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I got a stack of new clothes sitting on my bed in a pile. I’m debating whether to wash them or simply put them away unwashed. In the past I’ve just removed tags and folded new clothes, but I have a feeling I should be washing them first.
They are mostly T shirts, sweatshirts, pajama pants and jeans, so wrinkling is not much of a concern.
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I got a stack of new clothes sitting on my bed in a pile. I’m debating whether to wash them or simply put them away unwashed. In the past I’ve just removed tags and folded new clothes, but I have a feeling I should be washing them first.
They are mostly T shirts, sweatshirts, pajama pants and jeans, so wrinkling is not much of a concern.
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I always wash underwear before I wear it. Jeans, not usually, although if I stopped to think about all the bodies that may have tried on those jeans, I probably would.
Of course not. What’s there to wash away?
Usually not. T-shirts, underwear, socks, pants, nope…but dress shirts yes, because that’s the best way to get rid of the creases from how they are packaged. I just wait till laundry day and throw them in with everything else (I do laundry once a week, and rarely have enough for two loads unless I’m also doing towel or my sheets (yeah, I go more than week between sheet washes, what’s it to you? (also I’ve been traveling a lot so I’m only home 2-3 nights a week anyway)), so everyone all goes in one.)
It depends where I stole them from.
I never used to. Part of me felt like, “Well, what if it shrinks when I wash it? Might as well get ONE wear out of it first!”
But now … I dunno, I’ve seen some *skanky *hos trying on clothes sometimes. 
I’ve heard that now with the bedbug issues in some parts of the country, you should wash any new clothes (used to be it was only thrift store stuff that came with a wash-before-wearing warning, lest you get crabs or something) but for the OP I think piling them onto your bedspread for a few hours may have negated any anti-bedbug washing you may do at this point!
It depends on the article of clothing and the color. For example, if you’re in Victoria’s Secret and buy a pair of undies from the bin, you don’t know if someone has tried them on or not. They probably haven’t, but there’s a chance someone has. Or, if I’m wearing a particularly colorful shirt that has dye that could possibly come off on something I’m wearing (very uncommon, but I’ve had it happen with a magenta shirt and a white bra), I’ll wash it. Other than that, I don’t wash my own new clothes.
For the kids, on the other hand, all new items get washed as a matter of course. Both have fairly sensitive skin, so we use fragrance-free, everything-else-free detergent.
I buy all my clothes second-hand (except underwear), and I very rarely wash them before wearing. I know this is kind of gross, but I simply don’t care. My general rule, for all laundry, is to wash it if it smells.
I don’t usually wash t-shirts, jeans and other stuff unless it feels stiff or weird in some way. I wash underwear, though.
If it’s bagged I don’t, if it’s not bagged I do.
Gross. Yes I wash 'em. They’ve been floating around dirty floors in back rooms and boxed and shipped and handled by filthy hands. People’s hands have often touched money and then they touch the clothes. Plus they’re being shipped from god knows where - a country with nonexistent cleaning standards of course.
There was a thread awhile back where someone who worked in clothing retail said they sorted clothes in piles on the floor and their hands turned black before the end of the shift.
I moved the thread to IMHO and merged it with the thread with the poll. All is well in Muddville.
If they smell. Meaning: almost never - I don’t usually buy smelly clothes.
It’s weird, I usually don’t, even though I probably should. I mean, I utterly hate the idea of buying from thrift stores, and people at regular stores have been trying on what I’ve just bought…maybe I’ll start.
I don’t buy enough new clothes at once to make a separate load, so they go into the normal laundry. The exception is socks - I figure my feet are worse than anything that goes on them.
Never, unless it’s underwear or used.
ETA - sometimes the minute you wash something it no longer looks as nice.
The sizing on new shirts, or possibly residual dyes, make them ichy, so they need a wash before I put em on.
The chemical smell on new clothes bother me. New clothes require washing before wearing.
I wash everything, just to get that new clothing feel off (odd smells, folds from packaging and overall stiffness).