What do you wear to do the housework???

[MummyTo2MonkeysAnd1Bug]

Just curious - i always do my cleaning on a Sunday morning - after breakfast, in my pyjamas and then when all the house is sparkly i go and have an indulgent soak in the bath, change into comfy sunday clothes and then prepare dinner.

What made me ask this is i just saw next door neighbour in the garden as i was hanging out the washing. Well we 'small talked' and it transpired she was doing her cleaning also....
In a Ghost dress!! I only know its ghost because my sister bought it for her reception outfit when she got married last month so you can imagine this is not a cleaning outfit!!!!

So what do you wear to mop the floors and scrub the bathrooms???

DH cleans the bathroom in nowt, but he doesn't clean it very often!

I just clean in what I have on (though not my best clothes!) - I usually do a bit here and there, if it was a big Spring Clean, I'd put on old clothes.

Bra and knickers ! Seriously, I ruin everything with bleach otherwise

I love the fact that my Grandma had house clothes and wore a tabard, curlers and a headscarf - and would change afterwards into proper clothes and do her hair for going out. Until recently, too we had a very old (in her 90s) neighbour who would do the same.

There's something lovely about it, something proper and Post-war which I love. I, on the other hand, try to avoid housework at all costs, but when I do do it, it'll be in whatever I'm wearing - so most of my things have bleach splashes on them.

Dry housework (tidying, dusting, hoovering) - normal clothes. Wet housework - my dressing gown!

Don't have any routine so just wear everyday clothes IYSWIM.

I am frightened by the number of people using bleach.

I very much like the idea of wearing a tutu for cleaning. Have had my eye on DD's one for a while. Sadly, she's 3 so don't think it'll fit.

I never, ever wear the right clothes for the right job. I often will go for a quick look round the garden in my best togs before a jaunt, only to be down the bottom of the garden with no gloves or trowel and end up on my knees, grabbing around in the dirt to get the blighters whilst I see em . DH will see a mud spattered, dirty fingernailed, bedraggled me and just tut. So needless to say I don't change for housework.

...er by blighters I mean weeds, not the DC or anyhting....

I usually wear whatever I am wearing IYSWIM as I do housework every day.

But if I am off to aerobics later, for example, then I wear my gym kit. Or I suppose if I was dressing for it especially (!) I would wear tracksuit bottoms and T-shirt. That's my usual evening garb anyway and when I am working I do most of my housework in the evening.

My postman must thinkI am a slob as he arrives at about half 10 every day and i'm never dressed. Do all the cleaning in my jamas (which I put on when I wake up to do cleaning in ) and then have shower and get dressed.

Nothing

Kitchen on Mondays, Bathroom on Wednesdays, Hoover by irobot everyday - just whatever I'm wearing, usually jeans and a t-shirt. There isn't anything else is there.
Gardening, I'll add gardening gloves and possibly trainers or those plastic comfy shoes I forget the name of, crocs I think.
If I had to get changed I'd never get it done as I have to do it when my baby is napping.
Oven & Dusting - once a year! But then I find I don't get so much dust now the robots hoover every day.

Hmm. Dressing up and proper housework are both uncommon occurrences in this house, so problem solved there then.

I have to confess I have a pink nylon tabard (with handy front pocket for dusters) that I stick on over whatever I'm wearing.

But for descaling the shower screen I go naked - far too much water everywhere when I rinse otherwise!

A pinny (I have a veritable selection) and birkenstocks.

I do usually have jeans and a t shirt on underneath as well, BTW!

If I intended to do housework, jeans, t-shirt and rubber gloves. I did not intend to do housework....but just see something that needs doing.....jeans, t-shirt and rubber gloves.

I HATE HOUSEWORK....house is clean for approximately 5 minutes

Would wear whatever is to hand, but probabl not a very expensive dress.
Also a semi-hater. Housework is at its most pleasurable when done to
a. get some peace and quiet in the kitchen/bathroom...
b. avoid some other odious task (remember exam revision/spotless home).

Other than that it is just endless, repetition and utterly thankless (nobody but me cares until there is no food/clothing/space on floor)

So in answer to the question, just wear normal clothes, but could really do with a pinny of some sort due to sploshing self frequently whilst cleaning.
Hmmm, Wonder if you can still get those body builder pinnies, with the abs on the front?

Oh and rollers, but just while dusting the post-ironic ducks on the wall.

I never change to do housework, I wear whatever I have put on that morning. I cant clean in nightclothes, dont know why but I feel no motivation for anything until I am dressed.

If it's normal stuff (vacuuming, dusting, tidying up, etc) then whatever I have on, unless it's a v posh outfit (which is highly unlikely!). If it's filthy cleaning, then my dirtiest pair of jeans, which would then go into the laundry, an old top, or underwear if cleaning the bath!

DH and I both have some manky decorating clothes that live at the bottom of the airing cupboard, under some towels that we wear when painting.

old t-shirt and joggers, sometimes clean in regular clothes but try to remember not to as have bleach marks on my black linen trousers