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.

Stop putting them in the bathroom then..!

Oh I don't wash mine. I certainly don't want my PANTS (it appears we are shouting that word) in with my other washing or to be seen by another human eye. So I burn them of an evening in my special PANTS brazier.

Big energy crisis thread on here the other day,& you are contributing to it, what an absolute waste,

I don't separate my underwear, but I do wash them in a special load of stuff that needs a long hot wash. Most of my underwear is dark in colour and they go in with other dark stuff, OHs pants and socks, work trousers, other family members sweaty t shirts etc.

What is going on here! Is this a thing - hiding a mesh bag of dirty pants from trades people? Or is it someone with a laundry kink?

This has to be a joke? Mumsnet at its finest. Who has the time??

@Babyghirl

I only wear a pair of knickers once no way could I wash them and reuse them, maybe you should try it saves you from having to hide the dirty ones 😂😂😂😂

It’s a mark of how mental mumsnet sometimes is that I don’t really know if this is a joke. Someone buying a new pair of knickers every week isn’t that far off some stuff people actually do on here.

Well this is quite unusual.

Op, I think if you feel your underwear needs to be totally segregated from your other clothes and stored separately in a transparent bag in your bedroom, and all risk of anyone ever seeing them needs to be removed, then you have no option but to keep moving the bag.

Potentially though you could get a second non transparent bag to sit the mesh bag in, then no one needs to see them, including yourself or your family?

What ? Just how dirty is your underwear then ! It all goes in the same basket as they have been worn but they arnt dirty as such !

I’m another one you’ll all find weird.

I wash anything that can harbour lots of bacteria at 60, and everything else at 30. I have a lidded bucket lined with a mesh bag hidden under the sink in the utility room. It’s left over from when I did washable nappies and wipes.

I remember my mother also had similar for washable sanitary towels. She used to bleach hers before washing. I don’t bleach mine. But I don’t want blood on the laundry basket or other clothes in the laundry basket. Blood can stain, so they go in the bucket. I don’t have to wash them at 60 but if im doing a wash at that temperature it’s not going to harm them.

It’s also handy for things that get covered in vomit or if the kids have not been very good at wiping. Dishcloths and tea towels go in there too. Especially if been handling raw chicken.

I suspect when my kids have all fledged the nest and I’m no longer menstruating I’ll go back to a one laundry basket household.

My DH told me MIL used to boil FIL pants in a pan on the hob. Now that I find very weird as it’s not as if we didn’t have washing machines in the 80s.

Undergarments? Where do you keep your time travelling machine?

My dad boiled his long john's in a big pan on the hob in the 70s/80s. The same pan he boiled beetroot in. I'm surprised we all survived.
He clearly didn't trust the twin tub.

You need to go to the GP as you have definite OCD/anxiety/ phobia issues.

Why are you so terrified of your dc seeing underwear? Do they go rooting through the laundry basket? If so that's not normal.

Menses isn't toxic. Why do you have so much internalised misogyny? Stop hating your body and start living!

Erm in the wash basket!! Along with all the clothes. Isn’t that a normal thing to do? I’m not running a whole machine wash with 7 pairs of my knickers in.

Reminds me of a friend recently married - too embarrassed to put them in with the laundry. Bizarre

Blimey Op, you must generate some toxic level bum juice, is all I can say.

Washing at 60c doesn’t kill all bacteria anyway and the man made fibres are more likely to shed and get into the water system affecting sea life.

Better to use a good detergent and wash at 40c.

What's getting your underwear so soiled that you need to keep them in a mesh washing basket in the bathroom? I would understand a one off in you had PH imbalance or particularly heavy period you wouldn't want the pants in with tour clothes. It's not normal to have pants that dirty daily, I'd be off to the pharmacy for some ph balancing soloution.

@rurallibralady87

What's getting your underwear so soiled that you need to keep them in a mesh washing basket in the bathroom? I would understand a one off in you had PH imbalance or particularly heavy period you wouldn't want the pants in with tour clothes. It's not normal to have pants that dirty daily, I'd be off to the pharmacy for some ph balancing soloution.

Solution!

Why wouldn't you just put them all together in the basket and then separate them while your doing the washing?

@ChipButtyCurrySauce

Mine go straight in the wash with everything else! I do minimum 3 washloads a day.

Three loads a DAY? Are you a B&B??

I do a pants, socks and coloured towels and bedding wash . Face masks usually in there too as that wash is a 40. I wash most over things on 30. But I don’t quarantine them in the meantime. They all wait in line together in the linen bin. (/bag)

How dirty are your knickers that they may infect the rest of your clothes?
As for hiding washing from workmen and visitors, I think you have issues.

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