How often do you do laundry?

[Fitz_Hulk]

Exactly as the title suggests - how often do you do laundry? Specifically, activewear laundry - I find myself going to the gym/training with pole dancing up to four or five times a week. I've only got so much activewear, so do I need to launder it literally every time I wear it? Help a sister out! 

[Khuja, Dwarf Tank]

The only true activewear I have are my cycling shorts, I wash them after each ride.

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[RisenPhoenix]

I've worn shorts I've lifted in a few sessions before, assuming I didn't get them all sweaty and gross.  I wear my aikido gi/uniform usually a couple of days before I swap it out for a fresh one.  But by and large, I typically wear things once and then wash with few exceptions.  

 

Over the years I've built up enough active wear that I'm not washing everything every week, but I do have to do laundry at least every other week with all the clothes so I can keep working out.

[Echoceanic]

I have no real active wear - my size is really hard to get. I exercise in old leggings and a sport bra I keep tightened with a safety pin in the back (the straps went loose on me). I wash them when they feel gross. Considering I exercise 2 times a week (bodyweight), that is once or twice a month. You find your own level of neatness and the way you feel best. If you sweat a lot when you exercise you might need to wash them more.

[Stardust]

I sweat like I'm a river, so I wear everything once.  Slowly building up so I have a week of activewear, then I can launder once a week.  But mostly, when it's all been worn, I wash it.

[Raincloak]

If it doesn't stink or feel icky, go ahead and wear it again.  If it does, wash it. 

 

You can make clothes last longer between washings if you hang them up inside out and let them air (preferably in sunlight) after use.  Most of the stinky bacteria are anaerobic, and they like damp dark conditions.  This won't remove the oils and minerals your skin leaves on stuff, but it will reduce smells and evaporate the water that sweat is mostly made of.

 

Also, hot dryers are bad for the stretchy fabrics they use to make activewear.  Always hang dry your athletic gear, do not put it in the dryer.

[Adventuresarah]

I do laundry daily because I have a big family. But, not my athletic clothes. I don't put them in the dryer so I only wash them weekly. I could never wear them twice because I sweat too much.

[DyDy]

I do three different sets of sports, so I have three sets of clothes. Each of these sets I wear 1-2 times max. In between, I let them air. Works fine for me, have never been called out for being to smelly.

[Super Starling!]

I only wear my activewear once before throwing it in the hamper. I've found that putting on fresh underwear every single time before I exercise helps a lot with keeping my activewear nice for as long as possible. (TMI? MAYBE.) 

 

I have a lot of activewear because I use things like poshmark.com and local thrift stores to round out my collection. That way, I don't have to do laundry as often. I only do laundry when I'm totally out of something (socks, underwear, jeans, activewear -- whatever runs out first). I am lazy AF. 

[curryfiend]

Once a week - I'm gross. The laundry machines in my building are stupid expensive. :\

[Lueretius]

Myself, my partner and 2 kids along with 2 dogs, I (by which I mean the royal we because i'm sure i'll somehow get in trouble if my partner things I'm taking all the credit for housework) have to do a load every 2 days. Thankfully all my active wear is really cheap so I throw it through the dryer every time without a care that its wearing quickly.

[Gredge]

I have two kids, so there is at least one of load of laundry being done per day in my house. For work-out stuff, I wash it after wearing it once. Especially my Jiu Jitsu gi. BJJ is a grappling art, and if you've ever done high-school wrestling, you know the kind of skin funk that you can get from rolling around and being sweaty. 

[RedStone]

Usually twice a week. (I'm in the same boat as you, 5-6 days per week in activewear, sometimes 2 shirts per day not including street wear.)

[Sciread77]

My family includes my wife and 3 children under the age of 5 as well as a dog, 2 cats, and 2 bunnies.  We do a load or two of laundry every day.  We wash active wear with the next load we do after use.  If all of us go swimming or to the rec center we just joined, that's almost a load in and of itself.  

[The Battle Chef]

I typically train at home so I may stretch the definition of "fresh" ever so slightly >.>

But I typically do laundry weekly and whatever is dirty, even if worn for just one workout, goes in the wash.

[Guest]

I just ran to the store (one of those extreme literal last 7 minutes before closing type shoppings) and didn't get the facric softener. 

 

Normally, the washing machine runs every other or third day (by colors) - unless it's something that has gotten either spilled onto, or gym clothing that get soaking sweated in alongside towels - that's kind of a daily routine. Probably drives my neighbours insane. 

[Frost of the Gloaming]

It's a daily thing in our house, I don't have a laundry line in the laundry room so I pretty much wash my work out stuff after I use it so it doesn't end up smelling. 

[leglocker]

I wash my training gear once a week. This includes 4 gis, 7 rashguards,  7 compression shorts, and 4 grappling/boardshorts. With my workouts (Jiu jitsu) it's pretty disgusting if you wear something again without washing. Your partner will get all up in your funk. 

[Gainsdalf the Whey]

General laundry, at hatever frequency that I run out of celan underwear.

 

Active wear, I have a locker at the gym and hang the "in use" clothing on the hooks. I smell the cloths before I wear them each time. I swap them out once they get funky, as I keep a fresh set at the bottom of the locker.

 

As for pole dancing, I recently learned that the poles spin in place and it was like being a kid and finding out the Easter Bunny isn't real.

[PettyMort]

I work out at home so I usually do it in my underwear! General laundry is whenever my partner or myself have run out of underwear, and I do all of it at once. I am trying to develop the habit of doing a small load each day so it's not so overwhelming to fold and put away.

 

But that's a next month kind of goal.

[NeverThatBored]

I do it every two weeks - I don't want to do it more often than that, so I've just accumulated more and more activewear to last long enough between washes.

[cjfaun]

Activewear laundry... uh. As often as I use it, but I don't use it much; most of my exercise at the moment is long-distance walking (so I can get away with anything comfy, heh). As for typical laundry... normally every few days I'll go "oh crap that's a lot of my work tops spilling out of my laundry basket"