or does everyone else's DH do this?

[fiveisanawfullybignumber]

Makes a meal about putting a wash load on, then fill the machine to bursting point.
THEN, sticks a foot in to try and make room for some more!
I've just had a load on a 3hour soak wash, I've had to divide it in half and wash again as full of bits of non broken down washing powder or still not clean.
I know he's trying to be helpful, but he acts as if he's done the whole weeks washing every time (and probably would if he could get the other foot in too.)
Is it just my DH?

It's the age old "man" trick of doing something so badly he'll never be asked to do it again.

Don't let him get away with it though, a nice patronizing lesson should do the trick ;-)

that's annoying,.

sorry, can't help, mine's the other way round - he never puts in enough washing so it doesn't wring it out properly.

Yes it's just yours. My dh had to look up the instructions for our washing machine on the internet when I went away for a weekend.

To be fair, he does things around the house, just not laundry.

But then again, who needs instructions to work a washing machine?

No, it's not just your DH!

On the rare ocassions I ask Dh to wash the dc's school uniforms of an evening, he cannot manage to get everything from the washing machine into the tumble drier without dropping something. He always leaves a wet sock on the floor between the two appliances. Every Single Time.

I have disallowed DH to do the washing. He thinks I am a 'total control freak' about it. Whereas I just understand how to put a wash on.

He can help elsewhere (and lucky, very occasionally does).

No, in our house its usually DH asking me not to cram the stuff in, as he's the one who has to lever it out of the machine when it finishes!

your mistake was sorting out his mistake rather than pointing it put to him and saying, "i think you'll need to try that again love"

I am a control freak about washing. DP and DD never do any washing because it is just easier for me to do the lot. I am not having dd put a wash on for one jumper and her favourite socks for instance.

But it is swings and roundabouts - DP is far better at proper nook and cranny cleaning than I am.

As long as he pulls his weight equally it doesn't matter if he is a numpty with a washing machine.

When I met DP, he folded his clothes before they went in the tumble drier He stopped doing this when I explained that the point of a tumble drier is to TUMBLE the clothes.

He prefers to line dry clothes while I have never NOT had a tumble drier - and I cannot be asked to carry a load of wet laundry outside, hang it up, go out and check on it, run out and get it when it starts raining, hang it on the radiators, take it outside again when it stops raining, then bring it back in and fold it up.

Eventually I agreed that I would hang the washing out au natural... As long as he used a bit of glass and some sunlight every time he wanted to look down a microscope (he works in a hospital lab).

We moved to a house with a laundrette across the road. They do a cheap and good 'service wash' (they wash it, dry it and fold it).

Problem Solved.

Cram him in the machine and see how he likes it.

Just yours . Mine moans that I put too much in and I don't separate stuff enough. I blame his mother, who is the only person I know with many, many boxes of washing powder for every different type of fabric possible; you know bog standard bio, bog standard non-bio, stuff for coloureds, stuff for wool, stuff for silk

Dh told me on Friday (just before going to my parents for the weekend) that he'd run out of jumpers so "we" must need to do a dark wash - I looked at him and started laughing. He backtracked straight away. I've been ill so he's actually done 2 machine loads of washing. But he should know better than to tell me housework needs doing! ;-)

P.S. We both work.

Oh Op, My dp drives me mad with this.
He will fill the washer so full it will be pressing against the glass. Then he will add the smallest amount of powder (as he is tight). He will then put it on a 30 wash even if it is heavily soiled stuff and then wonder why it still stinks when it comes out.

And I once pulled out a load of washing he had put in and it was still dry in the middle ashe has put that much in the water hadn't managed to get to the centre.

He has also ruined loads of tops and tights by putting them in the dryer.

Funnily enough he never ruins his stuff and knows which of his tops can't go in the dryer .

My DH would not know how to operate the washing machine in the first place

for my DP doing a load half the time involves loading the machine with UNsorted washing. Ta dah!!! Just leaving it like that. I'd really rather he didn't bother.

The other half the time he will actually add the liquid, turn it on, hang it out etc so I don't grumble too loudly - and if I'm lucky my black stuff won't get washed with a towel :)

is it too rude to write up a sorting list and pin to wall? I mean he does do the washing which is great but we've had the sorting conversation endless times and it just doesn't go in. What annoys me is I just KNOW he'd NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS have put an unsorted load on in his Mum's house.

No. But I do

Mine thinks there is a pixie who picks clothes off the floor and returns them clean to the wardrobe :-)

He's been complaining the ironing one has been on strike since DD arrived.

DH doesn't do the washing, but he does the 'fill to point of water exclusion' with the dishwasher. And then nothing gets cleaned. So he has to load it again. And round we go....

Glad it's not just mine then. He's a bit miffed now, as he's waiting for his work shirts to go in, and they've been delayed by washing all the dark stuff again in 2 seperate loads.
I ask you, could anyone else get get a full load of king sized bed bedding in the machine along with multiple other dark items, a jumper, a bath towel And a bath mat? I think it's a record even by his standards.

My DH is pretty good. BUT, about a month ago I did have an EXPLOSION at him about expecting me to be "a stepford wife" and him wanting a medal for picking up a few toys after work etc, etc. I laid the law down about me working just as hard as him and he has started to do an acceptable amount more without expecting the full awards ceremony.

My annoyance level had been building for a while, he has a long commute to London (which I did before DCs so I sympathised) and I think he had been playing on my sympathy about his long days (but he is sat on a train playing on his laptop for the journey!).

He was doing a 12 hour day but I was doing a 16 hour one (SAHM, DCs 3 and 5) with 2 part time work from home jobs), we have achieved a better balance now.

DP is more of a hausfrau than me, so no

Sometimes you read a thread that reminds you why you love love love being single.

My ex used to do this and then moan like hell that the washer was crap because the stuff was coming out still dirty! He would put one wash on for my three and claim I made too much work for myself!

My DH doen't understand that the concept of putting a load of washing on while I am out doesn't just mean sticking it in the washer and turning it on. It also means taking it out and putting it on the line or in the dryer as well.