The rise of the 'no-wash' movement

Lol! I'm all for saving water but this just ain't the way! :eek:

At one time back when I was working at the local Sheriff's Dept. jail, some fellow employee came up with the "brilliant" suggestion to ration toilet paper given to the inmates. I'm like for cryin' out loud just give them the damn toilet paper so they'll be sure and wipe their @$$3s! :rolleyes:
 

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What a joke! First they got rid of all the men using after shave. They stopped the ladies using sexy perfume. Now they are telling us not to wash and love STINK!

If you don't wash yourself nor your clothes, you end up stinking. Not fair to your partner and not fair to folks passing you on the street. No one loves the smell of urine.

Me, I wash all my clothes, bed sheets and towels every Saturday morning and I'm proud of it. Life is tough enough without walking around and stinking up the world even if the world is going to Hell!
 
I sure don't wear a pair of pants out for a few hours and wash them. Especially in the winter. I can go through a number of wearings. In the summer, clothes need to be washed more often.

I watch water, watch the water level as the washer fills to be sure I don't use more than needed. But things do need to be washed.
 
I will wear my jeans more than once, less than 6 hrs at a time, for 2 or 3 times, only denim, not my white or wheat colored,though.
The rest of my clothes worn from the day find the laundry basket at the end of the day.
I like the feel of freshly washed clothes on my body every morning!
 
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I will wash most clothes new, before I even wear them. I will wear jeans or pants more than once before washing but shirts and underwear are washed after every wear. I use a gentle cycle and warm water and since I have well water with no chlorine in it things don't fade. Towels get used twice, washcloths once and sheets are changed every weekend.
 
I will wear jeans two or three times before I wash them but that’s because they’re only on my body for 2-3 hours. Work leggings are washed after one wearing, as are workout tops (my typical work attire)

Sheets are washed once a week and towels after one use. Hand towels get washed once a week and dish towels every couple days.
 
All clothes I've worn during the day go into my laundry basket at night. Wearing clothes several times without washing them is like eating several meals from the same dirty dish. I'm happy to do laundry. It's very therapeutic....especially with my laundry history.
I lost laundry privileges the first month I was married. I ruined so many clothes with bleach. And my wife would explain "Laundry Commandments.....how to separate colored clothes, when to use hot/warm/cold water, at what cycle to add bleach". Way too complicated for me. I failed laundry 101 miserably. Now that I live by myself I can break all the laundry rules....but I miss getting yelled at.
 
Over decades, have never washed clothes as a full machine load more than about once every couple weeks. Maybe not much laundary tofill a machine load. As a retired senior living in an urban core residential and commercial district, I can wear a couple of slim fit Levi 511s for months without ever washing because,

1) they look clean on the outside,
2) I'm not doing things to make them dirty
3) and they definitely never stink, haha.

My nose is quite sensitive. Am quick to avoid foul smells. Some people have strong odors. I'm opposite. I especially hate gym locker room smells and yeah, frequent secks makes many people stink. I'm also an several decades old hiking and backpacking enthusiast. I always wash all clothes after any wilderness adventure. And yes I was doing a lot of fun things to make them dirty. :) Otherwise, I have a high sweat threashold, skin is less hairy than average, smooth, even tones, now tanned, not oily, can wear socks for days with not more than very slight odor. And yeah, not much of a mosquito attractor.

Out backpacking, most people not only do not wash their clothing, but also because they refuse to get in cold water, don't wash their bodies. The majority revel in how they are able to stand themselves despite being dirty, sticky, smelly, grubby, and are permanently changing otherwise clean non-smells inside their probably expensive goose down sleeping bag inner liners. Most backpackers in The West, backpack at high mountain elevations with wonderful alpine scenery where frost overnight is not that uncommon. Water in streams from snowmelt tends to be cold to very very cold while lake water though sometimes pleasant in shallows after day warming, is more often various degrees of chilly to cold.

The above noted, out backpacking, I personally wearing Levi 505s, am infamous for web promoting on enthusiast sites, fully body dunking in whatever body of available water every day though may be in and out like a jumping box on steroids. That speaks to how I like being clean generally. And yeah, after 3 years my current expensive Nemo 15d goose down bag is very clean except around the nylon shell surface head area due to repellent and such. Easily mostly cleaned away with alcohol.
 
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Since I have 6 or 7 pairs of jeans, I don't wash them often. But socks and anything worn under the jeans are changed everyday, and washed often. There are certain areas of the human body that perspires often, especially in warmer weather. Anything worn near these areas, must be changed. I consider it a part of personal hygiene.
 
Nathan said:
Lol! I'm all for saving water but this just ain't the way! :eek:

At one time back when I was working at the local Sheriff's Dept. jail, some fellow employee came up with the "brilliant" suggestion to ration toilet paper given to the inmates. I'm like for cryin' out loud just give them the damn toilet paper so they'll be sure and wipe their @$$3s! :rolleyes:
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Nathan: Your story reminds me of another story an old Vet from WWII told me not long after I was in boot camp. He said during WWII when he was overseas and they had to take their daily constitution, they had to go to the Cpl. standing “TP Patrol” and get their TP. Each man was allowed 2 sheets to wipe with because they were being rationed.

Whether that was true or not? I couldn’t verify it.
 
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Nathan: Your story reminds me of another story an old Vet from WWII told me not long after I was in boot camp. He said during WWII when he was overseas and they had to take their daily constitution, they had to go to the Cpl. standing “TP Patrol” and get their TP. Each man was allowed 2 sheets to wipe with because they were being rationed.

Whether that was true or not? I couldn’t verify it.
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I heard it was one sheet, and got the instructions on how to make it work......
 
Been There said:
Nathan: Your story reminds me of another story an old Vet from WWII told me not long after I was in boot camp. He said during WWII when he was overseas and they had to take their daily constitution, they had to go to the Cpl. standing “TP Patrol” and get their TP. Each man was allowed 2 sheets to wipe with because they were being rationed.

Whether that was true or not? I couldn’t verify it.
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I've heard that, what a rough row to hoe! I know this thread is going a bit sideways from the original topic, but I have a story to share...
...in Vietnam we hauled all sorts of goods to Mekong Delta locations on this ->LCU. One time while docked in Vĩnh Long we went to a nearby restaurant for a meal. When I went to the restroom I noticed that they did not provide new toilet paper, but rather had a box of 'good used' lengths of TP to choose from. :unsure:
 
Nathan said:
I've heard that, what a rough row to hoe! I know this thread is going a bit sideways from the original topic, but I have a story to share...
...in Vietnam we hauled all sorts of goods to Mekong Delta locations on this ->LCU. One time while docked in Vĩnh Long we went to a nearby restaurant for a meal. When I went to the restroom I noticed that they did not provide new toilet paper, but rather had a box of 'good used' lengths of TP to choose from. :unsure:
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Good used TP. Usually, I would be interested in seeing what that is, but in this instance, I think I will take a pass.
 
Definitely wash undies and pjs after one use but it depends on where and how long I've worn other clothing. All day at home clothes, I usually wash after one day, especially in the summer. I wash work clothes after every wear since I work in health care facilities. Dressier clothes I wear a few hours for appointments and socializing usually get more than one wear.
 
Paladin1950 said:
After plugging my grandmother's toilet, she got mad and told me that I can only use 3 sheets.
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When I traveled a lot in Mexico, third class back in the 70s, it was not uncommon for the toilet drains to be too small to handle toilet paper. A trash can was provided next to the toilet for paper disposal. Pretty disgusting, but probably better than 3 sheets...
 
Nah, I haven't washed clothes in forty years. I don't even need to hang up my clothes, they stand up by themselves.😮 I wear the same thing every day, and just stink up the joint. I can clear out a room in under ten seconds. That comes in handy when I want a good seat at the movies or a concert. No, really, take a whiff.👃I'll bet you can smell me from wherever you are! 😆

In truth, I'm very clean, wash everything, and smell like a little flower. 🌷 😊
 
I use a septic tank for my waste. Thus, my wife and I dump our soiled toilet paper into a waste basket and it goes out with the garbage. Plus, every stool must be crushed with a toilet bowl plunger before flushing or it would result in a clogged drain pipe requiring a call to RotoRooter to unplug it.

Underpants get washed daily on our washing machine, outer shirts get washed once per week and formal pants and suit jackets never get cleaned not once in my lifetime. They would require dry cleaning and pressing by a dry cleaner. Thus, they have never been cleaned in my 88 years of life.
 

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