Dirty undergarments

[watchingrnfire]

Where does everyone put their dirty underwear that need washing? I wouldn't put it in wash basket with the rest of my clothes. I ask because I let mine pile up (weekly) and then put in for a wash as they don't get washed with any other clothing. What I have been doing is putting them in a medium sized laundry mesh bag, that I leave in the bathroom, not in open apparent space. But if you look around well enough, you will be able to spot it!
My issue is having to move it when we have workers round (boiler is in the bathroom) or even guests. Our downstairs bathroom is quite far from the living room so our guests unfortunately decide to go to our family bathroom upstairs as it's much closer. Just annoys me that I have to move it any time someone comes over. We've had 3 workers in the last 3 week that required work in the bathroom.
It got me thinking where do people put their underwear that need washing.

@IcakethereforeIam

I had a collie who used to fish dirty knickers out of the laundry basket and put them in the hand of visitors. They'd be sat chatting, mug of tea in one hand and suddenly a rancid pair of pants in the other!

Oh Shep (yes really, he was a rescue), still miss you.

In her youth, my Collie would similarly root through the laundry basket for my knickers but instead of offering them to guests, she would eat the gusset. Honestly, I swear I don’t have a funky fanny, collies have some strange tendencies. There were a few awkward conversations with friends who’d borrowed her for a walk who had to deal with lacey poo!!

Op - I don’t get the need for a separate knicker wash but you do you. Honestly though, just keep your used pants bag in with the general laundry basket to save embarrassing any passing tradesmen.

@XenoBitch

I'm not surprised, it really is a gross thing to have done. Are your family even still talking to you after all of this?

I recommend the best selling book "The leper and the pariah, a cautionary tale for those who wash their undergarments incorrectly" by Ivor Biggun. I won't ruin the ending, but let's just say it helps those like you pay penance and find the right path once more. There is hope! Look it up, it's on Amazon right now for £349.95... you'll have to make a fake account and get it shipped to a click and collect point, don't think Jeff is happy with you right now.

@BeardieWeirdie

Is it not obvious? She's a seeing eye dog trapped in a Collies body. She's clearly been trying to help you see the light and help you out.

Honestly sometimes people just can't be helped!

@Supersimkin2

I fedex mine to Chernobyl daily. They’re stored in a bunker with radiation signs round it, just near where those calves were born with four heads.

Not funny, many children were born with deformities after Chernobyl.

I gather up the family's pants in the evening, tie them to rockets and fire them all at the moon.

I'll be honest, I've no idea if they get there, which is slack. I don't have time to check: I'm too busy axing worn socks into tiny pieces to prevent them infecting an undergarment wash.

Mine goes into the laundry basket. I do sanitise my hands after putting it into the machine but I don't segregate any underwear. I do use Napisan in the wash.

I do feel sorry for you OP!

People are being way mean, but it is also very funny. I hope you can also see the funny side and you can take this a bit on the chin! I would be defending you if we were all in one room but I would be laughing at what people were saying at the same time! So yeah, chin up. I hope you can withstand some of the banter.

Ok, so to the actual question!

You're right I don't wash my undies at a 30 degree wash. I tend to do a knickers, socks, tights, pyjamas, husband pants, socks altogether as one wash on a 40 and I add dettol laundry cleanser, more because of my husbands socks! Haha.

You really don't need to separate them while they wait to be washed - honestly. It all comes out clean. Afterall you don't eat off your clothes, so there's no reason it has to be sterile. The detergent (like soap) will get the germs out. You don't wash your hands at 60 degrees and you do eat with them, you know? Honestly these days we don't need to wash anything at high temperatures because detergent is so much better than it used to be.

Although I was grossed out at the poster who said she washed her teatowels with everything else! Ugh! I do, do a separate wash for tea towels, cleaning clothes etc and I add a bit of zoflora to that wash.

If you're still a bit grossed by the thought of washing some things together at a 40degree wash - you could get some napisan. That is for reusable nappies, and that really is to make it as sterile as possible because it's for babies. It will kill the germs! You just add it to your usual wash.

If you really want to separate and worried about builders - suggest getting one of those cheap sports bags, you know like the old gym bags we used to have as a kids? With a rope style pullie thing. They scrunch right down to nothing. You could put your undies in there and just stick that bag into to the washing basket.

@phishy and all of them reading this Mumsnet thread are going to be devastated. Some people just don't think before they post.

Get a bucket with a lid for stained underwear to soak in a stain remover but really you need to look as to why you are staining your clothes and may need to change your hygiene product more often or buy those more suited to your flow.

If you have discharge issues go to the Doc but panty liners are brilliant if you have a long trip and wish to remain fresh.

If we are talking about dirty underwear from someone not wiping correctly, give them a serve and get them to rinse and soak as per above.

Everything else goes into a washing basket in the laundry for sorting for the appropriate wash. I only use fabric softener with towels and sheets. High temp washing for sheets.

I can't say any of our workers pay any interest in the washing pile and they all wash their hands in the laundry.

If this is the case then I hope you wash your tea towels seperately as well. Germ wise they are far filthier then your under garments.

@expat101

Get a bucket with a lid for stained underwear to soak in a stain remover but really you need to look as to why you are staining your clothes and may need to change your hygiene product more often or buy those more suited to your flow.

If you have discharge issues go to the Doc but panty liners are brilliant if you have a long trip and wish to remain fresh.

If we are talking about dirty underwear from someone not wiping correctly, give them a serve and get them to rinse and soak as per above.

Everything else goes into a washing basket in the laundry for sorting for the appropriate wash. I only use fabric softener with towels and sheets. High temp washing for sheets.

I can't say any of our workers pay any interest in the washing pile and they all wash their hands in the laundry.

Yeah, swap your relatively discreet mesh delicates bag for a big bucket full of wet sterilised pants, much more subtle.

[quote PaddleBoardingMomma]@XenoBitch

I'm not surprised, it really is a gross thing to have done. Are your family even still talking to you after all of this?

I recommend the best selling book "The leper and the pariah, a cautionary tale for those who wash their undergarments incorrectly" by Ivor Biggun. I won't ruin the ending, but let's just say it helps those like you pay penance and find the right path once more. There is hope! Look it up, it's on Amazon right now for £349.95... you'll have to make a fake account and get it shipped to a click and collect point, don't think Jeff is happy with you right now. [/quote]
No, they have shunned me. They are even trying to cash in on it. I went to my local Tesco and saw both me and my mum's face on the cover of the latest 'Pick Me Up' magazine. Something about her daughter being a waste of space. I wear I saw my face on 'Take a Break' too.
All over a whole metre error with the ashes of my undies.
This is serious. Get in schools about it now.... warn our next generation about the stigma and vitriol that will come for you.
The very basic lesson is..... separate your undies from the rest of your clothing!... it is slippery slope into oblivion from there.

@XenoBitch you may tell her to spend the £500 she got for selling the story on a giant pants bucket WITH lid. I'm thinking stewed knickers are the future...

‘ some of us are just more cleaner’ really, OP?

Do you think leaving mesh bags with dirty, bloody (invariably smelly at a point) underwear lying around the house and moving it from place to place is clean? Or in any way cleaner than putting them in an enclosed laundry basket? Are you for real?

Another vote for the normal washing basket. Life's too short and busy to be segregating clothes!!!

All in the same laundry basket, all in the same 40⁰ wash in the machine here. I am very happy being a slattern.

I then often hang them out on the same washing line in the garden where they can be viewed by our immediate neighbours.

If mine were that skanky I'd put them in the wheelie bin

OP, have you considered getting an incinerator for your pants?

Stains don't always come out of clothes but am sure you all are fine with that, some of us are just more cleaner

And yet it's quite clear from this thread that you are very much in the minority. Seriously, you are being ridiculous, and what do you actually think will happen if you wash your underwear with other clothing? Some of us have been around for many decades and hardly ever get ill, and yet that is how we do our washing. You can wash things however you want to, but starting a thread, finding most people do things differently, and then telling them they are somehow unclean is just plain rude!

I gather up the family's pants in the evening, tie them to rockets and fire them all at the moon.

This is the best 🤣🤣🤣

BIg family so more than one washing basket. All dirty washing, including underwear goes into washing baskets in everyone's own bedroom. All have lids so unexpected workmen/visitors are not traumatised. I dive in (usually on a Friday - irrelevant but never mind) and divide washing up into piles and it all gets washed, dried and left on beds for owners to put away. Look away and don't read if you are squirmish but I do mix up everyone.s special underwear and do it all in one single wash

Nope, just more batshit.

Seriously, the machine drains away the stuff that has washed off and fresh rinse water goes in etc. I dare you to name one hospital entry because someone washed undies with tea towels because it’s not a problem at all.

Look, OK, if you need to wash your under-garments separately - go ahead, none of us are going to lose any sleep over it.

But why can’t everything just be thrown into the same laundry basket, and then sorted before it goes into the wash.

Why does that step necessitate keeping things separate?

What answers are you actually looking for from this thread…….?

I wash my underwear separately, on hot. But I put it in the basket with the other dirty laundry. I separate it before I wash it.

@IcakethereforeIam

I had a collie who used to fish dirty knickers out of the laundry basket and put them in the hand of visitors. They'd be sat chatting, mug of tea in one hand and suddenly a rancid pair of pants in the other!

Oh Shep (yes really, he was a rescue), still miss you.

Crying laughing at this!