How worn and stained does a car repair shirt have to get before you toss it?

[Astro14]

I don’t toss them, they get turned into rags. Cotton shirts make good rags.

 

[Urshurak776]

When the shirt stands up on it's own and starts shouting I toss it.

 

[zzyzzx]

You can put it in a bucket and soak it in Purple Power overnight.

But why should I bother?

 

[Big E]

My problem is I forget to don said work shirt before I start working on something,

Now have too many work shirts.

 

[ChrisMU]

When it gets holes I could put a quarter through, it becomes a rag.

 

[ecotourist]

When the collar has continuous wear-through (ie inside and outside are no longer attached) a shirt gets converted to "septic service". They get hung in a separate closet and don't come back from that. One wear and they're done.

If the collar is only worn through here and there (ie not continuous) I wear it to the museum restoration shop. It's quite likely to get spray paint, grease, oil or a snag there. I patch small tears in long sleeved shirts (using iron on patches - on the inside of course) and wear them to the museum too.

 

[Exhaustgases]

Its 100 degrees down here

Yeah so what? Look at a fireperson with all the garb they wear. Try wearing coveralls in that 100, and sitting on a machine that is radiating its 180 degree operating temperature all around you as well, and your face full of dusty dirt, and wearing the now popular mask as well. Oh yeah it was fun, 10 to 12 hours of it.

 

[Barkleymut]

There is a reason I am not a firefighter

 

[Gus_Mahn]

I replace my work shirts when a nipple is exposed or the collar starts to rip off.

 

[BrendanC]

i don’t toss until most of the back is exposed or i catch the front on fire welding/grinding.