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I don't know anyone who does laundry every day, so this seems like a reasonable thing to try to figure out.
by Riseed 3y ago
I don't know anyone who does laundry every day, so this seems like a reasonable thing to try to figure out.
- rmellow 3y agoPut clothes in a laundry bin after use and leave it out of the way. Do laundry weekly. Years old gym clothes will smell just fine.
- JohnBooty 3y agoI would certainly hope that nobody throws wet sweaty balled up clothes into a hamper. Got to let them dry out first. Cotton or synthetic, that is an absolute mold/odor recipe.
- Dylan16807 3y agoOh, yeah, the methods section says they put the wet clothes in a sealed plastic bag.
- JohnBooty 3y agoYeah, and I think that's a pretty poor method. It seems like more of a simulation of "what happens if you accidentally leave wet gym clothes in your gym bag in your car" or "you wear a sweaty shirt for three weeks straight, possibly because you are fighting in a war" instead of what happens during typical use.
- notacoward 3y agoExactly. I wear all-synthetic when I run or hike, because cotton will get damp and heavy and uncomfortable (potentially unsafe when hiking). I throw it in a hamper with a lid - separate from my regular one - when I'm done, and I do laundry a couple of times a week. I have shirts and smalls that I've been using nine years without a problem under this regime. One key, I think, is that I use a "color booster" (bleach alternative) specifically to eliminate the poly funk. Doing a load of laundry for a single set of workout clothes is horrible environmentally. Even when our kid was young, it was every other day at most, and I was running more than that at the time.
- Schnitz 3y agoMy workout clothes go in the washer as I get into the shower, I find it too gross to accumulate sweated through workout clothes.
- Riseed 3y agoIf my workout clothes are sweaty, they come into the shower with me. A rinse is good enough until washing day, and uses no extra water/power.
- cpfohl 3y agoOh. Do you know anyone with kids? We do multiple loads a day!
- Riseed 3y agoYes, I know people with kids. They did do multiple loads daily for the first few months but stopped doing laundry every day once each baby was ~6mo. (Though neither parent found time to make workout clothes sweaty during those months.) When I was a kid, our three-kid family did laundry once a week and there were fewer than 7 loads.