scrubs shortage

My grandma ironed sheets. As far as I'm concerned, that was of another era, and I plan on keeping it in that era.

As far as scrubs go, DH dragged a box of scrubs "collected" from med school to our new locale. He can't wear them here because they are the "wrong" color, so I sewed them together (I had no sewing experience) to make a blanket. It's kinda cute, and it reminds me of his med school days (I don't know why I need to be reminded of that- but oh well).

[Flynn]

During training, I finally dumped three laundry basket size loads of scrubs into DH's trunk with a sticky on his steering wheel: RETURN CONTENTS OF TRUNK TO THE HOSPITAL THAT PAYS YOU SIX BUCKS AN HOUR!!!!

He was not amused and spent the next three weeks smuggling them in. He was too embarassed to bring in one big garbage bag full.

[alison]

My host parents in Germany had a sheet ironer - you could stick the sheet in a big iron press type thing and they came out all flat and warm. Dh's parents don't have one of those, but their housekeeper irons their sheets.

Dh used to want everything ironed. Undershirts (for under dress shirts), t-shirts, pillow cases, jeans(!). Now, he's just happy to have clean clothes. There's no way in h*ll I will do all of that.

[Rapunzel]

Well, I'm also pleading the fifth on the matter of scrubs somehow having found their way into my house during residency and managing to fill up an entire dresser drawer on their own.....

And, good grief! Ironing?!? I iron NOTHING. It's to the point that a few years ago I bought the wrinkle-resistant dress shirts for dh from Brooks Brothers when he needed some nice ones. Those things are golden.

Heck, I even forget to use stain remover prior to washing....

[Malpka]

Another who irons nothing. DH will iron his own shirt if he has something super fancy to go to (interview or such), otherwise I just hang them up out of the dryer.


As far as scrubs go- best maternity pajama pants ever, and I have a big stash

[DCJenn]

Well, it should come as no surprise that the military issues scrubs and you have to hand them back in at check out in order to be allowed to outprocess from the hospital...

Jenn

ETA: and doctor coats, too.

[Rapunzel]

Well, it should come as no surprise that the military issues scrubs and you have to hand them back in at check out in order to be allowed to outprocess from the hospital...

Jenn

ETA: and doctor coats, too.

Not at dh's hospital! They don't issue them and there doesn't seem to be any tracking system for them. It's pretty much the same as dh's residency hospital.

Yeah, we have a huge stash of scrubs, too! I swear, half the wash that I do consists of scrubs that someone else will gladly (or not!) wash for free!

On the other hand, scrub pants are super comfy, so I don't *really* mind having those around!

[mommax3]

DH couldn't wear/bring scrubs home either, (he even got reamed by an attending once about it when he tried to sneak out in them) which was nice, especially because I would have had HUGE issues about the body fluids that would have entered our house if he had. However, the result of this was that DH would wear one outfit to and from work literally for weeks at a time, since he only wore the clothes during his commute and usually went to bed as soon as he was home. I never saw him in anything but the one set of clothes, like some weird variation of that movie "Groundhog Day". Saved on laundry, though! :huh:

These days, we usually have about three sets of scrubs at home at any one time. Not too bad!

[Auspicious]

Mine will change into a clean set of scrubs right before leaving the hospital to come home, then those will be his clean scrubs to wear the next day. He's the laundry guy at our house, so he has a vested interest in getting the hospital to wash anything they're willing to wash. We do have some scrubs from med school, but the only one who wears them is me (pajamas!).

We're on the scrubs for tokens system, too. The most we ever have at home is 2 sets.

The body fluids talk reminded me of when DH came home from the hospital one day while doing a gastro rotation... With a grin on his face he pointed to a small brown stain on the cuff of his dress shirt and said, "Guess what that is..."

No way would I EVER iron sheets.

[MDPhDWife]

My FIL is a surgical assistant and wears scrubs and I love to wear them for PJ's. They're sooo comfy!

I also avoid ironing at all costs. I'm too lazy to pull out the ironing board and having to put it back, so more times than not I'll end up doing a 1/2 ass job ironing on the floor.