How often do you wash clothes? (NOT "how often do you change clothes?")

Started by Martinus, June 16, 2009, 09:57:46 AM

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Martinus

Quote from: Neil on June 16, 2009, 10:14:28 AM
Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:11:04 AM
Quote from: Valmy on June 16, 2009, 10:08:40 AMAcceossorize?  With what?  Different color belts?
Well, belts are one thing (I have them in four colours - black, red, white and brown). Then you have ties, scarves, chokers, wrist bands, socks, suspenders, hats or caps, etc.
Chokers?  What are you, a twelve year old girl?
Well, maybe I used the wrong word for it. It's more like a bead necklace kind of thing. :P

Zanza

Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:09:09 AMBesides, in 9 cases out of ten, I throw away clothes for being no longer fashionable before they manage to get destroyed through wear and tear.
Doesn't that contradict your stated intention to be environmentally friendly by washing less often? Buying less clothes would also help protect our precious planet.

Martinus

Quote from: Zanza2 on June 16, 2009, 10:16:01 AM
Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:09:09 AMBesides, in 9 cases out of ten, I throw away clothes for being no longer fashionable before they manage to get destroyed through wear and tear.
Doesn't that contradict your stated intention to be environmentally friendly by washing less often? Buying less clothes would also help protect our precious planet.
I'm not a fundamentalist about being green. Looking fabulous is more important than the impending environmental holocaust. :P

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:13:22 AM
Well, I had to exchange a lot of my wardrobe because I lost about 15 pounds between 27 and 29 of age. I used to wear L, now it's mostly S and M.

Interesting how you slid quite a bit from I get rid of unfashionable clothes to I had to get rid of my fat clothes because I lost weight and I'll never gain it back again. :shifty:
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garbon

Quote from: Zanza2 on June 16, 2009, 10:16:01 AM
Doesn't that contradict your stated intention to be environmentally friendly by washing less often? Buying less clothes would also help protect our precious planet.

Additionally here in the civilized world, we donate clothes. I can't think of the last time I actually threw clothing in the trash.
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Martinus

Quote from: garbon on June 16, 2009, 10:20:24 AM
Quote from: Zanza2 on June 16, 2009, 10:16:01 AM
Doesn't that contradict your stated intention to be environmentally friendly by washing less often? Buying less clothes would also help protect our precious planet.

Additionally here in the civilized world, we donate clothes. I can't think of the last time I actually threw clothing in the trash.
Well who says I throw them in the trash either? I usually give them away too.  :rolleyes:

garbon

Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:21:40 AM
Well who says I throw them in the trash either? I usually give them away too.  :rolleyes:

Oh, you said "I throw away clothes" just for cool effect then?
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Martinus

Quote from: garbon on June 16, 2009, 10:22:53 AM
Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:21:40 AM
Well who says I throw them in the trash either? I usually give them away too.  :rolleyes:

Oh, you said "I throw away clothes" just for cool effect then?

Yes.

Malthus

This reminds me of an odd incident while hiking along the Burma/Thailand border. We entered a Karen village, and were met by some of the tribesmen. One I recall had a home-made shotgun he was very proud of - the barrel must have dated back to the British occupation, and he built a wooden stock and a sort of flintlock arrangement. He used it for hunting.

The odd thing was what he was wearing.

It was a splended silver fake lame disco shirt, lovingly mended.

He obviously got it from some clothing donation, the last leg of a long, long journey from the height of 1970s fashion to decorating a tribesman in the early 1990s in the ungoverned highlands of SE Asia.
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ulmont

Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 09:57:46 AM
I am NOT asking how often you change your clothes, but how often you do a washing.

One load weekly usually, sometimes one load every two weeks.

Valmy

Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:09:09 AM
Besides, in 9 cases out of ten, I throw away clothes for being no longer fashionable before they manage to get destroyed through wear and tear. 

I go for classic looks rather than trendy stuff precisely for this reason.  Men's clothes are nice that way, alot of stuff just looks good for years.
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Valmy

Quote from: Martinus on June 16, 2009, 10:11:04 AM
Then you have ties, scarves, chokers, wrist bands, socks, suspenders, hats or caps, etc.

Ties, I have lots of ties but I rarely wear them since this is a very casual city.  Heck my boss once accused me for kissing up because I wear ncie shirts and pants to work everyday.

Scarves...it is hot here I am not sure when I would be able to wear it.

Chokers and wrist bands...well those are pretty unfashionable for an adult male.

I look pretty good in hats and caps but I hate wearing them.  They make my head itch.  I don't own suspenders.
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