back to front, inside out & right way round, and inside out & back to front) for the full period (at least 3 days each) those 9 pairs should last over 100 days.

My husband would agree 🤣 (I'm jesting, but he jokes about it a lot)

@ItWaAgathaAllAlong

I don't really get why people do 'his' and 'mine' washing - unless they don't have children

No, no children living at home. We’re both responsible for our own washing - isn’t that the standard MN response to any laundry disputes?

It mostly arose because I don’t like the way he does laundry*, and he doesn’t like the way I do it, so we agreed we’d do our own when we moved in together. No big deal.

Anyway, I sneaked a look in his drawers (fnarr fnarr) while he was away and Fibber McFibface had 9 clean pairs there, so with the ones he took away he must own a fortnights worth of pants after all. @dudsville may have called it.

*he doesn’t do any sorting, just washes clothes & towels together on the same program with a single wash pod. I have a carefully crafted sorting system of whites, darks, towels and bedding involving varying combinations of laundry gel, vanish, water softer and fabric conditioner and occasionally a colour run catcher. Apparently it’s too complicated

@Coogee

You'd need a fortnight's worth to go away on holiday for a couple of weeks...

I don’t take 31 pairs of knickers when I go on holiday for a month.

I wash them.

If I ever went on holiday for a month, I probably would, too.

Ahhhh, a month's holiday sounds nice... even if I would have to rinse my knickers in the sink.

I have two drawers full of drawers (one drawer white and nude, one drawer black). I need to do a knicker audit though, as when I grabbed some to take into hospital a few weeks ago, they turned out to be too loose and nearly fell down when I got into bed.

I also have 2 smaller drawers full of bras and reckon I must have around 12-15..

If I go on holiday for longer than a week, I find a laundrette and spend an hour of my time doing a wash. I'd rather do this than lug twice as many clothes around.

BTW I have a month's supply of knickers and socks.

Who doesn’t put the washing on for 14 days?

I don't put pants in with anything else. I do an undies and socks wash when I have enough for a load.

worked out I have about a month's worth of standard everyday 5-pack knickers

Yep me too and so does husband. Socks too. I thought that was pretty normal. As I said upthread I don't put them in with a regular wash, I do a pants and socks only.

We seem to breed pants- and they're the first thing we pack when we go away. In your DPs situation I'd buy more so he always has enough ready to pack. Plus a couple of spairs. DP has about 40 pairs and needs an amnesty- some out in exchange for nicer ones. I have 32 pairs of knickers I think- 5 white, 5 nude, 5 black basic comfy knickers, 5 black basic everyday thongs, 6 assorted colour slinkier/sexier knickers, 3 slinkier colour assorted thongs and 3 extra pairs of emergency pants- 1 black pair in my handbag, 1 black pair in my tampon bag and a ridiculous frou frou pair in my emergency toiletries bag. Some of the emergency pairs are a bit small.

I also don't get the separate laundry system. Pants and knickers really help make up a wash and we find it easier to wash our stuff together.

Spairs? Spares!!! I can spell, I promis.

This reminds me of the octogenarian who said, these days I don’t even buy green bananas!
Dying and leaving more than nine pairs of pants with wear left in them is a very serious worry!

I agree two weeks’ worth is the minimum. It’s a common holiday length but short enough that you don’t want to waste time on washing, and hotels might not have washing facilities.

He only owns 9 pairs of pants??! I probably own 90!

@Flufferty

I’ve got about 40 pairs of pants. I never run out 😁

Yes me too

I think my husband only has about 9 pairs. Ones that he would be comfortable being admitted to A&E in anyway.