To not want these towels to wash?

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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.

Our tumble dryer broke last year and I havn't repaired it. I have a damn sight more than 4-5 washes a week and have no problem getting anything dry. Tea towels with dry in little time on a radiator. I think you are makinf a fuss over nothing.

Get your DH to get some new tea towels (you can get them quite cheap and wash and dry them himself

Why is it Iwanna?

Just when I thought I'd read everything on MN....

People seriously separate dirty clothes for non-colour-related reasons? I shove pants, socks, towels etc in together, and I thought everyone else did. Why make life hard for yourself? What do you think will happen if you put your pants in with a towel?

Why make life hard for yourself?

She's not making life hard for herself.

That was done for her by the ignorant twat who took on this work on her behalf.

I can't fucking believe he told you to wash them.

She is because she didn't just tell DH to wash them or bung them in with everything else.
Someone upthread said you can get D&V from washing pants and floor cloths with tea towels Agent

Hauling the down the river. Arf!

They must have very dirty pants, then!

And be washing them in cold water.

Yes, Ageny, some people believe there are nasty poo spores on underwear that will multiply in the washing machine, and you will then end up drying your hands on a pooey towel.

Only on Mumsnet.

I can absolutely see where you're coming from OP, I lived in a damp house without a tumble dryer for years and I formed some strong opinions about airers and washing strategy as a result! It's genuinely a pain in the butt to add even a small amount of extra volume when things take so long to dry - it used to take 3 or 4 days in our old house and every wash needed about a bucket of tea tree oil to prevent the damp smell.

I like rookie's suggestion. Accidentally forget to do them! Or accidentally throw them away because they were so rank you mistook them for rags . As an aside how do they get so grim? Are they being used as cleaning cloths? If so that's gross, and I'd wash them separately too.

We have a small house and no tumble dryer. Up until a year ago, we had no central heating either. The best thing we found for drying clothes is the Lakeland heated rail mentioned up thread. You can fit two whole loads of washing on it and it is very cheap to run.

Let DH sort out washing them. If they are in your way when you want to hang something else up, then just remove them.

I'm not near a river but could dip in a canal and they would probably be cleAner.
Lakeland dryer looks good actually.
Dp is a pain agreeing to this. I may bin them they look gross.
At least no one told me to ltb.

I understand how you feel OP
What about putting them in a hot wash with the family towels ,tea towels etc on a day when DH isn't working and he could take them all to dry at the launderette perhaps the sheets too .Maybe DS could go with him .It sounds like you could do with a break.

cardibach it's called irony!

Just say no - give them to someone wiht a tumble dryer - or have people do it on a rota - sorted.

Alternatively buy new ones each week/month and have DP claim it back from petty cash

dido i used to have one of those I rather wish i kept it!

Tell them to buy at least 10 more towels if they get that gross, and say they'll have to organise a washing rota.

Use paper towels

I agree that it's the DH's problem to sort out- you can't volunteer for extra tasks and then hand the tasks over to someone else. The OP didn't volunteer.

Just thinking about how to stop your DH wrecking what sounds to be a tightly run drying ship- could the towels go in with your own tea towel/ dishcloth boil wash (surely I'm not the only one who does this?) .They could then go back into work wet to be dried over the radiators there. And if they aren't done when he wants them then work will have to buy some more tea towels.

Hadn't thought of him taking them wet to dry at work, that would be a good idea actually.

Off at a tangent, but the Lakeland airer is seriously magic. I love ours.

So...what can you wash pants with? There's only me and DD here, so we would need millions of pairs if we had to wash them separately! Don't you need a family of about 20 to do a just pants wash?

pants go in with everything else here. They all come out clean anyway

washing pants separately from other stuff is probably done by the same people who wash their bath towel after every time they use it because it has touched their perfectly clean bum crack.

what the heck would they think of me shoving washable sanitary towels in with everything else I have not killed any of us yet!