How often do you wash your bra??

[Natalia457]

This afternoon my sister and I were chatting and this came up- she washes her bra's after every wear. I am quite the opposite... my brand's go many many wears between washes and never seem obviously dirty or have any kind of scent.

AIBU and a skanky cow or is she being a clean freak? Just wondering what the general consensus is?

Also to clarify... we had this conversation getting changed at the gym- the only exception to my rule is sports bra's which do get sweaty and are washed after every wear.

If I've been sweating. Which for me is very infrequent.

I wear mine once or twice, three times if I'm lucky. I am large of nork and I sweat a lot, and I wear cotton crop type bras which soak up a lot of sweat. In the winter I can wear them more often, in the summer I cannot.

About 6 times a year.

😂😂😂I'm 50 and the girls are not quite that dangly yet 🤣🤣🤣

2/3 days depending on if it’s hot .

After every wear, I had a bout of illness and was sweating so bad I managed to get a fungal infection under my boobs. I always washed bras every wear anyway but after that I was extra careful.

Some of us are mingy, some of us are springy, some of us are marquee-sized and some of us are like fairy hammocks. Some of us wash daily, some of us just give them a dust once every six months. It's norkses for courses.

Oh I’m a scumbag obviously reading the replies on here 😂 I wash my bras after like 4/5 wears, sometimes more 🙈
I never wear knickers longer than a day though so they’re washed daily!

It's no wonder the planet is fucked with all this washing. No one needs to wash a bra after one wear, unless you are in a very warm sweaty environment.

Depends on how sweaty I am, could be daily otherwise probably twice a week (but I do have 3/4 bras so again depends. A lady on mn once told me you don’t sweat under your boobs but I do!!

It amuses me that so many people think "washed daily" means the washing machine is running with one lone bra in it every day.

I always see environmental concerns used as justification for really poor hygiene on MN. Could eat less meat or drive less or fly less or have fewer children, but it's always "Nope I change my sheets once a month for the planet!"

Daily. Same as the rest of my clothes

@BadNomad right? Though some expensive ones need to be hand washed. Mine go in the machine though, every second wear, daily if sports bras or very hot.

The same, I am a chilly person, not at all sweaty . Sports bra would be one wear.

Yep. I handwash the wired ones and the others sit in the basket until I'm putting a wash on. It's never just one bra in the machine.

Until they look like they are going to walk away

@BadNomad - Exactly. This was my point up thread. Changing a bra each day and adding it to the regular wash load has no environmental impact and uses no more resources. My boobs deserve a freshly laundered environment to live in.

Amen. Cannot believe people are washing bras after one wear.

I'm the same OP. Maybe a month? Haha (or longer).

I can’t afford to have a bra for every day, I would be bankrupt! How are people affording this 😂

A bra doesn't actually make much impact on a washing load, they are quite small, it's not like washing towels or sheets which half fill the machine

No, not at all. I wear mine for at least 3,4 or 5 days. Depends how warm it's been or what I've been doing. But then I do that for all of my clothes 🤷🏼‍♀️ I'm not very sweaty and I don't believe I smell very much. You've just got to judge this for yourself haven't you?

I'm breastfeeding so every wear or occasionally every other wear because of milk leaking.

Normally I would wear a bra three times unless I'm exercising, out for a night out or it's very warm.

Every wear. Only cause I'm a walking bucket of sweat.

Washing them so often means they go dingy or ruin a lot quicker tho, which is a shame cause they're so fkin expensive.