I don’t know if this a movie thing but there was always that scene where the gross older brother would sniff a shirt to check if it’s dirty and everyone would be like ‘ew!’
But in the absence of any actual stains, and assuming you have reason to think it might be clean (i.e. you wore the shirt out for maybe an hour or two) why is it considered gross? Like how else are you supposed to check if it smells without smelling it? I don’t want to accidentally wear smelly clothes lol why is that gross??
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My gf will smell my kids clothes to see if they’re clean or not underwear included lmao. I just assume they’re dirty and throw them in the wash
I think that for me, it seems just kind of gross because if it’s underwear (boxers, socks, or an under tshirt), the thought of putting it on a second time after taking it off is just inherently a little gross even if it doesn’t smell.
So it’s not the smelling that’s gross, but the willingness to reuse underwear.
Because how do you not know if something is dirty? Are your clean and dirty clothes mixed up like that? How?
Huh, I’d never thought of that but now that you mention it, it does seem to be related to the slob of the show/movie.
Beats me, how else would you know if your black underwear is clean?
The implication is that you are smelling it because you know it is dirty, you are just checking whether it is too dirty.
I think the movie trope is suggesting the gross brother has been wearing the shirt so many days in a row, he can’t even remember the last time he washed it. Are you wearing your tshirts 4 days without washing?
I have ADHD and do the sniff test often because clean clothes can end up on the floor way too easily! I’ve done this always and in my 30s.
Because people confuse their prejudices and related “gross” sensations with “truth” (when they’re actually mostly class-based biases).
There’s nothing unclean, dangerous, or potentially harmful about smelling clothes we’ve worn. But middle class people look down on working class people for all those smells, and middle class culture becomes engrained and self-reinforcing.
I get out of the shower in the evening after work, put on a clean shirt for the remainder of the night, remove shirt and place on chair before bed. Wake up, sniff check shirt to see if it’s clean enough to wear for the day, usually is. Never been told “ew” and I live with 4 other people.
It’s schrödinger’s chair, an article of clothing on the chair may be clean, may be dirty, only the sniff can determine its fate.
Interestingly, my dog can do it from across the room. And if he wants to roll in it? Probably time for a wash.
I only do it if I just gone dine with an activity that may have changed my smell
Are you sure these are movie scenes you’re remembering and not laundry commercials?
Generally speaking personal hygiene should be a private activity
Idk but you shouldn’t really do it. Sometimes when things are dry they don’t smell bad but when they become moist again the smell comes back. Your body is slightly moist, via a slow but steady release of steamy sweat, so putting on those clothes makes them smell way worse than when you sniff checked them. And you won’t notice, because it will be slow and you’re immersed. You’ll just stink, and everyone will know but you.
Depends on the outcome. Sniff it and it’s clean? Great. Sniff it and it’s dirty? Gross.