OT: What are you wearing?
Am I the only one that pretty much lives in a bathrobe and slippers now? Apparently people are still buying shirts, but not pants, which I fully support.
Or are you still getting up, showering, shaving, and dressing for work, even though the commute is measured in feet instead of miles?
And thank you to everyone still going to work for keeping us alive. Doctors, nurses, grocery clerks, warehouse employees, garbage men, gas station attendants, etc. You're all heroes in my book.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:04 AM ^
Who else is not surprised that Hatter is asking what people are wearing.
Silk thong. Ready to choke you in the shower, big boy.
March 31st, 2020 at 12:46 PM ^
Any extra room? My Chlymidia is gone
Mine isn't... room for one more?
I thought we lost you in the wet market?
March 31st, 2020 at 11:04 AM ^
I'm wearing a banana hammock
it VERY NICE - eh?!?
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March 31st, 2020 at 11:06 AM ^
uhh..Khakis
March 31st, 2020 at 11:21 AM ^
(Obligatory response) - "You sound hideous."
March 31st, 2020 at 12:29 PM ^
3 minutes sooner and we could have ended thread right here!
Came for khakis, was not disappointed.
Am surprised this was not the first response.
Gross
March 31st, 2020 at 11:06 AM ^
I realized when I went for a bike ride last night that it was the first time in several days that I put on underwear. Had done laundry & the drawer was FULL.
Pretty much have kept one pair of pants & a hoody to throw on if needed, but living in sweats or lounge pants.
I have shaved once in the past three weeks and have pretty much stopped using deodorant.
I'm gross as hell these days.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:13 AM ^
Underwear on a bike sounds like a chafing nightmare
March 31st, 2020 at 11:17 AM ^
Boxer briefs.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:21 AM ^
No difference in my book. But whatever works for you
That's why Gold Bond was invented.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:21 AM ^
I went a week without shaving, and holy shit did I get old all of a sudden. It was like 75% gray. Won't be doing that again any time soon.
March 31st, 2020 at 12:06 PM ^
Hatter I just tell people I’ve been in the sun and that’s blonde hair not gray
March 31st, 2020 at 12:10 PM ^
I assume you're talking about your graybush, yes?
God no. Mrs. Hatter prefers the boy scout look.
I had a mustache for years until I suddenly realized it was becoming very gray and every store cashier was calling me "sir".
I am a paid on call firefighter so I can’t grow a beard, but I decide when it is time to trim my scruff based on how gray it is, when it’s short you can’t tell. It does make a guy feel old when their facial hair grays out.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:07 AM ^
Yesterday I didn't shower until half an hour after I normally go to bed. My beard is getting ridiculous.
March 31st, 2020 at 12:19 PM ^
I always picture you just as your avatar. Please don't ruin that for me.
I'm wondering what's going to happen to my hair. I normally get a haircut every four weeks. I'm on week 5 now and my barber could be shut down for several more weeks. At some point I may have buy some shears and have my wife give me the old Marine haircut.
Even if she's never held clippers before it will still be better than the one you got in basic training.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:08 AM ^
Facemasks and gloves. Screening people in downtown Detroit.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:33 AM ^
Godspeed. Thanks for doing what you do.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:08 AM ^
I saw a FB post the other day asking how many times a friend could wear her jeans before washing them.
I'm like, uhhhh, I haven't taken off basketball shorts in 3 weeks. Why the hell would you wear jeans just around the house LOL?
March 31st, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
Man, a broken-in pair of jeans (I'm a ride-or-die Levi's 527) are just as comfortable as sweat pants.
I'm the dude who wears jeans every single day, and my sole pair of sweatpants sits on a shelf in the closet collecting dust.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:10 AM ^
Who actually wears a bathrobe?
But I digress... I am getting up via alarm (though much later than I otherwise would), showering (with all of the associated 'things'), and somewhat dressing - PJ pants in lieu of khaki's. I have also begun to use the elliptical before showering, since I no longer have to commute 110 miles for work (total - that's ~2.5-3.5 hours back in my life each day).
However, when I do actually leave the house, I try to stay quite safe. Clorox wipes in the car to wipe everything down once I get back in (hands, keys, wallet/debit card, door handles, etc). Also try to wear the same pants and shirt, at least until the wife washes them. I'm not too paranoid about it, no gloves or mask, but yeah, I wipe everything down with bleach wipes and try to limit runs as much as I can.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:23 AM ^
A high quality bathrobe is the perfect item of clothing. It's like a toga, but with pockets.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:38 AM ^
....and with easy access to things when you need them.
A pee pee?
March 31st, 2020 at 11:51 AM ^
I don't think I could be a robe guy. I feel like I'd have to get shag carpeting and weirdo lighting
March 31st, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
Don't forget the custom van, also with shag carpeting.
March 31st, 2020 at 12:13 PM ^
You commute 110 miles to work? Holy crap. By the "VaBlue" I assume you work in DC and have to live far away due to cost of living?
March 31st, 2020 at 12:35 PM ^
Yep...
March 31st, 2020 at 11:15 AM ^
my undies, cowboy boots and Brut
Edit: let me explain.. The internet told me that Brut by Faberge not only repels women, but also the coronavirus
March 31st, 2020 at 12:04 PM ^
I don't think we're thinking big enough. We should be putting Sex Panther into clinical trials. I saw a preliminary report in the New England Journal of Medicine that 60% of the time it works every time.
March 31st, 2020 at 12:11 PM ^
thanks for the flashback, I cried laughing on that one the first time! Posted here for anyone who could use a laugh:
March 31st, 2020 at 12:23 PM ^
That smells like pure gasoline
March 31st, 2020 at 11:17 AM ^
Something sheer.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:18 AM ^
Sweatpants and a sweatshirt daily unless I'm on a video call for work.
Then it's sweatpants and a nice shirt.
And slippers. All slippers all the time.
BTW, kinda related to this post, my spending has gone to virtually nothing. Just food and booze (mostly booze).
March 31st, 2020 at 11:27 AM ^
Same with the slippers. Make sure you throw them in the wash once in while though. Waiting until I could smell them was a mistake.
My spending is also way down. I filled the cars up 2 weeks ago and both still are more than 3/4 full. I never realized just how much working from the office, instead of from home, actually cost me.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
I wear socks with my slippers.
One of my many quirks is that I really dislike wearing any sort of footwear without socks. Thus why I stay away from any footwear that looks wrong with socks. Very much dislike flip flops.
Echo the spending reduction and also echo that most of my spending is going to wine and alcohol.
My wife and kids are still doing some online purchasing.
My U of M freshman son talked me in to a new computer. What made it challenging is that he's sort of nerdy. So, the result was the arrival of ten different boxes of components over the course of a week...so it was a constant battle to keep him from bringing the boxes in the house...in an effort to try to keep coronavirus out of the house!
Similar but sweatpants (or workout pants) and t shirt. Only had to do one video chat and stuck with the t-shirt as it was an internal call.
Barefoot 95% of the time.
Didn't shave for the first week and a half but got too itchy (and too gray). Shaved it into a fu manchu because why not. 7 year old daughter HATES it and came into the room while we were watching Tiger King and yelped "Daddy that looks like you!!!"
Still spending lots of money on booze too but little else - although we support our local restaurants by ordering takeout 1-2 days a week. Also drinking alot of the random bottles I somehow accumulated to reduce the overcrowding on my bar cart.. not enjoying it too much but looking forward to filling that newly empty space with more palatable bottles (mostly scotch)
March 31st, 2020 at 11:19 AM ^
I still shower daily, and shave when my wife says I'm too scratchy.
In terms of getting ready for work, I do change into a polo and jeans (office was polo/dress shirt & khakis). When I'm done working for the day I change to basketball shorts and a t-shirt. Getting into "work clothes" is one of those recommended things for working from home, and getting your mind right.
March 31st, 2020 at 11:34 AM ^
Same here, but t-shirt instead of polo which is usual for me as a full-time remote worker. Some days I even wear shoes.
IIRC, you and I work or might have worked in the past for the same company, no? I know we have a mutual friend, at the very least.
March 31st, 2020 at 12:57 PM ^
Let us know how long this lasts. Something tells me your "fuck it" moment will come sooner than later if this continues much longer.