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.

😆😆spiders Willie's cracks me up every time !!!

Vile, wouldn't dream of washing undies and teatowels together. I'm not particularly houseproud or a hygiene fanatic but it just seems wrong.

you shouldn't wash pants and tea towels together because of the "poo particles" getting transferred to your tea towels, and in turn your mugs

By this logic, there are “poo particles” on your knickers (and anything else you’ve washed with them) after they’ve been washed. So you should thoroughly wash your hands after hanging up wet knickers to dry? Then again after taking them down? Then presumably every morning after putting them on? Because they’ve got poo particles that will contaminate your hands, like the ones from the tea towels are contaminating your mugs? Madness.

I don’t tend to shit my knickers so more than happy to Chuck them in with everything else.

I remember when I was a kid, my Nan used to spend hours scrubbing the gussets of our knickers at the sink with a wooden scrubbing brush. Never thought anything of it. Then one Sunday when I was about 13 she asked me to help with the roast dinner.... I went into the kitchen and she showed me the bowl of mucky spuds and a load of freshly pulled carrots and told me to clean them. I was revolted when she handed me the gusset brush to scrub them. Then she told me she had been using that brush for everything for the last 15 years and to get over myself.

I peel carrots and spuds now, no gusset brush for my Sunday dinner. So I can't get worked up about Mixing my washing after a childhood of eating fanny flavoured veg 😂

TheRealShatParp

good point

For people who do, I recommend Napisan

I do usually just wash towels on their own on a hotter wash than normal clothing

Do the people who think it's 'GRIM' to wash knickers with tea towels wash dishcloths with tea towels instead? Because you can bet your life that there is more bacteria on a dishcloth than on a pair of knickers.

This obsession with cleanliness is bad for the environment and especially bad for children's long term health.

This is all absolutely fascinating. Now tell me MNers who hang their washing outside. Do you hang your knickers in the middle of the whirligig dryer or all around the outside? My mother always said they should go in the middle in case the NDN were offended by them. Should there be a curtain of tea towels all round possibly?

I did NOT expect this thread to generate this much interest however I am very glad I'm not alone in this. Was beginning to doubt my "adult ness"

I admire the sorters and separators amongst you though. Dedication.

My categories are:
Underwear and socks
Towels
Tea towels
Bedding
Lights
Darks

Works out at roughly one load per category, once per week.

Row of Ikea laundry bags in the spare room for most things. Tea towels are just folded and pooped on top of washing machine until there’s enough for a wash.

I buy a new washing machine after every pants wash. anything less is just fucking minging.

A long while ago I worked with someone who had every Wednesday off. Washing day. Not only would she sort things into small piles e.g. underwear, tea towels, men's shirts and her blouses, but she cleaned the kitchen top to tow afterwards with Dettol!

Towels and tea towels get washed at 60 separately. Then I have lights washed at 50, darks and colours washed at 40. Knickers go in the wash according to colour. Bedding is also washed separately at sixty. I think I'm probably neurotic at sorting laundry because most people I know just load the machine with whatever is dirty.

My Mum used to use my Dad’s old underpants as kitchen cloths. My Dad was quite a large man so plenty of cloth available. Years after he died she still hadn’t run out of supply. I found it oddly comforting.

I have F-cup sized boobs. My bras cost a fortune! The fuck I'm washing them at 60 degrees! I wash them in a Wonder Wash that I use for delicate items.

MyRaGaiaStarFishPieA, I just read out your post to my family!

Doing a good wash with the right clothing companions is the one household thing I’ll take satisfaction from, it bugs me if I find a sock lingering out of its category

Light
Dark - dh mostly alone
Teenager plus middle child
Baby plus mine - delicate
Bath mats
Tea towels
Dry cleaning picked up

Oh and sheets
Towels

Notcopingwellhere my Mum used to use Dad’s undercrackers as floor cloths! Had forgotten that until seeing your post. When friends came round to play or for tea they used to be appalled but I saw nothing wrong in it as was used to it.

Like most on here think my knickers are free of poo particles. If my drawers were so obviously dirty as that would be soaking them or throwing them away. This woman on the telllybox sounds barking.

Really cant be bothered to faff about with washing time constraints or not...everything in together. May do a towel wash if I have loads just because they are bulky

I wash everything together at 30 degrees. I'm absolutely fine and have never been poisoned by knickery teatowels.

I’m not worried about my own underwear though otherwise I wouldn’t wash them with T-shirts

When I get the new washing machine (DP's been handwashing everything in the bath), it'll be back to normal.

Bedlinen on at 60.
Towels on at 60, no fabric softener. This includes teatowels, flannels, bathmats, cleaning cloths, mopheads, etc.
Whites at 30. Normally every other week, as I don't do pale clothes.
Darks on at 30.
Reds/Greens on at 30 if there are enough of them to make a separate load. In with the darks if not. Between darks, reds and greens, there's usually two loads worth a week - I usually separate them because the darks are the things that will be needed, whereas the reds/greens are the less urgent things.
Woolies on at 20 with fabric softener when there's enough to make a load.
Anything the DTwatCats have been sleeping on goes in separately as hot as the material will take, because the thick coating of floof can be easily removed from a machine, but not from other materials.

DP insists that everything can go in together at 40 and then shoves it all into the tumble drier in midfuckingsummer. Well, that'll be why I have half the clothes I used to from where he's ruined my things from colours running and/or from shrinking them to infant sizes, then.

It isn't a huge job - Saturday morning, shove the towels/bed linen in. Saturday afternoon, shove the clothes in. If there's enough for a white wash or woolies, do them Sunday morning.

I'm on a water meter. It's not hugely expensive - it'll certainly be cheaper than the amount of water he's using to handwash things.