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Original poster

To rant about my children's now ruined brand new clothes?

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D0oinMeCleanin · 02/08/2013 15:31

I know I am BU but I am so pissed off I don't care.

My parents took my children camping at their expense for two weeks. This is awesome and I am incredibly lucky to have such a close and supportive family.

As the weather was hot and they've grown since last summer, I had gave them their holiday clothes for our holiday this year.

My parents have allowed them to go a play park in their brand, spanking new white shorts. They have not soaked the resulting stains as soon as they occurred, they've been through the wash twice with surf, vanish in wash and vanish spray on stain remover, nothing has touched it, they're now soaking in the sink with half water, half vanish. They're obviously going top need replacing Angry

I know I am lucky that my kids got a free holiday and in the grand scheme of things they're only shorts, but I am so fucking annoyed that no-one thought to ask them to change into more suitable clothing for going to the park in the mud. They'd only worn the shorts once.

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Original poster
D0oinMeCleanin · 02/08/2013 22:05

They don't have to watch their clothes because I don't let them go down wet slide in white shorts, I'd have sent them back to the tent to get changed.

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ScrambledSmegs · 02/08/2013 22:13

Er, not sure. I got it at the cornershop. It looks like this.

Toohottohandle · 02/08/2013 22:16

White shorts Shock
Never let alone camping!
I stay clear from white anything childrens clothing

exoticfruits · 02/08/2013 22:17

I can't see why they need white shorts-a bit useless if they can't do anything except look nice in them!

Toohottohandle · 02/08/2013 22:17

Also i wouldnt of sent my kids away with someone else with brand new clothes

Original poster
D0oinMeCleanin · 02/08/2013 22:19

Thanks Scrambled. I've just ordered some on Amazon but will check Tesco too.

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exoticfruits · 02/08/2013 22:19

If you go camping you need really old clothes-there isn't going to be any occasion on it where you need to look smart. If you haven't got old then get some second hand ones.

MrsKeithRichards · 02/08/2013 22:20

You liked the shorts, your kids, quite rightly, probably couldn't care less

exoticfruits · 02/08/2013 22:20

Perhaps the grandparents will get some second hand and never have to put them in the clothes they bring with them-problem solved.

nancy75 · 02/08/2013 22:25

Can't understand the shock at buying kids white clothes, don't any of you lot own a washing machine?

Op you need fairy liquid ( the stuff you use to wash dishes) and a nail brush. Put the fairy straight on the stains, give it a scrub, soak and then wash in the machine.

Sirzy · 02/08/2013 22:28

I have no problem with children wearing white clothes. Sending them on a camping trip and then complaining when they get dirty is ridiculous though!

StayAwayFromTheEdge · 02/08/2013 22:28

They are on a campsite - they get dirty, they need to wear clothes that are allowed to get dirty all the time. The clothes should never have been there in the first place.

Pinupgirl · 02/08/2013 22:46

I dont know why posters are surprised by op's attitude-she has form for going la la la and not listening-see the numerous threads about the dp. 10 quid shorts? Lol-they were'nt even that expensive.

magimedi · 02/08/2013 22:48

No, I've never been camping. I said that earlier, my parents can only go away when I am available to mind all the exotic birds and be on standy-by in case the aggressive Whippet gets booted out of the kennels for biting people, so I never get to go camping with them.

This is all about you - not the fact that your parents gave your DCs a great holiday.

I know I am going to get flamed or deleted for this but, Dooin, you are being so unreasonable & moaning about the small stuff & you seem to do so in every thread you start that I have totally run out of sympathy for you.

Get a grip/man/woman up & enjoy life a bit more.

Please stop being such a dedicated whinger about the things that don't matter.

ClartyCarol · 02/08/2013 22:51

Bloody hell, I think it's been established that white shorts and muddy play areas don't mix. Stop bashing the OP.

Dooin - just to add to the array of cleaning suggestions I found the Ariel stain remover in a tall blue bottle to be good on ground in grass stains. I have found unfortunately that the black, oily type stains are virtually impossible to lift right out, but that Biotex sounds good. My dc are always filthy at the end of the day so may get some myself. Have found the sun bleaching generally only works properly with tomato stains. To the pp who said her dd ruined a white t shirt with ketchup - I would've got that out no bother Wink.

beela · 02/08/2013 23:06

hahahahhaha, is this real?

hahahaha, yes, yabu.

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D0oinMeCleanin · 02/08/2013 23:15

The white shorts were bought for pubs in Turkey, where the play areas are all lined in that bouncy rubber stuff. I assumed pubs on campsites would be like pubs abroad, clean with a kids disco that kids dress up for, which is why I sent them.

They also had no old clothes that fit them and I was working too many hours to go trailing around charity shops. I'm not sure where you all live but around here our charity shops are not that great and don't tend to have many kids clothes in.

I've never complained about them being given a free holiday. I have said several times that I don't expect and would never ask for my parents to replace the shorts or even pay to clean them.

I'm pissed off that clothes they've only worn once have been ruined. That, imo, is normal.

Also my parents have a generator and a shower tent thingy with a flushing toilet, they spent many hours telling me all about their shower tent thingy and generator, so being able to soak stained clothes seemed, to me, like something they'd have been able to do whilst camping, but I might be wrong, I've never been camping and I've never seen a tent with a shower or a toilet. They also took the caravan but again I've never been camping, we've only ever stayed in those massive caravans, so I don't know if the little tourer vans have sinks/showers but I'd assumed they do.

No-where have I said anything about being pissed off about their holiday, I said right from the start that I am very lucky to have such a close and supportive family. I also said that I knew I was BU, but I was still pissed off. Of course I am pissed off, they've worn them once and now I have to find time to go and buy new shorts because I only bought what we need and not a single stitch more, so they will need new shorts. The shorts are not slightly stained, the arse of them is jet black.

Magi, of course that paragraph was all about me, I was explaining why I'd never been camping with them, I'm not going to make it about my neighbour am I? Confused

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LittleBearPad · 02/08/2013 23:21

Just order some new shorts on the Internet and move on. They'll turn up be early next week at the latest.

Why would a pub on/near a uk campsite be like a tourist bar in the Med? Are pubs near you like this?

OutragedFromLeeds · 02/08/2013 23:22

Dye them black seems the obvious solution then. Or take them to a dirty pub and have them roll round in the woodchips so they're the same colour all over.

BellaVita · 02/08/2013 23:24

If you have boiled those shorts they will look like limp rags now...

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D0oinMeCleanin · 02/08/2013 23:25

The pub on the only ever campsite I have been to was like that, yes. They had a kids games room and did kid's discos from 7pm - 9pm every weekend evening and every evening over the summer holidays. The kids all got dressed up for the discos.

They also had a laundry room, a shop that sold sachets of Vanish and showers and sinks in the caravans. I never looked in any of the tents, because that would have been rude and odd, so I don't know what equipment they had or did not have.

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OutragedFromLeeds · 02/08/2013 23:34

I'm still not sure why they need new shorts? They were bought for the express purpose of wearing in Turkish pubs, surely they could wear something else instead? What about the playsuits? Do they not have any other dress/skirt/trousers to wear instead? Do they have so few clothes that the loss of one pair of shorts means they have nothing to wear? Is there a strict shorts-only rule in Turkish pubs?

I'm so confused!

Mendi · 02/08/2013 23:34

White shorts. For camping.

Regardless of your idea of "dressing up for evening", if the white shorts were especially precious, I'd say YABU for sending them. Certainly a massiveYABU to make a fuss about it.

But you know that.

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D0oinMeCleanin · 02/08/2013 23:52

Because I only bought the exact amount of clothes I'd need to only have to waste one day washing things.

They don't need new shorts. Washing up liquid has removed most of it. Thank you that poster. They're now soaking in bi carb to try and get rest out but they're only slight grey-ish now, so they can be worn.

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Bogeyface · 02/08/2013 23:55

YANBU

Everyone knows that allowing children to play in white shorts is a recipe for disaster. Anyone knows that washing anything with new indigo jeans is a recipe for disaster.

And btw, I would never pack for my children going away with me thinking "oh, this will be a cheap week, I only have to write off £100 worth of clothes".

FFS, I have read some crap on here, but really....