Poll: How frequently do you change your pants?

[kasperbbs]

Umm, hard to say, i wear 3 pairs of different pants every day, one for work, one on my way to/from work and one at home, i guess i change up whenever they get dirty.

 

[Powereaver]

Underwear i dont wear often enough to change them regularly and as for normal pants... whenever i get around to washing them.. but i usually keep a few clean pairs for when i need to go somewhere special but when im just banging around the house ill keep reusing

 

[tacotrainwreck]

Thanks! This article just reminded me to change my pants!

 

[BreakfastMan]

Probably 5 days to a week. I really never do anything to get them dirty, and I don't have many pants, so I usually re-wear them over and over for a bit. I never go longer for a week though. They start to smell then. D:

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I have a cycle-system wherein I'll rotate my pants. One pair one day, another pair another day, etc. I can go a few weeks without washing them honestly unless of course I spill something on them...well, something messy like soup. I try not to wear the same pair of pants more than 3 days in a row unless they're work pants in which case I don't have a single fuck to give. More or less the same with PJ pants which I don't believe are ever dirtied (unless they see sexy-time action)

...We are talking about pants right? Not under-pants? Because my underpants situation is a bit less disgusting I would think. I'll go into details in the inevitable underwear thread.

 

[Eamar]

I only own two pairs of jeans, and one of those is my "slouchy" pair only to be worn when I'm in that particular mood, so... yeah, a hell of a long time. I can happily wear them every day for a couple of weeks before washing them, provided I don't spill a load of food or drink on them first.

That's probably a bit gross :S

 

[Kerboom]

No, I'm talking about pants. Why wear the same pants twice when you can just put on new ones?

My wardrobe is made up of 4 pairs of jeans, 8 jumpers, a suit, about 25 t-shirts, and a similar amount of underwear, socks.

It's silly to change your pants EVERY DAY.

I'd say I couldn't afford it, but my tshirts are almost entirely from concerts I go to or else from the internet (I just can't resist sometimes >.<)

But still, do you WASH your trousers every day?

That'd be an insane waste of water.

I mean, I could understand not wearing the same ones twice in a row, that'd be ok, but washing them after EVERY day?

 

[BishopofAges]

I am poor and broke most of the time, I own two pairs of jeans, one black and one blue, and my work pants so if those count I have to change my answer.

I never go anywhere insanely dirty so I keep my same pants for a while, which isn't to say I never change my underwear, I do a lot more often than I change pants. I do change pants if they get spilt upon or messed up in a very obvious-to-everyone way.

captcha: "boar's head is offering new flavors that are what?" dafaq?

 

[F'Angus]

See I got confused there thanks to language differences

America: Pants = Trousers
UK: Pants = Underwear

Thanks for the edit at the bottom.

OT: I usually keep a pair of Jeans on one to one and a half weeks...depends what I'm doing.

Work trousers I'll change ever 2-3 days.

 

[Scarim Coral]

If you mean underpants, then I change every two days.
If you mean the other type of pants then I normally change once or twice per week (if it's jean then definitely one per week due to how tough they are). It also depend how much mess I get on it like wetness from heavy rain, food or other spill and etc.

 

[Chemical Alia]

No, I'm talking about pants. Why wear the same pants twice when you can just put on new ones?

My wardrobe is made up of 4 pairs of jeans, 8 jumpers, a suit, about 25 t-shirts, and a similar amount of underwear, socks.

It's silly to change your pants EVERY DAY.

I'd say I couldn't afford it, but my tshirts are almost entirely from concerts I go to or else from the internet (I just can't resist sometimes >.<)

But still, do you WASH your trousers every day?

That'd be an insane waste of water.

I mean, I could understand not wearing the same ones twice in a row, that'd be ok, but washing them after EVERY day?

I dunno, I usually just do a load of laundry on the weekends. I've got tons of clothes, so I could go a lot longer without doing any laundry. I could see wearing the same pants over once or twice if they're clean, but in a row would make me feel kind of lazy and gross.

 

[Dags90]

Wow. Never heard of it before. I was surprised people were saying every few days, but every day is just ridiculous to me. I've joked about it with my friends before, jeans just don't get washed for weeks, it's the rule!
I pity how much washing these people must generate.

Here's that's considered pretty skanky. Actually, it's considered super skanky. Hence the stereotypes about smelly Europeans. And also why I never wear the same jeans twice in a row. Even if I'm not washing them in between, people won't notice that if it isn't consecutive. It also gives them a chance to air out.

 

[lacktheknack]

Not-underwear-pants? Two or three days. Underwear? One, ew ew ew ew ew ew ew.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Every time I see yo momma!

Like, trousers? Usually a week or two, depends if they actually get dirty somehow.

 

[loc978]

Depends on what I'm doing in a given day. If I work on my car or property, they get dirty. If I laze around doing nothing, they don't. Also, I have uniform pants for work, track pants for working out... so I guess I change pants two or three times most days.
...but I only wash things that are actually dirty.

 

[Richardplex]

Trousers? Every 2-3 days. Shorts? A Long Time. (Shorts being my running/indoor clothes).

 

[gigastrike]

Every day, but I wear a lot of white pants.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

That's bizarre! I don't know anyone that'd wash clean trousers after less than a week - even when we all wore suits it was just two suits alternated per fortnight. And after one day?! Wow.
As a student, that sounds like way too much effort.

A fair amount of young Americans don't do their own laundry until their 20s. In every freshman college class, you'll hear wacky stories about people who "don't know how to do laundry". I heard one girl say that she just didn't do laundry the whole semester, and just kept wearing new things. I knew another girl who would drive back home to have her laundry done, and apparently her mom would also feed her while the laundry was going.

The things people can't do to take care of themselves are kind of amazing sometimes. When I was that age I had a job and an apartment instead of going straight off to school right away, and while I did go to my parents' house across town to do laundry, it was because I didn't have my own washer/dryer, and I was going to be there anyway to have dinner with them once a week on Sunday nights. I still had to do all the actual work myself though, just like I already had been for years at that point. I don't know how you get to be that age and have no idea how to do something basic like that. I can understand not knowing how to iron or hem pants or change a tire or fix leaky plumbing or something, but "insert clothes, add detergent, push button" is barely a step above changing a light bulb or being able to dress yourself in the morning.

As far as my own pants go, they get washed when they're dirty. They tend to get a few days' worth of wear out of them before that happens, but it depends on the time of year and what I'm up to. I generally won't go out in something dirty or the same ones twice in a row, but if I'm going to wear them again I'll just fold them and throw them over the back of a chair or something and wear them again the day after, and no one cares. My entire family does the same thing, so that's just what I've done my whole life.

 

[=y]

So people call underwear pants in other parts of the world.

So in regards to that, yes. I change my undergarments daily.

 

[Vuliev]

Depends. Jeans seem to last longer for me than shorts, but if I end up getting particularly sweaty when wearing a pair of either, I'll change that day. Otherwise, ~5-7 days for shorts, 7-14 for jeans/canvas.