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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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CatsnCoffee · 14/05/2025 03:11

Why are you ironing them? I gave up ironing about 6years ago and haven’t looked back!
No creases if you pull clothes into shape before drying and fold/hang as soon as you remove from line/drier.
Btw wash everything inside out with zips fastened except socks, which wash best right way out.

Dontlletmedownbruce · 14/05/2025 00:21

Major big announcement in my house last weekend. Items of clothing will no longer be turned the right way around and will be folded as they are. The owners of said items can do it themselves when putting away. Also we now possess an underwear basket which remains on the landing for 24 hours only and everyone must retrieve their own items. Anyone who doesn't do this will not have their laundry included for a whole week.

It's working so far! And it's significantly reduced my chore time

Amiunemployable · 14/05/2025 00:12

I hear you, OP. And I don't think this is a man/woman thing that some posters are making it out to be.

I do the washing in our house, and it pisses me off when socks are rolled up or inside out. When tops are still inside jumpers. When trousers have one leg in and one leg out or have pants still inside.

My DH does dishes/dishwasher and just like me with the washing, he gets pissed off too. It annoys him when people don't scrape their left overs into the bin or bring their stuff out to the kitchen.

He doesn't want to trawl round the house searching for plates, bowls, cups, etc.

Just like I don't want to put my hand inside someone's dirty sock to untangle it.

BethDuttonYeHaw · 14/05/2025 00:08

It doesn’t matter.

sleepwouldbenice · 14/05/2025 00:02

Kibble29 · 12/05/2025 22:08

What about pants still attached to trousers? I’d return the clothes to their owner to be separated. No chance I’m standing doing it for them.

Yep
if I get clothes still bound to each other I am not unpicking them. They either get thrown back or ignored
and if they are inside out they get washed and returned that way. If an arm or leg is half inside out that also gets dried and returned like that

i dont mind doing the washing and ironing, we all have our jobs in this house, but I am not sorting after you…

EatAllDay · 13/05/2025 23:55

I can’t cope with the inside out / rolled into a manky ball socks. In reality you need to straighten them out before putting in machine. Grim at times. Especially damp football socks

redcord · 13/05/2025 23:23

Ishoulddomore · 12/05/2025 22:54

But I have to turn them before i iron them, or can I iron them inside out?

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There's someone on here who couldn't figure out how to get a 2p out of a toilet. Perhaps you should be friends.

LouiseK93 · 13/05/2025 23:18

Yeah...but if every item of clothing is washed inside out its still time consuming putting every item the right way ready for folding/ ironing whatever

SodYouIllGoOnMyOwn · 13/05/2025 22:15

I stopped washing everybody’s clothes a while ago. Everyone has a dedicated day to do their washing. Believe it or not, they all figured it out. My youngest is 12.

Oblomov25 · 13/05/2025 22:12

I too had no idea this was even an issue. I empty the washing basket into the washing machine. That's it!

HollieHock · 13/05/2025 21:21

I always wash mine outside in rather than inside out.

Boredlass · 13/05/2025 21:19

My DH washes them whatever way they land in the basket and nothing bad has happened (I don’t do the washing)

browneyes77 · 13/05/2025 21:18

I have always washed my clothes inside out.

Inside out clothes in the washing basket
vickylou78 · 13/05/2025 21:17

Much better to wash inside out to stop fade and bobbling and definitely helps with printed design t shirts to stop the design rubbing off in the wash.

WonderingWanda · 13/05/2025 20:22

Some things are better washed inside out, especially of going on the line in sunshine to dry and you don't want the colour bleached.

OneLilacCrow · 13/05/2025 20:19

Yes but my family often leave tissues in pockets of clothes to be washed. If you don’t go through the clothes checking this before throwing them into the machine, you make far more work trying to remove tiny bits of ‘confetti’ tissue when you pull them out.

Gingernan · 13/05/2025 20:08

If mine go in with tissues removed from pockets , that's a success!

Moii · 13/05/2025 19:35

I always wash inside out, sun then doesn't bleach them on the line and easier to iron if there are pockets.

Knoblauch1664 · 13/05/2025 19:34

My partner or I wash it in the state it was put in the washing basket by ourselves or the children.

If this is your primary concern I think you could either:

a ) think yourself lucky.
B.) consider widening your horizons.

user2848502016 · 13/05/2025 19:28

I would just wash them inside out!

It’s socks scrunched up in balls or knickers stuck inside leggings that gets me!

Cuppachuchu · 13/05/2025 19:25

I'd settle for inside out. Better than bloody paper tissues all over everything.😏

2chocolateoranges · 13/05/2025 19:22

Bonbon21 · 13/05/2025 18:12

Why are you doing the laundry amd ironing for adults?
Are they paying a premium rent?

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.

Threecraws · 13/05/2025 19:21

It's more annoying when it's half one way and half the other or stocks rolled into balls

desperatedaysareover · 13/05/2025 19:16

White socks inside out 😡

brunettemic · 13/05/2025 19:11

Wash them inside out then! DH does this with the ironing, if it’s inside out he assumes the owner of item of clothing wants it inside out (he puts his jeans in the wash inside out and irons them like that). Although to be fair, if it really makes no sense like DD’s School skirt he turns it back.

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