I just think this is crazy! Do I need to stop being such a mum?

[michelleseashell]

One of my friend's washing machine is broken so I'm helping her out by doing her washing. Rather than waiting around, she's just left me with two big bags of mostly baby clothes.

The thing is about 95% of the clothes are ruined! They're all gray and absolutely covered in bobbles. This is baby clothes so they can't possibly have had time to get in such a state. They've obviously just been put in with darks, jeans, on really hot washes etc.

I just don't understand it! I am literally aghast! Why would somebody do this? Isn't it just a terrible waste of money? These are all Next and Gap but even supermarket stuff can be kept in good condition, surely? A charity shop would throw these clothes out.

I put on a 'white' wash with a stain remover pouch and a colour catcher and the colour catches came out dark gray.

Aghast!!

Ah yes, there's nothing as much fun as peeking through into how other people do stuff at home!

Laundry needs to be sorted, it's not like it can all fit in at once, unless you have a washing machine the size of the Titanic. So a little grouping makes good sense. But generally I'm with the "if it can't cope, it shouldn't be here" school of domestic maintenance.

Can't resist commenting though, that those massive machines aren't ALL good. More water, requiring more heating, more detergent to avoid dilution. How many people actually fill them to an optimum level?

this thread is months and months old

i like my clothes the coulour there supposed to be not dark greyish white even if theres going to be sick and poo it dosent take too much to divide clothes, your not being unreasonable op.