Inside out laundry *tongue in cheek

[Iluvthe80s]

No one in our house (DH, DS and DD) apart from me appear to be capable of taking their clothes off and putting them to wash so they are not inside out.
Meaning I then have to do it as I do all the laundry. If I have to turn one more t shirt outside in I will lose my shit. Aibu to be pissed off that it's just one more thing to do in the already massive list of tedious shit I do every day ? Is it too much to ask??

Are you me OP?! Gives me the rage!!

WellThatsATurnipForTheBooks i do do this myself sometimes....when I've REALLY lost the will to live with it!

If I leave things for DD inside out, I’m plagued with wails of, “Mum! I can’t fnd my [insert random top name] and I neeeed it!”

This too chaps my ass.

DH’s stuff gets left inside out as he knows better than to engage the rage.

Rewn7 "engage the rage" love it

Erm am I terrible as I didn't realise this was a thing. Our clothes get launched in the basket and washed however they are.

I have the joy of multiple items in one. Knickers and socks are unsure jeans, t shirts are in hoodies 😕

Well you’re supposed to wash stuff outside out. It protects the clothes.

Just like fastening stuff with buttons and zips and then turning inside out stops them catching other clothes and causing clicks.

I wash everything as it comes. It gets turned the right way out ( or not) if I can be arsed when it's dry. DPs clothes go back into drawers and on hangers inside out if that's the way I found them. He's lucky I do it at all.

yep - always inside out here - and I complain if things are kept the right way.

It protects the clothes from fading, from bobbling and from getting any marks/fluff on the outside in the dryer too.

I stopped washing jeans and trousers unless they were inside out and done up because the zips catch on other items and damage them. If they are put in the laundry basket in any other way I leave them on the bed.

Other than that, shirt sleeves, socks etc. need to be not rolled up or balled otherwise they go in the wash as they are and left to dry that way too. This can result in a damp and niffy sleeve and socks that need to be unballed and re-washed. Not my problem, I just wash them and leave them to dry on the airer.

My dsd takes trousers off and leaves one leg inside out. Which means I have to turn them one way or the other. She also leaves her completely grim knickers in her trousers.
Horrible.

It’s the inside of your clothes that has had contact with your skin, sweaty armpits, nether regions etc. If you wash clothes inside out, the inside has better contact with the detergent so they’ll be cleaner.

Think that’s the theory anyway.

I wash them like that and hang them back up like that after, so the person wearing just turns the right way round as and when needed.

I always turn everything inside out before I wash. Stops fading, bobbling and the zips seem to snag less. Quite a few labels specify to wash inside out.

DH took over the laundry and a few months later had a batshit rant about everything being insideout. He’d been diligently turning everything right way round.

We reached an agreement he washes, dries and folds them in whatever state they are in the basket.

I hear you. It drives me insane. Socks are the worst, when they pull them off and put them in the wash in a little scrunched up socky ball and I don't notice and it gets washed and comes out dirty still because it's in a bloody scrunched up little socky ball!!! Arrrgggghhhh. I have 5 kids. There's a lot of socks. I used to be such a sane calm person

Another one for ‘inside out’ washing.
Stops the bobbling and fading.

But I refuse to wash jeans-socks-knickers combos left all knotted up. Just no.

TBH as long as clothing items are either totally right way round or totally inside out, I don't care - they get washed, hung up to dry, folded and put away whichever way they go into the laundry basket. Worst case scenario I have to turn something right side out just before I want to wear it.

What seriously pisses me off is layered clothing (pants/socks in trousers, tshirts in jumpers etc) that DD hasn't separated, because I then have to sort through and separate everything before they go in the wash; scrunched up bottom of trousers/jumper sleeves (because then I have to spend ages straightening and pulling out the ends so they will dry properly); and clothes that are neither right side out or inside out, but a combination of both - eg jeans with one leg pulled fully inside out and the other leg is the right way out - because even though they can go through the wash that way I have to sort them out afterwards or else they don't lie right on the clothes airer and then I end up with dry clothes that have odd damp bits.

I used to have a No Righty No Wash system until I got fed up of fishing through dirty pants to find what was the right way. Now I wash it as it comes. Then I had a No Righty No Dry policy and put anything inside out in a basket to rot until the owner turned it the right way round. And we are talking of a wash of 22 shirts only 2 being the right way round with both sleeves facing the right way.
Now to avoid the rotting pile of wet inside out stuff I dry it as is. So DC3 has a whole wardrobe full of inside out trousers with boxers still attached and socks balled up somewhere inside the trouser legs. But tbh it's backfired as he thinks this is ace because that's all he needs on one clothes hanger, and he only has to hang it up once and not put away pants and socks as well

Ohhh op it boils my piss.

It's the fecking assumption that some fecker will sort it out. See also shirts still buttoned and stuff half inside out or balled up. I do laundry. That's fine. But meet me halfway.

See also putting plates next to the sink without scraping the food into the compost or bin.

Aaargh pants inside half inside out tights/trousers. Vests inside t-shirts. Oh it gives me the RAGE.

Showofhands - I totally agree. It’s the can’t be arsed attitude and the assumption that someone else (aka me) will sort it out. It pisses me right off.
That’s why if it’s inside out it doesn’t get washed in my house.

I think its a chore to turn a whole load of clothes right side out, but no bother at all to do the outfit you are putting on in the morning, so I fold and hang my stuff inside out (Disclaimer, this is probably why i am not responsible for the washing in our house)

I just leave them inside out, I asked DH why he did it and it's because in summer he doesn't want his darks to lighten on the washing line.

In the winter I just fold as they are and put away, he doesn't seem to mind as he hasn't mentioned it.

I wash most things inside out.
colours fade less that way

but dc fold and put away their own clothes.

I do just wash them inside out too.

But DH has a special talent for taking off trousers and somehow leaving one leg in and one leg out. And a pair of pants neatly tangled around the crotch area. It gives me THE RAGE and I don't know why/how he does it. Everybody else manages to take trousers off normally.

Then again, I don't take pantyliners out of pants in my defence, I am always the one who does the washing, and it's much easier to take them out all at once and stick them in a proper bin where they won't smell, than take them off when I remove my pants in the evening and put them in the bedroom bin where they will fester. But when DH does a rare wash (because I'm a laundry control freak) he complains about this, so I don't complain about the jeans, even though it's really annoying.