How Many Times Do You Wear a Pair of Jeans Before Washing?
 

Inspired by the discussion prompted by the "What are You Wearing?" thread, I began to wonder ...

How many times do you wear a pair of jeans before washing them?

"If they smell bad", which varies dramatically: last year I had a full outfit of clothes get fairly strongly vetoed because they simply reeked of wood smoke on account of a simultaneous pit, salt and wood-fire weekend, resulting in a nice solid day of burning shit.

More recently, it's been raining: the damp, moldy smell really bugs me. So after a thorough soaking, a pair is pretty much done until the next batch of laundry. And sometimes I accumulate so much rust/glaze/clay/soot/mud/food/crap that I veto them in a weird sort of aesthetic surrender/wimpdom, but that rarely happens before a funny smell.

So on average I would say 3-5 times.

When the knee area sticks out when I stand up, it's time for the wash,

If I'm going out among humanity 2 to 3 times unless one of my charges feels I need a human fluids bath of one kind or another. Bottom line I end up wearing them once unless I'm hanging with goats.

What is wash? :confused:

usually twice - but it does depend on what I am doing

Not until they look/smell dirty. Maybe after one time, maybe after a week or two. Depends. If I'm going over to a friend's house or something, I'll take a more scrutinizing look at them and am more likely to switch them.

When they are visiably dirty or when I think they may smell. Usually about 3 to 4 times. Does this make us dirty? My mom would die at the thought.

Sometimes I can wear them several times. Sometimes I can't hardly stand them all day. Especially in the summer. The weather is very sticky here. I tend to get twice the milage during the winter months.

I agree with the majority of posters to this point. When visibly dirty or smelly--wash. But unless I've gotten in a real mess, I can get a week's worth of wear from a pair of jeans if all goes well. I make it a point never to impede their progress to the laundry chute if their dirty enough to make it there under their own steam.

However, there are young'uns 'round here that will send off to the wash a pair of jeans that has been worn 0 times (choice not available on your poll, wolf), claiming "they're dirty" when it's really because that's easier than folding/hanging/putting away. At the other end of the scale, I've interrupted the trip to school when the jeans were too dirty. They have a much wider range of reasons to justify washing/not washing.

when they smell like ass, it's time to hose em off.

Well they always seem to get really baggy after I wear them once. I sit cross-legged a lot and that stretchs them out. So it usually depends on what I am doing when I wear them if I will wear them more than once. But after twice, they almost always need to be washed. I guess I am just weird...

Do you really want to know?

It looks like I am in good company! I might wear the same pair for a few days if they remain clean, but I am constantly doing construction/ messy projects so sometimes they don't even make it through a day.

Excellent thread/poll!!

Whew, I always thought I was pushing it by going 3 times before washing. I usually wear at least twice before they hit the basket. I work in a lab though, and wear jeans pretty much every day, so you never know what might have gotten splashed on 'em when I wasn't paying attention...I only wash after one wearing if I know I got something on them/went somewhere smokey. God I hate cigarette smoke.