How to live eco-friendly?

Otherwise, I read your comment "meta" as you recommending more recipient sensitivity, by considering meta-levels that I do not deliberately use but that are still detectable, and formulating my texts accordingly.

Is that correct?

No, actually not. I know the figure you described, and you can also leave sensitivity where it arises, I see it exactly that way. I just found the reference to scientific activity a bit odd in this context. Maybe it’s a weak point of mine. All good.

Crazy. You are the first person I know who does it that way.

With the kids, I would need a washing machine full of the small cloths every day - sometimes it can be 30-40 pieces a day. Crazy.

We don’t have kids and are sometimes at the office for a long time. I have never counted them. Maybe 30-35 pieces a week. We adopted the principle from hotels and restaurants. We find it stylish and practical.

You are a banker, right? If you wear a blazer for 8-10 hours (not just hanging in the closet) and sit on office chairs, then my blazer is wrinkled and worn in the evening. You can see that. Same with suit pants. I definitely don’t wear them again.

You are a banker, right? If you wear a blazer for 8-10 hours

Yep. But blazers are out among bankers now. Suits too. More like chinos with a shirt and a sweater. Blazers only in exceptional cases, depending on the client.

and sit on office chairs,

Nobody wears a blazer there. Pondering.

I definitely won’t wear it again.

You can do that if you want. But you’re rather the exception.

we find it stylish and practical.

And unnecessary or environmental pollution if you keep washing clean clothes all the time.

Good wool suits either do not wrinkle at all or are smooth again after hanging on the hanger for a few days. Or go straight for a stylish linen look, where the wrinkles are intentional. What was the topic again?

And unnecessary or environmental pollution if you constantly wash clean clothes.

That is the difference between perceived and rational situations. Rationally, you are right. Emotionally, there is a reason that overrides the rational one to act this way: one feels uncomfortable if one does it differently. That it is more of an emotional situation, I read out of here:

then in the evening my jacket is wrinkled and worn. You can see that too.

The jacket is already wrinkled after the first hour of sitting. The remaining 8 hours of the day hardly differ from the following day. Also, ironing is enough against wrinkles, so it seems to be about something else.

We adopted the principle from hotels and restaurants… we find it stylish and practical.

Stylish? Yes, okay. Practical? Practical is quite an objective term. I don't see that washing more is more practical than washing less. Here too, a feeling is more important. Which is also okay.

Funny digression7! I do think it really depends on the piece of clothing you have in front of you.

Underwear and socks always go straight into the laundry after one day. I usually don’t want to subject my fellow humans to wearing the same T-shirts again the next day either. Jeans, sweatshirts, and the like last longer. Jeans can even go the whole workweek. Four weeks seems weird to me. Something like fleece is often due for washing after just one day. And yes, daily showering or washing is a given.

Since we’re chatting so nicely about this: because it was everywhere written that you can generally wash laundry at 30 degrees nowadays, I started doing that as part of general energy saving. It wasn’t such a great idea... T-shirts fresh from the closet were ready for the laundry again after 30 minutes of wearing. Yuck. I went back to 40 degrees. Since then, everything’s fine. Now the washing machine has died. With the new one, I’m using the Eco program and it works very well. It just washes longer.

Clothes from Shein or Temu are a no-go for me. I’d rather shop at Momox...