How often should you do washing?
An instructional video from US detergent bran Washland on how often you should be washing items such as clothes, sheets, towels and underwear has gone viral, and is causing quite a stir.
The video suggests towels only need to be washed once or twice a week, bedding every two weeks and bras after every three or four wears.
They also recommended pyjamas should be washed after three to four nights. Thankfully, Washable says socks need to be washed after every wash.
The video has been viewed millions of times and advice is causing a lot of controversy, with many users labelling the advice "nasty".
"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" one woman said.
"Shirts every 2-4 wears? Sure, if I want to smell like an armpit," said another.
How often do you wash these items? What do you think of the Washland advice?
"Socks need to be washed after every wash"? Even cursory proofreading should have picked this up.
Whilst I would agree that shirts may need to be washed more often than after every 2-4 wears, the suggestion by someone that the wearer would "smell like an armpit" if wearing a shirt more than once between washes says more about their personal hygiene than about the advice. I shower and use deodorant, so my shirts would not give offence if I wore them for a week (but I don't!). Maybe your contributor should try this.
Same goes for the woman who advocates changing bed linen and towels twice a week and washing "all clothes" after every wear. Taking an occasional shower might save her a lot of unnecessary work.