# Ladies how long should I keep your panties in my home? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2002, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583 "2002-09-25T05:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/21 "2002-09-26T16:07:04Z")
Or stuff the panties in the hose and reverse the blower. The first time his wife uses it, it’ll blow a dozen different sized panties out. Won’t they share a laugh about that? ---
**Author:** ![Lost\_In\_Reality](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Lost\_In\_Reality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lost_In_Reality)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2002, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/22 "2002-09-26T23:28:09Z")
\*\* Zen\*\*, what is your \* unusual\* job? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/23 "2002-09-27T00:33:14Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Lost In Reality \* > \*\*\*\* Zen_\*, what is your \* unusual\* job? \*\* He’s a priest. Ow-WOOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/24 "2002-09-27T02:18:04Z")
I want my panties back, you two-timing peckhead. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/25 "2002-09-27T12:39:23Z")
Put on gloves, dump them in a washing machine, keep them in a drawer for those ‘I threw my panties out of the window in a fit of passion. Zen, do you have any spare, and a reasonable excuse as to why you do’? ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/26 "2002-09-27T12:40:43Z")
…moments? ---
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/27 "2002-09-27T14:48:09Z")
Mean idea: randomly walk around town and put them in the glove compartments of unlocked cars. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/28 "2002-09-27T15:15:59Z")
Show the lot of them to the next Jehova’s Witness to come by. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2002, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/29 "2002-09-27T15:23:11Z")
Hold up 30 convenience stores. “Son, you got a panty on your head.” ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/30 "2002-09-29T06:10:54Z")
Ask Mom to wash them? ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/31 "2002-09-29T06:23:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lainaf \* > \*\*I want my panties back, you two-timing peckhead. \*\* your panties??? the lacy black ones are mine. he he he he ---- bahhhhaaaahhaaaa ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/32 "2002-09-29T17:04:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Are we to assume since the panties are all still intact that you got moth balls? \*\* No **lieu** , I’m pretty sure that if he had moth balls he wouldn’t have nearly enough stamina for all that action. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/33 "2002-09-29T17:37:46Z")
Quilt? Seriously, I occasionally had women’s clothing left at my place when I was young and single, but I was always aware of how and under what circumstances they were discarded. Color me confused. Are you telling us that women who come to your apartment for whatever reason spontaneously get the idea: _“Hmmm… **Zen101** isn’t watching, I think I’ll just…I don’t know…take off my panties and leave them under the couch”_? Is there something in your apartment that subconsciously prompts this thought in their heads? If you could figure out what it is you could make a fortune. I think rigorous scientific research is called for here. ---
**Author:** ![zen101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c68b51/32.png) [@zen101](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zen101)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2002, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/34 "2002-09-29T22:04:35Z")
The panties situation in resolved with a last moment thought, I stuffed them into a paper sack and tossed them in the trash apart from my own garbage. We have people who dumpster dive around here and I didn’t want them to find a bunch of women’s underwear with my garbage for some reason (possible serial-killer suspicions maybe). As for those who continue to ask how they got here, pretty much all of them from how you might expect, but I do as a point of fact have female _friends_ who come over and don’t have sex, in fact that is probably why I’m still friends with tme. Sex messes everything up. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/35 "2002-10-01T03:41:49Z")
You’re telling me. Last time it messed up my clothes, the bed, the carpet, the kitchen counter, the ceiling fan… ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/36 "2002-10-01T06:40:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Knowed Out \* > \*\*“Son, you got a panty on your head.” \*\* Okay then. Damn, **Zen** , you shouldn’t have tossed them… we coulda [went into business together](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=133724). ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Luongo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Chris\_Luongo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chris_Luongo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/37 "2002-10-03T03:52:09Z")
Can’t you use them as air-fresheners for your car? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/38 "2002-10-03T05:12:48Z")
“Son, you got a panty on your head.” Do folks from up north get this? Do they understand the inherent humor? I really don’t believe a regional parallel exists. That quote just fucks me silly. ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/39 "2002-10-03T18:42:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*“Son, you got a panty on your head.” > > Do folks from up north get this? Do they understand the inherent humor? I really don’t believe a regional parallel exists. > > That quote just fucks me silly. \*\* ROTFLMAO @ that quote just fucks me silly ---
**Author:** ![sycorob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@sycorob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sycorob)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583/40 "2003-04-08T16:09:27Z")
I was thinking about this thread in the shower the other day, and something occured to me. My girlfriend never takes her panties home the next day. I asked her about it, and she says it grosses her out to have used panties in her bag all day. I bet you that, since these women probably don’t have an easy way to carry the panties home _cough_ in the morning, they may decide to sacrifice the $8 investment and go without. I also think there’s something to the “marking their territory” theory. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-how-long-should-i-keep-your-panties-in-my-home/129583.md?page=3)