I was a bit disgusted when on cycling holidays with pals. Although they all washed/showered daily a fair few of them would put the same tee shirt back on after 🤢, one pal wore the same tee shirt all week 🤮
Lockdown’s been great, as I can get a week’s wear out of a pair of socks by only having them on when I go out to walk the dogs. Rest of the time I’m barefoot.
I generally wash t shirts and cycling tops with some Milton fluid or similar in the rinse cycle - helps to kill off any bacteria and let’s you get a couple of days wear out of them.
I work with someone who washes towels after a single use. The whole family of five. The washing machine is almost always on.
I suppose if you’re a dribbler it’s going to be different to if you’re not.
Fair point. In that case it would be disgusting to wear them for a full day, no?
Well as a kid in the 60s from a working class background i got a bath once a week and school uniform lasted a week,my Dad was a labourer and had a bath once a week also wore the same work clothes all week. My Grandparents never had a bathroom- tin bath once a week. No one used deodorant.
Everyone stunk.
I change all my clothes daily except jeans which last 3 days tops. I shower every day before going to bed and sometimes on a morning.
If, when I take my jeans off, they then remain upright (almost like a vase) then they are in need of a wash.
If they crumple and fall, then there's no need to wash.
I'm saving the planet by being a smelly northerner. A smelly, tight, northerner.
I'll repost this from the thread mentioned in the OP.
You need to meet my girlfriend’s daughter’s boyfriend.
He showers at least daily (though he’s a mechanic so after work is fair enough) and somehow manages to generate enough laundry to run the machine pretty much every single day. That’s despite the daughter almost never leaving the house and therefore rarely even changing out of PJs, and it’s not our stuff because if I leave so much as a damp tea towel in the drum the cheeky little bollocks will take it out to do his own.
It’ll save me a fortune when they move out. The tumble drier packed in a couple of weeks ago, I’m not fixing it until they’ve gone.
For me, I wash things when they need washing. Are they dirty / do they smell?
Socks daily. Sometimes more often than that.
Boxers I'll get a couple of days out of in the current climate, I'm not exactly doing much that's particularly sweaty (when I'm still wearing pants at least).
Work polo shirts got changed every day back when I was going into an office. But I was mostly running round like a nob and they weren't the most breathable of fabrics.
Tee-shirts whilst sitting in my home office all day, I'll get a few days to approaching a week out of.
Jeans a couple of weeks maybe. Maybe I'm missing something but I can't envisage wearing the same pair for months, aside from being utterly grim they'd be more curry and pasta sauce than denim by that point.
Cycling shorts or anything else I exercise in are one-shots, I might get a couple of hours out of them and then they're in the wash.
Bedsheets when my OH goes "we should probably change the bedding". Fortnightly perhaps? Towels maybe weekly.
Funny isn't it. Anything less than a given poster's routine is borderline OCD-obsessive, anything more is boak and grim.
Hartlepool style inner city type here.Clothes, probably once every four days,(I,m a bit OCD)body, every two or three days if I,m feeling motivated.This is very frequent for this place.Most I speak to wear their clothes for a couple of weeks.As for baths...depends on how much money's in the leccy meter!
As for bed clothes, I think two or three times a year is sufficient.
What is this never wash jeans thing? 🤢
I'm happy with 2-3 days from a cotton t shirt or shirt (always aired in between for a day or two) and daily boxers is a no brainer but with dog walking, a bit of sweat, the odd bit of crawling around on the floor to get to things at the back of shed shelves, a half hour round the local footpaths on a bike etc. they are going to want a wash at least fortnightly.
Don't get me wrong DIY jeans can be filthy as you like but at some point the mud and yuck wants removing even from them.
Similar to op apart from socks for non sporting use get several days and sheets maybe up to 3 weeks. Neither of us are particularly sweaty, smelly people. Other half doesn't even need to wear deodorant ever and doesn't get bo.
I like to think it helps the environment and clothes last longer.
with dog walking, a bit of sweat, the odd bit of crawling around on the floor to get to things at the back of shed shelves, a half hour round the local footpaths on a bike etc. they are going to want a wash at least fortnightly.
I do precisely none of those things whilst wearing jeans. Random fact, I can’t cycle in any form of long trousers. Has to be shorts or it just feels wrong and I overheat. Proper jeans are pretty much designed to not be washed that often.
Proper jeans are pretty much designed to not be washed that often.
Really? cite?
Define proper jeans of course. 😉
Jeepers some of you really live up to the stereotype of the type 2 sysadmin from Cory Docterows " when sysadmins ruled the earth"
Actually my memory of the descriptions are not quite what I remember
thundering good story for you cougar
https://www.lambot.info/when-sysadmins-ruled-the-earth/
Really? cite?
Define proper jeans of course
Browse any site that sells decent, tough selvedge jeans and read the care and washing instructions. STW favourite Hebtroco would be a great place to start.
There is a reason shirts used to come with detachable cuffs and collars. So you could just wash the visibly soiled parts. People didn't stink anymore back then.
Jeans - just sponge off the visible dirt, hang em in the sunshine. Better disinfectant than any detergent.
I'm amused at the idea of tj being repulsed by twice worn unwashed jeans, given some of the things you must have encountered at work. Bit like a vet who spends half his life up to his armpit in a cows arse being horrified at the idea of changing a diaper.
I think he’s just repulsed by jeans in general regardless of what state they are in 😀
Browse any site that sells decent, tough selvedge jeans and read the care and washing instructions. STW favourite Hebtroco would be a great place to start.
Ah - you mean fashion jeans not proper ones 🙂
I’m amused at the idea of tj being repulsed by twice worn unwashed jeans
I never said that - its the mingers that wear them for weeks and months without washing - I said trousers are 3 or 4 days for me
People didn’t stink anymore back then.
Yes they did! Stinking was normal back then
Ah – you mean fashion jeans not proper ones 🙂
Levi's say wash once every 10 wears AT MOST
Tesco/asda jeans ...... They probably don't give a **** . They come looking like they were made out of a tatty sack cut in half and stitched together. Washing them every wear couldn't possibly make them look any worse.
Good job the fade is fashionable Any indigo denim would last about 6 months being washed every 3/4 days.
Ah – you mean fashion jeans not proper ones
Quite the opposite. All jeans used to be made well and out of quality denim. It’s the fashion ones that tend to be shite. Adrian Chiles owns a pair of HebTroCo jeans so I doubt they can be described as fashionable in any sense 😀
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I never said that – its the mingers that wear them for weeks and months without washing – I said trousers are 3 or 4 days for me
But you've already said on the showering thread...
Gawd some manky folk on here. Of course you should wash every day otherwise you stink of either BO or some gawdaful stuff to mask your BO
News: - Not everyone stinks after a day.
TJ - You're a special case, and though it's sometimes hard to grasp, not everyone is the same.
I love the concept of prototype boxer shorts.
Are there scoop photos in Trouser Talk monthly showing you tripping over in the morning to put on a pair of 9 day old keks with ‘prototype’ emblazoned over the arse?
Hi sorry - I now own a clothing brand and we sample stuff. So we test product. So that's why they're prototype. We've been "extended wear" testing a lot of our new wool stuff to see what happens. A week out of wool socks isn't difficult. These new boxers I just thought I'd keep going. When things aren't getting trapped in synthetic fibres, there seems to be a lot less pong generated. My synthetic baselayers stink in short order by comparison.
Yes they did! Stinking was normal back then
Stinking was never normal. Humans have an odour for certain but it isn't minging, it's what makes us mate. Modern diets, soaps, lifestyles etc have made us stink. I have spent several days walking in upper 30 degree temps with humidity and didn't stink at all at the end of it. Water is all you need.
When things aren’t getting trapped in synthetic fibres, there seems to be a lot less pong generated. My synthetic baselayers stink in short order by comparison.
This. I bought a couple of patagonia capilene UV shirts. They absolutely reek after a few sweaty hours. Never had that problem with cotton or linen.
Lingerie - every day,
Bed linen - once per week
Towels - every 5-6 days
work clothes (outer) - once a week
work clothes (near to skin) - once every 2-3 days
riding gear - shorts - every ride
riding gear - outer wear or merino - every 2 - rides.
Shower everyday.
Not sure I understand all the people saying they wash anything next to the skin daily but don't wash their jeans for weeks? They're next to the skin too you know... not that I'm arguing for more frequent jeans washes, quite the opposite - t shirts don't need washing till they're actually dirty or smelly either
I shower daily so I don’t have to wash my clothes after daily wear. Underwear clean every day. I wear nice shirts even when working from home. I have my standards. They last about three days since sitting at a desk is not exactly carrying bricks for a living.
Al my recent exercise has been walking. That’s done in daily clothes. But only in Zone 1. And more and I’d wash after use. Cycling kit is washed after every use.
Towels should be washed relatively often (2-3 days) and not shared. Unless you like to pass the fungi. Also half a litre of bodily fluid is passing through your bedding every night. Just for some perspective.
thundering good story for you cougar
Hah. Must be ten years or more since I last saw that, cheers.
Might I suggest Little Brother? You can buy the dead tree version from all good bookshops and Amazon, but you can download it for free in a gazillion different formats from Cory's website.
Read it ta cougar.
