to want to redo it or am I too fussy

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Dh has put some washing on whilst I was in hospital. All good. However, have just unloaded it to find pants,socks, towels, tea towels and ordinary clothes have been washed together.AIBU to want to rewash the towels and teatowels.

Why does it need to be split beyond coloured and whites?

The process of cleaning it kills any germs which are about, that's the idea of cleaning it so why make more work for yourself?

Am I the only person that thinks it's grimmer by far to have tea towels festering in a heap until there are enough to wash them all together?

Am staggered that you all use heaps of bum germs tea towels. My dishes are dried 'au naturel'.

is a third washing machine just for teatowels a step too far down the I Am a Freak road?

Sue - they certainly don't 'fester in a heap' here! As with all things, there's a system in place

IShallWearMidnight

You put me in mind of a Jewish friend who started keeping a terribly kosher household - she installed separate dishwashers and cookers for dairy and meat, let alone china and cutlery. I recall her very patient husband saying once - 'Cozie'sfriend - would it not be simpler if we just bought two houses?'

Just musing.

Sorry NeDeLaMer you are right, most of NZ don't use cold water machines but a lot of people round here where I am do - they were amazed by my washing machine. I was clumsily trying to make a point and failing dismally.

my tea towels don't fester in a heap - they fester soak in a bucket of biotex along with DC's once-white socks and other such grim objects. Occasionally they get bleached, but the septic tank doesn't like that.

OP has been scared off.

This thread is epic.

Teatowels go in my "no conditioner" load at 60 (non-bio) with bibs, muslin cloths, the mop head, kitchen sponge, jay cloths, towels, etc. Oh and CLOTH NAPPIES.

Nothing can survive for over an hour under water at 60. It just can't. GCSE Biology.

Having said that, the load mentioned above is always fairly small and has extra rinses, to make sure the items are clean.

I can't understand how you can have so many tea towels that there is ever enough for a full washing machine load. Where on earth do you keep them when they are clean? A tea towel cupboard?

I have three. One of them is currently swirling around entwining itself with pants, socks, jeans and T-shirts. I had no idea until reading this thread that anyone didn't do that!

My god I knew I was a slattern but not by how far! Lol

Our bed linen is done on its own but only because with 2 singles and a double, it's a full load. Then I just seperate white and darks, everything washed at 30/40 depending on if I'm paying attention or not when hitting the buttons. Whites may get a 60 wash once in a blue moon.

God some people are mental about tea towels!! The washing machine and powder clean things y'know?!

3 tea towels? 3 TEA TOWELS?

How on earth do you manage with three tea towels?
(Genuinely want to know).

I think I have 4 tea towels, but we have a dishwasher so only use them to wipe dry my clean hands! They get changed once a week.

I am currently awaiting the delivery of my new washing machine... (mine died at the weekend)....

Do i now need to have a new wahsing system so my new machine never becomes contaminated with bum germs?

< Thinks about new system, decides she can't be bothered, returns to old system >

Whites go in at 60, towels go in at 60, bedding goes in at 60. Everything else gets chucked in at random. Always has. We're all still here.

I don't dry up, EldritchCleavage - just leave everything to air dry. So tea towels only needed for emergency must-have-that-item-now.

And every wash has a tea towel in it.

My mum (who is a bit weird and has been known to iron Tshirts on the inside as well as the outside ) has tea towels for drying dishes, and separate ones for drying hands. They go in different piles in the tea towel drawer, and she gets quite cross if you use the wrong one. She's happy to wash pants in with other clothes though but irons them to kill all the bum germs

Ah, ok.

I'm always using mine for other stuff, eg. dampened tea towel over bread while it is rising, wiping fruit and veg once washed, spread out as a clean surface for the baby toys to dry on, etc. (look, I'm not really weird, honest. Or a domestic goddess).

Ironing on the inside? Now that is perverse!

Ironing on the inside is for tops with transfers on only

My grandma ironed socks. We were never quite sure why.

Eldritch - that will have been to kill the toe germs

If I felt a need to iron on the inside of anything I would seek medical intervention. (In fact, if I expressed the need to iron anything at all (as opposed to actually having to) my family would be seeking to have me committed!)

Of course!

My man used to iron bras she was always a bit mental!