How Often Do You Wash These Everyday Things?
Apparently I'm using the washing machine a LOT more than the average person.
Buzzfeed recently conducted a survey titled, "How Long Do You Go Without Washing These Items Compared To Everyone Else?" I was kind of shocked by some of the results, but I'll explain why in a minute. Here are the findings:
- Jeans
- 44% of people wash them at least once a week
- 28% wash them at least once a month
- 18% won't wash them until they get a stain on them
- 10% wash them after every use
- Towels
- 42% wash them at the end of the week
- 33% wash them after 3 or 4 uses
- 15% keep using a new towel until all the towels are dirty, and then they wash them at once
- 10% wash them after every use
- Sheets
- 35% wash them once a month
- 29% wash them every 2 weeks
- 21% only wash them when they get a stain or when they feel "so physically repulsed" by their laziness that they have to change them
- 15% wash them once a week
- Bras
- 32% on wash their bra if it smells weird
- 30% wait 2 weeks to wash them
- 27% wash them at least once a week
- 5% wash them after each wear
- Socks
- 79% wash their socks after one wear
- 16% wash them after 2 or 3 wears
- 3% wear the same pair for a week
- 2% only wash them when they start to smell
When it comes to jeans, shirts, underwear, socks, and pretty much everything else that goes directly onto my body (aside from bras), I wash them everyday. Same with towels. I was actually made fun of by my friends the other day for washing my towels after every use! I don't know why I do it, I guess I just like to feel extra clean when I get out of the shower. My sheets are a WHOLE different story, though. I usually wait until they either look or smell dirty before I go through the hassle of washing them. I know, I know, I'm gross. I'll get over it.
How often do you wash these items? Are you in the norm? Share your answers with us in the comments!
[Via Buzzfeed]