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How often do you wash...

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yorkiepudsnutellaandicecream · 04/08/2018 00:23

How often do you wash your jeans?
I wash mine after wearing them 2-3 times. My partner washed his jeans maybe once a month. Upon googling it, I never knew he wasn't the only person to do this!

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Notasyoungasiwas · 04/08/2018 00:37

Wash them after wearing them twice. DC (that live at home) 15 and 20, have their jeans washed after wearing them once.

Notasyoungasiwas · 04/08/2018 00:38

Once a month?? Have you changed his ways?? Grin

onyourmarks2017 · 04/08/2018 00:50

DH was buying jeans in Diesel once and I remarked to the assistant that they looked so much nicer new than when they’d been washed a few times and the denim went soft... He said not to wash them, just to “scrape them” 😂

Notasyoungasiwas · 04/08/2018 00:57

Scrape them?? I was hoping he meant scrap them but I think not! 😂

Gwenhwyfar · 04/08/2018 00:59

Why do you need to wash them every 2-3 times? That''s excessive unless you've been very sweaty, which shouldn't happen anyway as jeans are no good in hot weather.

28holid · 04/08/2018 01:02

I wash them after one wear!

Heratnumber7 · 04/08/2018 01:07

It's no wonder climate change is a thing! People use so much energy washing things that can't possibly need to be washed.

Ingalia · 04/08/2018 01:10

I would wash them after about five days of wear I think.

AmberLangslow · 04/08/2018 01:25

After about a week of wearing them I think or if I’ve spilled something on them.

SpoonBlender · 04/08/2018 02:52

Three to five days wear is quite enough, unless I've thrown something over myself! A month is OTT.

Enervator · 04/08/2018 07:56

I wear mine about a week before washing.

My husband is more monthly but I have been known to tell him that they are starting to pong and he should put on his other (identical) pair so I can wash them.

LoniceraJaponica · 04/08/2018 07:59

Why after only one wear 28?

Do you do an exceptionally dirty job?

Itchytights · 04/08/2018 08:02

Err, after one wear.

I like the tightness feel of clean jeans- definitely don’t like that “ able to stand up on their own” baggy farmer Giles look after they’ve not been washed and worn a fair few times.

Zoflorabore · 04/08/2018 08:02

One wear here too but I have OCD so have ridiculous laundry habits.

Dp wears his a lot more. He prefers them after a few washes as he says they are comfier.

28holid · 04/08/2018 08:44

Do you do an exceptionally dirty job?

No. And I don't wear jeans to work anyway.

But i do like to wear clean clothes.

LoniceraJaponica · 04/08/2018 09:21

But jeans don't get dirty after just one wear unless you are exceptionally sweaty or messy Hmm

That is a ridiculous waste of resources.

28holid · 04/08/2018 09:25

But jeans don't get dirty after just one wear unless you are exceptionally sweaty or messy 

Perhaps I am..

That is a ridiculous waste of resources.

Perhaps I am super frugal in others aspects of my life.....

Don't just be judging with your ridiculous Hmm face. I choose to put clean clothes on every day. So fucking what.

Bananalanacake · 04/08/2018 09:28

Yes lonicera. I am amazed at the people who wash 3 loads a day for a family of 4. And have you seen the threads about washing bath towels after one use.

abbsisspartacus · 04/08/2018 09:31

In this weather it's wash after every use I'm fucking wringing wet at the moment I've no idea what's wrong I usually love the heat and hardly sweat

GetThisBabyOut · 04/08/2018 09:31

When they look dirty or smell? Probably 3-5 wears? I don’t wear jeans that often so could probably easily go a month without washing them.

Gwenhwyfar · 04/08/2018 09:47

"A month is OTT."

Depends. I think I wash mine around once a month, but only wear them on the weekend.

Gwenhwyfar · 04/08/2018 09:49

"Perhaps I am super frugal in others aspects of my life....."

Lonicera said frugal, not resources. I'm not sure once cancels out the other anyway. You can't say 'I won't recycle' because I have don't have a car', for example.

Gwenhwyfar · 04/08/2018 09:50

"In this weather it's wash after every use I'm fucking wringing wet at the moment I've no idea what's wrong I usually love the heat and hardly sweat"

Well obviously you should't be wearing jeans if it's hot were you are. I think the reason you're sweaty at the moment is that it's been quite humid the last few days.

Gwenhwyfar · 04/08/2018 09:51

"When they look dirty or smell?"

Mine never do so I just think to myself 'these haven't been washed in a while' and chuck them in.

DwangelaForever · 04/08/2018 09:51

I only wash my jeans if they start to get a bit smelly 😂 over washing denim is bad for it and the colour fades loads

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