to ask how often you wash your clothes

[Vistada]

For me its after every wear (apart from jeans and joggers which is around 2-3 wears)

However this means i have a never ending flow of laundry

How many wears from freshly laundered would you go.

Next to skin stuff washed after wearing. Top layers maybe less.

Everything washed after one wear.

I workout 2-3 times a day, plus occasionally wear "normal" clothes, so I change 3xday at a minimum (including pjs). I generally can fill a washing machine with just my stuff every 3rd day. Then there's the rest of the family, I reckon we're doing 2+loads a day (3 of us are autistic and like to wear the same clothes day after day so can't just leave them in the wash basket)

I remember my late dad (born in the 1930s) telling me their school jumpers were washed maybe once a year! They didn't have money to pay other people to do it, his mum was too unwell to work and his dad was a gardener.

The environment is doomed with you lot! Pants & vests every wear, everything else, when its dirty. Some things just need airing & can be worn again. If its just a spill, spot cleaning or scraping off if its dry. Look, smell. Its an awful waste of resources (yours & the planets) to wash every wear!

They would have been wool, which is naturally antibacterial. Not the same as not washing an acyclic or polycotton jumper!

What are you doing in your dressing gown?! Especially as you are washing pyjamas daily? I wash mine 2-3 times a year & its perfectly fine.

Underwear after one wear
Tops/ T-shirts/ pyjamas after two or three wears
Trousers after four or five wears
Jumpers after five to seven days
Coats every now and then
My work clothes though - trousers weekly or before if dirty, tops after two wears, fleece weekly

I can’t imagine wearing a top/shirt
more than once. Do you all iron them before wearing them for the second or third time?

I wear jeans and trousers a few times but everything else I wash

oh and pyjamas for some reason I will wear for two nights

Of course not! Hang it up, it airs and hangs out the creases.

Knickers after every wear. The rest when it needs it. The waste of energy and effort that goes on with some people is obscene.

I don’t iron anything before wearing it for the first time 😂

I mostly wear Lycra though so I get away with it.

This will make some of you sick. Advice on how often towels should be washed and the results of a survey on what people actually do
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-66735226

44% of people said 3 months before washing a towel! Read for even more information

You can't be serious? Why, just why?

Honestly, I despair.

No.
Some get ironed after washing, most don't.
If I got sweaty, spilt something or top smells, I wash it. On a cool day if I haven't been very active, I think OK to wear again.
If I wear a dress for a couple of hours to a party or out to a meal, I might wear it again.
A hoodie I might wear 5 times before washing. A skirt probably at least 3 times.

I agree. I'm 64 and when I was young no-one washed things as frequently as they do now. I live in NZ, where clothes can be line dried all year around, but people didn't wash clothes after one washing, unless they had got badly stained - minor stains were spot cleaned. It really is a modern thing, this obsessive cleanliness/hygiene nonsense. I can imagine my DM's response if I had told her my clothes needed washing after every wear back in the 60s/70s.

I can’t imagine wearing a top/shirt
more than once. Do you all iron them before wearing them for the second or third time?

Sometimes I iron my t shirts in the summer, but apart from then, I never iron anything! I dry clothes carefully on the washing line. I don’t wear blouses unless I am going somewhere special! I usually wear polo/roll neck jumpers underneath another jumper/cardigan/jacket in the winter!

I don't iron the first time

Yep, I despair too. I just don't understand it and no poster has really explained just why they feel everything has to be washed so often.

If all these obsessive washers have children there is a good chance their children will grow up to feel clothes have to be washed all the time which is clearly ludicrous.

I'd like to know how long all these posters manage to keep their clothes as I cannot see the life of them being very long.

I do wonder how representative the posters are though as no one I know washes clothes that often

I just can't understand how you dry that volume of washing especially in the winter, or a wet summer like we had this year. I have a tumble dryer but I rarely use it, or use for 15 min to finish off towels or stuff that has almost dried outside. Mostly in the winter I hang clothes indoors on a clothes airer, outdoors at weekends if weather is OK. The tumble dryer would be on for hours if I had to dry more than 1 load/day

Yep, I despair too. I just don't understand it and no poster has really explained just why they feel everything has to be washed so often.

because we don't want pile of half-dirty clothes everywhere?
because a lightly soiled item needs a lighter wash?
because it's healthier than spraying everything with febreeze and your clothes with deodorant to make them "smell fresh" when they are not

Wear clothes, they get dirty.. dust, cooking smell, body smell, animal hair. Wash, dry - mainly outside - fold and put away.

I am in South London, all my laundry is outside, summer or winter. It's been pourring with rain today, it won't be for the rest of the week.

My jeans will go out of fashion before they get damaged in the wash, my older ones are coming back in style and laundry hasn't done anything bad to them😂

Fucking hell, there are some sanctimonious people here.

I wash my clothes because I like clean, fresh smelling clothes. Clothes get grubby, they get sweaty, they lose their shape, they pick up smells of food.

I commute across London on the tube everyday. I don’t want to wear the same trousers or top or blazer again once I’ve worked all day and travelled in it. And when I get home, I want to put on fresh PJs.

It’s really not that hard to understand.

I would far rather be sanctimonious than as wasteful as so many on here.

Of course clothes get dirty but not after one wear in most cases. A poster states her jeans will go out of fashion before they are ruined by continual washing. I doubt that very much. The advice on washing jeans is as infrequently as possible

Not sure what the poster is on about that doesn't want piles of of half dirty clothes everywhere. Never had clothes that are half dirty, they are either clean or dirty and I don't leave clothes I have worn laying around in a pile. I hang my clothes up like a normal person.

I also have never febrezed an item of clothing in my life or sprayed them with deodorant to make them smell fresh. They are perfectly fresh after just one wear normally, sometimes more than one wear.

Fresh pj's every day!!! Yes it is that hard to understand how people can be quite so unconcerned about the damage to the planet and the waste of water and electricity

Jeans and jumpers two wears.

Everything else, one wear. Have a baby and a toddler, so everything is perpetually covered in poo / sick / paint / mashed banana (plus I'm much more rotund and hence stinkier than pre children).

Don't get hair or nails done, or buy clothes new, but refuse to go around smelling and dirty, despite high energy costs. Have to draw the line somewhere.