As I was getting ready for work I pulled a new pair of boxers from their packaging and started to put them on. My wife looked at me and the following exchange took place::
Her: “Aren’t you going to wash them first?”
Me: “I just did”
Her: “I mean the underwear”
Me: “Wash them first, am I supposed to?”
Her: “I always wash them first.”
I’ve been wearing underwear for like 20 years and never washed a new pair before wearing them. Is this a girl rule or some secret that’s been kept from me?
I wash all new clothes before wearing, especially underwear. Oftentimes the factory will spray clothes with something-or-other to make it look nice in the package. I don’t want something-or-other on MY package, if you know what I mean. Fuckpants!
Heh @ “I just did.”
I do wash them first. Husband is ambivalent.
On a re-read, laughing my fuckpants off at “20 years.”
I wear them straight outta the package. I ain’t scared.
I’m with Annika – I don’t know what kind of stiffeners/starches/sizing/carcinogenic toxins/itch-producing-make-it-pretties or rash-inducing-perfumes new clothes have been treated with, so I wash pretty much everything before I wear it. ‘Specially if it’s going to be next to my girly bits. (Exceptions are made for things that need to be dry-cleaned, and things that I need to wear right now.)
NovySan’s clothes, OTOH, are only washed before the first wear if I wash them for him.
So maybe it is a girl thing – except I don’t think I did wash things before wearing them the first time until I’d taken a costuming class, and been told about the kinds of funky sprays that might have been used on the fabric.
Always wash them first. You don’t want to fuck around with stuff that goes on your junk.
This seems to be shaping up to be a girl thing.
I think women have more of a reason to be concerned.
Yeah, guys can just wipe stuff, like chemicals or barbecue sauce off.
I’m here to be the one gal who doesn’t wash before wearing. Not because I’m not worried about stuff on my hooha, but because I’m basically lazy as all get out and I HATE doing laundry. I mean, I have to wash something before getting it dirty? That’s just crazy talk.
I don’t wash new sheets either. I like the little grid like patterns.
Yeah, I don’t wash sheets or the under’mwears either. I’m with the fundamentally lazy crowd.
bbq sauce… but you said you’d never kiss and tell!!
dvl, I thought you were more of a hotsauce girl?
/agreed with Champagne. I gotta be careful with what touches my junk. That goes for pretty much everything…well, except Will.
That said I usually wash my hands first.
Yeah, unfortunately, I’m in the lazy camp as well. If I buy some and I happen to be doing some wash that soon, I’m there, but if I’m buying them, it usually means I need them.
Here’s a curveball:
I wash everything before wearing it (then again, I was raised by an OCD neat-freak).
My missus never washes new clothes before wearing them.
Phil
If they were in a sealed package? I wouldn’t wash it first. If they’re the kind of girly underwear you get from a bin or off a hanger then DEFINITELY because people have A) tried that on and B) touched it all over the place.
I don’t wash new tops before I wear them but I do wash new pants.
I guess I’m really worried about what touches my vagina, huh? I guess that explains my sex-life.
Mine weren’t sealed in anything. It was just paper and stuff on em.
The same thing happened to us last weekend only it was he who insisted his brand-new boxers be washed first. I’d never heard of such a thing!
Its a girl thing. I wash, my bf doesn’t (I should add that we both wash OURSELVES) it depends who opens the packages…
Live on the wild side, it’s all good.
My hubby always tells me to wash them first, it sounds like a collasal waste of time.
I don’t wash anything new. Put it on and thats that, but my boyfriend does wash everything new. Maybe its a lazy thing.
After having a (non-STD) affliction that required EXPENSIVE SHOTS IN MY BOX I prefer to err on the side of OCD as anything remotely irritating and cause me to have a flare up and require more EXPENSIVE SHOTS IN MY BOX.
I do not care to anger the Achilles Vadge.
I only wash towels before I use ‘em ~ they just sit on the shelf, no protection whatsoever…and, I don’t care much for lint.
It’s basically a comfort thing for me, same goes for t-shirts, etc. I find them too rough against my delicate skin w/out first washing them.
I never wash anything before I wear it. Even dark-rinse jeans that WARN you to “wash before wearing”, and YES– (gross, I know!) sometimes even clothing from a thrift store. Although if it has animal hair on it or smells anything other then clean, I will wash it.
I am the epitome of lazy female. I guess I’m just not terribly concerned about buggies and stuff like that… although if I ever did catch anything I’d have rightly learned my lesson.
Ok, here’s a question for those that wash: Do you wash between each wearing??
I wash, BTW.
I’ve gotta side with your wife on this one! However, I think it is more important for ladies with our rather sensitive lady bits. I once made the mistake in high school of wearing some nice, satiny, Victoria’s Secret underwear without washing it first; without regaling you with the details I’ll just say that it was literally like having ants in my pants. Y’know….the red, stinging, venomous fire ants.
vmpyrdavid – I do the same, almost always.
Maybe it’s an age thing rather than a girl vs. guy thing. I never used to wash anything before wearing it, but now I wash everything before wearing.
20 years….hahahahahaha.
sometimes i wash…sometimes i don’t. it depends on how quickly i need/want what i bought. if i happen to be doing laundry i will throw the new item in. if i want to wear it before that i do.
Until this post I never even considered washing my underwear before wearing them. I still won’t now, afterall any sprayed on stuff is meant to protect the underwear. I want my underwear to last as long as possible.
Its not a girl thing! I never wash new stuff but my ex-husband HAD to wash ALL newly purchased items. But, now after reading all this, I feel like a dirty girl and need to take a hot shower for 14 years.
Well now I’m kind of embarrassed to admit this but I don’t wash clothes before wearing them.
After reading what so many others have said about why, next time I buy new clothes I totally WILL wash before wearing though.
Green – don’t let the wash people bully you. Live on the dirty edge like me.
@Alison, I’m so glad you posted first because I’m right with you. I never wash new clothes before wearing them. To me, that’s just extra nutty work, no thanks. And, I have purchased used clothing more than once that I did not wash before wearing. Hey, I eat stuff off the floor too, whattayagonnado?
I don’t wash my new undies. I tend to be so excited that I have new ones that i really want to wear them all at once, I don’t have the patience to wash them. Sometimes, like last week, I will buy 10 new pairs (it was a good deal) and wear them each throughout the day. They are all cute and cumfee and I don’t want to have to wait for a new day to come around. I guess small things make me excited. Maybe I should be washing them. It seems like it would be a really big struggle for me.
I never wash anything new before I wear it. I’m dangerous. The boyfriend is definitely the woman in this relationship, he refuses to wear anything new until he washes it (and then accidently shrinks it in the drier). I want at least one wearing before I accidently bleach something, or throw my new white shirt in with the stuff that bleeds.
I guess I’m not a woman :(