How many times do your los wear their pjs?

[BibiJesus]

Having just read the pending pile thread, I wondered how many times your LOs wear their pjs before they are "dirty"?

DTs are grubby little mites and crawl around so their sleepsuits/pjs get worn just once, but dd who is 4 is much cleaner and less of a floor-roller so she wears her 2, sometimes 3 nights before they are dirty/a bit stinky.

Is this a slatternly way to live? Should they have clean pjs every night? Surely not...

daftpunk you surely don't send your child to school in clothes he has worn for 24 hours straight?

I hope you just have a bizzarre sense of humour.

yes i do, sometimes he falls asleep downstairs in his uniform..so, i carry him upstairs and just put him to bed...

Words have failed me daftpunk. I think I'd rather pull out my own eyelashes than send my child to school in something he had slept ivernight in.

Usualy once as they eat breakfast in them but DD whos 3 will wear them twice if they are clean.

Hey Geepers!

I wanted to ask you - as I had completely clean bed linen last night (pillowcases, sheet, duvet cover, the lot) and you presumably only had a clean sheet like what you always have, honey - does that mean my bed was cleaner than yours?

Bella, I am almost too ashamed to admit this, but last night I slept in a bed without a duvet cover on.

In my defence m'lord, I was tending to my very poorly daughter all night, and she did get a bath, hair wash and fresh clothes this morning.

So I conclude your bed was almost certainly nicer to sleep in than mine. :-p

Oh, poor you, Geepers, and your dd.

I hope she's feeling better now & that you both get a good night's sleep tonight.

You are not only an exemplary beacon of cleanliness, Geepers, you are a lovely mother too

Wash pyjamas when they smell sweaty ie; every two or three days. Children always in non-matching tops and bottoms as result. Sheets once every 9 days (well I know its not once a week but not quite two weeks..)Our bed once a week. Towels once every three days approx no-one seems to know whose is whose. Tried colour coding but really need to crack that one, very slovenly. I do three loads a day but I don't tumble dry!!!!or iron..Clean unironed uniform every day unless they didn't go to the park.. or changed immediately after school for some obscure reason. Some kids in my children's school smell because uniform is filthy and grimy. I feel really sorry for them. A pack of clean school shirts costs very little.

daftpunk that has made me sooooooo sad

twice for the girls who are 5 and 3.

once for the newborn DS as he generally spits up.

About a week - but they lose their pj's so have a few pairs on the go at the sametime

Normally every two days, three at the most.

Have just found pjs in the dressing up box. One way of avoiding laundry.

hey..don't be sad, it only happens maybe once a month, we swim on thursdays and dont get home till about 9.30, he's falling asleep in the car..i just carry him up and put him to bed....he has got pyjamas (4 pairs from john lewis actually) but i'm a bit of a hippy and don't stress over hygiene too much...am i doing something wrong?

i would still slip his clothes off and slip some pjs on whilst he's half asleep...not nice to wear same clothes all day all night and all day again...

Just a thought - how many millions of suitcases do you lot all take on holiday?

Because if you change pjs every night, surely you have to take 7 pairs for a week!

We take 2 pairs (in case of an accident).

And the right number of pants/socks but then only say 2 pairs trousers, 3 tops.

We always get a villa with a washing machine for this reason (amongst others) in sardinia i had a wash load every morning (between 7 of us) and it dried in the sun in less than an hour

same here, we always get a place with a washing machine, too.

My daughter did exactly the same thing as daftpunk's child, too, once. She fell asleep in her bed and because the duvet was right up to her nose I didn't notice. 24 hours later she calmly informed me.

I was shocked but, you know what? She didn't smell and nobody would have known.

I think my own washing habits probably fall somewhere in the middle of the extremes which people have described on this thread.

I do, however, believe that:

a) there's a lot of unnecessary washing going on, but if you wanna do it and it makes you happy, so be it (I am not talking about you, Geepers well, okay, maybe I am, but as I said if it makes you happy...)

and

b) there's a belief among some that if a child is not kept spotlessly clean it is somehow being neglected. I think this is a tad simplistic.

Fire away, girls....

There's an argument for NOT keeping children spotlessly clean--for their health's sake. Over hygienic environments are not our friends.

I don't see what's over hygenic about clean jimjams every other day or so, however.

Well that wasn't actually what I was referring to. I meant people who wash every garment and towel every day.

What about the over-exposure to chemicals?
If you're wearing freshly washed everything every single day, isn't your skin coming into contact with an awful lot of residue detergent and conditioner? (I have no idea how true this is btw, it's just a thought )

I am shocked that anyone would feel 'sad' at an admission of wearing slept in clothes.

My ds has worn, slept in, and worn again clothes many a time, though I would probably pull jeans off as they might be a bit stiff.

Washing pj's, towels, sheets everyday is nothing short of obscene imo, do you not realise the planet is on limited resourses? There are more important things for your children than spotless pj's, like erm maybe a future.

Rant over.