Washing knickers and tea towels together

[sirmione16]

Who REALLY separates their undies from towels in the wash am I and everyone I know grubby ?! I feel this is a waste of water, electricity, time and money!

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(Video is Lynsey on This Morning telling us we should make sure our bras are clipped together and separate them from towels before we wash) I wanna know how she has the time.

When I have pissed my slanket, is it incorrect to then put it in the wash with the tea towels on a cool wash?

I'm so worried! I would hate to think there could be any chance of cross contamination?

Dangly for me it would be ok, as i use the tea towels to mop up any wee that splashes onto the floor. I do find though, that in this warmer weather, the wee dries before i get round to putting it in the machine, so i get another day or two out of them.

DT surely pissy slankets don't need washing, as they're already washed, in piss?

I have laundry bags in my laundry basket

Yes, but how do you wash them?

Oh yes!! You're both right! Piss is sterile isn't it! I must stop washing things that don't need it and save the planet.

I won't be able to wipe up wee off the floor with my tea towel though Dog because it's already got poo crumbs on it from the wash, and I don't want to make the pissy floor shitty as well.

I'll just use my pissy slanket!

I put my raw chicken in the tumble drier after I've washed it, saves making a t towel dirty.

Personally, I'm more of a fan of line drying.
Tumble drying is like defrosting in the microwave. It ends up cooking it a bit.
But I can't have it dripping. The downstairs neighbours would complain.

I'm just off to put a 30 degree wash on. I've added a spoonful of powdered salmonella just to make sure it's all super-clean!

I can't wait!!

I don't have the hot water tap connected to the machine so it can only do a cold wash....am I grim? 😬

Bigredship, all modern washing machines are cold fill only. They then heat up the water to the required temperature.

@lweji well they get a "wash" every time they go in the machine- but I do run them through on 60 once a fortnight. My towels go straight from the bathroom to the machine, sheets straight off the bed to the machine. I usually only really have face cloths in my laundry basket, I put any tea towels over the sides and usually add a couple to the machine straight from hanging up in the kitchen.

I separate white and not white. And wash loads as and when. Any load which has the baby’s clothes in gets a 40 otherwise it’s a quick wash for everything.
I will occasionally (very occasionally) wash my husbands jeans and work trousers separately if he has done a lot of driving, thanks to a sinus infection in his lower back.

And I NEVER EVER EVER wash my bras in the washing machine. Handwash only with their own soap and dried carefully, not in the tumble dryer.

All gets chucked in here too , I have an ileostomy too so sometimes have poopy pj's if I leak overnight - all go in on a 40 and I never give it another thought !

Only things I separate out are whites and stuff that needs a gentler wash.

I do that with bras too, ToffeePennie. Although I do spin them in the machine in bra bags. No outdoor drying space so don't want them to drip for ages.

I've told you many, many times I'm afraid of chickens. I do not wash or dry them with my fanny.

What even roasted ones?

You've triggered me and now I'm forced to bake a cherry madeira cake.

But are they roasted or just French?

I had a dream about becoming a tea towel owner last night.....I'd marked out as special place in the kitchen draw and everything....but it will never happen for me....

On a more serious note you should never wash the inside surface of your knickers in the same load as the outside surface of your knickers! The inside may be contaminated with poo particles (scientific term) and you don't want those in contact with the outside of your underwear, because then the outside knicker surface will touch the inside surface of your trousers...which you will casually wash in the same load with the outside surface of your trousers and THEN the next time you lick dropped ice cream off your trousers BOOM, poo particle ice cream!

Its all very simple. Only total slatterns would put the inside and outside of their underwear in the same wash!

M3 would you agree that detergent boxes should carry some sort of health warning? I am getting quite concerned about contamination now and will henceforth only wash one item at a time!

I absolutely concur. Also it would be helpful if they sold the sellotape for covering the outer surfaces while you wash the inner, together with the washing powder. I mean you can't use one without the other...and there is nothing so annoying as having everything ready to go and realising you can't put on your wash without popping to the shops for more sellotape!

On the whole, it's probably best to never wash your knickers and just give them an airing every so often. Although don't air them next to teatowels, obvs, in case poo crumbs or fanny bugs, etc can pole vault.

M3 I see your problem. Perhaps Amazon Prime could offer a drone service to deliver emergency sellotape for these occasions. Normally Amazon uses a foolishly large box, so it would help the environment if we ordered biscuits etc in the same delivery.

You could just not wear knickers at all and if you have to sit down occasionally, put a sheet of paper (blotting is favourite but newspaper will do as long as you don't mind newsprint on your bum), between your bottom and skirt. When wearing trousers, use paper linings all the time but make sure they don't crackle when you walk.

Burn the paper after use, it can't go into the recycling bin because of contamination by invisible poo particles.

I will be laundering some (white) towels and a couple of teatowels together tomorrow at 60deg - and I don't care!

womble you have obviously thought long and hard about this. Your idea would be much better for the planet, but Big Pharma will hunt you down and silence you! Perhaps claim you do wash your pants, but secretly don't.

Pretty sure my teatowels get more grim than my knickers when they get used to mop up spills from the floor.. my poor knicks getting washed with those gross towels 😂😂😂😂😂😂.. people need a life.