To not unroll DHs filthy socks before washing?

I used to teach my DCs to unroll socks etc before they went into the laundry basket from a very young age. Never had an issue. Also my DCs were taught how to peg clothes onto the line eg: tee shirts & jumpers pegged in the under the under arm sleeve. Just like my mother & grandmother used to do it. That way it doesn't stretch the item & peg marks where they would show.

Recently I was caring for an elderly relative who'd fallen & broken her shoulder, she commented how I was the only person who she knew that knew how to hang clothes on a line properly.

Yeah, this is what I do with my own socks as I peg them on the line

@ChocolateHobbit

On another note, does anyone else have a little girl that takes off her leggings, socks and knickers all together and inside out, so the knickers are stuck on the inside and socks stuck in the legs?

my Mum does, but it's been many years since it was her problem 🤣

Fold their dirty clothes? That's a weird one I'd do my own too!

Ah The sock doughnut.

I was sprayed with sawdust a few two many times and told him if he doesn’t unroll they’ll be washed a dried as I find them.

I come from a long line of women like myself. He was quick to see, I’m not a tyrant or whatever. It’s respect.

This is incredible, I’ve seen DH and I’s respective futures 😂😂

My DH does this ALL the time with his work socks but DH would equally complain that I am murderous for putting my shirts into the washing basket with rolled up sleeves - for us, marriage is just unrolling each others garments before we put them in the machine 😂

Id be saying unroll your own ducking socks mate.
My own ex "D"h would fill his pockets full of tissues then leave them like that in the machine so that everything in the wash was covered in melted tissue and had to be sticky rollered inside and out to remove the tissue. Despite my threats and refual to wash, cook, clean for him any more which threat I carried out he did it for 20 years. Divorce was inevitable.
I think he did it to spite me, he went to work with tissues all over his clothes because I refused to roller the tissue off for him.
Ill never understand this level of fuckwittery.

I addressed this with DH in the very early days of our marriage - over 40 years ago.

His work shirts would go into the laundry basket with perhaps one sleeve rolled up, I'd wash them, carefully iron in rolled up sleeve, socks in a ball- laundered & carefully put back into the way that I found them, trousers, one leg inside out, the other right side out, jumpers would be presented all over the place. I returned everything carefully & correctly laundered & ironed back to the way that they were presented to me. When he questioned it I said that I thought that was the way that he wanted them since that was the way that he'd left them. If he wanted them to be laundered differently then he needed to unroll sleeves, un-ball socks & make sure that trouser legs etc are either inside out or the right side.

He very quickly got the message.

However, now that he's retired & still work & he does the laundry, I have to be careful to make sure that my knickers, tights & socks aren't in a ball and so on - what goes around comes around. 😂

My rule of thumb is: if it goes in the laundry basket / washing machine inside out, it gets hung to dry and returned to owner inside out.

I only unravel when they come out of the washing. Just give them a a hard flick in the air, it only takes a second.

My Dad used to do that. Drove my mum mad! I only opened this thread because I thought that was what the OP meant and it made me smile.

Sadly my Dad died many years ago now, so I'm unable to ask him 'why????'

My Dad did a lot of things for my Mum too & it definitely wouldn't have been any kind of deliberate power play. I really can't work it out, maybe too many missing socks growing up??

but @pontipinemum & @FunnyOrca

thsnk you both for reviving a 'Dad memory' today 💕

@pontipinemum maybe a few more 'still wet' socks will sort this annoying habit out (if deliberately take them out of the drier early' (I'm not as patient as my mum!!)

Today I washed 2 t-shirts that had been worn together and then put together in the basket.

I am of the opinion that if I have to take stuff out of the basket, wash it, dry it and put it back in the wardrobe, then the least he can do is put it in the way he wants it back out. And if that isn't done, then tough.

I do. I can’t see a problem with it. I hate the feeling of doing it any other way. As long as they are put the right way round before they go into the basket.

Have another convo and then you could try balling them all up, maybe even together

I solved this problem by telling my husband that every time I found a balled up sock of his in the laundry basket, I would leave 1 second remaining on the microwave (drives him mad!). Ive not had a single balled up sock since. Feel free to adapt to suit your husband's pet peeve!

The washing goes in the wash then is put away however it goes into the basket. If he wants it done differently, he sorts it properly before putting it in the basket. That’s the rule in my house.

If my husband had complained about a damp balled up sock, my response would be “is that how you put it in the washing basket?”

Oh I sometimes find my husbands gym kit all taken off together and thrown in the wash including boxers. 🤮 I do feel like I have an extra child sometimes.

My husband recently commented that I pair his clean socks together but leave them inside out. I told him if he behaves like a toddler and religiously puts his socks in the wash inside out then that’s what he gets back! At least they are clean and paired. I mean what adult takes their socks off in a way that turns them inside out ???

I am massively unreasonable.

I ask my family to fold their dirty clothes. If they don't, they can iron their own.

I would much rather do my own laundry. OH does the laundry most of the time. Keeps the peace.

I leave socks balled up too. They go in the machine that way, are hung up that way and returned that way, probably still damp. Zero shits given.

No idea why my other half takes their socks off and balls their socks up. I have asked him repeatedly not to.

Absolutely. If he wants them washing and drying properly then he puts them in the washing basket unrolled. I don't do any preparation for washing, things go in the washer as they are put in the washing basket - socks rolled up, socks in leggings, tissues/ wallets in pockets. It depends how the washer feels in regards to how it comes out.

I wash my stuff and the kids stuff separately to DH as he is completely incapable of emptying his pockets, unrolling sleeves or unrolling his muddy socks. So when the washer shreds tissue or spreads mud all over everything it's not my problem. I do not spend any time lint rolling the tissue off his clothes. If he doesn't want tissue covered clothes then he needs to empty his pockets.

Ditto with stinking gym clothes, if they are not in the washing basket then they don't get washed. I am not my husband's mother and I am not going through his gym bag like it's a child's PE bag.

There are washing nets that are made specially for socks. I won’t name the company but let’s say they come from the Lake District. The nets have 8 compartments with zippers and can go straight into a dryer, too. I haven’t lost a sock (partner’s) or a knee high (I wear them) since I have been using them.

I don't unroll my own filthy socks tbh. They unroll themselves in the machine.

Just don’t wash them. That’s what I do. If they’re rolled up etc they won’t wash well so I wouldn’t want them in the tumble dryer