am i ridiculously anal?

[keryx]

Of the like 80 comments on VP, only one other person said she wore a clean bra every day.

Is that what everyone else is doing? Fascinating! This is why the internet is so cool. How else would I know what other women do with their bras?!

I wash my bras with the left over shower gel in my poof (thus no wasted soap) in the shower each morning and hang them on the towel rack. I have about 10 in regular circulation, and they only take a day to dry. It has honestly never occured to me to wear a bra two days in a row (except when travelling).

Oh, and the nice thing about having so many bras and washing them by hand is that most every bra lasts a year or more. Except the plunge-front ones. Those don't last for shit.

Comments

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's my thing for lacey stuff or maybe I'm just smelly, but mine kinda DO stink after a day. ;)

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

i wear 'em til they stink and wash 'em in the washer. i'm a bad bra owner. i wish i didn't care if people saw my nipples so i could just not wear 'em at all!

[keryx.livejournal.com]

i get the impression you're taking your lack of interest in bra-wearing out on your bras. you could always put bandaids over your nipples instead. though that sounds kinda painful.

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

And I have this weird thing about not generating so much trash - and also there's that sticky goo!

I don't hate my bras and abuse them on purpose; I just hold them to high standards of toughness. Actually at this point half the time I wear sports bras. :) Not that that helped, because on one of them one of the little hooks broke right off after the first wash. Grr.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Strangely, the eco-friendliness and cost (when we had no washer) of using the water and soap from my shower is how I ended up a daily washer. I couldn't care much less about destroying the bra itself, but it's efficient to wash it and me at the same time.

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

"til they stink" = 4-6 wears, i think.

[tartedelune.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious.

I only have two bras (one black and one white), which I wear constantly. This is the first time I've owned more than one bra at a time. I wash them every few weeks--they never seem to get dirty. My bras always seem to last more than a year, but I don't buy the sheer or meshy types, which seem more delicate.

Ah, the joys of the internet.

[tartedelune.livejournal.com]

Yay! Another minimalist bra-owner. I think if my boobs looked better without a bra (and if there wasn't the issue of comments/leers by assholes), I wouldn't bother with them at all.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

The internet is a marvelous thing, I tell you. And this topic is funny as hell. Like, it would never occur to me that one might own only two bras. I'm apparently more high-maintenance than I think.

[tartedelune.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I do also have a beige strapless bra, but I only wear it a few times a year and I've had it for at least three years so I don't generally count it.

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

The only thing I automatically assume is dirty after one wearing is undies. But lately it's been a bazillion degrees here and my bras are getting funky after one wearing -- I think I will gank your tip about washing them in the shower!

[scarletts-momma.livejournal.com]

Wow that's an amazing idea about your bath puff. I don't regulary wear bras so this conversation is completely null and void to me. When I did wear them, I would where them for a week straigh, get them out of the hamper, etc.

[oontzgrrl.livejournal.com]

I don't think I even own a bra for every day of the week. On the otherhand I have enough underwear to last me over a month without having to do laundry. :)

[firecat]

I rarely wear bras, but when I do, I definitely only wear them once. But that's because I have a chronic problem with rashes in moist areas, and if I re-wear clothes that have touched moist areas, the rashes get worse.

I wash mine in the machine...but they are all cotton and spandex sports bras, and basically indestructible.

[buddhastew.livejournal.com]

Wow, this is amazing.

This summer I've been working as a lifeguard and swim instructor, so I'm seldom even wearing underwear. It's a blessed event- I really dislike bras but I have to wear them.

When I do wear one every day, I wash it maybe every week. I have two bras in rotation at once.

Shopping for bras is my least favorite thing in the universe.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

Your least favorite thing in the universe? Wow. I'm actually quite fond of getting new bras.

[momsmilkrules.livejournal.com]

I so wish I had the B breasts of my youth and could go braless, but alas I cannot. I do usually reuse bras, but I tend to wear them then leave them a day (to reform?) and then wear them again. Although I really like the shower idea, and have actually done that on vacation. So why not at home? Hmmm. I don't normally shower daily either. I have hair down to my arse and it doesn't like daily washings, and I hate getting in the shower and keeping part of my body dry. I know silly.

[keryx.livejournal.com]

No, I totally get the not wanting to shower if you can't get all wet thing - I remember having casts on and never feeling CLEAN the whole time, since I couldn't get wet. I can't even imagine having lots of hair; I'd go insane. ;)

[miffyness.livejournal.com]

I don't even know how many bras I have but it's well into double figures. I get two days wear out of them, then they hang around on my floor for a while until I start running low and bung them all into the washing machine.