Is this weird or am I a slattern

[allgoodinthehood]

I think it totally fine to wash tee towels in with clothes washing .
My partner thinks they should be washed separately on a hot wash.
He thinks it just not right to have tee towels and underwear washed together as its unhygienic.
My clothes washing is on a 40 degrees wash.
Tell me Im not mad .
Happy Easter everyone.

If he's not doing the wash he gets no opinion. If that's the standard then I'm fucked

@midnightstar66

I don't know what a dish wipe is no, however I know an arse wipe when I see one.

@midnightstar66 That poster insulted me because I dared suggest that hand towels are for.....washing hands. Hence my response to them that yes, I too certainly know what arse wipes are.

I don't understand why some people wash their towels at such high temperatures. I'm obviously using my towels and tea towels differently to most people. I use mine to dry clean, wet things so they're not crawling with germs after use. Otherwise, the crockery and cutlery that I'll later be using to eat with would be the very things that are transmitting all the dirt and germs onto the tea towels. The same as bath towels: I use them to dry clean, wet bodies. Unless maybe some people get excited by towel drying and shart all over their towels? Maybe my family just have exceptionally good bowel control?!

I wouldn't think twice about washing it with everything else although I use a laundry liquid with built in antibac. Occasionally I boil anything particularly stained in an old saucepan first

pocketfluff (and I certainly hope you get rid of such before washing!)
Your analysis is logical.
This thread is evidence (as if we needed it) that logic just comes and goes or iOS entirely absent or selectively applied.
This whole topic shows we are a messy muddle of inherited/ingrained/imposed ‘ways’.

[quote SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius]@Cokie3 - as far as I know, the disposable wipes you pictured in your earlier post, can be called J-cloths. That is what I have always known them as. I suspect that, at some point in the past, there was a brand called J-cloths, and now all similar looking, disposable cloths are known as J-cloths.

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@SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius Thank you for at least replying to me without insulting me or being aggressive. I see they are called different things in different countries.

@GreyhoundG1rl

For the uninitiated (Cokie, mainly 😁) I give you:

@GreyhoundG1rl Thank you, a pity you couldn't have just replied like this first off, instead of being rude and insulting.

@NoseOfJericho I think you are mixing up tee towels (for cleaning golf tees) with the OPs T- towels ( for washing up plates, pans, cutlery etc). Unless you are my husband or kids who also borrows my t-towels to clean bikes, wipe muck of surfaces, mop up a spill of yellow food colouring etc.

@Hufflepuffmamma

I’m only here to ask why the hell a slattern is....

@Hufflepuffmamma Careful! You will be met with rudeness and insults. They are very defensive and insulting. Our fault apparently for not knowing the meaning of a word that is obsolete in every other English-speaking country bar the UK. I find have to Google a lot of terms and words on here for their meanings, and English is my first and only language.

You have plenty of words in Australia that aren’t used in the UK @Cokie3. There’s no reason to be rude because your country has impoverished the English language.

@Alsohuman Regional dialects and obsolete words are not the same thing at all. I have not been rude, on the contrary people have been rude to me. So there is no need for you to continue being insulting, rude and aggressive just because I said the word is obsolete, and it is according to dictionaries. Don't shoot the messenger.

I wash tea towels separately (have a lot so just build up a small basket then do them) as our clothes go on a cold wash (doesn’t kill bacteria or strong smells) and I use the towels for drying our plates etc.

Clearly it isn’t obsolete in the UK. Lots of British people use it. I didn’t even mention regional dialects.

@Cokie3 I still don’t k ow what it means - also I just wash everything together where possible - it’s a very first world issue to have - I’m thankfully quite happy I have a washing machine - so don’t fuss with what goes in it to be washed ... honestly Many if you should appreciate that you don’t have to have a bath in The same place you wash your clothes ...

What is a slattern? I have never heard that word before.
But I throw everything in together at a 40 degree wash. Modern day washing liquids are very good at cleaning and washing germs away at 40 degrees.

I do whites, lights and darks plus towels/tea towel, etc, and then bedding all separately. Mainly bc I only wash on weekends and there's enough for a full load of each one by then. If there isn't, I wait until there is.

Whites, light bedding and tea towels/towels at 60°, rest at 40°.

Pet stuff also gets done separately and the machine is cleaned afterwards using a specific 'clean' cycle where it's run empty of items with just a machine cleaner/disinfectant in.

Slattern - untidy/dirty, slovenly, unclean, unkempt are the words that come to mind

@Hufflepuffmamma and @Eowyn78 Apparently, in Ye Olde English it means a 'lazy person'.

Yes, I don't get it either, 'lazy' is more common, and it's shorter. But they also write whilst on here, instead of while, so I'm surprised I haven't come across doest or thoust.

#Sorry, feeling a bit snippy because of the insults and abuse I've copped on here.

It doesn't just mean lazy though. It's more specific than that.

@Cokie3

YABU for making me look up the definition of 'slattern' (which all dictionaries online lists it as a 'dated' term basically no longer in usage). The amount of very old-fashioned and out of use words I see on here gives all the online dictionaries a good workout. I once complained to a friend (pre-mumsnet) that people in England are so old-fashioned they still speak like Shakespearian times or Enid Blyton. I remember reading 'hurrah' (couldn't figure how that was pronounced) in a E.B book, and seeing 'jolly well' (almost peed myself laughing at how embarrassing and ridiculous it sounds), only to come on here and see 'jolly well' or 'jolly along' by someone, and a 'hurrah' by someone else. Proved my friend right when I showed her how they speak on here. Anyway, I throw everything in one load if I can - sheets, towel, underwear, clothes. Wouldn't have the foggiest what the degrees are. It's automatic machine and I've never had or seen a machine where you can adjust the temperature degrees. Hot, Cold, and Warm setting, yep. But no picking the degrees though unfortunately.

This is what you said. You started the rudeness so please don’t complain when it’s returned.

Slattern actually means a dirty, untidy woman Nothing to do with laziness.

It doesn't mean lazy.
The definition I would associate it with is;

adirty,untidywoman

You can be a lazy slattern for example

Don't know why all the words merged there

Ugh, I'm not having a good time of it at the moment, I put in 'dirty' and it corrected to 'lazy'. Not sure why.

@Alsohuman That was commenting about language on here in general, not aimed at any one poster, where as I've had comments directly @'ed at me. Though on re-reading it looks like it's aimed at the OP, but most of it wasn't (apart from the YABU for making me look up the definition of 'slattern').

I don't think there's anything wrong with it but I wash them separately. We go through a lot of tea towels and clothes in a week so I have a whole separate load for them. I also sling some fabric place mats and table runners in with them too. And the hand towel from the loo.

Here’s a good one for the hygiene-freaks.
Colleague of mine told me that when her kids were small, she used to wipe their faces with the floor cloth if there was nothing else handy.

Both long grown up, both healthy, and incidentally both went to Oxford, so evidently germs are very good for your IQ.😂