Do you end up washing DC's friends' clothes?

[TheKitchenWitch]

Couldn't think of any way to phrase it, so sorry for slightly bizarre sounding title.

Basically DS1 often has friends sleeping over. And they all seem to put random clothes into his laundry basket, which then at some point I empty and wash...and then when I'm ironing wonder who the various items belong to.
He won't take them into school to give back (refuses point blank, something about being embarrassing), so I end up having to wait until those particular friends come over and ambush them with a pile of washed and ironed laundry.

Currently, I have: 1 t-shirt, 2 hoodies, a zip-up cardi, a jumper, two pairs of socks, a dress, a pair of shorts and a pair of joggers! I am seriously considering allocating a shelf in the laundry cupboard for them!

Is it just us? Do all teens do this? I've not noticed DS's clothes going missing, so I can only assume that he's not leaving stuff at other people's houses....

How strange. I've never heard of terms having sleepovers and leaving clothes behind.

Ask your son why they do it.

DD is 24 and I have random items in my wash most weeks but hers is because she goes out dressed to the nines in a Friday and Saturday night , ends up staying at her boyfriend or friends house and comes home hungover in strange combinations of spare joggies, t-shirts and hoodies so no it doesn't get better but she is quite good at taking things back

No, that's very strange. I can't believe you're ironing them. I don't iron my own children's clothes if I can help it; I certainly wouldn't be ironing their friends' hoodies and socks!

Sometimes, yes.

We have a big park outside so when the kids have friends over they're out there, and usually end up muddy and/or wet, so I tend to stick clothes in wash and give them something of the kids to put on.

The same goes for their friends - if my kids have been there and got dirty or whatever, they end up in friends clothes and their friends mom washes the clothes. No ironing though whatsoever!!

Do trnd to take to school to handover though

When they were younger, sometimes, if they got dirty.

As teens, no. I’d be very pissed if my kids friends put stuff in the laundry basket for me to wash, but if they need something washing, they know where the laundry room is! And you’re ironing it for them too? Wtf? 🤯

Dc's friends often leave clothes at ours, but never in the wash basket. No one ever puts anything in the bloody wash basket!

Sometimes they do end up getting washed or I just hand them back unwashed (depending on how clean they were to begin with). I would rarely send them into school though, unless it was obviously something that would be missed, like part of school uniform, coat, shoes. Usually I would just wait til I saw them again.

I've had the odd sock left behind. Nothing more than that!
And a school tie once. I only realised because I had an extra and it wasn't named...

My kids’ friends take their dirty washing home. They often forget a random item like a sock or charger which is returned discreetly.

No and even if I did I certainly wouldn’t be ironing them lol

Teens? No that is odd.

Why don't they take their dirty stuff Home?

I have NO IDEA why they do it! I only notice it when I'm ironing (or folding and putting away, things like hoodies don't actually get ironed), and then it seems silly not to iron it while I'm doing all the other bits anyway.

Erm, no. That's really weird. Like a previous poster I've had the odd sock but nothing else.

No, but I frequently found I was washing 'John Smith's' nicely labelled school uniform shirt which my child had obviously put on after PE, rather than his own. Presumably John Smith's mother was washing one with my child's name in it.