Dark concerns

[ImNegan]

For reasons I won't go into -DH I'm looking at you- our laundry was "darked on" overnight.
AIBU to consider one of the following remedial actions?:

a) throw the clothes away and buy replacements. It was a washing line full, all in very good condition so would be costly.

b) invest in a tanning sun bed (saw a used one for £2.5k on eBay) and use it to bring the laundry back to the "light". Could be a good back up in the event he does this shit again.

c) LTB.

I'll go with the highest vote, I'm really not precious about it. Thanks.

To be Wendied is what happens when you introduce a new friend (in the original thread, the OP called her Wendy) to an established group of friends of which you are a firm and well liked member, whereupon, they slowly phase you out of the friendship group in favour of the new girl.

Pretty soon, you're Little Miss No-Mates, trudging along the Highway of Life as they speed past you in a Facebook update frenzy laughing and joking with their new best mate until they remember you're still a Facebook friend and they all block you.

Update:

I returned from work to find 'D'H ferreting away in the garden. I've not been able to bring myself to utter one word to him since last night's incident (and he seems blissfully unaware of the fact that we have a problem) but I was curious to see what he was up to.

Turns out he had plans of putting another line of washing out. At 7.45pm. With no intention of bringing them in before sunset.

I could hear our lovely neighbours in their garden so I tried to keep my cool as I confronted him.
I hissed as I asked him what the hell he was doing but it was his nonchalance that pushed me over the edge.
I told him that he had two options: a) get them off the line straight away or b) pack them all in his suitcase in the morning and get his arse out.

He smirked.

Although I was all for nuking them earlier, I'm coming round to the idea that, as long as its not your clothes, I might prefer to have someone else do everyone else's laundry in the household (let them take the risk of spider willies, it's up to them). If they want to wear darked on clothes and you've given them fair warning about the probably consequences, their choice. I know it sounds selfish, but I'd happily let my lot do that if it meant they were going to deal with their own washing. Obviously I would make it clear that I wouldn't be touching said items.

Sadly my clothes are being snail-snotted too. He thinks he's being helpful with his combination washing/hanging out. I could have been swayed by the sunbed earlier today but with his shenanigans this evening it might be best for me to just LTB. For him and for me.

I'm sure you could snail proof your washing line if you put your mind to it.

Superglue pointy gravel to the posts or something, perhaps.

DS has a load of crusty, darked-on white polo shirts in his school uniform drawer. I put them out for some UV to sort out the food slop stains last week, forgot about them, then they got rained on, then dried again. There's not a hint of spag bol left on them though. I'm not rushing to tell a 6 year old boy about spider willies though, I'd never hear the end of it

Thinking of you

Rats congaing on the washing line - well, we know we have a rat in the garden so that's a possibility!
But our biggest problem with dark-on washing is spiders and we have a lot of narsty ones.
Also moth pee. And tree drip.

Has anyone mentioned moths?

A right lovely collection waiting for you

I brought my sheets in at twilight
No spider Willie's for me.

I've read what you meant now but just thought I would add... my understanding of this expression is that someone has shat the bed.

I think, OP, that your DH has brought the darked on forces into your life. You cannot go back now. You have to accept your new identity.

With great power comes great responsibility.

By the way, bees moonlight and make unofficial honey on them as well as everything else.

I am wearing my darkedon clothes/powers right now.....

loving NADILT

also, can I just say this is the first time I have ever been in on an in joke either online or in real life.

He's doing it on purpose now op, once is ignorance twice, and he's clearly a dark lord.

Mine got darked on last night. I'll be smudging it with sage sticks later, once it's been lighted on enough during this morning.

he's clearly a dark lord

It's the only explanation, OP. Option c. comes into play.

Willful act on my part. I put the laundry on yesterday evening with every intention of leaving it on the washing line overnight...gasp.

My husband helped me peg it out. He is my accomplice.

How many spiders willies are there in an average garden ? I live in suburbia. We have a very small garden.

My point of view regarding the washing getting darked on is that when the sun rises it takes the 'darked' off of it.

It will be in bright sunshine all day. So it will be lighted and dry and all the darked will be off of it.

(I even checked the weather forecast to make sure rain wasn't forecast overnight)

Darked on: applies to laundry left on the washing line overnight attracting to it spider sweat, owl dribble and foxes' fungal nail infection pus.

this just made me LOL in my office weird looks a plenty

I always hang my laundry out in the evening, then bring it in whenever it is dry (last week, it took a record 4 days for it to get truly dry)

I vote angel. Reckon Cass from Supernatural would do it for you but can I come and stroke Sam if he brings him with him?

Well you could always leave that washing out again to get another darkening, as it will cancel the original darkening out.
It's the same with a broken mirror, you pick the broken bits up and throw them at the wall/floor to break them again as it cancels the 7 years bad luck out.
Mind you I come from a place that woe betide you use the washing machine on New Years Day as it causes mass hysteria & the whole street will have bad luck for a year.

I don't use the washing machine on News Years Day & also chuck my very tall husband out the front door at 12.01am & then let him back 30 seconds later so he can be the first footer. If we have coal in even better.

You have to be so careful.

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