Have you ever purchased new underwear or socks to avoid doing laundry?

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For some reason almost all of my guy friends claim to have done this, but none of my girl friends.

― Kitten Bucket (kittenbucket), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

thanks for reminding me. I need to go to Zellers after work.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't it be *cleverer* to wear no underwear? You can go for WEEKS, no, YEARS, without having to clean underwear.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

You're so decadent, Nthalie.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Uh, Adam, keep dreaming. :-) I'm just very posh: I have a cleaning lady who takes care that I am never without clean underwear. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

I have done this but not to avoid laundry but because I miscalculated the clean amount left.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Oh my, what a terrible faux-pas. My apologies.

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:14 (twenty years ago)

No worries about dreaming or rather *nightmaring* of my Jabba The Hutt sized body.

I change my underwear every day by the way. How about you lot? Please don't say more than a couple of days. Please.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

With each passing of Haley Bop

― [jailhouse tattoo] (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I have. But I did sort of need new underwear anyway.

I really, really hate doing laundry.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I love doing laundry actually. It's the ironing. My granny used to do iron her underwear. Phreak.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

The ironing I hate that is.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

i JUST did this!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

My gf is such an abject ironer that I get stuck with any thirty-minutes-before-the-party-freaking-out-what-will-I-wear ironing.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I used to like laundry, but the laundry room in my building sucks. The machines don't function properly, and somebody steals, and most people leave their shit in the machines for days.
And the neighbourhood laundromat is staffed by orcs.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Hah, ironing. It takes a very special occasion for me to even attempt it. I am slovenly.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

We have our own washer and dryer now but I miss when it was on the same level as the rest of the house.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

yes

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

Then again, I've twice lived in buildings whose laundry shut off at 7 or 9 pm, which basically means people with jobs who aren't camped out in advance for the weekend rush = smelly.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

So you work 7 days a week then?

(I do sadly. hence the cleaning lady...)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

"Who aren't camped out in advance for the weekend rush" -- meaning nobody can do weekday laundry, so getting a washer on the weekend is like trying to get reservations at La Cuisine de GOD. These were both sizable buildings.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I'd do this today if I worked on 14th Street. Strike-commuting leaves little time for laundry.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I have purchased new underwear when I've not gone home the previous night and won't be going home for a while longer.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

I used to break down and take stuff to wash-and-fold sometimes. I love it when your clothes all come back perfectly folded and stacked into bricks covered in blue paper.

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

I had to buy emergency not-going-home underwear for a friend's wedding, and the only things available were like $40 high-class dealies, and this is how I discovered that really nice underwear can be an even better investment than really nice clothes -- you really feel that $40, all day long. Not that I've followed up on this with some kind of man-panty collection, but I get it now, I'm no longer skeptical about $40 cotton boxer-briefs.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

Mädchen, you dirty stop-out ;-0 (oh, x-post, Nabisco, you posh stop-out!)

Is this like eating out when you can't be arsed doing the dishes? I've done that...see, washing dishes is a hassle, shoving stuff in a washing machine isn't. Also underwear and socks are great because you don't need to even iron them, so they are the most hassle-free laundry there is to do.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I have done this about 17,000 times.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I can see it being a possible problem if you live somewhere that doesn't have a washing machine, like America. Or Albert Square.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I am scared of the washing machine. In my old flat it was always breaking, and clothes would just get stuck in there for days going mouldy. And my new flat doesn't have a dryer and the racks are on a balcony that is too cold for them to ever dry. It takes like three or four days for stuff to dry, and then it is all crispy.

This is all rather pathetic.

― Cathy (Cathy), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm a bit more frugal -- I've hand-washed my underwear in the sink to avoid doing laundry.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 21:53 (twenty years ago)

Laun-what-ry? How else do you get socks that don't smell? I thought everybody kept them in M&S like me. Aren't they just a cost of living? I'm confused and scared now.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

I had a three week run of this when doing my finals, it was mostly t-shirts at first but underwear and socks by the end.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I may as well fess up to buying bedsheets, shirts, boxer shorts, trousers, towels ...

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

i did this so often that now i've got a truly staggering amount of identical pairs of black cotton undies.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

It is pretty impressive to buy new bedsheets rather than wash them! Most people would just not wash them, stet.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 23:32 (twenty years ago)

*raises her hand*

I have a lot of WalMart's $.98 pairs of socks in my dresser.

― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

no, but i think i stopped wearing underwear during one of these moments.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:29 (twenty years ago)

You are deferring the issue! When you come to do laundry, you'll just have even more to wash!!

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

actually by stopping wearing certain items of clothing, i have even less to wash.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

i go without socks sometimes when it's warmer too. i'm not too proud to admit this.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

There comes a point, Gravel, there comes a point.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

just wash stuff

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

I can see, in a do-or-die situation, wearing something new, unwashed, but come now

stet, you don't wash new bed clothes before using them??

crosspost

I don't wear socks, too, sometimes -- I promise

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

i knew you couldnt be all bad

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

But you know what's even easier (and cheaper) than buying new socks & underwear?? Not wearing either!

― Laurel, Thursday, 22 December 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

WTF is wrong with my reading comprehension? I see my point was made about 10 posts ago...but I stand by it.

― Laurel, Thursday, 22 December 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

I must wear clean socks every day. I discovered quickly that shoes w/out socks = bad smells.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 22 December 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

I did this in Canada. But the Canadian underwear was all... weird. I don't have it anymore.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 22 December 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Hehe, Stet complained the other day that his new towels were crap because they were shedding fluff. He hadn't washed them prior to use, of course.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Thursday, 22 December 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Stet complained the other day that his new towels were crap because they were shedding fluff

Did I? Are you sure? Was it some other boy whose bathroom you were using?

RJG: No, I don't wash anything new before I wear it. It'd ruin that lovely shop starching, wouldn't it? It would be like washing your hair just after it was cut.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 22 December 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Who washes things before they use them!?!

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)

sheets are kind of crispy right out of the package.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)

dont fear going out of the house bareassed, people.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

Not the ones I buy, I buy ones that are made out of this mental t-shirt material and they're always floppy. But yeah, I can see that if you had the regular type, those can be a bit starchy.

But clothes, that's crazy.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

jess TMI.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

pfft.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.cmoincher.fr/home/photos/article-13-Commando.JPG

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

I was once forced to remove my panties at a party (no, actually a charity benefit which makes this seem much worse) by my drunk friend because she insisted she could see my underwear through my dress. I went along with it because it was just too much harrassment. NEVER AGAIN.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)

ally tmi

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

i think the word "panties" is creepy.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

pretty...sexy?

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

oh wait, you said creepy

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

sorry, i keep channeling ken c today uncontrollably

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

i do this.. a lot.

― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

i would stake myself thru the heart if that happened.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

In Spanish, "pantys" means tights (pantyhose, Americans?). I found this out because a few weeks ago I was getting dressed to go out and my Spanish flatmate asked if I was wearing "pantys" because it was cold out. A weird confusion arose.

― Cathy (Cathy), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

It is creepy but I couldn't think of a more appropriate word to discuss the event, which was creepy in and of itself. NEVER AGAIN.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

"knickers"

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

That's worse than panties.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

And just flat out saying "g-string" would've been TMI.

"Bloomers"

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

how in the fuck can you see a g-string through a dress?

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

were you wearing saran wrap?

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

i knew i could kill this sooner or later.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

Yes. Of course. Who doesn't wear Saran Wrap to charity balls???

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

this reminds me of one of my favorite jokes.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

The one about the baker and the rabbi, right?

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

I just completely made that up, sorry.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

ally walks into a charity with a 12-inch pianist

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

it's a pretty safe guess, though.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know any pianists.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Thursday, 22 December 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

I only wear underwear once, and then I have it incinerated.

― James Ward (jamesmichaelward), Friday, 23 December 2005 10:40 (twenty years ago)

I bought a new outfit once after falling into the sea. Underpants were about the only things I didn't buy.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 23 December 2005 10:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, socks, but only on holiday

― mei (mei), Friday, 23 December 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

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