How many wears to a wash?

This thread has made me chuckle and underlines how different we all are and have such different outlooks.
DH changes pants and socks daily but other things vary and he has various changes on the go so I often have to hunt things out for washing. I use my nose for this.
I think men have a very different outlook to women on this subject. Wasn't it the diarist Samuel Johnson who wrote about his lodging house and was impressed enough to mention that the sheets were hardly used? The Tourist Board would have a great deal to say about that nowadays!

Bras like barrage balloons. Shoes resembling Cornish pasties. Very attractive, I'm sure. ( not)

I think I've killed this thread. Sorry.

I think I've killed this thread. Sorry

National health specs out of which they peered, making sure they didn't miss any scandals they could gossip about down the bingo.

The ubiquitous flag hanging out of their heavily lipsticks mouths. Fag I meant.

Not to mention their horrid Twink perms and floral overalls. Wrinkly lilse stockings and clanking suspenders. Never left home without their headscarves and shopping "holdalls"

And bright pink dentures! No wonder the men spent all their free time in the pub! (Generalizing somewhat) going to bed with a head full of ironmongery and covered with th grotty hair net....yuk!

I wonder why they were always salmon-pink?

And those awful, huge, salmon pink bloomers you'd see on the washing lines!!

I remember my mother had those removable arm pads. She also had deodorants called Arid and Odorono. I'm sure they didn't wear bras so much in those days. Our next door neighbour had huge boned corsets as she was quite large. I used to watch her put them through one of those big mangles after washing. It was fascinating.

ha ha ha ha!!!!!!

Errant pegs are my nemesis, Went to Docs for a prostate check, Doc having donned the rubber glove he asked me to assume the position !. Whereupon he passed me the clothes peg that was attached to my shirt tail !

Willow500 That's not the first tale of an errant pant-liner that I've heard but it's definitely the funniest, thank you for sharing .

Lol well spotted Wot - I did mean the wash basket but if he finds a shirt without a button or a sock with a hole in it, a jumper that's got too baggy or trousers with a hem coming down he will chuck them in the waste basket. Naturally I rescue most of them apart from the holey socks!

Willow, I worry about my house ponging. Did you mean wash basket not waste basket?

Rather a reassuring thread really as it seems I don't need to worry so much. Like one of the other posters I lost my sense of smell 5 years ago and am a bit paranoid about me and my clothes/house smelling. I can't tell if clothes smell so they tend to go in the wash basket after only a couple of wears - underwear and socks/tights/leggings are charged daily. I don't sleep in my pjs and only have them on for an hour on a morning with my knickers on underneath so they last longer. I also have 2 cats so things are often covered in hair and get washed just to get rid of it. I've had two funny incidents with pant liners and tights - the first I 'lost' when getting dressed one day only to find it several hours later stuck to the back of my jumper the tights emerged from the leg of my trousers when getting out the car at someone's house and trailed behind me like a lost dog! Luckily my husband spotted them before I got to the door. His clothes all go in the wastebasket each night after work apart from his trousers which last 4 days. His casual clothes such as jeans and jumpers pile up on his drawers along with his ties which drives me mad!

People washed their hair or went and had it set only once a week. My mum used to wash her hair before she went to the hairdresser! Bit like dusting before the cleaner coming!

WOT, nothing wrong with morphing a thread into something else.

The first deodorant was in a squeeze lilac little bottle called Body Mist if I remember correctly. And a generous splash of "Evening in Paris" poooooo or Californian Poppy..

I will have to 'ang it on the 'ook in the 'all when the tubs empty!

In the 1950's my mother had dresses that had removable underarm pads that could be washed, rather than the whole dress.
When I think of it, I do remember that some people did smell of body odour then, but it didn't really seem to be an issue. I don't remember my mother using deodorant, but she did bathe regularly and use talcum powder!
As for me - bra 3/4 days, knickers daily, PJ's 3/4 days, tee-shirts 2 days, jeans 3/4 days, jumpers 3/4 days.

Ill be getting in trouble for going off the subject of washing clothes.

I think it was in "The Winter of Discontent" with power cuts . Same year as when princess Anne first married. 1973??? I may have imagined it, even.

UMMM our daughter was born in '76, was that about the time of the advert ?