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AIBU?

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To not want these towels to wash?

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muddyprints · 27/01/2014 16:01

Dp is in a tea school at work, someone has left and dp has volunteered to take this on so he collects the money and provides the tea coffee milk and sugar. No problem.
Friday he came home with 7 towels from work that are really dirty and stained and said they need washing as he has took on washing as we'll.
I'm a sahm and do all washing, I know it's only bunging them in washer and dp could easily do that.
But we don't have a tumble dryer and in winter I struggle to get things dry. I do 4 or 5 loads of clothes a week, 2 of sheets and 1 of towels at least already and there are Always 2 aires of clothes in house this time of year.
I do not need another load of towels a week to wash, dp says no problem he will wash them but they will still hog an airer for 2 days and get in my way. Also I had to do them on a hotter longer wash than I normally use to get them clean today.
Aibu to not want to do hem in winter. In summer everything is line dried so no problem.

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RenterNomad · 27/01/2014 17:19

Great idea to hog the racks first, so he sees what HE has volunteered for (NOT what he has volunteered YOU for)!

More generally, I use the hob extractor in the kitchen to speed drying time, if that's if any use to anyone?

Vinomcstephens · 27/01/2014 17:26

It's 7 tea towels. 7. I truly find it nigh on impossible to believe that 1) you can't squeeze them in with any other wash and 2) that they are causing you this much grief. I do actually feel that it should be up to your husband to take on this evidently onerous and time consuming chore but really...all this angst over 7 tea towels?

ContinentalKat · 27/01/2014 17:28

7 tea towels, bunged in with any wash you are doing anyway, dh takes them to work and dries them there. Crisis over.

RenterNomad · 27/01/2014 17:33

Some houses/ flats are small and/or damp, and there may be time constraints for washing at other times of the week. Why are peoplr so unbelieving? It's not exactly a scenario on a par with that of the poo troll, is it?

cardibach · 27/01/2014 17:34

Dido why would anyone get D and V from washing tea towels with pants and floorcloths? You know, washing in a washing machine that gets things clean? That's even more mad than the OP not wanting to put the dirty cloths in another wash at all. What are you all on? And how have I managed to live so long and bring up DD without worrying about this sort of crap if it is a real thing?

ilovepowerhoop · 27/01/2014 17:42

wash them in with other stuff and get him to take them to work to dry them then they are not in your way. tea towels are pretty much dry overnight here and our heating is off overnight

NatashaBee · 27/01/2014 17:50

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KatieScarlett2833 · 27/01/2014 17:58

For me it wouldn't be about the extra laundry, it's the feckin pisstake that YOU should be laundress to the manky gits at DH work.
Don't do it. It will not be appreciated and will give you the rage

Floggingmolly · 27/01/2014 18:04

7 tea towels per week? Not per day? . As someone who does around 2/3 loads per day, I genuinely can't see what the fuss is about, but I suppose everyone's circumstances are different...

AnythingNotEverything · 27/01/2014 18:24

Cardibach - it's one of those "only on Mumsnet" things. You mustn't wash anything that's been anywhere near poo with anything else, therefore all knickers must be washed separately.

In our house, only D&V stuff gets washed separately.

bzoo · 27/01/2014 18:28

Hang them On the oven handle when it's on. They'll soon dry!

bzoo · 27/01/2014 18:30

Oh and infection control policy in our nursing home means all kitchen laundry/dining room washing had to be run through on a separate wash to clothing. I do it at home too, but then I refuse to have a washing machine in my kitchen. It's minging!

Joysmum · 27/01/2014 18:30

I can appreciate where you are coming from. We don't have a tumble drier either so it wouldn't be the washing, it would be the drying of them that would be more of an issue due to space. I'd feel taken for granted if my husband wouldn't understand that radiator space is at a oremium especially as I chose a washer/drier and he thought he'd found it cheaper and bought a washing machine, not a washer drier so if be his fault!

grobagsforever · 27/01/2014 18:42

Ha ha

grobagsforever · 27/01/2014 18:45

Sorry posted too soon. Seriously they can in any wash! They are not radioactive! OP I'm sorry but you sound a bit unhinged. It is 7 tea towels. Do it or leave DH to do it, but chill! I don't get thr hygiene madness on mn, you must all have no immune systems.

TheDoctorsNewKidneys · 27/01/2014 18:54

Just bung them in with your bedsheets or something, and hang them up in the kitchen. We live in a tiny flat with no tumble drier, and our tea towels get hung on the curtain rails in the kitchen, on the oven door and off the cupboard doors. They dry within about four hours with the heating on 16 degrees.

No need for this much angst, really. Tea towels hardly take up all the space in the world.

MrsKoala · 27/01/2014 19:20

Sometimes it's just not possible to do that Kidneys. I find this a very odd aspect of MN - where people cannot imagine circumstances different than their own. 7 tea towels to me would be a hassle. It isn't just 7 teatowels it's all the other washing plus 7 tea towels. My kitchen is tiny (not really a kitchen, just a few units in the corner of the lounge) so i wouldn't have space to hang them and even if i did, for some inexplicable reason, my toddler finds laundry hanging personally offensive, so yanks it on the floor and stamps on it. This is why we have to use the bathroom (which we can keep DS out of), an internal damp room anyway, for all our laundry hanging needs. It does take 2 days to dry even with the heater in there on half the day. I get annoyed if any extra washing is made because it is such a daily pita. Therefore if i was in the OPs situation i would resent any more laundry being brought in.

If i was in my old house with my lovely tumble dryer - i wouldn't give a shit.

LtEveDallas · 27/01/2014 19:27

Crikey. I've just counted my tea towels, I have 15 - and I have to wash them all every week. Ok, so I do have a dryer, but I really don't understand why they can't just be added to your normal daily/weekly wash.

If the drying is an issue, tell DH you will wash them if he irons them dry. That way you aren't doing 'all' the extra work.

phantomnamechanger · 27/01/2014 19:28

OP, wait till its your DCs turn to bring the teams footie kits home to be washed

I do sympathise - our house is another widow twankeys! Ther are 5 of us and I don't wash bedding and towels anywhere near as often as most of MN seems to, but I still wash at least one load a day, at least 2 loads each day on a weekend, and have it all over the rads and on 2 airers. will not get a tumble dryer even though we can afford to run one - we run dehumidifiers though. Roll on summer and line drying!

Optimist1 · 27/01/2014 20:29

Someone up-thread suggested the people in your DP's department should have a rota for tea towel washing - surely that's the answer?

SaucyJack · 27/01/2014 20:36

Just stick them in with a normal wash. Don't fuss if they're not as stain-free as you would like your own- you won't have to look at them everyday.

Just a note- some people manage without tumble dryers because they have to puppyfat Stuff like that costs money.

Iwannalaylikethisforever · 27/01/2014 20:42

Why do clothes take two days to dry ? Surely you have the heating on. Mine are dry over night.
You Anbu as they do need a seperate wash. I too would be annoyed at having manky stinky tea towels to take care of.
Very gross to wash tea towels with rest of dirty washing.
Really, washing pants and socks with tea towels is horrible.

stealthsquiggle · 27/01/2014 20:47

A Lakeland heated dryer might be a good investment for the OP's DH to make.

Weelady77 · 27/01/2014 20:48

Try washing 2 sets of football strips in the winter!

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muddyprints · 27/01/2014 21:26

I will not be doing football kits, no way.
I do not have room for tumble dryer and they are expensive to run.
I have told dp I did them on a hot wash and took ages and they are still stained. Tough.
They wee manky. Not like home tea towels washed regularly. Like manky towels that had been wiped round for ages. Yuk.

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