What causes you to do laundry.

[El_Machinae]

Ran out of shirts, so I decided to do a load of laundry. Realized that it's often 'shirts' that cause me to schedule another session of laundry. What do you run out of that causes you to do a load of laundry?

 

[salty mud]

Whatever I run short of.

Usually socks and underwear first of all.

 

[kramerfan86]

I do whites and colored laundry separately, for the colored stuff usually its pants I run out of for the whites its usually underwear.

 

[Borachio]

I do it as soon as I think I've enough for a load of washing.

I'd rather wash in small quantities more frequently than wait until I've run out of something.

And who wants a lot of dirty laundry lying around the place, festering?
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As for underpants, in my earlier days, why would I have needed to wash them at all? Just turn them inside out, and all the crusty bits will rub off and trickle out through the legs of your jeans. (It's a bit like the Great Escape.)

 

[BenitoChavez]

I do it every weekend to wash my work clothes. I usually throw whatever casual clothes I wear during the week in there too.

 

[NovaKart]

I tend to run out of underwear and undershirts ( vests) first but that's because I only wear them once.

 

[downtown]

I rarely wear socks in the summer, so underwear is what defines laundry day for me. I run out of that before I run out of shirts anyway.

 

[NovaKart]

I wear socks every day but i have a huge collection of them.

 

[Borachio]

So, after how long do you decide to wash these socks?

You're in a hottish Kurdistan, right? Those socks will begin to reek, surely?

Have you thought of putting them in the freezer, pro tem?

 

[warpus]

Work clothes, usually pants or shirts.

Everything else gets incredibly bad treatment from me. I totally need to do a crapload of laundry this weekend, but with the world cup and all the scheduled drinking, I doubt it'll happen.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I do whites and colored laundry separately...

I prefer not to have white clothes, since I have two non-white-haired cats.

Plus, I have a pink shawl that was white until my grandmother washed it with one of my red SCA costumes, and a slip that was white until someone helped me with the laundry and washed it with a blue blanket.

 

[warpus]

Personally I find the whole segregation of clothes based on whiteness to be racist.

 

[Farm Boy]

When I run out of 'roos.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The weekend initiates laundry cycles.

 

[NovaKart]

So, after how long do you decide to wash these socks?

You're in a hottish Kurdistan, right? Those socks will begin to reek, surely?

Have you thought of putting them in the freezer, pro tem?

I normally throw the socks in with the underwear so it's once a week at least. I haven't checked the temperature but I think it's been over 40 this week so it is really hot now.

Also, there's no downtown option. Did that stop being a feature of polls and I never noticed?

 

[Bootstoots]

Socks, underwear, and shirts are all common causes of me doing laundry, with socks probably being the most important. This does not necessarily mean that I do laundry as soon as I run out of something - I am not above rewearing relatively non-smelly dirty clothes so as to put it off longer.

 

[Zelig]

Soccer socks. My Tuesday soccer team has blue socks, and I only have one pair, so I invariably end up doing laundry on Monday so that I'll have the right colour socks for my Tuesday game.

 

[Narz]

Definitely underwear & socks. I don't wear underwear during the day but I wear a different pair to sleep every night. Shirts you can rock for 2-3 days straight if necessary (unless it causes a problem at work or with getting laid), pants 4-5 days straight (unless you're working out/sweating alot/a smelly person) so it's usually underwear, sometimes socks but socks you can wash in the tub in a pinch & dry on the radiator.

 

[Cutlass]

Underwear and socks. I actually have a lot more clothes than I ever wear. So if I didn't let the laundry pile up, some things would go years without being worn.

 

[Zelig]

I don't understand all the people who are always running out of underwear. Why don't you just buy some more so you have an amount proportional to your other clothes?