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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by majos on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:17AM (#21803115)
But saving money on clothes and hygiene is crazily short-sighted. Bad clean clothes are maybe a couple hundred dollars a year, generously. I sincerely doubt that outweighs having your co-workers dread interacting with you.
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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by zajio1am on Monday December 16, 2019 @11:13AM (#21804098)
It mostly saves time for washing clothes.

Changing clothes weekly was societal norm before washing machines became common. With washing machines Jevons paradox takes effect - instead of just accepting more free personal time with less time taken by washing clothes, we ramped up societal expectations for clean clothes.

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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by hanniabu on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:29AM (#21803712)
All those little couple hundred dollars a year here and there add up. And some people just don't care to make friends with the people they work with.
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Re:The Cost of Avoiding Sensitive Questions by artsyca on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:52PM (#21808368)
Actually you can have the best of both worlds it's a failure of imagination
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