I have a similer system to **Scarlett67 ** except with more levels. I have
Nice underwear - matching sets for special occasions, under specific clothes etc
Everyday undies
Offshore underwear - everything and I do mean everything gets washed together at the same temperature and turns the exact same shade of blue/grey. Plus you bring nice underwear it gets ahem borrowed.
‘Monthly’ underwear
The wires dig in on bras and they are out, pants get ratty they are out, pants get accidently died blue then they go offshore.
I had a cull about 2 weeks ago and down graded and threw out a load and treated myself to some nice new fancy stuff
About the same program as ems. Culling is a rare event, since there’s a lot of diversification in my panty wardrobe, eg cotton thongs for th gym, cotton panties for field work, fancy thongs for certain outfits, fancy full panties for other outfits. It’s all very complex.
I’m wondering if I’m the only non-underwire bra wearer. I accidentally bought one once, and it only took a few minutes to decide that the wires had to go!!
When I put my latest load of unders away, I noticed the panty pile was taller than the bra pile. This cannot be allowed to continue - it must be evened! Looks like I’ve got my weekend all planned out - unders-culling. Yeah, oh yeah, I’m a wild woman.
I know this may not apply to all posters but what about lucky pants? What do you do with them when they’ve become so nasty they should carry a toxic warning but they still have that little place in your heart…
or is that just me…?
I tossed 'em out last year or maybe the year before, and switched to boxers.
Haven’t chucked any of them out yet, but the good thing with boxers is they last a lot longer.
[sub]Yep! That Swampy is one straaaange critter[/sub]
At the start of every year, all the old undies go. I buy new boxers and tshirts. Enough to last the whole year, which means 30 pairs of boxers and 30 tshirts. That way, I only have to wash em bout every three weeks. Why only keep em for one year you say? I have no idea. It just sounds right.
I generally chuck my underpants after there is more hole than fabric. Although, I gotta admit, I’ve been fairly lazy about that for the last five years or so. Mind you, I wear fresh, whole boxers anytime I think there may be an occasion for anyone else to see them. Although, given I’m the kinda guy that won’t thow out his skanky undies, that doesn’t happen often.
I dont think ive ever threw out a pair of underwear ever! They just seem to go the way of odd socks. At some point i realize that my underwear drawer is getting kinda low so i go out and buy a new package <maybe once a year>
Email me privately. I’m very interested in those forty to fifty panties that you never wear. I’ll pay you a pretty penny for them (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
When they develop visible holes they become car wash rags.
When I was in college, for reasons unexplainable I got a heck of a lot of underwear for birthday and Christmas gifts for several years straight. At one point I had more than fifty pairs.
Wear each pair of underwear only once before washing and wash each pair only seven times a year and you have some very long lasting underwear. Plus, you can go about seven weeks without having to wash underwear.
A good friend recomended getting two days wear out of underwear by wearing them inside out the second day. Never tried it, though.
Confession time -
when they start to fall apart. Really fall apart. A lot. not just color fading, not just a single hole where the elastic has pulled away from the cotton, but pretty much totally unwearable. For bras, about half of them start out as underwires (I keep going back and forth on the issue) if one starts poking through, I’ll get the seamripper, remove both wires and keep wearing the bra.
Eventually, they do get thrown away - eventually.
when the elastic in the boxers doesn’t hold them up on my waist anymore and they consistently bunch up, trying to fall off the moment I take off my pants.
When this been happening for a few months, they are inspected for major holes.
If present, they get thrown out. If not, suffer with loose-fitting boxers until holes develop.
With this system, underwear lasts me a long time.
note: I have a sneaking suspicion that my wife bypassed step 2 and threw my boxers out immediately once they started sagging, but I never caught her in the act and didn’t really think about it back then. The clue is that I seem to get new underwear every so often, maybe annually, but I can’t recall throwing out more than maybe a couple pair in the past 20 years, but I don’t have more than I used to.
When underwear get too holey and de-elasticized to be useful, I stash them in a drawer until I take a trip somewhere. Then, I wear them for a day or two, then pitch 'em. Cuts down on doing laundry while on the road, and makes packing for the trip home that much easier.
I’ve left my old shorts in Chiang Mai, Bangkok, Siem Reap, Juneau, Grenada, Kauai, Zermatt, Cairo, etc., etc. I’ve burned several pair over campfires in the Adirondacks, too - they burn real good when they’re extra grungy.
Hmm… this thread reminds me when I get money I need to go shopping.
I generally have cotton thongs I wear most of the time and cotton ‘grannie panties’ I wear one week a month. I start tossing when the elastics are out of the legs or waist as they usually dig and drive me nutso. Bras last me forever… I have one I wear sometimes still which has got to be toss out material, it’s got a tear in it and all stretched out and stuff but it’s soooo comfy.
Actually I don’t wear underwire either. Which is why I hate bra shopping… you know how hard it is to find something without underwire for a 36C? Impossible… and when I do I usually only have enough money for one then can never find that style again when shopping. Hrm… makes me wonder where my bra ran off to. I bought a new one a few months ago and it just clicked that I haven’t seen it since a month after I bought it…
