How Often Should You Wash Your Clothes? #laundry

This is a dry cleaners recommendations on how often you should be washing your stuff:

1) Gym clothes - after every use (maybe less for bottoms)
2) Bath towels - once a week
3) Comforters - every few months
4) Dresses - a few wears
5) Jeans - once a year, unless you're wearing them often when doing hands on physical work
6) Outerwear - infrequently, but before you put them away for the season
7) Sheets - once a week if you can, but washing away the body oils will prevent yellowing
8) Suits - every few months unless they start to get wrinkled or smell
9) Sweaters - every few months but before you put them away for the season! This will help prevent moth damage
10) Swimwear - rinse after every use and wash after a few uses
11) Tee shirts - every few uses but youll figure it out
12) Undergarments - after every wear

I hope this helps

[musicandbooks]

Basically the closer it is to your skin and the more physicality active you are in it the more often you wash it.

[migoreng]

as someone who uses public transport and sweats a lot... i can't imagine washing jeans once a year. i know people who freeze their jeans to "clean" them but idk about the science

[Sleepless_Sam]

Jeans being my primary wear, I can't imagine wearing something fifty plus times before washing it.

[alenahnatova]

Haha. If you sweat like me, you have to wash pretty much everything after one or two wears. :D

[wrathika]

Now my question is how to store the worn but not ready to wash clothes...do we all have a chair bed that gets piled with said clothes?

[IndigoBloop]

Yo you need to touch on how often to wash bras!!! They are not built to hold up to washing after every use and are quite delicate. I often end up hand washing my bras, but it's such a pain!! But if I put them in the washer, even in a delicates bag and on the delicates cycle, my bras won't last much more than a year if I wash them even once a week.

[holdmacat]

As a women I also wouldn't do the jeans once a year, at very least because pants touch our private parts, which get smelly, and the smell and liquids go through the underwear

[gocanadayayyy]

Nah I was washing my t-shirts every 2-3 wears for ages wondering why I always smelled terrible, saw one thing online that said wash them after EVERY wear, and I was like hmmm ok I'll try. Changed everything. Might be a women's vs men's shirts thing though, I find women's shirts sit up closer to the armpit and are more figure hugging in general.
I think weather can influence it too! I live in SUCH a dry climate and thought people online were hygiene freaks for insisting people should shower daily and for saying towels get "so gross so fast"... here, you don't sweat much because it's so dry and towels dry FAST. But when I visited Boston in August this year I was DYING, I had to shower every day, and I understood why my boston friend's bathroom always had mold in it despite her neat-freak tendencies: that humidity makes a BIG difference.

[Missvoodoomama]

Watching this video validated that I do wash my garments and bedding as I am supposed to! I’ve had people tell me that I’m a clean freak and it’s excessive when I’m right on the mark.

[saroashaengineer]

I wash my comforter every 2 weeks! Months is a long time! No no no. I’ve been using my comforter for 8 years it still looks new

[ashleycook]

Please clarify that the once every few of months for comforters is only if you actually use flat sheets or duvet covers. Lots of younger folks just don't want an extra thing to worry about and are opting out of flat sheets... If this is you, that's ok, but you should definitely wash the layer of bed linens, including your pillow cases, that contact your skin nightly, every week.

I have an issue with forgetting I put linens in the wash, and end up remembering when it's time to climb in bed, that my bed sheets and pillow cases are still wet in the wash. So, I have a super cheap set of sheets that I put on as soon as dirty linens come off. Just mentioning bc I can't be the only person who forgets.

[Shiiine_xx]

Am I the only one who has the urge to wash everything after one use ? 😭😭😭

[triciat]

Yes! I’m on point with my laundry. Not saying I’m perfect because I fall behind. However, I tend to follow his general rule of thumb 👏🙌🏼👍🏼

[sneckles]

Throughout history, people have always worn cheaper plain garments against the body under their fancier expensive outer garments, so the cheaper garments can be washed regularly and the nice things don't need to be washed nearly as often, extending their lifespan and quality. To preserve your nice clothing, you can still do this nowadays by wearing cheaper cotton undershirts or camis against the body under your nice sweaters or dresses or tops! Then you only need to wash your undergarments and your outer pieces will last much longer in much better condition!

[KAZAM]

like washing the sheets to prevent yellowing (of white sheets I assume), white tshirts and button downs can't sit around after you've worn them bc they will yellow wherever there was any sweat, like neck and pits.

[imyourdad]

I am VINDICATED. I never wash my jeans unless I’ve worked in them, they smell or something. I’ve been dying on this hill forever and now I am not alone!

[kyliefischer]

Can you do a video on how best to hand wash clothes while you’re traveling? Imagine you have a sink, some detergent, and maybe a brush…. Thank you for your videos, they are so informative and helpful!

[tomatotomato]

more American's need to hear this. Washing clothes after every use is so bad for the health/wear of your clothes, makes more chores for you, and is worse for the environment

But after you wear clothes, hang them in a well ventilated space (don't cram in closet). The clothes will air out, and normally don't smell. If they do smell still, then wash it

To reduce sweat: wear fitted tshirts under your thick sweaters. Your undershirt absorbs the sweat, and not the sweater

"What about outside germs getting all over my house?" Change out of your public clothes then into home clothes. It's like home only slippers, you can rewear the home only lounge clothes a few times before washing, air them out after each use

I know that "icky" feeling jeans get if I try and wear the same pair two days in a row. They just need aired out more, air it out for a solid 24 at least. I'll go back to the pair after a few days and they feel like they do when they're fresh washed

I don't tell me friends my laundering habits cause they'll judge without trying. But they have no idea cause they think I smell great all of the time. They've can't tell

[loriolson]

I do hard physical work and in the summer it is in extreme heat. Some people I work with sweat thru 2 shirts a day. Many people do hard work in this country and don't use dry cleaners so we are washing are clothes daily! If you work in the medical profession uniforms are washed daily also!

[daianspahava]

I do alternative between jeans and jackets due to a humid environment but for t shirts, underwear and socks every wear, button ups depend on how much I sweat or how little i wore it and if I wore an undershirt underneath, my jeans as a janitor I wash every 6-10 wears depending on if I got junk or garbage spilled on it, or even sweated for days on end