When did you stop pre-wear washing baby clothes?

[Loulovesummer]

Just wondering the above really.

DD is 6 months. I have been washing all of her clothes before she wears them ever since she was born.

my mum has bought her a lovely outfit to wear tomorrow for my birthday lunch. I want to put her in it so as not to upset my mum and also think it’s lovely but I can’t get it washed and dried between now and then.

is 6 months an ok age to not faff around with pre-wear washes?

Don’t tell me, you also buy a pack of knickers and put them straight on without washing them first?🤦‍♀️

most people wouldn’t think twice about this. It’s just bonkers to wash everything first. What if it is a very delicate item? Do you send it to be dry cleaned before gif wear it?

Erm, yes

My 51 year old fanjo has survived the apparent apocalypse 😂

This is definitely a MN thing as none of my (perfectly sane) peer group do this. I never have pre washed and never will. Despite the hysteria on here

What about second hand clothes, how many times do you wash them ?

😂

This has got to be a wind up. And it’s definitely going to make the daily mail

Exactly this.

It must be a cultural thing because it doesn’t make sense how some things are disgusting to some people and others don’t give a flying fuck

It’s not ‘gross’, the feel of new clothes can be really nice.

@Babaquestions @FuckTheClubUp my genitals have survived just fine 🤷‍♀️ I can almost guarantee a new pack of underwear is probably 'cleaner' than most penis' 🤣

Definitely!!
Remember the woman a few weeks ago who had ‘toilet shoes’?
My toilet is one step from the door so it never entered my head to change into new clean shoes for one step.

You meet all kinds here.

I prewash everything, but have very sensitive skin. Usually new clothes smell horrible though so I think I'd do it regardless. But

New clothes is really lovely. I don't want mine all smelling second wear and not feel crisp when I put them on.
I didn't wash my wedding dress. Managed about 10 hours in that without keeling over.

What is the difference between wearing a new pair of knickers from an unopened pack and putting a disposable nappy on a baby? Both made in factories, outer package only touched by workers etc. Nappies aren't magically sterile in some way.

Was I supposed to do that????

well, they survived.

I'm 36 years old and wash very single thing before wearing it.

There are leftover residues from manufacture or treatments to the fabric, plus they often spray with chemicals to keep bugs, etc. away. (Ask people who work in retail- they will tell you to wash every single thing!!!)

I also find the "new clothes" smell very unpleasant.

Looks like some people also don't mind all the dirty hands that probably touched the clothes beforehand...

We used cloth nappies for exactly that reason! Obviously the environmental impact too, as did the stink from a week’s worth of disposables in the dustbin (we washed cloth nappies daily with a newborn, and every other day as a toddler). But mostly I hated putting what felt like a plastic bag on my little newborn’s bum. Cloth nappies felt more like normal clothes.

I have always washed new clothes before wearing, I expect I always will because I don't know where they've been before becoming mine. Same with ds's clothes.

Each to their own though. I am finding the strong opinions on either side of this argument amusingly OTT.

Never pre washed babies' or children's' clothes unless there was a starchy element, eg uniform.

I guess I see it differently. Yes, people may have touched my new trousers or whatever, but most would only touch the outside. But I'm only going to wear them to go sit on a bus or train seat or bench or whatever that probably has all manner of worse things on!

We wash all new clothes before wearing. One of my kids had a terrible skin reaction when he was about 8 that a dermatologist believes was a reaction to chemicals on clothing he’d worn without being washed.

Do I take it that all the people who refuse to wear new clothes until they've been washed literally never try any clothes on in a shop changing room, or in their own home when they've received an internet order?

Do you all just look at an item on a rail in a shop/a website, instinctively know what size you'll be & that the clothes will inevitably suit you & fit properly, such that you can take a chance of removing the tags, washing the garments & wearing them without even trying them at all? Or do you made a brief accommodation in your head that you'll try them just once & then it's straight off & in the washing machine/back to the seller & you straight in the shower to cleanse recover from the trauma?

And what if an item is dry clean only - do you pay a tenner to have it cleaned before first wear?

Genuinely interested baffled here 😄

I was all new clothes, bedclothes and so on for all family members. No matter age.

All of you who pre wash - don’t you ever try clothes on in shops?

cos you either try them in - with all the stuff that gives you the ick, or you buy untried, wash and can never return.

weird.

Had no idea this was a thing 😂