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.

I was towels/tea towels separately from clothes

I don't think the person meant visible poo particles, just that pants go on the bum from which poo comes! We also dry our bums on towels, we are clean then but still the bum is only socially clean, never sterile. So - knickers and towels can go in the washing machine together, depending on the colour of course. Why not?

How can anyone think that is normal practice? Dire.

Tea towels and kitchen cloths are washed together at 95.

Bloody hell. What do you use them for? Wiping chicken meat after washing it?

the bum is only socially clean, never sterile.

Nothing in your body is sterile. Shocking, I know.

Lights, Whites, Coloureds, Darks. What they actually are I don't care.

Actually I do a separate towel wash but that's because I wash them all together.

Ewww no way! I don't even put tea towel in the washing machine 😷
I put them in a washing up bowl with boiler water bleach and washing up liquid and leave them to soak. How are you washing your dirty knickers with tea towels that you use in your kitchen! That is vile filth!

Another super example of the lower middle classes, who would have been "in service" 100 years ago.
Ignore.

What is a poo particle?

A microscopic particle of faeces, invisible to the naked eye, which invades undercrackers, used towels, pyjamas, bedsheets - anything which has had even fleeting contact with a bumhole.

So I imagine certain MNers will wash all these items separately from anything else...

Just a thought - do those who sleep naked or in a nightgown sans pants wash their bottom sheets separately from their pillowcases?

I actually deliberately put towels, undies, socks and tea towels in together. That because they are the things I tumble so easy to set wash/dry!

Everything goes in together at our house. There's only two of us so it'd take forever otherwise to get a load.
One dark wash and one white wash a week.... we've not died yet.

How dirty/disgusting are your bum/vag to think it’s “just grim” to wash t towels and knickers together 😂😂

The only thing I was separately is the dogs bed and his towels.

So if it all comes out clean anyway how about I let the cat eat off the dinner plates and use the water glasses to bail out the shit-clogged overflowing toilet before I chuck them all in the dishwasher? Would you like to come over for dinner tomorrow? Of course you wouldn’t (I hope) because even if logically you know that glass and ceramic are sanitised in the dishwasher it still feels wrong. Laundry’s the same- bedding and towels at 90, kitchen laundry separate and also at 90 (I use cut up old clothes instead of kitchen roll and get through a lot of it), pants separate at 90 and everything else according to colour on cold.

Fuck off is it 'grim', 'vile' or or any other perjorative word

Surely, if the poo crumbs have been through the washing, they'd be clean poo crumbs anyway?

Whites
Darks
Red/pinks/purples

At least one of either darks or reds will only be fortnightly, depending on whether it’s winter when I wear more darks and fewer brights or summer when it’s vice versa.

All on 30 or 40

Towels (including tea towels and bath mats) on 60

Bedding on 60 - the only reason the latter two don’t go in together is because the machine isn’t really big enough and I struggle to lift wet loads if they’re too big.

Thongs can get pretty grim.

I don't use tea towels, I think they are the devil's work. I leave to drain and use kitchen paper if I have to. I don't have a dishwasher.

For me it's:

White/light wash
Coloured wash
Towels
Bedding
Doormat/cat mat (then run an empty run after those)
E-cloths/oven gloves etc (save these)

This works fine for me, and although there are only two of us now I usually have enough for a full load

I do not use fabric softener on towels or tea towels - yuck

I do not mix clothes with towels or tea towels

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?

Funny u should say this I often think hmmm are my knickers/cloth San pro offensive (I hang them to bleach out blood stains). I remember my mum telling me as a teen to rinse out my knickers before putting them in the laundry basket “in case my dad saw them” and my dad making derogatory comments about women having discharge. So I think I’ve internalised something
However the fact that men’s boxers often have skids is never noted praise the man🙄

Just a thought - do those who sleep naked or in a nightgown sans pants wash their bottom sheets separately from their pillowcases?

Well no, GibbonLover. I personally think that the only effective way to cleanse my sheets is to purify them with fire (from my Laundry FlameThrower), then douse the remains in Holy Water, then freeze the lot.

Anything less would be vile, grim and most likely minging too.

I wash everything together at 30, including dishcloths, tea towels, bath towels, underwear, clothes and rinsed out cloth sanitary towels. I do whites separately, but I have so few that it's one wash every 5-6 weeks.
In theory, my clothes should be teeming with bacteria but in practice, they look and smell fresh and clean and I haven't had any infections due to using 'contaminated' tea towels or wearing knickers that haven't been properly sanitised, so I'm not changing anything - it works for me.

I chuck a scoop of soda crystals in every wash and only separates lights from darks and let tea towels and gussetry of both sexes intermingle without another thought.