How often should you wash clothes, sheets and towels? Viral video about laundry sparks huge debate
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Thousands are divided after viral video suggests how often you should wash your clothes, towels and bed sheets
- An viral clip showing how often you should wash clothing has divided thousands
- The online video said to wash socks after every wear and bras after every three
- It suggested cleaning shirts every two-four wears and pyjamas every three-five
- Bedding should be washed once a fortnight and towels once or twice weekly
- Some said the advice was ‘disgusting’ while others argued there was no issue
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A viral video informing people how often they should be washing their clothes, sheets, towels and underwear is causing a stir online.
The clip, posted by laundry detergent brand Washland, informed viewers they should throw bras in the washing machine after every three to four wears, bedding every two weeks and towels once or twice weekly.
Hundreds took to the comments to slam the ‘nasty’ advice saying people should wash clothing after each wear but some argued that was ‘wasteful’.
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A viral video informing people how often they should wash their clothes, sheets and towels posted to social media has racked up millions of views and divided thousands
The clip, posted by laundry detergent brand Washland, said people should throw shirts in the wash after every two to four wears, bedding every fortnight and towels once or twice weekly
Washlands recommends washing socks after each wear, bras after three or four, shirts after two to four and pyjamas after every three to five.
The video also advised washing bedding every fortnight and towels once or twice a week but said denim can be put in the laundry after being worn ten times.
More than 8.9million Facebook users viewed the video which was met with a barrage of thousands of comments as people were divided over the laundry recommendations with some slamming it as ‘disgusting’.
‘Nastyyyyyy. Bedding should be changed and washed twice a week. Towels should be changed and washed twice a week. All clothes should be changed and washed after every wear. If you do it differently you nasty idc (I don’t care),’ one woman said.
‘Shirts every 2-4 wears? Sure, if I want to smell like an armpit,’ joked another.
‘I wash my clothes after every wear. Bedding every five days. This doesn’t sound very clean to me,’ a third commented.
‘Your clothes pick up dirt, hair etc. from one day. Could not, should not, wear them for longer. That is gross. I wash my clothes after one wear, could never sleep in sheets that had not been changed and washed after a week,’ shared a fourth.
However not everyone was put off by the informative clip saying with the rising cost of living, it’s more economical to wash clothes less often and a person’s lifestyle will effect how often they need to do laundry.
‘These kinds of things are utter s***. No sane person washes these things that much, complete waste of time, water and electricity,’ a user complained.
‘How do you have time to hand wash your bras after each use? Plus work every day, wash your sheets once a week towels after each use, clothing after each use, cook and clean your house and run errands, take care of your yard, clean your car, pay your bills etc?!?!?,’ another asked.
‘I mean I wash things when they need to be washed. So wasteful to wash everything after one wear or scheduled washes, but to each their own,’ a third replied.
‘This changes drastically from person to person as everyone is different and don’t live the same life,’ a fourth pointed out.