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Inside out clothes in the washing basket

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Ishoulddomore · 12/05/2025 21:55

Why? Why can’t my family do this? It’s so simple, You put your clothes in the basket. Please turn them the right side out so I can wash them without having to do this. So annoying.

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Chompingatthebeat · 24/07/2025 20:22

Ishoulddomore · 12/05/2025 23:22

What’s wrong with helping someone you love in their house? My wife helps me as well. My kids aren’t kids anymore, 28 and 21. They can’t afford to move out

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Why are you washing your adult kids clothes?

Chompingatthebeat · 24/07/2025 20:21

Ishoulddomore · 12/05/2025 23:01

Yes I do, it would annoy me if I didn’t. Especially when I iron them

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Why are you ironing?

TaupeLemur · 24/07/2025 20:02

PrincessASDaisy · 12/05/2025 21:58

Another day of women falling victim to their own oppression. I wash my clothes inside out, I’m alive.

That’s exactly what aI was thinking! You could also get THEM to start helping with laundry. My kids have done it since they were in single digits.

Youdontseehow · 24/07/2025 20:01

Matilda1981 · 12/05/2025 21:56

I wash and dry everything as it’s put in the basket - up to my kids to sort it out when they put it away and then put it on to wear again! I’d like to think the clothes are washed equally inside and out so it doesn’t really matter how they are put into the machine!!!

First post nails it - same here.

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Ishoulddomore · 24/07/2025 19:58

AsCoolAsKimDeal · 23/07/2025 21:51

I wash and dry my clothes inside out, teens get them back as they delivered them, DH does his own laundry

Seems fair

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AsCoolAsKimDeal · 23/07/2025 21:51

I wash and dry my clothes inside out, teens get them back as they delivered them, DH does his own laundry

CountryShepherd · 23/07/2025 21:32

Peaceandquietandacuppa · 12/05/2025 22:04

So true!!

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I'm the washerwoman as DH does all the food shopping, cooking and kitchen cleaning. Theres only 3 of us so I think I have a good deal.

I get fed up of tissues left in his trouser pockets and moan but he forgets. He did some washing whilst I was away, white bits of tissue were spread all over his black trousers and t shirts. I brought them in off the line and put them away just as they came in.

When he has to pick bits off his black clothes, I suspect he might finally remember.

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Ishoulddomore · 23/07/2025 21:23

Elsvieta · 23/07/2025 21:22

Well, it could have soaked all the way through of course. But it's more on the inside than on the outside, especially in thicker garments. And bits of dead skin are definitely more on the inside.

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Thanks, I learn something new everyday

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Elsvieta · 23/07/2025 21:22

Ishoulddomore · 23/07/2025 21:11

Sweat is on the inside?

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Well, it could have soaked all the way through of course. But it's more on the inside than on the outside, especially in thicker garments. And bits of dead skin are definitely more on the inside.

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Ishoulddomore · 23/07/2025 21:21

Allseeingallknowing · 23/07/2025 21:19

No one has mentioned searching pockets for tissues - saves a lot of trouble later. I wouldn’t want everyone doing their own washing- that would mean lots of little loads and a waste of water, electricity and washing liquid.

Pet hate alert! Not just tissues but lighters etc! Take them out before I put a was on please

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Allseeingallknowing · 23/07/2025 21:19

No one has mentioned searching pockets for tissues - saves a lot of trouble later. I wouldn’t want everyone doing their own washing- that would mean lots of little loads and a waste of water, electricity and washing liquid.

Allseeingallknowing · 23/07/2025 21:17

Friendtotheanimals · 12/05/2025 22:35

Are your kids old enough to wash their own clothes?

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I’d have to make sure there was enough for a whole load. A child is unlikely to think of that and just throw a couple of items in the machine.

Createausername1970 · 23/07/2025 21:13

Matilda1981 · 12/05/2025 21:56

I wash and dry everything as it’s put in the basket - up to my kids to sort it out when they put it away and then put it on to wear again! I’d like to think the clothes are washed equally inside and out so it doesn’t really matter how they are put into the machine!!!

Yep!

Same here.

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Ishoulddomore · 23/07/2025 21:11

Elsvieta · 15/05/2025 21:59

Isn't inside out better? Because the sweat is on the inside? I certainly follow that principle with socks, tho' CBA with the rest really.

You don't HAVE to do anything; you can wash everything as it comes, and give it back to its owners the same way. They'll put things the right way out when they want to wear them.

Sweat is on the inside?

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LoveTKO · 17/05/2025 17:05

Oh forgot to say, they’re then already inside out when you hang them out to dry, so wont fade in the sun.

LoveTKO · 17/05/2025 17:04

Come on OP. Have you not been brought up to wash your clothes inside out? That’s the correct way. Ditto iron inside out so the material doesn’t go shiny or risk of being marked.

Don’t get me started on people who don’t split their colours to wash……eeek.

BlueandWhitePorcelain · 17/05/2025 16:51

I don’t bother about underwear, but I turn t shirts and trousers inside out before washing. This is more about the fact, I put them in the tumble dryer inside out. IMO, it stops decals on t shirts getting ruined, and trousers fading so much in the winter.

In the summer, it reduces fading on the washing line unless I am trying to get the sun to bleach a stain!

ItGhoul · 17/05/2025 16:38

Ishoulddomore · 12/05/2025 22:29

I get you, but I find it annoying to turn their clothes the right way round

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Don’t do it, then. It’s entirely unnecessary.

HairOfFineStraw · 17/05/2025 16:34

For mine- I turn them right
DS4- I turn them right since I'd have to fix them anyway to help him get dress
DP- nope nope nope, if he wants to undress like some jacked up tubby Calvin Klein model circa 1998 that's on him

Wtafdidido · 15/05/2025 23:05

Don’t look on it as a negative thing. You have happy healthy clothed kids who are capable of getting dressed and being active and creating laundry. One day they will leave home and you will miss it. Many people would live their child to still be around and in the grand scheme of life turning a bit of laundry the right way round is just not an issue worth getting annoyed about

Elsvieta · 15/05/2025 21:59

Isn't inside out better? Because the sweat is on the inside? I certainly follow that principle with socks, tho' CBA with the rest really.

You don't HAVE to do anything; you can wash everything as it comes, and give it back to its owners the same way. They'll put things the right way out when they want to wear them.

mathanxiety · 14/05/2025 22:13

2chocolateoranges · 13/05/2025 19:22

I do everyone’s washings in the house together, it’s so much easier for me to load the machine, dh puts it on when he gets home from work and one of us then hangs it up. Much easier doing one washing a day than us all trying to do washings at the one time.

i thought that’s what most families do. Happened in my home growning up as it did in dh’s home.

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If you have older kids, could they see to the laundry? I think the point is why are parents doing laundry for able bodied older kids?

Boomer55 · 14/05/2025 16:48

Does it matter? 🤷‍♀️

MonkeyRisotto · 14/05/2025 15:51

Inside out or right way round is fine, but what grinds my gears is one leg inside out and the other the right way, and the first time you notice is when you're hanging the wet clothes out and have to put your arm into a cold wet leg to be able to hang it out 😡Same for sleeves.

Goingbonkers247 · 14/05/2025 07:00

I put them in as they are in the basket and return them the same way. lol