Do your kids wear clean clothes every day?

[ClarasMummy]

I tend to wash my daughters every day regardless of whether there dirty or not but with another baby on the way and no tumble dryer I'm not sure I can keep that up. I'm interested to find out how many other people do this.

Mine are 3.5 and 20m. It is a rare day when anything is clean enough to wear again. But occasionally I can get 2 wears out of a pair of trousers. I also have no tumble drier.

When a tiny baby, I would not change the vest or babygro until it was dirty - barely lasted more than 24 hours anyway IME.

I have 3 children and they have clean uniforms every morning, clean knickers/pyjamas every night and maybe a couple of changes each day at the weekend.

Nope. They were things until they are dirty or smell. This is my decision not theirs .

I already do a load a day. If I washed everything then I would be doing multiple loads daily.

No way! I wash their clothes when they're dirty. Sometimes get several wears out of a pair of trousers. (They get clean undies and socks every day, obviously.) PJs don't need changing more than a couple of times a week, I would say.

No. Apart from knickers and socks, everything gets washed when it is dirty. Although, DS (4) is a messy monster so needs a new t-shirt everyday. DD could wear the same clothes for days on end. Don't make work for yourself

They all wear clean clothes for about the first five minutes of the day.

no way! I would spend all my life chained to the washing machine and washing line if I did. Or spend all our money on tumble drying!

Only totally unwearable things go in the laundry basket. That does usually mean that tops go in; but jeans with muddy knees stay out - I could put on clean ones, but I know they'll get dirty within five minutes anyway, so who cares!

Clean knickers always though.

"Couple changes each day" at the weekend? Do you mean PJs plus day clothes, or more often, Sorrento?

Um, trying to answer OP's question. Clean clothes on children.... Now what would those be then?

My babies get clean clothes every day and like you it got a bit silly when we had baby and toddler. We now have 4 and the baby still gets clean clothes every day. The others get clean pants...

I have a 2yo and a 4yo. They get bathed most nights so they wear PJs a number of times before they get washed.

As for clothes - uniform stuff is reworn until it gets marked/dirty etc - but never longer than a week.

Home clothes are clean every morning because if they are here, they will be climbing on beds/sofas, rolling on carpets etc so it's really clean clothes to save on other housework.

Yes - but only because my children are incapable of getting through the day without coating themselves in food, grass and mud. I am a slattern but by the end of the day their clothes really are too revolting to wear again even by my poor standards.

When ds1 was my pfb I used to change outfits during the day - hmm that soon stopped.

My dd dirties clean clothes every day.

By which I mean: Whatever she wears in the morning, lands in the washing basket at night.

I have 2 teens and 2 younger DCs living here right now, and not a lot of storage space for clothes; the teens generate a lot of laundry far more than I ever remember doing when they were babies and frankly it smells, so I do a load every day, but I have a dryer. When they were all younger I had to take out all laundry to the basement of the buildings were lived in, where the communal washers and dryers were located, down from the second floor and then back up again on an outside stairs, so laundry was less frequent, maybe twice a week or whenever the basket was full. After I got my own washer and dryer I still only did a wash if I could fill the washing machine, but that meant I sometimes did a handwash or thorough pretreatment of stains.

The 2 who still wear a school uniform have drip dry skirts/ pinafores, and two blouses each, and they wear a clean blouse every day. The skirts are washed at least once a week. They don't spill so much now they're older so this is adequate imo.

Nope, clean knickers then what ever is too hand, often yesterday's outfit. Life's too short to do endless washing, drying and putting away.

My kids clothes are always so filthy by the end of the day that clean ones the next day are a must. I have no drier either, grrr!

Another vote for only wash when dirty.

My kids get clean underpants every year whether they're dirty or not!

ragged - day clothes. Mine like to play in the garden and get messy .

Hahahahahahaha! No.... Clean pants and socks, pyjamas changed weekly and everything else washed when it's dirty (as deemed by ds's, so proper dirty )

They usually manage to wear jeans/trousers for 2 days, but it's rare that they manage to keep tops clean, so generally they go straight in the wash at the end of the day*

*by 'straight in the wash' I mean on the floor, in their beds, tucked behind cushions on the sofa rather than 'in the washing bin'

Yes. But mine are very messy!

Clean uniforms daily, clean knickers/PJs at night, clean sheets once a week.