I used to have 7 pairs of clean underwear. One for Monday, one for Tuesday, one for Wednesday, and when I got to Sunday I’d put on the last clean pair and wash the rest.
But I got to thinking, what if something happened on Sunday and I wasn’t able to do the wash, I would be out of clean underwear.
So I wised up. I now have 12 pairs of underwear. One for January, one for February, one for March…
To be sure, ick-factor notwithstanding, if the OP’s hypothetical “couple” are actually, y’know, a couple, then they’ve probably already shared all the E. coli and other germs they’ve got with each other. Wearing undies for a second day still has a day’s worth of ick factor, but I don’t really see a hygiene problem with swapping drawers. But… as numerous posts have asked: Why?
But, . . . washing your underwear in the hotel room sink – Now there’s ick factor!
Why?
Because that’s the sink in which you brush your teeth.
And in which you brush your teeth, where the prior guest may have been washing his underwear! Ick!
Obligatory Cecil column, just for the Slug Signorino illustration.
Yes, but you don’t know that the prior guest has been rinsing his smalls in the sink; you know that you have. Therefore, ick.
It’s all about perception.
I don’t wet my toothbrush by rubbing it on the surface of the sink. I hold it under the faucet and wet it with fresh water. So why would I care if underwear has touched the inside the sink?
Just go down to the hotel kitchens and ask to use their sink.
eeeew :smack::eek:
Judging from some of the responses, I suspect washing their tighty-not-so-whities in the toilet would be an improvement.
Wait, the OP literally meant wear the other person’s? I figured they were just a shitty writer and wrote “wear the same pair twice” in a weird way.
I see nothing wrong with wearing the same pair twice in a row for what amounts to, like, an extra day or whatever. But switching? What a dumb premise…
My perception is that the cleaning staff cleaned the sink before I got there, I clean my underwear with soap, and I rinse out the sink with soap. How would I survive if I were that worried about a tiny chance of a trace of my own ick?
It’s the sink where you presumably wash your hands after you’ve wiped your bottom. How is that not ick for the teeth brushing, then?
To the OP, you don’t need to bring any underwear. Just look for used ones in the trash. That way you can do your grocery and clothes shopping at the same time!
Exofficio and others make lightweight, wicking underwear that can we washed in the sink and dry by the morning.
The idea posed by the OP is stupid, unnecessary and unhygienic.
I don’t know if it was that brand but I bought some undies that were supposed to work like this and the results were unpleasant. They did clean up ok but a day wearing synthetic fibers was much stinkier than cotton or wool.
Do you rub your toothbrush along the sink walls?
Geez.
Totally harmless to wash in the sink, and very common. Of course you rinse afterwards, and the maids clean it.
Real revolutionaries don’t wear underpants.
You people are crazzz-y…i would never be that situation…except maybe a zombie apocalypse…and I not really losing sleep wondering about it!
Is it possible to have mods slap NSWE–Not Safe While Eating–tags on posts like this?