to think its laziness to was smalls in the washine machine?

[OliPolly]

I mean, it's not like your knickers need a full cycle to get clean?

DH and I wash our smalls after a shower/bath - they are never in the main laundry. My kids boxers/knickers are washed in washing machine with the rest of theit laundry though.

I thought about this this morning when I went to drop off my friends son. My friend had the whole washing line outside full of boxers and knickers!

Thank you all very much! Was just having a private look at mumsnet and now after sniggering uncontrollably dh wants to know what I'm doing. Up til now he peob thought I was handwashing his boxers!!

OP don't hide the thread - you did post in AIBU after all and not in CHAT

The funniest thing for me is not you washing your smalls by hand but posters who think their knicks harbour radioactive nasties that need washing apart from the rest of the family's wash

Get 'em in the washing machine!!

Eeewwwwww!

I actually did throw my knickers away rather than wash them for a while.

I had loads and loads of Sloggies. I bought them from the catalogue when they were on special. They were very nice, green ones, black ones and white ones. A mixture of thongs, briefs and shorts with matching bra tops.

BUT THEY WOULDNT DIE! I had them for bloody years. When my DD was in hosptial for a prolonged period I took the opportunity to bin them after each wear. No washing machine on the ward (after all, why would you need a washing machine on a paediatric oncology ward where people live for months ).

I felt ever so decadant and at last I was free of the unkillable Sloggies.

(I rather miss them now)

Yuk (sic) to tumble drying everything When I am king, tumble driers will be banned (not pants though, they are in the house so the neighbours don't see )

Sloggies are indeed unkillable!

MrsDeVere I think the most amusing part of my labour (not that there are a lot of memories jostling for that position) was the sight of DH holding up a pair of my absolutely rancid sodden knickers - I think my waters had just gone, certainly there were a lot of um bodily fluids around - and asking what he should do with them. The MW told him to put him in the bin and I was so indignant (though too polite to say anything ). I can't imagine what I thought I would do with them, I would draw the line at washing those.

My mum used to snip out the gussets of worn out knickers and use the remaining bit for rag . Obviously it only works with more substantial knicker styles. (I have mentioned this on MN before, unsurprisingly.)

Every other day is a laundry day in this house, knickers and socks go in the washing machine, I do not have the time to hand wash anything!

My washing machine is on all day. It broke down for over 4 weeks. I couldnt find the baby.

Dita I think i would have felt the same! Its ok for us to decide when our undies need binning but for others to make that choice? Blummin cheek

I take mine to the lake in the park and beat them against a rock.....

I wonder what would happen if you just left them. Would they crawl, mulitply or rot. I would leave mine in the basket to see but unfortunately i have one of those dogs which eats the gussets out of dirty knickers

Don't worry, if you are made king I will just hide my tumble dryer in the back of my 7 litre 4x4. Why would you want crusty clothes with peg marks all over them?
If it's environmental then I don't care. If there is some other health or moral objection to tumble driers, please let me know. I do hand wash my bras though, otherwise they lose their newness straight away.

Fifi, my dog carefully gets a dirty pair of boxer shorts every morning after we have gone to work and puts them over his head. Very embarrassing when we bring people home after work.

When I lived in Brazil, the woman I was nannying for told me to wash my knickers etc in the shower as that's what they generally do out there.

I have to say I didn't agree with it at the time and bunged them in with the rest of my wash on 40C. handwashing pants with soap in the shower didn't feel too hygienic to me.

I wash every day, several times, so underwear is only in the basket a matter of hours before being washed so no hygiene issues here thank you.

Mine get chucked in the machine and washed with everything else.

ExMIL handwashes hers though, never forget when she was staying with us and I came down in the morning to find a pair floating in the washing up bowl

I've said it before but I am going to say it again. Sloggies are the doggers' pants of choice.

DH does actually wear and chuck his undies when he goes trips to the USA by himself. It makes room in his bag for lots of new ones for him, and Victoria's Secrets for me.

YABVVVU! Knickers need a proper thorough wash more than anything else! Most washing machines have a quick 30 minute cycle now anyway - and it's not like smalls need to go in a load of their own, with just three thongs a and a bra floating round for two hours - just shove them in with whatever is the most appopriate load! I find your attitude decidely odd.

Ooh - I didn't see this had gone 10 pages. I got so overcome with fury and indignation at the OP I didn't actually read the thread. Is it worth it then?

It reminds me of a family we met on holiday (dad and son) who said they washed their dirty clothes out in the bath each evening as it was 'less hassle' than using the hotel's launderette. How is it easier? If hand washing was easier washing machines would never have been invented. We'd all still be standing in the river, pounding stuff on a rock. It's lunacy that's what it it is.

"Sloggies are the doggers' pants of choice."

Why is that then, Chippy? I've obviously missed something.

Mt friend's very respectable Home Counties mother has it on the authority of her golf club's greenkeeper, who apparently finds much discarded underwear in the locality.