At what point do you buy all new underwear and get rid of the old ones?

[Yavin4]

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[Lochloosa]

1. I'm not going to be the first to answer this question.....

[Croney]

2. One at a time, as they wear out.

[Binkie The Clown]

7. Exactly. Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. nt

[Croney]

12. That phrase is on my coffee mug.

[Laffy Kat]

18. But most underwear is sold in package or three to a hanger, something like that.

I DO confess that I have purchased new undies just to put off doing laundry for a couple of days.

[left-of-center2012]

31. ditto

[underpants]

3. :-(

[CrispyQ]

4. LOL!

[Kali]

8. !

[Yavin4]

17. No offense. n/t

[underpants]

19. Oh okay Hitler. No offense.

no offense of course

[LeftInTX]

36. I'm so sorry...hugs

[ret5hd]

5. When the neighbors start complaining about my morning paper retrieval.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

32. Yikes! Thanks for mental picture.

[Warpy]

6. When they wear out

either through defunct elastic or popped seams. One droop or hole, they go into the rag bag and I get new ones.

[3catwoman3]

9. Going commando whenever possible...

...means not very often.

[HDSam]

10. What's

Underwear?

[fleur-de-lisa]

11. When they disentigrate.

I live with a bunch of cats . . . they don't care.

[Iggo]

13. Daytime underwear, after-work underwear, or nighttime underwear?

[Solly Mack]

14. Orphaned undies sound so sad.

Street undies. Homeless undies.

Can't be good for society.

All those unwanted undies, aimlessly lurking about. Looking for a place to rest.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

15. What's underwear? NT

[Hoyt]

16. After a few years, they make good polishing/cleaning rags.

[Chipper Chat]

20. think twice about it.

New store underwear contains so much SPANDEX they choke your waist.

[hibbing]

21. A little extra air conditioning is not a problem

Usually after two extra holes they will find themselves in the trash.


Peace

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. Frequent laundering is not good for underwear.

Turn them inside out and visa versa occasionally and a pair will go weeks without washing!

Additionally if you never wear them a pair will last forever!

[Major Nikon]

41. I never wash my underwear

When I'm all out of clean ones I just start wearing the wife's until she washes mine.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

44. 😜

[yallerdawg]

23. When you start having health issues...

and could suddenly be stripped down to your underwear in a "public setting" surrounded by doctors and nurses.

Then, your mother's haunting words come back...

[Phentex]

24. I prefer the pre emptive strike method

I don't want to grab a pair that has seen better days.

[crazycatlady]

25. they're replaced individually

AS soon as they're holey, they're washed a final time and sent to H&M for clothing recycling.

[flotsam]

27. When a new relationship appears promising...N/T

[RestoreAmerica2020]

33. Funny! Yet, true in most cases...

[democratisphere]

28. Isn't shabby chic underwear still in style?

[Turbineguy]

29. So, I marched into a Brooks Brothers.....

and said to the the Lady who came to help me....

"I hear you have very comfortable underwear!"

(Oh, this isn't going well)

"Uh... that you sell in this store!"

Indeed she did.

[IronLionZion]

30. It's gradually over time, every few months I replace a few

I throw out the worn out ones and buy new ones as needed. It goes by how many I have clean before I have to do laundry. Same for socks and plain white t shirts.

One of the brilliant things I started doing recently was throw out all of my dress socks and buy a bunch of the exact same type so they always match. makes folding clean laundry much faster. I never liked crazy colorful socks anyway but I did go through that phase.

[Tanuki]

46. I have a brother- in- law who is an attorney and he always buys black socks.

He says he doesn't want to accidentally grab a navy blue one and a black one in dim light and then show up in court wearing mismatched socks.

[shenmue]

34. Maybe twice a year

Unless disaster occurs.

[Kaleva]

35. Dead people's undies are a bargain at thrift stores

[milestogo]

37. Till death do us fart.

[haele]

38. When the rips get to about two inches long?

Back when working shipyards, I've worn patched up holey underwear before. Part of it comes from growing up with thrift store clothes and hand-me downs, and parents who spent their early childhood in the latter part of the Depression.
When things start swinging free and it feels as if there's a little too much ventilation that a darning needle can handle, then it's off to the store for a new pack.

Haele

[Major Nikon]

42. People pay extra for crotchless drawers

I say it makes them more valuable

[mnhtnbb]

39. When you have to evacuate and space in the suitcase is for more important things

than old underwear.

[TexasBushwhacker]

40. I tend to buy mine all at once so they are all warn out at the same time

So then I buy a whole new batch, generally once a year or so.

[Optical.Catalyst]

43. I never buy underwear. Grandma knows when I need underwear and she gets it for me.

It is a funny thing that my underwear always needs to be replaced at Christmas and on my birthday.

[Phentex]

45. all of that could be taken the wrong way

[denbot]

48. Ya do it before this happens

From my journal..



I channeled Middle Finger Mom this afternoon.

This story really starts last night. I picked up a load in central Ohio, to deliver in Fredricksburg VA at 2:00pm today. I did not want to run through the night, pacing the humongous storm covering this part of the country, so I shutdown early at a truck stop to eat, shower, and take my mandatory 10 hours of rest.

As I dressed after my shower, I noticed my fresh underwear's crotch had pretty much blown out. I'm not the kind of guy that throws away tee shirts, or skivvies just because they are showing a little wear, hell, that's when are are just starting to get comfy.

Anyway I did not have a very restful night, finally I gave up just before 4am, grabbed some coffee, a breakfast biscuit and got to trucking.

Seven hours later I get to my drop in the pouring rain, getting thoroughly soaked from my hat to my tennis shoes while checking in. I'm told I'll have to wait for a dock to open up, so I parked near by out of the way, undressed and tried to get a little rest before I unload and the head to my final drop 60 miles away.

I stripped out of my wet clothes, for a quick nap. My normal sleep routine is to wear a tee shirt and one of two pairs of shorts, both made of charcoal grey jersey material, which are almost a perfect match for the underware I was wearing, my somewhat veteran hybrid boxer/tightly-whitey type undies.

Later the receiver banged on my door to wake me and gave me the usual instructions on docking. I lined up my truck, not wanting to soak a second set of clothes, I got out in the pouring rain in a tee shirt, my sleeping shorts, and flip flops.

There were a gaggle of warehouse workers on break, watching as I walked to the back of my 53' trailer to open the padlock, break my seal, and crack the doors before I backed the trailer all the way in.

At the very back of the trailer as I was opened the lock I became aware that something was weird. A moment later it hit me. When I undressed, I did not change in to my sleep gear, I just stripped down to my skivvies, and took a nap.

I was out there in the rain, wearing flip-flops, a tee shirt, not merely MFM No Pants style, but for bonus points, in nearly crotchless underware with a good portion of the warehouse crew on break 20 yards away!

I all but panicked, but I did not want to break for my cab and surely draw attention to myself, so not daring to look towards the dock crew, I tried as casually as possible, to open my trailer, and then non chalantly walk back to my cab. I got back in my truck, found, and put on my sleep shorts, and waited for either the sun to mercifully explode, or more likely, the cops to get there.

I'm not sure if anyone noticed, but my truck was unloaded in record time, and the receiver did not make eye contact with me when he handed me back my paperwork.

If I'm given another load back to that location, I think I'll decline it.

[Leith]

49. This Is the Funniest Thing I've Read Since

MFM was still with us.