Pants, about a week. Everything else daily plus an extra time if I work out.
Sometimes I'll wear the same jeans a couple of days in a row, but that's the only item of clothing I'd wear twice in a row.
Sorry sozobe you cannot convert me to a cheesehead as easily as you could convince me on voting. I am a die-hard Pats fan!
Speaking of sports and clothes wearingÂ…I heard an interview with Trot Nixon's wife and she claims he went through a stage where he did not change in underwearÂ….you know baseball players and their superstitions.
The only things I'll wear more than once are pants, which can usually go 2 or 3 days.
I wear dark-blue jeans. So they never LOOK dirty, even if you wipe your hands on them.
I just do the smell test. Sometimes it's ten days in a row before they get bad.
GO PACK GO!
I'll never wear anything twice in a row. I may die on the spot if that happened to me. Like ehBeth, I do loads of laundry. T shirt or a shirt 1 day max. I may even go through 2 t-shirts a day if I happen to stop at home. I just like clean things, shrug.
I think it is one of life's great luxuries not to wear things twice in a row. It means the presence of plentiful water, and probably machines to help you do the cleaning, or people to do it for you, and the money to not worry about all that.
I admit I to usually wearing things only once (underwear) or twice (although more, for jeans sometimes, and some over-sweaters - depends on what clothes). Some coats I'll wear for a season; as a thrift store queen, I have a bunch of coats.
When I lived in LA, where it often got really warm and I worked mapping sites on hot days, I hurled my clothes off as I entered my house, if not always literally, fairly quickly. Here in coolsville, that is not so necessary.
In LA, which people think of in northern California as the land of wanton waste, most of the people I know or knew have paid close attention to water use (the place was originally a semiarid desert, before various water schemes). The energy/resources used to keep all those clothes spiffy, gee. And, maybe it is age, as it isn't place... I wore things more than once in a while, freshly washed or aired, in LA too (when I hadn't been mapping sites in the clothes previously).
I don't really give a **** if someone sees me in something twice. How juvenile is it to worry about that? Sorry to offend, but folks should get a grip. I agree with the europeans on that. I know it's fun to change around, but to feel you have to to please others? cough.
Now, more complicating to me is that I have very little sense of smell, so I've always tried to err on the side of no-worry.. thus more laundry than I would otherwise.
i am a european, osso ;-) and most that i know are very sharp dressers. you wouldn't catch them wearing the same thing twice either. doesn't mean we immediately wash everything (i only wash t-shirts, i do sweat excessively though and cannot stand smells). dressing is just more important than it is here. it is more than just clothes, it reflects respect for others, occasion, belonging somewhere, etc. besides, i find it fun. i aim to please none but myself. i don't care much what others think, sometimes i can produce an outfit thought outrageous by others, but so what. i have a ton of clothes - mostly from $1 a pound store, that i rummage through for fun. i simply like dressing, it is my way of expressing myself. some paint, some sing, i dress. perhaps it is juvenile, then again that is not exactly a bad thing, is it? i lack juvenility in so many other aspects of my life. but i agree with the dislike of wasting resources , thus never run washer unless i have a full load, and i use the 'sun and earth' detergent that is harmless to the environment. i recycle, bring old clothes to the Good Will, turn off all lights that i don't need, don't let the water run when doing dishes or brushing teeth, participate in human rights projects,and all that jazz. there, do i look more human now? ;-)
I always thought you were human, dag, and understand all the laundering... but still, we have all these clickers for ecology washing washing washing. It is hard for me to judge with my weird nose, but I think some of it has to do with...
oh, no,
wrinkles.
Now, in LA about fifteen years ago, it was suddenly, but not long, chic to not worry about wrinkles. Well, that was skotched pretty quickly.
It's all a luxury from my pov. I know it's fun and I do it too.
But way stupid to judge somebody who steps out of step for.
Maybe they put their time to some other interest.
And... in LA, at least in the shortages when I was there last...
we did count washloads. I had friends who only flushed #2.
Yah, I know we were famous for green lawns, lah de dah. But.. Santa Monica and some other places were instrumental in popularizing using drought resistant native planting, etc. Lots of serious efforts going on.
I don't mean to sound as judgemental as I did with the juvenile remark, but... there is a different perspective on the importance of a new outfit every day.
Sure. As there is for almost anything humans do. I don't look down upon people who don't dress well or funky enough, lord knows some of my good friends are just terrible dressers (and some have terrible taste in home decor, or boyfriends, or whatnot) and i love them dearly. and i hope they don't judge me by how i dress either. i can dress differently everyday and still be environmentally conscientious. i am.
And you wash all those things after one wearing?
nope, that's what i said. underwear, socks, usually t-shirt. not the rest. i just vary what i wear is all.
Well, variation doesn't engage me... in clothes, as much as it used to, it now seems like a strange tangent to put personal energy on purpose, but I ain't agin it. I'm against everybody laundering all the time, times what, in the US, near 300 million people?
That I hear, loud and clear. And concur.
and that is true, too. Oh boy, hot summer, public transportation, a near death experience...
I'm not opposed to washing clothes that reek, and selves that reek. But washing all one's clothes routinely after one wear is a luxurious use of resources, and a sign of the good fortune to have the lifestyle to be able to do it.
I enjoy my good fortune. I also use some of it to buy deodorant.
Depends if they smell or not.
