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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago

The rise of the ‘no-wash’ movement is peak neoliberal individualism attempting to tackle systemic problems on an individual level.

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The rise of the ‘no-wash’ movement is peak neoliberal individualism attempting to tackle systemic problems on an individual level.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago
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The rise of the ‘no-wash’ movement
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There's a growing cohort of people who believe in washing clothes less – or not at all. Matilda Welin talks to the 'no-wash' and 'low-wash' believers.
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    Everyone MUST return to the office, driving huge trucks that spew pollution

    Please wash your clothes less

    Stupid fucking country

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    reddit-logo whats something that unacceptable if you’re poor, but cool and hip if you’re rich

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      Gentrifying poverty is so fucking wild. I fucking hate it here.

    • OldSoulHippie [he/him]@hexbear.netBanned
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      Camping

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    For Szabo, the low-wash habit began when he bought his first pair of raw denim jeans in 2010. Travelling from his native Canada to Europe, he brought his jeans for the six-month trip. “It was a quirk about me that I had these stinky jeans,” he tells BBC Culture. “They smelled awful.” In Budapest he met his future wife, and the jeans became a character in their relationship. “My jeans would be in, like, a pile on the floor at the end of the bed,” he remembers. “You walked into the room, you could smell [them]… I was very fortunate that my wife was as interested in me as she was.”

    visible-disgust

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      guys, the bar is on the fucking floor with the stinky jeans

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      I don’t do any of this but I’ve read that if you freeze clothing you’re trying to avoid washing it prevents the stink by killing bacteria.

      So this guy just didn’t even try to not be stinky.

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        Yeah, my brother had a pair of Japanese selvedge denim jeans and he’d do this

        It made him miserable in the winter if he forgot to take them out to warm up

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          lmao did he wear them straight out of the freezer?

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            A couple of times, yeah

            I thought it was funny

            He froze his cojones trying to impress girls

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            I do that on hot days

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        It doesn’t work. When they thaw they’re still stinky

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          I think the idea is to freeze before they get stinky

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      I’m guessing there’s a fetish at play there

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      This is an E1 bit. They just found Alex Branson

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    Asmongold ass challenge

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    Please join my no ass washing movement

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      UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES

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      Isn’t that already a thing in the toxic masculinity circles?

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        the man who cleans his house expects visitors

        -“andr*w t*te”

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    “It was a quirk about me that I had these stinky jeans,” he tells BBC Culture. “They smelled awful.” In Budapest he met his future wife, and the jeans became a character in their relationship. “My jeans would be in, like, a pile on the floor at the end of the bed,” he remembers. “You walked into the room, you could smell [them]… I was very fortunate that my wife was as interested in me as she was.”

    the author and his wifes barely disguised fetish

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      One of Wool&'s customers is Chelsea Harry from Connecticut, US. “I grew up in a house where you wash everything after one use,” she tells BBC Culture. “Towel after one use, your pyjamas after one use.”

      Also you could just be normal about washing fabric and then not end up with some sort of wash debt to be paid off

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    live in the pod, eat the bugs, wear the dirty clothes, all for the sake of preventing climate change. don’t try to do anything about billionaires with private jets tho, that’s different and totally fine actually

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    This no-wash thing seems like another manifestation of those people who were in the news a few years ago for never showering.

    I usually get 2-3 wears out of shirts before I wash them, and 5-7 wears out of pants. Depends on how hot it is outside (anything that gets sweaty will get washed before I wear it again).

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      I remember the guy who came up with the good bacterial spray that he used in leu of showering also looks like Danny Devito on the worst day of his life.

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    This shit is so stupid because from the perspective of domestic labor I don’t think actually washing your clothes presents a particularly onerous burden. Folding and putting the clothes away on the other hand? That shit is annoying. But that’s not even what these people are mad about! This shit is all solved by the “Piles” organizational structure.

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      If you don’t have a washing machine, having to walk to a laundromat or do a bathtub wash does take a lot more time

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        Damn you caught my privilege showing thanks comrade

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    probably could get away with washing pants less often though tbh

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    I have to wash my clothes by hand, which is time consuming and needs a fairly sunny day, so sometimes (especially in winter) I can’t really wash much stuff. So I have to wear clothes multiple days in a row sometimes. Even just a couple of days they really start to stink. I don’t know how anyone would choose that as a lifestyle choice, it’s just gross and lazy.

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    Starting c/no_wash just so I can ban yogthos from the comm

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      🤣

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    "Besides – washing your clothes too often eats up hours of your life. Who has the time? “I’m really interested in sustainability and the environment and natural resource management,” says Harry. “But I’m also concerned with my time.”

    white man’s kkkryptonite: labor

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      wtf is he on about it’s literally 10 minutes of work lol

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        I can at least sympathize in that I hate folding & organizing clothes - it’s still incredibly doable though

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      Domestic labor

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      Man I get not wanting to fold your clothes but even that is on-par with washing dishes IMO. Laundry itself is the number 1 passive chore if you can’t be arsed to throw a load in, I don’t even wanna think about what your floors/toilet/shower look like.

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    or you could just… try to buy clothes without plastic in them? its harder to do now but plenty of places sell 100% cotton

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    You’re practicing hygiene?

    There’s heckin’ wholesome AI which hunger for lakes and YOU’RE showering?

    Typical selfish prole. YoUrE hUrTiNg ThE eCoNoMy!1!1

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