Ds’s headphones-I haven’t got a leg to stand on, have I?

[BertrandRussell]

Looking round for things to make up a full load this morning- found ds’s jeans on the floor of his bedroom and chucked them in. Headphones in the pocket-now dead. I can’t argue that it was his fault for not checking the pockets and putting them in the basket, can I? Particularly as he is insisting they didn’t need washing anyway? Bugger. Any other argument I could use to make it not my fault?

The amount of shit I've washed because I need to fill the machine

Don't give up hope, I washed DS's earphones last week and was really expecting them to be knackered but amazingly after a few days in the airing cupboard I plugged them in and they worked.

I've put a few sets of apple headphone through the wash accidentally and they have always worked fine.. useless info if they were not apple - sorry!

Don’t leave them on the floor then

Don’t go in their bedrooms then 🤷‍♀️

I have washed my 15 year olds iPhone headphones a couple of times. Trick is to put them in the tumble drier too they seem to work after that 😂😘

Astounded by the bashing re his washing! Laugh it off 🙄😂

Everyone in this house (teens and above) is more than capable of operating the washer and dryer, and even pegging it out in good weather and ironing. With school/work clothes and other uniforms, sports kit and normal clothes we all have more than enough for a load or two each week.

Oh FFS. We are all capable too. Not sure what the point is in doing our washing all separately. When there is enough for a load it gets put on. By whoever.

so why not do our own

Because it's slightly odd, that when living within a family unit, you keep your socks separated in the washer.

No one's asked the most important question.

What kind of headphones

I do find the idea of people in a family not helping each other out deeply sad, to be honest. Do the solo washers do solo cooking too? Solo washing up? Solo cup of tea making or wine pouring?

I’d find that sad too. Not sure what it’s got to do with washing your own scanties though.

Do any real world families actually do their own washing in totally separate loads?

Does it need some form of schedule, what age does a child have to join in?

Some people do have strange lives

I do my clothes, husbands' and kids' clothing all in separate washes. Just works better for us in our household

If it’s still you doing all that washing I wouldn’t consider it the separate method of washing that this thread is talking about, just a system that works for you personally.

My husband will do his own laundry and I do mine and the kids

I'd dry the headphones out - sit them on something above a radiator. Mine are cheapies but have been washed at least twice and survived.

You know when something on Mumsnet is a joke but then people don’t get that it’s a joke and then everyone falls out and sound all cross about loads of washing.

Yeah, that.

Oh and also DONT LEAVE SHIT ON THE FLOOOOOOOOOR FFS

Surely no one living in a family home does solo washing unless they're trying to prove some kind of point????

We had guests to stay one time... A uni friend of DH and his twin daughters (aged about 13 at the time). They were staying for 3+ weeks (visiting from another continent). Offered to wash their clothes when I was doing laundry and said to put things out for me.

Washed an i-pod belonging to one of the twins which was left in a jeans pocket.

They all thought I should replace i-pod.

I disagreed and didn't.

They haven't stayed often recently....

(see my "bothered" face!)

i wash my husbands ear buds all the time, i dont check pockets at all, they they cant remove them then tough shit, the ear buds work just fine, just let them dry out for a day and they should work again ( unless the wires got ripped out of the ear bud)
i dont care if they break in the wash as it is their job to turn clothes in the right way, unroll sleeves and empty pockets, and any money found in the machine is from the washing fairy

Didn’t you know MNer’s kids wash their own clothes from the age of 3? And all couples do separate washing too.

😂😂😂