You need to change your clothes and wash them regularly. Sweat/moisture helps breeding bacteria, you sweat even when you don’t notice it, this can create rashes and irritation as well as awful smells. A routine that may help; have some crappy clothes set up at night, wear them while you do your laundry, once its in the dryer, take a shower, put on some fresh sleep-wear (i personally wear an undershirt, boxers and basketball shorts) get your laundry(preferably fold it) and go to sleep. This way you will keep yourself (and your bed) cleaner, and at the end of the day you can wash all your filth off and have a clean set of clothes ready for the next day. Don’t forget the confidence of getting something done, and having yourself clean and prepped for the next day. There really is no reason to wear the same clothes all the time without showering, that is the realm of the homeless, and even they have access to showering.
Sometimes, on a weekend, I’ll wear the same outfit 3 days in a row. Usually not, but sometimes. I may wear a shirt and jeans on Friday and not change clothes or shower again until Sunday. However that is rare and I don’t sleep in them.
But yes, I’ve worn the same clothes for 3 days in a row before. Not often (maybe a few times a year on a weekend, pick out an outfit friday morning, don’t shower or change until sunday).
I agree with a reply above, how does one maintain a relationship or employment having the end result of days sans-shower? The bodily smells alone, in particular areas should deter a mate (unless she was a freshly defrosted cro-magnon) and hamper friendships and cooperation at work. I’ve had girlfriends who didn’t shower but every other day and I always gave them shit for it, the excuses were its bad for skin or hair, and they didn’t want to put too many chemicals on their hair too often (yet they dye their hair and smoke)… Needless to say, it was a dealbreaker.
Ask me if I change out of my jammies when I get up in the morning. Go ahead, ask.
No. Hugh Hefner had it right.
Sometimes I sleep in the same T-shirt I wore during the day, if I wore a T-shirt, and I sleep in men’s boxers (clean pair every night), usually, unless I have my period. Usually I don’t wear a T-shirt during the day, in which case I sleep in one of my “retired” T-shirts, which is to say, an old one with a hole, bleach stain, or just really old and faded, and maybe a little threadbare, to bed.
The last time I word pajamas I was about 12.
If I’m staying somewhere besides my own home, I have some men’s sleep shorts that I wear to bed, and I wear an everyday T-shirt, not a retired one.
My husband sleeps in basketball shorts, and that’s it, unless it’s really cold for some reason, then he’ll sleep in sweats and a T-shirt. He has three or four pairs of basketball shorts, and he’ll sleep in the same ones more than one night in a row.
My son has recently decided that the coolest thing in the world to sleep in is basketball shorts, but I make him wear a clean pair every night. I went to Goodwill, and bought him seven pairs. He used to wear PJs until last year.
If the washer broke, or some other calamity happened like the cat puking on my last work shirt, I’d buy a new one on the way to work before I’d wear a dirty one, but if it were a day I didn’t have to go in, I would throw on a sleep shirt and do laundry. I’m not terribly worried about how I look, but I’m a little paranoid about how I smell.
I strip down to my briefs (or nothing at all) when going to bed, and change briefs the next morning when I shower. If I go to the gym in the morning, I cheat: I put on my clean briefs at home but skip the home shower and just shower at the gym when I’m done.
As for the rest of my clothes, I typically wear a given shirt to work twice (NOT in the same week) before washing it, unless it’s been stained or smells dirty of course. For trousers, same policy, except I usually wear them on two consecutive days (it saves me the trouble of transferring all my keys and belt and wallet to another pair, and who’s gonna notice?).
Silk?
On your short bus, they don’t have to back far.
I shower every night and change underwear. Except in the summer I sleep in pajamas. I wear a shirt for 2-3 days, unless it is too warm for an undershirt in which case I wear T-shirts, and slacks for a week.
I don’t think I’m venturing too far out on the limb to think you probably aren’t a huge stickler for always having toilet paper handy?
I usually take a 2nd shower every night, throw on an old t-shirt, and watch tv for a few hours before going to bed. When I do so, I exchange the pants for flannel pajama bottoms (like most posh pj wearers, my Old Navy jeans are usually soiled with spilled caviar by the end of the day) but I keep the t-shirt on for the night. But “many days,” wtf?
I strip down to my shorts and usually put on a clean t-shirt for sleeping. That one goes in the wash basket in the morning.
I can’t imagine sleeping in the clothes you wore that day unless it was a t shirt and athletic shorts .
If I’ve worn a t shirt that day, I’ll often sleep in that along with shorts or sweats. I’ve even been known to sleep in a polo shirt that I’ve worn that day. But i couldn’t imagine sleeping in a button down or sweater, which are necessary here a large percentage of the year. I have slept in a sweatshirt a few times at my old apartment which had lousy heat, but it was a last resort on the coldest nights.
Wearing the same clothes day and night is extremely odd unless you’re sick in bed with the flu. I do vaguely remember some stoners and/or gamers in college who seemed to wear the same clothes on weekends, but they were the type who never left the dorm building.
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Just curious, FJ - at some point, you do have to eventually change your clothes, amirite? In those once every four? five? 12? days, when you get around to wearing something different, do you strip down, like, all the way, in relative privacy?
Not to be prurient or anything, but are you a never-nude? And, just to compare notes with my own toiletry self-etiquette: in lieu of showering, do you sometimes work different lotions all over your body, possibly requiring an extended device for harder-to-reach areas/orifi? You’re probably thinking I’m a perv, but I heard from a bunch of college freshmen that it’s common to have peepholes set up strategically in rooms, like, say, on your bedroom door, allowing viewers to view in, so that, for instance, family members or addled roommates could possibly take advantage of seeing you strip into different clothing. Is that the case, where you live?
Do you often sleep in these? (recommended, despite these are cheap Russian knock-offs)
My wife and I, when traveling and car camping, actually enjoyed each other’s smells the longer we went without bathing.
When I was dead broke, I did my laundry once a week and always took a bath at night and a shower in the morning, and worn clean clothes every day, even if I had to eat crappy free food to do so.
I now work as a cashier, and still bathe at night, shower in the morning, wear clea clothes every day and do laundry once a week.
Clean tshirt for bed every night. On the weekends, I often don’t bother to change the tshirt when I get up and just keep wearing it for the rest of the day, but always a fresh one for bed.
My boyfriend tends to wear the same thing for too long, because he says he’s just going to get dirty/smelly anyway at his job. His laundry needs to be pre-soaked, then washed in hot water, or it doesn’t get clean, and still smells, which is a nuisance for me. I insist he put on a clean shirt whenever he sleeps over.
If you are wearing the same clothes for days in a row, you stink. You may not be able to smell it, but others can.
I look forward to never hearing from the OP again
I just strip down to my boxers and tee-shirt (if I was wearing something more than a tee-shirt to begin with.) In colder times, I may put on some pajama pants and a pajama top.
There was a period of time for several months where I pretty much wore the same clothes and did not shower for up to five days at a time, back when I was working with a group of volunteers in post-war Croatia. We did not have daily access to running hot water or a tub or shower of any sort (even if we wanted to use cold water.) Our house just had a couple of sinks and cold water plumbing. It was surprisingly easy to get used to when nobody else is showering or changing clothes around you, but I sure as hell would not want to repeat those sorts of sanitary conditions now that I have plenty of clothes, a nice bathtub and shower, hot water, a washer and dryer, etc.
I think Kramer did this on an episode of Seinfeld. It did not work out well. 
To the OP: your clothes are getting dirty. Just by virtue of you wearing them. Even if you’re not breaking rocks on a chain gang. Everyone around you knows it.