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.

What on earth is on your tea towels that require a boil wash?

I think someone up thread mentioned arse wiping...?

Incidentally where does the word tea towel come from, you dont dry tea? Although DH has an annoying habit of wiping up spillages with a tea towel...

These threads always make me laugh.

What happens if you launder tea towels with your clothes? Absolutely NOTHING.

Do you think men spend their bank holidays agonising over this stuff and getting into laundry debates on Piston Heads? Clue: they don't! And we wonder why there's a gender pay gap whilst men and running governments and multinational businesses ... and women are investing their time and energy fretting about tea towel and knicker laundry.

Just add some napisan and it will be fine

Do you think men spend their bank holidays agonising over this stuff and getting into laundry debates on Piston Heads? Clue: they don't! And we wonder why there's a gender pay gap whilst men and running governments and multinational businesses ... and women are investing their time and energy fretting about tea towel and knicker laundry.

So what highbrow, world enhancing matters of global importance are those intellectual chaps on Piston Heads discussing, @honeylulu? Do tell us, so we can be more like men

@SoupDragon

Do people boil wash their hands?

I'm sure some in here do

I wash them with towels because I like to do them at a higher wash. Anyone with issues does the laundry themselves otherwise they should keep shtum.

Do people boil wash their hands?

Yes some seem so appalled by their own partner/ family's bodily fluids I'm amazed they ever got pregnant. Perhaps they boil washed their husband's knobber or had an immaculate conception.

We have the following categories of washing:

1. Whites, in at 40
2. Coloureds, in at 40
3. Cloth nappies, in at 60 intensive - but if it's a micro load I'll chuck a few extras in. I mean, either the machine cleans them in which case everything comes out clean or it doesn't clean them in which case I would need a new washing regime because I'm not putting dirty nappies on my baby's bum.
4. Cleaning cloths, towels and bed linen, in at 60 but I wouldn't mind putting them in at 40 from time to time.

We frequently wash our cleaning cloths with the cloth nappies. That's right. We wipe our surfaces with cloths which have breathed the same air as cloth nappies. But the machine either cleans them or it doesn't! I can't be doing with people who have the most ridiculous washing regimes but also clearly believe they don't actually work.

@allgoodinthehood

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Also, my mother just can't get over how we have a tea towel hung up in our kitchen for drying our hands on. We have a dishwasher and the few hand wash things we just let drip dry, but we've received several tea towels as presents over the years so we use them for drying hands at the kitchen sink. I'm sure she thinks we're secretly making her dry her hands on a filth-encrusted tea towel but honestly, if it ever touches anything other than clean hands (e.g. grabbed to wipe up floor spillage) it goes in the wash and a fresh one comes out.

I wash tea towels, towels, dishcloths and perhaps strangely knickers on a 90 wash. I know people think it's gross to wash my undies and tea towels together, but it's me wearing them, so no-one else's business.

I just think I'm great to have got anything in the wash at all at any temperature, I do towels and bedding at 60 mind you I only wash them once a month (if that). I am definitely a slattern. Hands up.

I am a slattern. I don't remember when we last washed the tea-towels. It's an unusual event. Underwear is never segregated either.

Mixed loads here. Don't use the tea towels to dry dishes nor wipe up spills so don't really see the need for 5-6 towels per day. Washing tends to be done at 40 degrees or 60 degrees if there is bedding.

Do a separate white wash though.

My gran used to hand wash everything, never owned a washing machine. She lived to 94 years of age. And we are rarely ill so won't be changing our washing methods. I try and do as few loads of washing as possible - try to run the machine full. Life is too busy and short to be doing multiple loads every day.

My riveting laundry query is what are you supposed to do with knickers that aren’t cotton? I’ve got plenty of pairs that say wash at 40 degrees on the label so I can’t see how you should automatically be washing them at 60.

I only wash underwear with towels and definately not with tea towels. Makes no logical sense but im weird!

@Divebar2021

My riveting laundry query is what are you supposed to do with knickers that aren’t cotton? I’ve got plenty of pairs that say wash at 40 degrees on the label so I can’t see how you should automatically be washing them at 60.

I dont wash any underwear at 60⁰C

Towels, tea towels, flannels and dish cloths - 60 degree wash (used to be 90 degrees, but some recent purchases won't cope with that).

Normal clothes - 40 degrees.

Woollens and delicates - 30 degrees.

A regular hot wash keeps the washing machine cleaner than it would otherwise be.

@SpnBaby1967

I wash my tea towels on a 100 degree wash, with a dose of plutonium in with them for any of those stubborn germs.

I lost my mum to a tea towel borne illness, so now I dont take any chances.

I once accidentally used the same towel my daughter had used just a couple of hours before, I was then knocked down by Long Towel-itis and now find lifting a dish cloth too strenuous.

You cant be too careful in these dirty towel times..

I was a sceptic, but I now believe. No longer will I just stuff everything in together and assume that the washing machine will wash it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to burn my house down. The heat will kill any bacteria and it'll give me a nice, clean plot to rebuild a new, sterile life for myself on.

Final question: my toddler is always sticky and often has a runny nose. Should I wash her at 40, or play safe with 60?

Normal!!
All in together, skip the fabric conditioner and a week later you'll wonder why in earth you ever bothered. (And how strong the smell is from eBay purchased)
My mother I think believes me to be a slattern as I don't iron sheets, or shock even fold my tea towels!! Then I found out she doesn't washbayh may for months.. everyones got different standards.
If partner seriously bothered leave him s seperate pile of yea towels to deal with as he wishes. Hell soon get fed up when there are none to use

@Spidey66

I wash tea towels, towels, dishcloths and perhaps strangely knickers on a 90 wash. I know people think it's gross to wash my undies and tea towels together, but it's me wearing them, so no-one else's business.

What the hell are your knickers made from that they withstand regular washing at 90, and why do you do it? Do those that wash at high temperatures realise that washing liquids etc are meant to be used at lower temperatures to work properly?

I wash towels, tea towels and bedding separately to clothes at 60. I do save them up until I've got a full load to do.

Final question: my toddler is always sticky and often has a runny nose. Should I wash her at 40, or play safe with 60?

Honestly @YourCakesAreShit, she sounds like a germfest; I probably wouldn’t let her in the house at all. Have you got a shed or outbuilding you can confine her to?

Everything gets washed together at 30 except bed linen which is 40 or 60 (I can't remember, it's a different setting). I have not yet succumbed to a terrible knickers-and-dishcloths-in-together based disease.

Final question: my toddler is always sticky and often has a runny nose. Should I wash her at 40, or play safe with 60?

Have you got a sheep dip you could dredge her through?