I do this as well, mainly because my parents did this. Saved the "nice" clothes for work and church etc... and changed into home clothes or outside work clothes when they were home.

Always.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s one thing to change when you get home. It’s quite another to change 4-5-6 times a day. I think it’s extraordinarily odd, tbh. And OCD. But whatever, if it makes you happy.

Can you invite someone into your home and let them sit down on your furniture?

OP here and yes, we have guests all the time. And my DH and DC don't do this (though everyone always removes their shoes). My two kind of controlling things are that I've asked DH not to lie in the bed in pants he wore to work (he rides the train to work), and I won't let anyone put luggage or backpacks on beds or other furniture because I think about where they go and it grosses me out.

But otherwise this is just something I do for my own comfort.

Yes. We do the same.

Backpacks and lunchboxes etc are kept in a special place at home because of this reason. Both my kids have two good quality backpacks and lunchboxes each that has lasted several years. We wash backpacks frequently so that it remains clean and fresh.

Our suitcases from a trip is unpacked in the foyer to prevent bedbugs and other germs to be transferred in our home. After that, we will wipe down all suitcases on the outside and disinfect and air inside.

We also wipe our laundry baskets after we carry dirty clothes to the washer. We don't carry back clean clothes in the laundry basket unless we have wiped it down.

This is some batsh!t crazy stuff.

I do this too! Do other people actually put clean clothes in the same basket where dirty, sweaty socks and underwear were? That’s so gross.

Don't you have hampers? Hampers are for dirty clothes, baskets are for clean clothes.

I don't think most people differentiate - they carry their clothes to and fro in the same baskets or hampers. That is why someone upstream commented that this was batshit crazy stuff.

I get that not everyone does this but it's not "batshit." Like there is clear logic to it -- clean clothes in the clean container and dirty clothes in the dirty container.

I think people jump to "this is insane" because they feel implicated by it -- if other people are doing this, am I dirty for not doing it? And the answer is... maybe?

Cleanliness is strange because it's a continuum. Some people *are* cleaner than other people. Some things that would make you or your house cleaner might not be worth the effort, others are really not that hard to implement. Obviously everyone chooses for themselves. But I guarantee you do at least some things for the sake of cleanliness that other people don't do. Does that make you batshit? No, of course not.

I have an extremely keen sense of smell, so there are certain things I do that my husband does not find necessary because he appears to have a very crude sense of smell. For instance I take the trash out daily because it will begin to stink to me otherwise. I scoop the cat litter twice a day. I wash our throw pillows and blankets more frequently than he would (he would never wash them) and so on. I'm not batshit and he's not "dirty", it's just that we experience the world differently.

Do people not know they have skin?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s one thing to change when you get home. It’s quite another to change 4-5-6 times a day. I think it’s extraordinarily odd, tbh. And OCD. But whatever, if it makes you happy.

Can you invite someone into your home and let them sit down on your furniture?

OP here and yes, we have guests all the time. And my DH and DC don't do this (though everyone always removes their shoes). My two kind of controlling things are that I've asked DH not to lie in the bed in pants he wore to work (he rides the train to work), and I won't let anyone put luggage or backpacks on beds or other furniture because I think about where they go and it grosses me out.

But otherwise this is just something I do for my own comfort.

Yes. We do the same.

Backpacks and lunchboxes etc are kept in a special place at home because of this reason. Both my kids have two good quality backpacks and lunchboxes each that has lasted several years. We wash backpacks frequently so that it remains clean and fresh.

Our suitcases from a trip is unpacked in the foyer to prevent bedbugs and other germs to be transferred in our home. After that, we will wipe down all suitcases on the outside and disinfect and air inside.

We also wipe our laundry baskets after we carry dirty clothes to the washer. We don't carry back clean clothes in the laundry basket unless we have wiped it down.

This is some batsh!t crazy stuff.

I do this too! Do other people actually put clean clothes in the same basket where dirty, sweaty socks and underwear were? That’s so gross.

Don't you have hampers? Hampers are for dirty clothes, baskets are for clean clothes.

I don't think most people differentiate - they carry their clothes to and fro in the same baskets or hampers. That is why someone upstream commented that this was batshit crazy stuff.

Anonymous wrote:I’m from India and this is what we’ve always done. We get into the house, wash our feet and hands and change into our indoor clothes.
I don’t wash feet anymore now but I always wear indoor clothes as soon as I get home.

Not Indian, but same. Come home, change into indoor clothes. Usually t-shirt and comfy sweatpants or similar… that I use indoors.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s one thing to change when you get home. It’s quite another to change 4-5-6 times a day. I think it’s extraordinarily odd, tbh. And OCD. But whatever, if it makes you happy.

Can you invite someone into your home and let them sit down on your furniture?

OP here and yes, we have guests all the time. And my DH and DC don't do this (though everyone always removes their shoes). My two kind of controlling things are that I've asked DH not to lie in the bed in pants he wore to work (he rides the train to work), and I won't let anyone put luggage or backpacks on beds or other furniture because I think about where they go and it grosses me out.

But otherwise this is just something I do for my own comfort.

Yes. We do the same.

Backpacks and lunchboxes etc are kept in a special place at home because of this reason. Both my kids have two good quality backpacks and lunchboxes each that has lasted several years. We wash backpacks frequently so that it remains clean and fresh.

Our suitcases from a trip is unpacked in the foyer to prevent bedbugs and other germs to be transferred in our home. After that, we will wipe down all suitcases on the outside and disinfect and air inside.

We also wipe our laundry baskets after we carry dirty clothes to the washer. We don't carry back clean clothes in the laundry basket unless we have wiped it down.

This is some batsh!t crazy stuff.

I do this too! Do other people actually put clean clothes in the same basket where dirty, sweaty socks and underwear were? That’s so gross.

Don't you have hampers? Hampers are for dirty clothes, baskets are for clean clothes.

My family was like this growing up. We don't force our kids to do it now, but I wish we had. I change into athleisure/lounge clothes when I get home, but that is a comfort thing and not a cleanliness thing.

In Japan there’s a whole category of clothing called “Room Wear,” although not everyone differentiates like this.

Also in my twenties I had a roommate who was a Southern sorority-girl type who went to fancy schools and she would always change out of her cute, fashionable outfits into shorts and a big tee the moment she got home. This seemed to be more about preserving the nice clothes and not about any concern with outside germs though

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Anonymous wrote:It’s one thing to change when you get home. It’s quite another to change 4-5-6 times a day. I think it’s extraordinarily odd, tbh. And OCD. But whatever, if it makes you happy.

Can you invite someone into your home and let them sit down on your furniture?

OP here and yes, we have guests all the time. And my DH and DC don't do this (though everyone always removes their shoes). My two kind of controlling things are that I've asked DH not to lie in the bed in pants he wore to work (he rides the train to work), and I won't let anyone put luggage or backpacks on beds or other furniture because I think about where they go and it grosses me out.

But otherwise this is just something I do for my own comfort.

Yes. We do the same.

Backpacks and lunchboxes etc are kept in a special place at home because of this reason. Both my kids have two good quality backpacks and lunchboxes each that has lasted several years. We wash backpacks frequently so that it remains clean and fresh.

Our suitcases from a trip is unpacked in the foyer to prevent bedbugs and other germs to be transferred in our home. After that, we will wipe down all suitcases on the outside and disinfect and air inside.

We also wipe our laundry baskets after we carry dirty clothes to the washer. We don't carry back clean clothes in the laundry basket unless we have wiped it down.

This is some batsh!t crazy stuff.

That doesn't sound crazy to me, but our system is different. Dirty clothes go in hampers with cloth liners. The liners get washed with the laundry. Only clean clothes go in laundry baskets.

Same here. Cloth liners in a 3 bin sorter hamper and they get washed with dirty laundry.