do you check the pockets of your husband's clothes before washing them?

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Or, AIBU to have accidently washed the car tax paperwork (tax due today)?

Just to make me feel better obviously :) he's cross.

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No I don't. He is more than capable of making sure his pockets are empty before adding his clothes to the washing pile. I have 4 children, I don't want a 5th

He should do it.
I am forever finding tissues, golf tees and occasionally coins in the machine

Hardly ever, then get grumpy at all the destroyed paper tissues messing up the laundry.

You can do your tax online, so much easier than the faff at the post office

I check everyones as I'm fed up with picking washed tissues off clothes

I did wash DH's mobile phone if that makes you feel better

I always check pockets (and keep any money I find).

He should be able to renew his tax online with the certificate number of his logbook.

It's the tissues that kill. Even when I do check the pockets everything comes out covered in shredded tissue. It makes me quite murderous.

Sadly not.. hence the major panic when I washed his passport a week before we were due to go on holiday. In his defence, I had scooped the jeans off the chair, assuming they were for washing, (they werent) and bunged them in the machine...

No. Hence white tissue all over a full load today

I do check everyone's pockets, usually. But if the clothes had been put in the washing basket or washing machine by an adult then I would expect all pockets to be emptied.

If I had picked up something that I decided needed washing (as opposed to something that had been put for washing) I would check pockets myself.

So if he put the trousers for washing it's his fault. And if he left the reminder in his pockets and not done the tax disc, also his fault

Hmm, depends - if he put the trousers in for washing with all the other stuff to be done but forgot to take it out of his pockets then no, I don't think YABU, he should have taken it out himself. But if you decided his trousers needed washing and he didn't know, then yes YABU. Ior he could do his own washing....:)

And YY ^^ do it online, much easier.

We like to support the post office. He seems to think he needs the paperwork. I don't think now is a good time to tell him he doesn't.

If I wait until he gets more cross with the million tiny bits of soggy blue paper he might be grateful!

I only wash things that are in the washing basket, and I don't check them.

If I'd picked something up from the floor I would check it.

No. He does his own laundry.

So basically, what MoaningWhinge said! :)

I do since I put his jeans complete with wallet through the wash.

Moaning is onto something. He dumps his worn work clothes in a heap at the wardrobe door. That's where I found the trousers.

I think you do need the paperwork - isn't there a unique number on it that you have to enter when you do it online? Or is that something else I've had to do recently?

Oh!! I remembered our car tax was due today about an hour ago. Cue frantic finding of Insurance and MOT papers, and then running to the post office in the rain. If someone had washed my car tax paperwork I would have been EXTREMELY angry!! I think I know how your DH feels!

But, no, I never check pockets. I washed money in DH's pockets once. One £20 note and one £50 note. They both came out fine. We dried them on the radiator, and DH never trusted me to do his washing again.

I usually do, because of the tissue issue.

DH doesn't tend to stuff documents into his pockets. I do find the odd tenner, though.

I forgot to check pockets yesterday, and a load of ten pence pieces and two large pebbles clanked round the machine for two hours.

Giserable I also washed his wallet and a pen!

Cointreau - that is why my washing machine is in a cupboard...

No but I should because he is terrible forvleaving tissues in there. He also puts tissues on plates and in cups and leaves them next to the sink. Why?

Yes, ever since I didn't check and he'd left a £20 note in there...