# Do you ever just not feel like putting clothes on?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [April 26, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270 "2003-04-26T04:22:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/1 "2003-04-26T04:22:47Z")
Suppose you take a shower at 7pm and aren’t going anywhere soon. Afterwards do you ever spend a good, mmm, say two hours lounging about in your towel? Strange question, I know, but I’m curious.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/2 "2003-04-26T04:30:01Z")
No, but I know people who do, and it bugs me.
I dread the towel falling off, and thus being the victim of an inter-family-flashing.
It also bugs me when I come home from a night shift and my step-dad walks down the stairs in his underpants. My brain : “putsomeclothesonputsomeclothesonputsomeclotheson!!”
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/3 "2003-04-26T04:31:06Z")
Having said that, I often get up, on a day off, and use my computer in my underpants and t-shirt
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### Author:  [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/4 "2003-04-26T04:34:12Z")
Oh hell yeah, all the time. I’m a big fan of the “air dry” theory whenever I have the time for it. I do prefer my robe to a towel though, as the wet terri cloth tends to get a little itchy after a while. I also like to loaf aroud wearing just a pair of shorts when I’m not going anywhere or expecting anyone. It’s comfy and it saves energy due to lower AC usage 🙂
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### Author:  [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/5 "2003-04-26T04:36:56Z")
Oh yes, I should note - I live alone. I wouldn’t do this if I had a roommate (unless my roommate was someone I was sleeping with, then the rules of etiquette change a bit) or still lived with my family.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/6 "2003-04-26T04:37:20Z")
I am so terribly British. (shudder)
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/7 "2003-04-26T04:38:21Z")
Heh, well I’m not parading around half nekkid in front of my roomies or anything. I’ll go in my room to get dressed and decide I plain don’t feel like it. Instead I’ll get some reading done, peruse SDMB, get crackin’ on a problem set or whatever. Clothes are too restricting.
That and I’m lazy.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/8 "2003-04-26T04:40:51Z")
(OW. I just donged my knee on the corner of the desk!) I find clothes _more_ comfortable than lack of them.
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### Author:  [@lorinada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorinada)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/9 "2003-04-26T04:42:01Z")
I don’t any more due to my teen-age son, but in the day BC (before child) I frequently ran around the house in only my undies. For the same reasons as TFSC.
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### Author:  [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/10 "2003-04-26T04:44:11Z")
I took a shower about three hours ago and I’m just now putting clothes on. If I didn’t have somewhere to be, odds are I’d still be nakey right now.
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### Author:  [@TheFunkySpaceCowboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFunkySpaceCowboy)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/11 "2003-04-26T05:33:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Lobsang \*
> \*\*(OW. I just donged my knee on the corner of the desk!) I find clothes _more_ comfortable than lack of them. \*\*
The only time I find clothing more comfortable is when I’d be cold without any on, which hasn’t happened since moving to Houston a few months ago.
Another benefit to the whole not wearing much clothing when loafing around alone is that you don’t have to do laundry as often either 😃
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/12 "2003-04-26T05:43:49Z")
I’d say a good 75% of the time I’m on the computer I’m not wearing a stitch. But then, I live alone.
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### Author:  [@Doomtrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doomtrain)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/13 "2003-04-26T05:47:17Z")
I usually spend a day at home kicked back in a pair of shorts. No sense in dirtying clothes if I’m just gonna be at home. And if someone looks in and doesn’t like it, they shouldn’t be looking in my windows.
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### Author:  [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/14 "2003-04-26T05:53:29Z")
I hate wearing clothes, I sit around quite often all or mostly naked when I’m drawing, painting or goofing off on the computer.
But I can’t stand sleeping naked. I usually wear long pants and a long-sleeved shirt to bed.
How weird is that?
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### Author:  [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/15 "2003-04-26T06:01:41Z")
I airdry all the time actually. That has caused some problems for me. See, when I was growing up and my family wasn’t in the house, I was free to walk around naked any time I wanted because A) we lived in the country and B) our house is 200 meters from the road and you coulddn’t see me anyways.
When I lived in London for a year or so I never worried about being naked because my appartment had small windows and they didn’t face anywhere anyways. When I moved to Toronto, I moved into an appartment where there is a big front window. It completely slipped my mind that someone would be able to see in until I happened to be sitting on my couch naked doing some Latin homework when there was a lady sitting on her balcony staring at me.
Anyhow, what I’m saying is yes sometimes I don’t feel like putting clothes on and if you live in Downtown Toronto, you know that first hand.
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### Author:  [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/16 "2003-04-26T06:07:00Z")
Yes. Often.
But the new man in my life… he’s a prude.
So… now I do not lounge in the complete comfort I have been used to for the past 10 years.
_sigh_
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### Author:  [@Number](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Number)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/17 "2003-04-26T06:09:25Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Lobsang \*
> **(OW. I just donged my knee on the corner of the desk!)**
Well, at least you didn’t knee your dong.
Nudity is a dangerous thing.
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### Author:  [@flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flight)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/18 "2003-04-26T06:13:06Z")
Oh for the days of nakedness. When I lived alone I was practically a nudist. Depending upon the girlfriend we would often go through the day without a stich, but now I am living in a house with two women (I am a guy) and I do not think they would feel too kindly about my walking around in my birthday suit. Hell, I just had some serious sunburn on my shoulders so I would sit around the house without a shirt while the aloe lotion dried and I got some serious negative vibes about that. Prissy women, I wouldn’t mind at all if they wanted to walk around the house naked. 😉
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/19 "2003-04-26T07:41:50Z")
I don’t wear clothes at home.
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### Author:  [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2003, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-just-not-feel-like-putting-clothes-on/171270/20 "2003-04-26T08:04:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Number \*
> **Well, at least you didn’t knee your dong.**
Now _that_ would be impressive.
I usually lounge around in my underwear at home. It’s a little (physically) uncomfortable sitting around in the nude, but I’d have no hang-ups around it otherwise. I live mostly alone.
Walking past the large windows and glass doors at the back of the house used to concern me, but I figured if someone wanted to spy over the backfence, that’d be their problem, not mine.
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