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Do you do laundry on Christmas day?

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Comedycook · 23/12/2021 12:29

Sorry a bit of a dull thread!

Just wondering if other people stick a wash on? I always seems to have loads of laundry...if I have a day where I don't do any, I find it really piles up and I end up with a backlog. On the other hand, it feels totally shit to do washing on Christmas day! What do you do?

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CSJobseeker · 23/12/2021 16:18

@ShirleyPhallus

No, but then I’m always vaguely horrified (yet can’t look away) at MN laundry threads because people often say they have about 3 loads per day and I just can’t imagine creating that volume of laundry.

Wear a jumper twice. Change your towel every 10 days. Nothing will happen except for less laundry to do

Same here
minipie · 23/12/2021 16:21

Nope. I do about 4 or 5 loads per week and usually get through those on 2 days so it’s easy enough to skip Christmas day. Anyway we are usually at relatives so it’s not possible.

There will be a massive pile of laundry when we get back though.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 23/12/2021 16:26

@Diana8

There is no "doing laundry" any more - it does itself. You put it in the machine with powder and press a button, so yes, I use the machine all over Christmas.
Ahhh, so there's no cooking either as the food cooks itself as we don't have to light a fire. Grin

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lisaandalan · 23/12/2021 16:35

Yes, x

gsaoej · 23/12/2021 16:37

Yes. I'm not leaving washing just because it's Christmas day. Christmas disrupts quite enough, without it disrupting this as well.

Blossomtoes · 23/12/2021 16:39

Ahhh, so there's no cooking either as the food cooks itself as we don't have to light a fire

Unless you have an oven that transforms raw ingredients into a perfectly cooked meal with no input by you, that analogy doesn’t work.

EmmaWoodhousestreehouse · 23/12/2021 17:09

@ShirleyPhallus

No, but then I’m always vaguely horrified (yet can’t look away) at MN laundry threads because people often say they have about 3 loads per day and I just can’t imagine creating that volume of laundry.

Wear a jumper twice. Change your towel every 10 days. Nothing will happen except for less laundry to do

Change your towel every ten days. The towel that you’ve dried all your body on, including your genitals. That’s really unhygienic. I use a clean towel every day, albeit I only a hand towel as I don’t like getting dried with a big one.

I won’t be doing washing on Christmas Day.

LuckyAmy1986 · 23/12/2021 17:16

And if this is turning into a towel thread, then I wash towels after every use! With this many people in the house I couldn’t stand damp towels hanging round everywhere! And I just prefer to use a clean towel every time. Each to their own though

This is more disgusting and sickening than the people not washing their towels for weeks on end to me!

deadlanguage · 23/12/2021 17:22

@MotherWol

Probably, yes. DD has reflux and is weaning so we tend to need to do a wash every day. No dryer, so a small load dries on the airer quicker than a big wash.

3 loads of washing a day?! No wonder our planet is fucked.

It’s your car, not your laundry that’s the problem.

Actually that depends if you are using a tumble dryer, which I’m guessing most people on this thread are who don’t see washing as taking much time (ie they don’t have to hang it out). Using a tumble dryer once a day for a year produces about the same CO2 emissions as driving an average petrol car about 1200 miles.
MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry · 23/12/2021 17:28

I wonder how many people disgusted by others using clean towels will also sit round a pile of imported crap on Saturday morning. And how many are posting on this thread using devices that were shipped thousands of miles. Or how much excess food will be consumed or binned over the next few days.

Dresslover1950s · 23/12/2021 17:30

@DrCoconut

I remember one of those extreme clean type programmes where a woman changed her entire family's bedding every morning. She also had a very intense cleaning routine that involved scrubbing, polishing and disinfecting the entire house from top to bottom each day including windows, skirting boards, pulling out furniture to hoover, fridge etc. If I remember correctly she also got through two sets of towels a day as she changed them after the morning showers and again after night showers (they all had to shower twice a day too). I'm guessing there is a continuum between that and having towels that stand up on their own that most of us will fit onto. My DS has ASD and won't reuse towels without washing them.
Sounds like me 😂 my asd son is the same too
ShirleyPhallus · 23/12/2021 17:35

@MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry

I wonder how many people disgusted by others using clean towels will also sit round a pile of imported crap on Saturday morning. And how many are posting on this thread using devices that were shipped thousands of miles. Or how much excess food will be consumed or binned over the next few days.
I hate this attitude that “if you don’t do everything you needn’t do anything”

Everyone can do the bit that they can for the benefit of the environment. If that’s fewer Amazon deliveries, fewer trips in the car or using a towel more than once then it’s all a step in the right direction.

Im pretty sure if people posted saying they routinely did 2 min car journeys or ordered 10 Amazon parcels per day they’d get the same push back you have for your unnecessary towel habit

MeanderingGently · 23/12/2021 17:37

Yes. I'm working and my uniform will need to be peeled off and go in at 60 degrees afterwards, ready for work on Boxing Day. And there will be towels etc, and the usual weekend bed sheet change, just like any other week.
Why wouldn't I put the washing machine on at Christmas? It's hardly hard work.....

ShirleyPhallus · 23/12/2021 17:38

@EmmaWoodhousestreehouse

Change your towel every ten days. The towel that you’ve dried all your body on, including your genitals. That’s really unhygienic. I use a clean towel every day, albeit I only a hand towel as I don’t like getting dried with a big one.

Right, but my genitals that I have LITERALLY JUST WASHED. How dirty does your arse have to be to get dirty again in the 3 seconds between getting out the shower and rubbing your towel over it?

As an aside, you mention it being unhygienic - what do you think happens to people that do this? Do you think they all have terrible upset stomachs weekly or similar?

CSJobseeker · 23/12/2021 17:47

my genitals that I have LITERALLY JUST WASHED

Exactly! Your towel only touches your body when you have just stepped out of the shower.

MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry · 23/12/2021 17:48

I hate this attitude that “if you don’t do everything you needn’t do anything”

Who said you needn’t do anything? You can do as much or as little as you please. But please don’t kid yourself that you’re doing any better than anyone else just because you wash your towel twice a month.

Everyone can do the bit that they can for the benefit of the environment. If that’s fewer Amazon deliveries, fewer trips in the car or using a towel more than once then it’s all a step in the right direction.

Exactly- everyone chooses what suits them to do.

Im pretty sure if people posted saying they routinely did 2 min car journeys or ordered 10 Amazon parcels per day they’d get the same push back you have for your unnecessary towel habit

I haven’t described my towel habit. But I’m pretty sure If you described your Amazon purchasing or travel habits it wouldn’t meet the required MN environmental hero criteria either.

MaryAndGerryLivingInDerry · 23/12/2021 17:49

Can anyone explain why towels that aren’t dirty after use suddenly become dirty after 10 uses?

EmmaWoodhousestreehouse · 23/12/2021 17:55

[quote ShirleyPhallus]@EmmaWoodhousestreehouse

Change your towel every ten days. The towel that you’ve dried all your body on, including your genitals. That’s really unhygienic. I use a clean towel every day, albeit I only a hand towel as I don’t like getting dried with a big one.

Right, but my genitals that I have LITERALLY JUST WASHED. How dirty does your arse have to be to get dirty again in the 3 seconds between getting out the shower and rubbing your towel over it?

As an aside, you mention it being unhygienic - what do you think happens to people that do this? Do you think they all have terrible upset stomachs weekly or similar?[/quote]
Ten days worth of drying my clean genitals with the same towel that I dry my face with is a bit gross. Each to their own though 😛

maddy68 · 23/12/2021 18:12

Yeah I end up sticking towels in as we have extra visitors

Oldraver · 23/12/2021 18:13

No I refuse to do things like laundry at Christmas/New Year

riotlady · 23/12/2021 18:29

Does anyone else sometimes feel like advances in technology that are supposed to reduce the household burden on women (like washing machines) don’t actually end up reducing the load that much because we all keep inventing more and more pointless tasks we have to do?

RampantIvy · 23/12/2021 18:29

No. Three adults only, so I go a few days between washes.

Workyticket · 23/12/2021 18:32

Nope. I worked in a cafe as a teenager and only had 1 uniform and pinny

I worked Xmas eve then went on the lash and boxing day so had to wash it on Xmas day

My mam wouldn't let me put a wash on so I hand washed it in the sink. Definitely not doing a wash on Xmas day!

Chanel05 · 23/12/2021 18:41

No. Will finish all mine tomorrow and have done a few loads today.

NavigatingAdolescence · 23/12/2021 18:44

@riotlady

Does anyone else sometimes feel like advances in technology that are supposed to reduce the household burden on women (like washing machines) don’t actually end up reducing the load that much because we all keep inventing more and more pointless tasks we have to do?
We used to chase our food for 12-14 hours a day. Pretty much everything we do now is due to boredom.