I wear coveralls whenever I am in the shop, and take them off at the door when I come inside.
Otherwise, my wife finds metal shavings and chips everywhere thru the house.
However, that produces another problem.......how to wash the coveralls......
Last time I did in the regular household laundry equipment it left a big greasy ring around the inside of the washer at the water level.
So then I had to wash out the washing machine.
Yeah I have thought about taking them to the coin-wash, but that's just rudely making it someone else's problem.
I have also thought about throwing them in a bucket with water and soap putting on a lid and throwing it all in the back of the truck for a week.
Even if that's just a pre-wash step to using the household machines, and even if it needs a couple rounds.
However, currently that would end up a frozen block until spring.
So currently, I wear coveralls until they are so dirty that I don't want to wear them anymore, then I throw them out.
Of course, they usually are suffering other trauma by then (rips, cuts, burns, etc.), so it's no big deal.......
I try to pick up a couple pairs when they go on sale, so that I always have a clean one on the shelf.
-brino