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Please wash your clothes less

Stupid fucking country

whats something that unacceptable if you’re poor, but cool and hip if you’re rich

For Szabo, the low-wash habit began when he bought his first pair of raw denim jeans in 2010. Travelling from his native Canada to Europe, he brought his jeans for the six-month trip. "It was a quirk about me that I had these stinky jeans," he tells BBC Culture. "They smelled awful." In Budapest he met his future wife, and the jeans became a character in their relationship. "My jeans would be in, like, a pile on the floor at the end of the bed," he remembers. "You walked into the room, you could smell [them]... I was very fortunate that my wife was as interested in me as she was."

Please join my no ass washing movement

Asmongold ass challenge

This no-wash thing seems like another manifestation of those people who were in the news a few years ago for never showering.

I usually get 2-3 wears out of shirts before I wash them, and 5-7 wears out of pants. Depends on how hot it is outside (anything that gets sweaty will get washed before I wear it again).

probably could get away with washing pants less often though tbh

"It was a quirk about me that I had these stinky jeans," he tells BBC Culture. "They smelled awful." In Budapest he met his future wife, and the jeans became a character in their relationship. "My jeans would be in, like, a pile on the floor at the end of the bed," he remembers. "You walked into the room, you could smell [them]... I was very fortunate that my wife was as interested in me as she was."

the author and his wifes barely disguised fetish

Starting c/no_wash just so I can ban yogthos from the comm

I have to wash my clothes by hand, which is time consuming and needs a fairly sunny day, so sometimes (especially in winter) I can't really wash much stuff. So I have to wear clothes multiple days in a row sometimes. Even just a couple of days they really start to stink. I don't know how anyone would choose that as a lifestyle choice, it's just gross and lazy.

live in the pod, eat the bugs, wear the dirty clothes, all for the sake of preventing climate change. don't try to do anything about billionaires with private jets tho, that's different and totally fine actually

"Besides – washing your clothes too often eats up hours of your life. Who has the time? "I'm really interested in sustainability and the environment and natural resource management," says Harry. "But I'm also concerned with my time."

white man's kkkryptonite: labor

This shit is so stupid because from the perspective of domestic labor I don’t think actually washing your clothes presents a particularly onerous burden. Folding and putting the clothes away on the other hand? That shit is annoying. But that’s not even what these people are mad about! This shit is all solved by the “Piles” organizational structure.

or you could just.... try to buy clothes without plastic in them? its harder to do now but plenty of places sell 100% cotton

sounds like something made up by asmongold

You’re practicing hygiene?

There’s heckin’ wholesome AI which hunger for lakes and YOU’RE showering?

Typical selfish prole. YoUrE hUrTiNg ThE eCoNoMy!1!1

Resist Big Soap

I haven't flushed my toilet in over two years. I'm doing my part

"Dude why do you stink so much?"

"Uhhh, im saving the environment!

I felt bad re-wearing a tshirt to work, after wearing it once. Not because it smelled or had a stain or anything, but because the work we do can be disgusting and has a legitmate concerns over being clean.

I feel like some people forget why we do certain things. We're maybe a bit too clean sometimes as a modern society (not sure about recent research, but remember the "lack of dirt might contribute to allergies" articles?). But at the same time, we're don't have typhus killing 100k people a week because we wash our clothes and have largely controlled lice.

Yeah you can go 2-5 washes for jeans, especially if you're like, wearing them in a "clean" ish environment... but god damn you if you don't semi-regularly throw them in the wash. Real anti-social shit. Yeah western sensibilities can be wack about certain things, but every culture with washable fabrics WASH them for a reason. (I assume some cleaning is done of other clothing, but I doubt tumble drying a feather ornament would be good.)

Side note: The work is outdoors. Nothing has ever made me feel more connected to my monkey ancestors then checking for ticks. Honestly a humbling experience.

Filthy crackers

I used to wear jeans more than once before washing, but at some point, probably beginning of COVID, my hypochondria went into overdrive. Now even if I only wore them for an hour, but that hour was spent sitting on a public chair, they are dirty and go right into the hamper.

I am probably in a very specific category because of this, but still don’t understand the idea of not washing clothes… that’s outlandish to me.

one dead billionaire would make up any “climate gains” from millions of people not doing laundry

You can get away with washing wool less than other kinds of cloth. But it needs to be hung and aired out to work like that. Raw demin nerds take the no wash way too far, but it also seems like many of them understand that you have to hang them and air them out, preferably in the sun, to make them not stink. But you will have to fucking wash them.

Leaving a pair of jeans you haven't washed in god knows how long in a pile on the floor is a petri dish for bacteria and I can only imagine how terrible they smelled.

/SMH

Ew

im saving the planet by saving water from not washing my ass