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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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MrsKoala · 28/01/2014 19:48

Everything goes in together here. We share towels and don't wash them after each use.

Aelfrith · 28/01/2014 19:57

Don't ever volunteer to sort the tea and coffee At work. It's thankless. People complain whatever you do...wrong kind of tea, wrong kind of milk, can we have decAff as well as ordinary? Etc etc.

TeA and coffee and tea towels etc must be on a rotA. So your turn comes round once or twice a year not every week.

< bangs gavel. Will be the law when I am PM. Also don't use my mug.>

(When it's my turn I throw all old towels in bin and buy cheapo replacements from Wilkos or primark.)

(Sorry ipad randomly capitalising things....)

breatheslowly · 28/01/2014 20:02

Could I refer the posters who suggested getting a tumble dryer to www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1978941-to-be-surprised-how-regularly-posters-casually-suggest-an-OP-makes-a-hugely-significant-or-expensive-change-to-their-life? - they are expensive and take up space. It is highly unlikely that the OP hasn't considered this in the past.

sonlypuppyfat · 28/01/2014 20:36

Surely if you can afford a computer and broadband you could afford something to save you living in a laundry with damp smelly washing hanging everywhere.

LEMmingaround · 28/01/2014 20:42

Fgs Internet access is no longer considered a luxury these days.

sonlypuppyfat · 28/01/2014 20:44

Surely dry washing isn't a luxury either. Ffs!

PenguinsDontEatKale · 28/01/2014 20:46

I don't have a tumble dryer. We are comfortably off and could afford one, but until we moved had nowhere (literally, nowhere, save in the middle of the living room) we could put one as we lived in a London postage stamp. We now have room but haven't got around to getting one.

Not everyone considers a tumble dryer a life essential, and has been pointed out lots of people have very valid reasons for not owning one.

ilovepowerhoop · 28/01/2014 20:55

I dont have a tumble dryer and I dont want one either, thank you very much! They are expensive to run and take up space

whois · 28/01/2014 21:00

I dont have a tumble dryer and I dont want one either, thank you very much! They are expensive to run and take up space

Totally fine to not want a tumble dryer. But choosing not to have one removes all right to complain about wet washing lying around the place!

We have an all in one machine. It's crap. I much preferred my separate machines when I lived in a bigger house rather than small london flat. If I had DCs I would chuck this, buy separate washing machine and condensing tumble dryer and keep the tumble dryer on the balcony and build a wooden box for it. Current set up ok for 2 to 4 loads of washing a week. Not good if washing every day!

ilovepowerhoop · 28/01/2014 21:02

I didnt complain though. I have 2 clothes airers and dry stuff on them

MrsKoala · 28/01/2014 21:06

it's not the money sonlypuppyfat, it's the space. there is nowhere to put one in my flat. internet connection doesn't take up any space so we can have it.

sonlypuppyfat · 28/01/2014 21:07

You see I don't have central heating so I could never dry stuff without a dryer.

notso · 28/01/2014 21:09

You can sonlypuppyfat it just takes a long time!

sonlypuppyfat · 28/01/2014 21:20

Doesn't smell a bit musty though?

Weelady77 · 28/01/2014 21:37

Muddyprints what about getting radiator airers and just fold the tea towels over them over night?

notso · 28/01/2014 21:53

If you take care no. I grew up in a house with only a coal fire. We hung washing outside as much as possible and on airers in front of the airing cupboard in the day and near the embers of the fire at night.
You have to turn the clothes often to stop them getting musty.
It was only really jeans and towels that took annoyingly long. My parents have just a log burner now and the house is much warmer.

I have just had a cupboard put on my landing for drying. It has a radiator in it, rails and slatted shelves. I love it!

whois · 28/01/2014 22:12

All those who say there is nowhere for your tumble dryer to go... I had a friend who's mum pit it in her bedroom! And it was an old style one that needed venting and they opened the window and dangled the tube out of it. I thought that was a little odd! But to be fair my friend was at school during the day and in the living room in the evenings so not too bothersome.

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MrsKoala · 28/01/2014 22:15

Whois - if i had room in any room, i'd have one. i'm even considering putting one on dh's side of the bed and making him sleep in the bath.

frugalfuzzpig · 28/01/2014 22:17

We have a tea towel rota at work.

I fail to see the big deal. We just stick it in with other washing and put it on the airer like anything else.

If you don't want to take up airer space he could peg them onto hangers and hang them up on the curtain rail (we do that with excess wet washing anyway - no tumble or garden etc)

frugalfuzzpig · 28/01/2014 22:18

(No central heating either BTW, just a crappy electric heater)

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muddyprints · 29/01/2014 11:56

This is not a tea towel rota, it's dp bringing them home every week. They can wash with other towels but they need a hot wash so can't put them in with clothes and wouldn't want to as they are manky. But my towel load is full anyway and kids towels go with sheets so it is making me an extra load and prob end up on radiators making damp.

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Bubblegoose · 29/01/2014 12:03

You would put an extra load on just for seven tea towels? That is so wasteful.

frugalfuzzpig · 29/01/2014 14:24

Every week wouldn't bother me either. We have so much laundry going on anyway it just seems like barely anything in comparison.

I don't particularly separate laundry though so it'd just go in with whatever. It all gets clean.

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muddyprints · 29/01/2014 14:32

If my towel load is full and my sheet loads are full how can I squeeze 7 extra towels in, so it's a wasteful half load. But my main concern is lack of space for drying.
I wash clothes at 40 and that wouldn't wash towels properly.
Anyway, I've told dp he should get someone else to do it till summer then il line dry them.

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mercibucket · 03/02/2014 09:38

tea towels, not towels

they dry in about an hour

towels take a day or longer

this is so not a big deal. are you just pissed off he has volunteered and you have to do it? reasonable to be hacked iff. leave him to it, he can shove them in with some washing one night.

other idea - chuck them, buy new, then he brings 2 or 3 home every week and changes them for an already clean set of 2 or 3, and tells everyone to leave cups to drip dry as it is more hygienic

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