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How often do you wash your kit?

More than once a week		29%

Once a week		24%

Once a fortnight		29%

Once a month		9%

Once a term		3%

When it rains		6%

Total: 34 members' votes

by mjb - Sun 28th Nov 2004, 8:16pm

Chris Mycroft said: How often do you wash your kit?
More than once a week: 20%
Once a week: 20%
Once a fortnight: 40%
Once a month: 0%
Once a term: 0%
When it rains: 20%

Where's the "every time I use it" option ?

by No more salt stains - Sun 28th Nov 2004, 9:58pm

mjb said: Where's the "every time I use it" option ?

Have to say that although I now wash it every time I wear it, my response would have been very significantly different while I was in college!

by Dan - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 10:44am

This is of course a flawed poll. Those with loads of kit will tend to be biased towards longer times. One guy at CUBC used to handwash his daily (in fact sometimes twice daily) as he only had one set of kit.

by RTT - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 11:21am

Dan said: Those with loads of kit will tend to be biased towards longer times.

Exactly. I generally wear my all-in-ones twice before washing them. Which means I need to do it once a month (I have fourteen).

by mjb - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 12:05pm

Dan said: This is of course a flawed poll.

Can we not replace it with one about Fairbairns ?

by RTT - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 12:10pm

mjb said: Can we not replace it with one about Fairbairns ?

No, those "How are we going to do" ones are really boring. This is much more revealing. I wish there were an option for "Didn't for the first year and then proudly announced to my crew that it had been done, much to their disgust". I'll leave you to guess who that might have been.

by Will anyone sit next to me at the dinner - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 12:21pm

Washing kit? What's up with that? Don't tell me you shower after outings too...

As Arnie would say - you're a bunch of 'girlie men'

by dirty - when i was at college. clean now - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 12:29pm

I don't think I have to remind Aileen and Jo of our CUWBC dev squad iv, the fourth member of which (a Johnian) threatened to refuse to row with us, if all 3 of us didn't wash our minging kit...

by RTT - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 12:35pm

dirty - when i was at college. clean now said: I don't think I have to remind Aileen and Jo of our CUWBC dev squad iv, the fourth member of which (a Johnian) threatened to refuse to row with us, if all 3 of us didn't wash our minging kit...

In that case I hope you did your duty and smeared your kit with raw sewage in order to remove the offending Johnian from the crew?

by gf - Mon 29th Nov 2004, 5:39pm

RTT said: In that case I hope you did your duty and smeared your kit with raw sewage in order to remove the offending Johnian from the crew?

Surely to remove a Johnian from a crew, one merely has to suggest a practice start, whereupon their ejector crab will do the trick...

by Mike - Tue 30th Nov 2004, 9:16am

Dan said: This is of course a flawed poll. Those with loads of kit will tend to be biased towards longer times.

Surely it also depends on how often you train. I haven't washed my kit in years, but it still smells laundry-fresh.