When do you consider clothes dirty?

[Dax]

My DH has a habit of putting on a pair of shorts, wearing them for 10-15min in the house, then taking them off, and into the dirty laundry..I try and tell him they are not dirty, and he says they are, he put them on..

Me, I wear PJ/Lounge pants in the house ONLY..I will wear them 2 or 3 times..unless I spill something on them or something..he thinks I am odd...

So anyone else have a laundry opinion

 

[golfgal]

Well, if my DD thinks she might wear something it's dirty after she thought about it and in the laundry it goes .

If my DH did that I would NOT be doing his laundry. Clothes are dirty when they are dirty and that is a variable. Sometimes I can wear a shirt/shorts for a few days after work and they are fine, others, they are dirty in one wearing. Now, dirty means you were really sweaty wearing them, they actually got dirty from a spill, yardwork, etc. or they smell.

 

[Dax]

Well, if my DD thinks she might wear something it's dirty after she thought about it and in the laundry it goes .

If my DH did that I would NOT be doing his laundry. Clothes are dirty when they are dirty and that is a variable. Sometimes I can wear a shirt/shorts for a few days after work and they are fine, others, they are dirty in one wearing. Now, dirty means you were really sweaty wearing them, they actually got dirty from a spill, yardwork, etc. or they smell.

Luckily my DH already does most of the laundry..LOL..so its not skin off my back..I just am the one to fold and put away

 

[memster]

Dax if I were you I would fold those shorts and put them right back in his drawer and If he caught you I'd say they went thru the fast cycle.

 

[golfgal]

Luckily my DH already does most of the laundry..LOL..so its not skin off my back..I just am the one to fold and put away

But folding and putting away are the "hard" parts about doing laundry

 

[joviroxx]

I have this issue with DS. The pair of shorts he wore for 3 hours after school to do homework are NOT dirty!

He also thinks its dirty if its on the floor. So, if he pulled out a shirt, didnt wear it and it fell on the floor, when he cleans up, it ends up in the hamper

Im with you OP, its dirty, when its dirty. 10 minutes of wear to just walk around the house does not make a laundry cycle necessary.

 

[BunsenH]

Somehow, you need to make it easier to put away worn clothes than to toss them in the hamper. I have no suggestions, but believe that 'the path of least resistance' is the solution to the problem.

Personally, I adhere to the 'obvious trauma' system. If it hasn't been spilled on, sweat in, etc, it's clean.

 

[MichelleVW]

Omg, my DH will wear shorts for a week before I finally take them away from him and wash them.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

I wear a tank top under my V-neck shirt. I go to work in it and sweat.. as I am a teenager I tend to sweat a lot thanks to puberty.
Well, I reuse my tank tops but my mom has a habit of making me re-wear the shirts! There are sweat marks on the armpits!
From there, I do my own laundry.

 

[Magpie]

I've got exactly the opposite problem with my DH! He'll wear clothes all day, then put them in a pile on top of something (like the dresser or the bed!) in order to wear them again on another day. When I try to scoop them up and put them in the laundry he gets upset, like I'm stealing something precious.

"If it's not on the floor, it's not laundry!"

When I try to tell him it's dirty, he'll give it the "sniff test"! "Doesn't smell, so it's not dirty!"

According to my MIL, his father was just the same. I wonder if it's in the genes... (jeans?)

 

[bdoyledimou]

my general rule is 8 hours of wear, or obvious dirt.

My DD has changed clothes 3-4 times in a day. never leaving the house or soiling her clothes in any manner because "they are dirty now"... no idea where she got that habit from...

 

[Philagoofy]

I've found that my "dry clean only clothes" take a lot longer to get dirty.

Either that or I'm too cheap to take them after every wear.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

Clothes are dirty after wearing for several hours (more than 3-4), or when they've been sweated in or have something on them.

 

[Dax]

Somehow, you need to make it easier to put away worn clothes than to toss them in the hamper. I have no suggestions, but believe that 'the path of least resistance' is the solution to the problem.

Personally, I adhere to the 'obvious trauma' system. If it hasn't been spilled on, sweat in, etc, it's clean.

The floor is my hamper...

 

[paintnolish]

I've got exactly the opposite problem with my DH! He'll wear clothes all day, then put them in a pile on top of something (like the dresser or the bed!) in order to wear them again on another day. When I try to scoop them up and put them in the laundry he gets upset, like I'm stealing something precious.

"If it's not on the floor, it's not laundry!"

When I try to tell him it's dirty, he'll give it the "sniff test"! "Doesn't smell, so it's not dirty!"

According to my MIL, his father was just the same. I wonder if it's in the genes... (jeans?)

My dh does this. It's pretty gross. He'll say something like, "Have you seen my Colts sweatshirt? I was going to wear it to the gym." I'll tell him it already walked away.

Clothes are dirty after wearing for several hours (more than 3-4), or when they've been sweated in or have something on them.

This is about how I judge something dirty or not.

 

[sbell111]

I'm with the OP's husband. If I wear something once, it's 'dirty' and goes into the hamper. I don't much care how long I was wearing it or what I was doing.

Personally, the idea that the OP wears her clothes for 2-3 days kinda skeaves me.

 

[Dax]

I'm with the OP's husband. If I wear something once, it's 'dirty' and goes into the hamper. I don't much care how long I was wearing it or what I was doing.

Personally, the idea that the OP wears her clothes for 2-3 days kinda skeaves me.

LOL, sorry to offend..LOL..I do promise I do a sniff test..if they smell funny, away they go into the laundry bin...I usually put on my lounge pants after a shower..so Im clean too..

 

[carj]

I'm with the OP's husband. If I wear something once, it's 'dirty' and goes into the hamper. I don't much care how long I was wearing it or what I was doing.

Personally, the idea that the OP wears her clothes for 2-3 days kinda skeaves me.

I completely agree! If I have worn it, it goes into the laundry. (If I try on multiple outfits, I don't consider those dirty, just clothes that I have "worn")

Even if the clothes aren't really dirty, I don't want them hanging next to the clean clothes, or even worse, folded and put away in a drawer.

FWIW, we don't reuse bath towels either!

 

[disneydaft]

FWIW, we don't reuse bath towels either!

Eeeeewww do people actually do that?

 

[autumnpalm]

Eeeeewww do people actually do that?

Yep! I wash my bath towels weekly. I'm clean when I get out of the shower and just use them to dry off water, then I hang them back up on the hook. Doesn't bother me at all.

As far as clothing goes, shirts I will wear once then toss in the laundry. Jeans or pants I will fold and put away and wear 2-3 times unless I spill something on them or have gotten sweaty.