This is what we Canadians look forward to in the dead of winter.

Running down to the freezer in the morning to put on an ice cold pair of freshly cleaned pants, and venturing out into -20 temperatures. I'm surprised it's taken you Americans so long to catch up.

jaylectricity: To customers seeking further advice, Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all - the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.

Doesn't the freezer just slow down the germs?

I just bought a pair of 501xx (shrink to fit) . Was reading a website on how to break them in, guy said he wore his everyday for year only washing them once.

/I'm not that dedicated to my jeans.

HeadKase: uber humper: jaylectricity: To customers seeking further advice, Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all - the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.

Doesn't the freezer just slow down the germs?

I just bought a pair of 501xx (shrink to fit) . Was reading a website on how to break them in, guy said he wore his everyday for year only washing them once.

/I'm not that dedicated to my genes.

Think of the children!

If these pants shrink too much, I wont be having any children.

But I am getting propositioned more often:

helps

Freezing them may or may not kill the germs, but it definitely doesn't get the dirt and stains out.

jaylectricity: To customers seeking further advice, Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all - the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.

Doesn't the freezer just slow down the germs?

That was my thought.

I use an autoclave to do my laundry.

cgraves67: Freezing them may or may not kill the germs, but it definitely doesn't get the dirt and stains out.

That's always been my complaint with the idea. I'm not washing them because they're bacterial and smelly, I'm washing them because they're dirty and the interior is caked with my own skin and oil.

"We boil all our denim."

I wondered what that smell was.

I've been hearing this for years with regards to keeping your jeans from fading while not having them stink all the time. I just wear mine several times and wash them inside out.

give me doughnuts: live in an area that gets over 45 inches of rain per year. There is a very large river just a few miles away. If there are any problems with water, it is because there is too much of it.

We don't know what to do with all the water we have here. Maybe this is good advice out west, but we in the Northeast are gonna keep washing our clothes you dirty hippies.

uber humper: jaylectricity: To customers seeking further advice, Levi Strauss suggests washing jeans rarely, if at all - the theory being that putting them in the freezer will kill germs that cause them to smell.

Doesn't the freezer just slow down the germs?

I just bought a pair of 501xx (shrink to fit) . Was reading a website on how to break them in, guy said he wore his everyday for year only washing them once.

/I'm not that dedicated to my jeans.

You were dedicated enough that you researched how to wear them.

I only wash my jeans when the smell of stale cigarette smoke and beer becomes overwhelming.

Silly dady! You can't eat carpet...

Freezer won't remove the funk of a night of $5 lap dances.

Rapmaster2000 2011-11-03 03:15:22 PM
I've been hearing this for years with regards to keeping your jeans from fading while not having them stink all the time. I just wear mine several times and wash them inside out.



Do you think the water and soap in the washing machine can't get inside the jeans when inside out?

OnlyM3: Rapmaster2000 2011-11-03 03:15:22 PM
I've been hearing this for years with regards to keeping your jeans from fading while not having them stink all the time. I just wear mine several times and wash them inside out.



Do you think the water and soap in the washing machine can't get inside the jeans when inside out?

It's not the soap and water; it's the friction against the agitator that ruins the color.

At the risk of sounding weird and being ostracized by the fark community I will admit that I was my jeans after every use and never considered the alternative was being contemplated by anyone but the homeless.

/oh wait, im already ostracized

tricycleracer: It's not the soap and water; it's the friction against the agitator that ruins the color.

Hmm... interesting. Never heard of that, but it seems reasonable.

weave: That's a great idea, but my freezer is currently stuff with food so I'll run out and buy one of those small basement freezers and use that. I think those only cost a few hundred a year in coal-burning electrical costs to operate.

Or you could just eat some of the food.

trappedspirit: At the risk of sounding weird and being ostracized by the fark community I will admit that I was my jeans after every use and never considered the alternative was being contemplated by anyone but the homeless.

/oh wait, im already ostracized

After every wear? Do you wet your pants a lot or something?

Freezing doesn't seem to get the vomit and blood stains out. Not to mention the aroma of booze that caused the vomit and blood stains.

/I left out urine

trappedspirit: At the risk of sounding weird and being ostracized by the fark community I will admit that I was my jeans after every use and never considered the alternative was being contemplated by anyone but the homeless.

/oh wait, im already ostracized


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I'm all about water conservation. I'm the type that saves my water from boiling eggs to water my plants with. I don't flush the toilet every time I pee. I do a lot of the little things that I feel a person can do to reduce his or her water usage without going totally crazy.

I'm not freezing my farking jeans. I go to bars to listen to music. I walk all over town. I sit in my farty chair for hours on end. I'm not worried about getting rid of the bacteria. I want the ass juice, drunkard sweat, cigarette stink, and asphalt oil off of them.

AmStatic1: trappedspirit: At the risk of sounding weird and being ostracized by the fark community I will admit that I was my jeans after every use and never considered the alternative was being contemplated by anyone but the homeless.


Agreed. Who the fark doesn't wash their clothes after wearing them?

If it doesn't smell, why wash it?

The alternative might be buying three or four pairs of regular consumer-grade jeans for the same price as the ridiculously priced "boutique" ones and washing them on a regular basis like a normal person and tossing them when a hole finally develops to far that they can't be worn in public anymore.

I know....blasphemy.

The day I spend a c-note on a pair of jeans is the day I start wearing shorts year round.

trappedspirit: At the risk of sounding weird and being ostracized by the fark community I will admit that I was my jeans after every use and never considered the alternative was being contemplated by anyone but the homeless.

/oh wait, im already ostracized

I wash my jeans after each wearing. The only things I don't wash after each wearing are dry-clean only skirts or dresses (yeah, right, I was those too, just less often) and sweaters I wear a top under. Socks, underwear, and t-shirts all are washed after each wearing.

I wash my coats a couple times a year, too. I like for my clothes to smell and look clean.

The warmers have convinced yet another company that the AGW scam is real. Too bad that there really is no water shortage or AGW.

Call me stupid, but doesn't it require water to freeze something?

Wow, the derp is strong.


Freezing won't get rid of the body oils you've deposited in the fabric - it will only kill (some of) the bacteria that are eating it.

Those bacteria float around in the air, so they'll only come back as soon as you wear them, and your body heat will "wake up" the ones dormant that the freeze didn't kill.

More proof that dirty, smelly hippies are running things now.

/fark'em
//washes in warm water, works better.

Global warming is a myth anyway, I'm looking for the next ice age that we're starting to head into.

Washing the jeans causes shrinkage.
Freezing the jeans causes shrinkage, too.

Mr. Potatoass: Freezer won't remove the funk of a night of $5 lap dances.

Not to mention the glitter!

/no amount of soap will wash away the stench of shame.

/extra bleach please

Skarekrough: The day I spend a c-note on a pair of jeans is the day I start wearing shorts year round.


"Its a curse!"