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!

OK - I'm catching up with this now. Firstly Engelbert, in 44 years I have ver found it necessary to zip up my laundry bin for fear of noxious fumes escaping from dirty knickers or pants. Even when they are in there for days and days on end - no flies land, no maggots hatch, no stray cats climb through the windows, no neighbours call environmental health. No-one needs to sleep in a gas mask. Ever. If anyone actually needs to zip up their laundry bin they need to get to a chemist.

So just out of interest do you all wash your pants on a 60 deg wash then? The hot wash on my machine lasts about three hours. I just do mine on a normal 40 degree wash, they seem to come out okay! I would do 60 deg wash if any of us were ill but for every day it seems fine to me.

wtf??

So you get out of the shower and hand wash your pants? In what? the sink? do you use a detergent?

i don't think i have heard of anything more absurd in my life.

I would only wash them at 60 when dirty (ds, I am talking your skidmarks!)
usually I sort roughly by colour and wash at 40, nothing gets clean in the mashine at 30 for some reason. towels and bedding is washed at 60.

How fab to have a laundry day. I can't imagine what that would be like, to have one day in the week to do all your washing. Meaning you have enough clothes to cover a week and have a big enough drying space to get a week's worth of washing dry. I think the only day I don't do laundry is Monday. Every other day is at least one load if not two.

Very occasionally there is a thread on MN that makes me PMSL. This is one. Cannot stop. When I do I am off to wash my pants.

ha ha re the midwife moment - mine held mine over the bin and said 'bin?'. I can't believe I even hesitated, but I did.

I think it's a bit mad. I don't understand why it's wrong to put knickers in the washing machine . Surely you just put them in the washing machine with everything else? I just gradually fill the machine with all the dirty washing (other than whites) - and tada it's full within a couple of days, at which point I do a load.

Why would you care, jasmine? We don't live on a faultline here, do we

You knickers will be the dirtiest item of clothing you wear - it's directly next to where you wee and poo come out of. Do you seriously need that explained?!

Knickers and boxers go in with all the rest of the clothes - I think you are barmy.

I wash most things on a 40 degree quick wash. Never needed to do anything other than that - except some hand wash only clothes, then I use the hand wash cycle - why not if it's there? Life is too short.

Bit off subject but when I first got married and moved to DH family farm MIL and I hastened to add she was a DMIL to me was actually outraged because I hung my Knickers and nightie on the washing line next to DBIL pyjamas and not DHs because it might give single DBIL 'thoughts' and 'upset the lad'

I met a Canadian guy whose parents had escaped Vietnam in the 70s.

They still boiled tap water and poured it into jugs which went in the fridge.

Old habits die hard.

Oh, poor Oli. I really don't think all the merriment is mocking you - people just can't resist jokes about pants...

So am I the only person who doesn't fret about yeast and bacteria and organisms then? I wash my whites mostly on 40, sometimes 60, occasionally 95, if I think they nned it or can stand it. (towels etc.). I was my dishcloths and teatowels and aprons on 95, (have clean ones each day and save them up in a bucket for a boil wash once a week.)

Everything else gets done on either 40 or 30, or a delicates/wool wash depending on what it is. I am very fussy about mixing colours, but I really don't give a second thought to whether there are any deadly viruses or lurking bacteria in my underwear, or my towels or facecloths. I just wash them.

I'm with you, Fellatio. My coloured things are sorted into a very subtly nuanced rainbow, but they all get done at 40. So far, so fanjo-friendly.

Did someone just infer I was a dogger

Oh my goodness - after googling I have discovered there is indeed a connection between Sloggies and dogging.............. but I unable to find out why...........

This thread is pants.

With you, FellatioNelson. Apart from anything else, nice bras and knickers would get ruined in a hot wash.

IMO if you have thrush or are otherwise concerned about things lurking, you should iron the crotch of underwear - much more hygienic than washing at 60 degrees.

How is it lazy? Surely putting anything in a washing machine is lazy, going on that?! I really, really don't want to handle DD and DH's gussets (or my own for that matter) in a washbasin or indeed at all, I want them to get a decent wash!

pmsl @ some of these responses. I had a pair of rather sturdy Sloggies once (bought to go under a theatre costume, would never have considered them otherwise!). Lasted about 5 years before I just got bored with them and chucked 'em. Never knew they were associated with dogging?!

Maybe people go dogging as an excuse to ditch the Sloggis?

What must the hosptial cleaners have thought?

I bet they are still talking about me now