Under Where???

Fitfreak and I got into a cerebral discussion yesterday as we were driving together (our phone conversations and e-mail exchanges are NOTHING compared to the shit that flies when we're face to face!) Somehow the subject turned to...Undershirts. Her kids wear them, my kids don't.

Now, I don't know why my kids don't wear undershirts. My mother made me wear them when I was a kid. Fitfreak's kids wear them. I guess once my kids outgrew onsies, my attitude was, "Cool! Less stuff to wash, one less item of clothing that I have to SCREAM at them to put on!" It was just a short jaunt from this information to the fact that my kids don't wear underwear to bed and neither do I.

Fitfreak...uh...FREAKED!

Now when I was a kid, we never wore underwear to bed. I remember asking my mom about it and though I forget what her answer was, I'm sure she too didn't want to be washing a whole extra load of panties each week (Apologies to the McCormack girls, my friends can't STAND the word panties...but that's for another post!)

Personally, I don't see the need for underwear to bed, unless of course I'm just wearing a t-shirt. God knows I'm not going to just let my hairy hoo-hah hang out for the world to see. That would just entice my husband and frighten my childen! (Entice and frighten...sounds like a variation on Shock and Awe!)

My kids are clean when they go to bed. They shower. They put on clean pajamas. Obviously they are not going to put on their dirty underwear after the shower. So what, another clean pair of underwear? And after sweating all night in their beds, they are going to get up and put YET ANOTHER CLEAN PAIR OF UNDERWEAR ON before getting DRESSED???? THAT'S THREE PAIRS OF UNDERWEAR PER KID PER 24 hour period! No way!

I looked up the word "underwear" on dictionary.com and four out of the five definitions describe it as a layer of clothing worn under THE OUTER CLOTHES! Outer clothes have things like zippers and snaps and buttons that can do DAMAGE to a person's most intimate areas! In that case WE NEED THE UNDERWEAR!

I don't think of my pajamas as outer clothes. They are for inside use only! Period! And speaking of period, the only time I wear underwear to bed is the time of the month when I need added protection (try sticking a mattress sized maxi pad to the inside of your pajama bottoms, it doesn't work!)

If my kids have "pajama day" at school will they wear underwear? Absolutely. At that point their pajamas have become OUTER CLOTHES. They are wearing them OUTSIDE of the house! Plus they have to be safe in case some asshole kid decides to pull their pajama pants down. (You know who you are!)

Where does Mr. Flossy stand on this issue? Well, Mr. Flossy sleeps naked all year round and if the laws were different and we lived in an area where the temperature was a constant 78 degrees, he would forgo clothes all together ALL DAY LONG! (Entice and Frighten!)

Now you know way more about me than you did before (and probably care to!) Cast your vote on our latest poll to tell us where you stand on this issue. I'm sure I'm in the minority but that's my story and I'm stickin' to it (better that than stickin' to the underwear! Ew!)