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!

Thumb - we go home every summer and I never handwash my clothes there partly because we stay with family who will happily do it for us!

I couldn't handwash a pile of clothes because its hardwork and I have become too lazy to do it.

Its a completely different thing to knickers though, you are taught from an early age and it becomes part of the routine

Beta - No, I never have any dirty knickers lying around!

what are bad girls taught to do with their knickers, then?

OP don't worry about being 'odd' or whats normal for you I have only been loking at MM for a short while since I broke my flipping leg and I'll tell you what there really isn't anything as queer as folk!

looking

Of course you're not oli

Doesnt handwashing use far more water than machine washing?

I dont get this lazy stuff. I had a friend who insisted on scrubbing her floors by hand because using a mop was lazy. I think she had some sort of Cinderella complex (did I just make that up?).

Should we all stand at the scullery sink scrubbing our knickers whilst brushing a strand of hair from our fresh, weather tanned faces, the tiddlers munching on bread and lard......

Or just chuck it all the in the Whirlpool at 40 and watch a bit of Glee....

Ha ha Thumb is OK, I grinned anyway! Yar, I do think OP should embrace the loveliness of the spin cycle, just didn't want the poor lass suffering accusations of a manky minge

OP, I retract my question about you being a bit mad. Maybe you should have given us a bit of historical background in your original message!

How long have you lived in the UK? I guess you now know that washing underwear along with everything else is the norm. Enjoy!

jesus, i do worry that some posters on here are left in sole charge of small children - they really should be supervised for their own safety

MrsDeVere I wholeheartedly agree with the about laziness. I mean, is it lazy to use a vacuum? To use an oven rather than a range (as in old-fashioned, not nice Stoves one)? To use an electric iron rather than an iron place in the fire one?

And as for wash day - ?? It happens at least once a day in my house.

I've washed out underwear in the sink before when needs must but it's not something I'd ever choose to do and afterwards they never felt as clean as if they'd been in the washing machine.

I'm actually surprised at the number who wash underwear at 60. I wash everything but towels/tea towels and bedsheets at 40.

Just checked, labels in my underwear say 40 degrees too, doesn't washing at 60 ruin the elastic?

OP must be thrilled to have asked the question!

Life changing answer!

I was about to ask the same thing tyler All my pants say wash at 40 degrees, wouldn't regular 60 degree washes ruin them?

I suck the carpet clean instead of hoovering.
It saves on electricity and is good exercise, people who use hoovers are lazy.

People on MN should 'suck it up' more often.

pmsl at youll

was going to post something sensible but laughing too much now

op yabu

No i wash my sexy ones at 60 degrees too and they are ok.

I don't believe the labels. They are always over the top imo, like when they say 'dry clean only'. I'm not paying for dry clean i just put everything in w/m.

Ah, but i'm tight thrifty so don't wash anything at 60 unless absolutely necessary, saves my electricity bills :-)

Tbh i don't know how much difference in electricity per cycle between 40-60. Do you know?

weird thread. with 5 of us in the house, I have no intention of handwashing 35 pairs of undies a week. Hmmm, that might be a bit less as have minging normal 9 year old Boy who is prone to re-wearing if he thinks he can get away with it.

This obviously a wind up.
I boil wash mine - periods? Hello!

Just found this stat " Doing washing at 60 degrees centigrade will use almost 30% more electricity as around 90% of the energy used by the washing machine will be used to heat the water to the higher temperature"

Im sorry to say this but I think that is not hygienic at all! You need a proper wash to get rid of the bacteria, especially as a woman. If you had a slight bacterial thing going on (that may not be noticable at first) and you didn't wash the knickers properly, the bacteria wouldn't be washed away and you would end up putting a not fully clean pair of knickers back on. Its most effective if you combine both as we do in my home. Give them a quick going over then bung them in the washing machine.

Thanks tyler. It is more than i thought then.

Tyler - im 30 as well, got 3 kids and no way have i got time for a 60 wash to finish - probably is more hygenic to was my knickers by hand then ha