4 or 5 wears, unless something happens. I’m not usually getting sweaty in them; I wear yoga pants hor home workouts and sweats for cold morning walks, and they seem just fine.
I used to think this was necessary, but then I went to college and quite nearly ran out of money my first year. I had a very small budget and wasn’t able to get a job to increase my income. Depending on the clothes, they don’t need to be laundered after 1, 2, or 3 wearings if they neither smell nor have stains on them. Jeans are on the lowest priority washing list in this house for the simple reason that they can be reworn over and over again. Same with garments that go over other garments that are not undergarments; if I wear a button-up shirt over a tank top to work one day, I can rewear the the button-up shirt again as long as it’s unstained and doesn’t smell. It’s more a matter of not wearing out what tend to be already delicate clothes faster than necessary. (In all seriousness, where can I get a shirt that’s not tissue thickness and will last me longer than a season these days? Are any of them less than $30/shirt?)
I wear jeans until they are either dirty or all stretched out. 3 - 4 wearings usually.
So, OP – which side of the laundry debate are you on?
I work in an office but wear jeans every day. Work jeans are worn 4 times…Monday through Thursday to work, then thrown in the wash because they are falling off my ass at that point from stretching out. Unless I spill something on them…as soon as I get home from work, I change into jammies or sweats to help prevent that.
Pretty much this. It’s not like I’m out digging ditches. The most strenuous physical activity I’m going to be doing in jeans is dancing, and as a rule, I don’t work up that much of a sweat at the bar.
I can see wanting to wash my jeans after every wearing if they got stretched out after every wearing (which… the hell? what kind of jeans are y’all wearing?), but I can’t imagine thinking that they’re especially dirty after a normal wearing. I work harder in my suits, but I’d never think of bringing them to the dry cleaner after *every * wearing.
Even if you are out digging ditches, you can get 3-5 days between washing out of a pair of jeans. If you’re a ditchdigger, nobody’s gonna care if your jeans are dirty when you show up for work.
I wear them until they require febreezing to not be offensive. If I’m not going anywhere, I just febreeze them anyway and wash the next day.
Normal jeans can be worn about a week, or 4–6 times. If they get sweaty, spilled on, etc., then into the wash they go. The jeans-wearer is presumably wearing underpants, which is the only part that needs to get washed daily. Who the heck even has time to wash jeans every day?
Well, since it’s pretty obvious already how this is going to turn out: My mom told my teenage daughter that jeans need to be washed every time they’re worn, “especially girl’s jeans”. Mom’s kind of a clean freak, but then again, I have no sense of smell, so I couldn’t refute this with any authority. I wear jeans twice, myself.
Dung Beetle, put the laundry down, and better spend your time reassuring your daughter that her vagina is not inherently icky. And then slap your mom for insinuating it.
“Especially girls jean.” What the hell?
This wouldn’t be considered a laundry issue at my house, more a review of Gramma’s old timey thinking and why it’s considered seriously outdated.
Dear Daughter, if you are reading this: You see! I told you Grandma is crazy! 
Ditto.
It depends on where you live. Wear them in Florida once. In Michigan in the winter 2 or 3.
That’s funny. I thought she said “two years”. I would agree with that. OK, maybe that’s too long. I bought two new pairs of jeans on January 7th (I have the receipt right here). I tore the tags off the second pair about two days ago. So that’s, what, 40 wears? Anyhow, they’re sitting on the floor right now. I figure when the smokey-bar smell wears off of them, I’ll go for another 30 days or so.
What exactly are you afraid of happening? Your legs are going to fall off? Mine are still here and I’m perfectly healthy. It’s winter for crap’s sake, what sweat is there to wash out? Are you worried about the skin cells on there? This may shock you, but…you’re covered in skin! They don’t smell- they’re in open air all day long and who smells your jeans anyhow?
So what’s the problem?
Indeed. But when it comes time for someone to, it may well be a make or break issue.
Oh, and the smoky bar smell most likely isn’t a problem for most of y’alls, but it definitely cuts down on the wearing number a good deal. Often requires washing after wearing them once into smoke. Jeans however, seem to bounce back from that better than most clothing.
And BTW, just because somewhere around 5 times is recommended doesn’t mean you can’t exceed that recommendation… greatly. And get away with it.
2-3 wears, assuming they’re not grungy or sweaty. (edited to add) I will wear a fresh, clean pair if I’m going somewhere where looks matter at all, such as work or out to a casual dinner, but around the house or to the grocery store, or whatever…as long as they’re not dirty, they’re fair game.
Anywhere from once (if they get dirty) to about a month. Jeans are more comfortable once they’ve been worn a few times.
And tell your mother to back off on the “especially girls’ jeans” stuff! Way to give a girl a complex! In any event, that’s what underwear is for!
at least once.
Hmm, I had forgotten about the smoky-bar smell. Anything I wear to a bar (and this doesn’t come up all that often anymore) gets washed the very next morning, even if it was the first wearing for the jeans. Same as if I spill something on them – which actually happens more often than wearing them to a bar, these days.
Damn. I’m getting old.