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.

Nan not man!!!! Bloody fat fingers!

lol at ironing bras! I do actually iron tea towels, makes me feel like a domestic goddess and am crap at ironing anything else. Hopefully the heat from the iron kills the bum germs, if the water and detergent hasn't I would iron hankies (they're easy too) but don't actually own any. Does anyone own hankies these days?

at the risk of making my family sound like total complete freaks - my dad has proper hankies which get ironed to kill the nose germs Don't know anyone else who does though.

Nah - on that one, I'll go along with your family, partially. Proper ironed hankies feel luxurious - but I would only use them for gently dabbing tears of course ! Nothing else.

My dad always used to have an ironed hankie too

My grandad has hankies.

The only thing that gets washed on it's own here is dog bedding/towels becuase of the hair.

At least my tea towels are safe from dogbum germs.

Ah, Canidae - but do you wash the washing machine afterwards, eh???

(My DB nearly had a conniption when I told him one morning that I had to go because I needed to clean the washing machine. 'You WHAT???')

John Lewis told me that I need to "wash" my new washing machine once a month on a 95degree cycle - I don't know why. Maybe to get rid of the bum/nose germs? cozietoesie I had to google "conniption", it's my new favourite word!

My grandma ironed socks. We were never quite sure why.
Possibly thinking of the theory of fridge packing, which dictates that meat should go at the bottom as anything below it could become contaminated. She may have been worried about gravity-driven bum germs?

pointu a maintenance wash on an empty washing machine once a month helps reduce any residue build up and keep it working at its best. This is one thing I do do! :)

For a second there I thought you'd typed 'fudge packing' Some0ne, and the juxtaposition of that with the mental image of my grandmother ironing socks has made my head explode...

I do a hot empty wash once a month too. It's the only time I run a 90 cycle.

Ah - smells being particulate and so on ?

Backatcha for your muse.

Horopu :) sorry, you just got the brunt of that a bit, some other people have been saying 'every one in NZ' a lot lately and it's so far from the truth/everyone that it's not funny!! (ie everyone in NZ wears shorts year round - that kind of tripe!). I miss, miss, miss, miss, miss my FP top loader :( Front loaders are crap (IMHO of course!!).

Horatia - they aren't submersed in water at 60 deg for an hour though are they?! They're swished around in a small amount of water. There's no way on gods little green earth I'd put nappies, mop heads etc in with my tea towels - not even at 90 in a washing machine... (but each to their own ).

Definitely no conditioner.

Stella - mine go in a drawer in the kitchen, I have somewhere around 20 I suppose?! They are all Glass Cotton tea towels, none of those fury things!

Stacey - what size machine do you have?? I have a 7kg machine and I put the king size duvet cover in on it's own and the sheets & pillow cases in another load - you must surely have to really cram it in to fit 2x single stuff & 1x double stuff in one load?? I think things really need some space to get a good sloosh around & effective wash - but I seem to be in the minority with that too Washing machines and powder do 'clean' things - but you need to kill bacteria too, which is not the same as removing dirty marks.

You change your tea towel once a week - a week

Ishallwear - I love your Mum, she's a kindrid spirit!! :) I hadn't brought up the topic of 'other tea towels' not for dishes, though it might seem far too obsessive

Edith - I think I love you.

Pointy - I love ironing tea towels too and pillow cases, it's very satisfying... clothes much less so. I miss ironing hankies - I might have to buy some, simply for the pleasure of ironing them They'd only be allowed to do as Cosie says though and gently dab at tears :) NO snotty noses!!

Horatia (& others doing 'cleaning washes') If you are going to do a 90 deg wash, why not put your tea towels in it, it doesn't have to be completely empty!

I think I have an 8kg one it's only 3/4 full with a king duvet, double sheet, 6 pillow cases and 2 single duvets and sheets. They all come out looking and smelling clean. If there is shick horror bacteria on them (or any other washing) still, we've managed nearly 8 years and only 1 sickness bug. So I doubt it's done us harm

And yes tea towel once a week, it's used to dry my clean hands on!

I was actually considering ironing the LO's muslin cloths. I have turned into my Grandma.

I probably change tea-towels every 2/3 days? We have coloured ones for your hands, and only green ones are to be used for dishes etc. Although I very rarely dry my dishes by hand. I think it's cleaner to leave them to air-dry.

It's easier to do my hot wash empty to be honest. It's quite a long wash.

Actually, that reminds me, the DCs' pyjamas are in the washing machine. I shall transfer to the tumble.

Without MN my children would have been going to bed in their less favourite pyjamas naked. Tinternet saves the day again.

I do all whites and coloured washing together and add a colour catcher sheet to catch any loose dye. I wash all black clothes together in a separate wash. It does not matter if you wash everything together it will still be clean. This way I save money and electricity.

But knot what about the bum germs?!

IME, if you've got healthy gut bacteria then you don't need to worry about bum germs. In fact, if you've got a healthy gut, it's very likely that your poo will carry far more good bum germs than bad bum germs IYSWIM.

I'd only worry about bum germs from someone with a bad gut... and then again not, because I think my healthy gut bacteria would destroy them.

Just saying...

I thought it was bonkers but this daily mail article suggests not

This thread has killed me bum germs!!

I have just put the machine on 95 for a maintenance wash, mind. Just to be on the safe side...