SAHP -- how many times do you change clothes throughout the day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 outfit a day since day 1. I've been at home 6 years, since I was pregnant with my first.

+1. At the most, I would change a top if it got food or spit up on it. PPs must do a lot of laundry!

+1

If the baby gets me dirty, I usually try to wipe it off with a sponge or something. If it's that bad, I'll change. I don't wear a lot of yoga pants though. Jeans in winter. Skirt or shorts or dress now through summer. I don't wear anything uncomfortable. Well, maybe to a wedding or something.

[Anonymous]

I change a couple times a day. DD is still nursing so I like to wear easy access clothes, no bra, and comfy pants at home. Definitely wouldn't want to go out looking like that.

[Anonymous]

Same outfit for 2 days here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd probably have stuck with the original outfit all day. Depending on how bad the peanut butter incident was, I might have just left it on, or else swapped out the shirt. It's not THAT hot out that you had to change into shorts, and if you weren't already changing to leave the house I think you would have been fine to leave on the jeans.

+1. I'd be willing to suffer through heat and grossness if it keeps the laundry down. I have 2 under 3 and wore one outfit today. When the baby was suffering through reflux I probably went through 3 tee shirts a day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Same outfit for 2 days here.

I did this last week!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a newly minted SAHM, and it feels like I go through three or four outfit changes a day at least. For instance, this morning I was going to playgroup so I pulled on a good pair of jeans and a nice t-shirt. When I got home, I swapped the nice jeans for leggings. Then the baby threw peanut butter on my shirt so I had to change shirts. Then I had to go do pickup and after-school activities with my oldest, so I pulled on a pair of shorts because the weather had warmed up and because I don't like to wear leggings out of the house. When I get home, I'll probably swap the shorts for leggings again so I can finish cleaning/making dinner without worrying about messing up my clothes.

I feel like I'm constantly changing clothes and making extra laundry, which I hate. But I feel like the trade off would be to wear leggings and beat up tees all day, and I don't know if I am ready to go down that route. I still want to pay at least a modicum of attention to how I look...

What about you? Do you just pull on one outfit and leave it all day? Is this not normal?

OM, you talk too much.

[Anonymous]

I don't think the number of outfits is unreasonable OP. But TBH the only item I would put in the hamper to be washed at the end of the day is the peanut butter shirt. I would probably still deem the rest perfectly fine to be worn again before washing. Wearing an item of clothing for a few hours does not automatically make it unfit to be worn again IMO.

[Anonymous]

I also change a couple times a day... Usually same to though unless something catastrophic.. I wear nice pants/jeans flats when I leave the house and comfy leggings/sweatpants at home.

[Anonymous]

I have a 5 month old. Wake up and shower while DH plays/feeds baby. Put on something cute and comfortable. That stays on pretty much all day unless DH spits up on me etc. So 1 or 2 times a day.