Help Us, Clean But Not Super Unreasonable People!

Based on a certain flurry of comments on the faux-advice aspect of “Ask a Person Who Just Finished Reading Richard Preston’s The Demon in the Freezer Very Quickly,” many women (and almost certainly some bra-wearing men) have been left puzzled and guilty by the question of how often, exactly, are we really supposed to be washing our bras?

Related concerns!

How gross is it to wear them a bunch of times without washing them?
Do they get destroyed too quickly by rapid-fire rewashes?
Is it actually okay to toss them in on the “handwash/delicates” cycle with Woolite, or should we all be swishing them in a sink by actual hand and then draping them over doorknobs?
Are delicates bags a thing now? What about the bra ball you see on late-night-TV?
How many bras does a normal, non-Dita person need?

Also, upsetting comment of the day:

“Up til this morning I was a wash-them-only-after-you-fall-into-a-mud-puddle-in-them-or-they-will-get-all-deformed kind of girl, but I just bought some plastic basins and some Woolite and did some handwashing this morning and holy shit were my bras dirty!!! Like, even the light-colored ones turned the water greyish and opaque… eeew. So… yeah… wash your bras on a regular basis, ladies. Although at this point I think I may just go buy all new ones.”

Let’s crowd-source this mother.