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

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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!!

WTF is a stain removal pouch?

I think its similar to the Pouch of Douglas avoidingwork

Oh my God. You feel you've made the world a better place when you do the laundry. That's shameful op. Sorry but it is. I consider house work beneath me, I still do it but it gives me no pleasure.
The repetition, the boredom, the lack of novelty.
Two types of people in the world; those who enjoy laundry and the rest of us who couldn't give a flying shite !

You need to spend more time in the in the cleaning products aisle avoidingwork! Dr beckmann's stain remover and whitener pouches. I love them.

Of course, you have to double up with a pre treatment if you really care about your laundry though!

I too do not understand people who don't do their washing the 'right' way.

I mean you spend money on stuff so keep it nice by washing whites etc separately - I even have a stripes wash.

But I like clothes and spend quite a bit on them so wouldn't ruin them by not caring for them properly.

But I am a hopeless case as I also [gasp] iron too

Unlike most posters I totally agree with you. My DS and my nephew were born weeks apart. I know his vests etc... were new as were mine.

My nephew is now wearing grey vests.

She asked me how I keep mine so white and when I told her about separating the colours she was amazed like it had never, ever occurred to her! I wash my DS's clothes with ours but separate the colours. She washes her DS's clothes on their own but mixed the colours. She continues to do so because she thinks that mixing our clothes with DS's is unhygienic.

I'm with the op on this one. No excuse!!! I used to live in a block of police flats with shared washing lines, it started to rain one day so I ran out to grab my washing and noticed my next door neighbours washing was out and pulled it in for her. My husband came home, looked at the shirts folded on the side and exploded " What the have you done to the washing !! The shirts were grey .............. I then pointed out his shirts were the white ones in the other pile and that the "grey" ones belonged to next door!!! She used to wash white shirts with black socks............

Just to bring this down to a depressing level

I do a 'stripes' wash too MrsCampbellBlack.

How judgey are you? You are doing her favour, which she asked for, but I daresay she didn't ask to be judged on the colour of the items to be washed.

Are you really that narrow minded? Christ. Glad you are not my friend (even thought I DO seperate whites from coloureds)

I wash and paint trainers :o

"I am literally aghast" Hahahaha , I dont think Ive seen the word aghast used since I last read an Agatha Christie book.

I've got that trainer paint. It's an amazing sniff.

I too wash and then use shoe polish on trainers

My mum is very lackadaisical about laundry too, linerunner. Maybe that's why I feel such a bizarre sense of achievement from this.

But still, ain't nobody going to say my husband's work shirts are dingy!

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i just dont buy white baby clothes. problem solved. i embrace my slovenly label. i cant remember when i last did a whites wash. i occasionally stick something in with DHs whites if it someone else buys them white clothes (nutters)

Trainer paint is very much alive and well. Like I say, I spend a LOT of time perusing the cleaning aisle in Sainsburys. I'm the sad act opening all the fabric softeners and imaging my clothes smelling like a mountain waterfall.

I'm welling up! I've finally met a kindred washing spirit. My DH thinks I'm an obsessive freak mad and the only one, but I'm not!

I sort my washing into whites, lights, bright colours and darks. I have two different kinds of washing powder; stain removers and colour catchers. My whites are white, my colours are lovely and I managed to keep all of my baby clothes looking lovely too.

Do you go so far as to take care how you hang them so to not cause them to get misshapen while they're drying or is it just me that's so anal so precise?

My friend is in the "Shove it all in and hope for the best" brigade. I try not to let it come between us.

Oh I learnt from my mother - honestly you would just love her washing and her airing cupboard is a sight to behold

I mean next thing people won't be ironing their tea towels or bed-linen Or they'll be folding their towels the wrong way.

My name is MrsCampbellBlack - I am a laundry addict.

My name is linerunner. I have special clothes pegs.

OP you need to get out more.

I separate colours, whites, darks, however DDs school socks and DSs vests climb into DHs dark shirts and cunningly hide there, only to make their presence known when I am taking the clean dark washing out of the machine.

It's beyond my control. Dark forces are at work !!

Yes you are absolutely right, MrsCampbellBlack, you can fold towels the wrong way.

Fair enough if people want to be anal about their own washing but the OP coming on here slagging off her friend and her washing when she's meant to be doing her a favour is really nasty imo.