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.

This language thing is interesting; I'm beginning to think that the English I speak will die with me. I never split infinitives, but I never see them unsplit (I blame Star Trek: "To boldly go"). I use the subjunctive in phrases like: "It's important that it be done" (It's a good idea), or not, as in: "It's important that it is done" (It is current practice, and a good thing, too). It's a useful distinction, but gone now.
English is a beautiful language, but I fear that much of its subtlety is being lost; would that t'were not so.

I save for 10 days all used dry dishclothes, tea towels and hand towels - all only used for 1 day separately for a full load on highest wash with some bleach. Washing machine gets good clean on high wash as well, avoids smell in machine. My eldest sister packed surgical instruments and was shown a teatowel thru a microscope once she thew all teatowels away . crockery etc dried on drainer. She did not have a dishwasher we do. My pet peave is dirty dishcloths, teatowels and grubby scrubbers!!!!!

@Eowyn78

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.

Why would you still ask this instead of 1) Googling - or at the very least 2) reading the bloody thread where it's been done to death at this point?

This language thing is interesting; I'm beginning to think that the English I speak will die with me. I never split infinitives, but I never see them unsplit (I blame Star Trek: "To boldly go").

You might like this article, Sophicles, which gives a history of the split infinitive and earlier examples of its usage (than the Star Trek one) from such well known manglers of the English language as Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott, John Keats, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy &c.

"Every good literary craftsman splits his infinitives when the sense demands it." - George Bernard Shaw.

@Rose5678

I don’t like the feel of fabric softener on towels so do towels/cloths etc separately - the softener makes washcloths feel a bit slimy!

Same here.

Having said that it wouldn’t bother me if they went in together from a hygiene point.

You’re not supposed to use softener on towels or anything that you wish to be fluffy/absorbent.

(In other words you’re doing it right 😉)

[quote helpIhateclothesshopping]@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.[/quote]
@helpIhateclothesshopping

Not at all, we have tea towels for kitchen stuff, as I said above, but not T-towels.

Although we have no T-towels, we do have T bags (for making tea) but not for T bagging because we don't do that.

We do have the tee towels for the golf tees (and balls) and they are another thing entirely.

My tea towels are not used for anything other than kitchen stuff and are guarded too closely to be pinched for bike cleaning or floor washing, or even ear cleaning. I am proud of my nice clean tea towels.

Not at all bothered about the tee towels as they live in the golf bag.

Shame about your T-towels being abused though.

A plop of Napisan and everything washes together in my house!

Do you wash your hands at 90° too?

Basic science tells us soap kills bacteria.

Unless we're all boil washing each other, this pandemics not going away according to some logic here!

@SherbrookeFosterer

A plop of Napisan and everything washes together in my house!

I read that as 'a plop of napalm' and was thinking well that's a bit extreme even for MN standards! 😂

Unless there are items that are really dirty, I wash tea towels in with everything else. I change tea towels every 2/3 days but I don't wash bath towels so frequently, or bed clothes. Someone on another threadre said they changed bed clothes every 4 days. I couldn't be doing with that.

I wash everything at 40 DegC really. With modern wash soaps it usually works for everything. Doing otherwise harks back to earlier years when hankies and greasy things got boiled first, then went into a hot or warm wash. Whites and coloureds were washed separately, of course.
I think that we wash much more now, possibly every day. We are generally cleaner and have better laundry products. Only woollens get washed separately, still often by hand. I iron much less now, however.

You, and your illustrious colleagues, are quite right; there are no absolute rules in English, nor should there be, but that is precisely my point: this now appears to be a rule.
I have also noticed today that Microsoft now insist that I end words in "-ize" rather than "-ise", they having replaced the Oxford English Dictionary with their own Microsoft Dictionary at no notice, to me at least.
As I say, this all gives me the feeling that I am being phazed out.