An easy way to wear out cloths is to wash them too often. Some rules I follow:
If it’s smelly or visibly dirty, ignore all other rules and wash
Rotate jeans and hang to air out. Cotton will naturally drop smells this way. Wash approx every 4 wears
Sweaters/Jumpers can be worn many times if a shirt is underneath. Hang and rotate to air out
If socks are merino wool, use nikwash and wear until they no longer smell like the wash (or get dirty). Lay out to air out. Any other material, wear only once
Dress shirts, if not wrinkled, 3 times, hang to air (only if you wear t-shirts underneath)
Wash t-shirts and underwear every time unless your backpacking. Basically, anything not wool that comes into constant contact with sweaty bits
Agree with all this except jeans. Store them in the freezer and wash them even less than you’d like to. They’re barely cool when you put them on…
unless it’s a July 17 heatwave and you wore them in 7000% humidity before tossing the salty, sweat-drenched denim into the freezer, in which case they’re like cold tortilla chips. Just wash them if you were swimming down the sidewalk in mid-summer muck.
Anyway. Makes them last at least a couple years longer.
Wait, you’re putting worn shirts back with the unworn?
An easy way to wear out cloths is to wash them too often. Some rules I follow:
Agree with all this except jeans. Store them in the freezer and wash them even less than you’d like to. They’re barely cool when you put them on…
unless it’s a July 17 heatwave and you wore them in 7000% humidity before tossing the salty, sweat-drenched denim into the freezer, in which case they’re like cold tortilla chips. Just wash them if you were swimming down the sidewalk in mid-summer muck.
Anyway. Makes them last at least a couple years longer.
freezer space is way to precious for that. I would have to buy a jeans freezer.