Dirty undergarments

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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.

@Joystir59

I am reporting this thread.

Why?

If you are that worried about germs just wash them in the ordinary wash with some disinfectant. You don't have to do a 60 degree wash then, but they will be germ free.

I love these threads.
OP - AIBU?
Most respondents - Yes you are.

OP - No I’m not. You are all wrong. I’m am completely reasonable and will carry on as I am.

I usually put mine in a bag, drive to a deserted place, pour petrol over them and set fire to the lot. 😂😂😂

As an aside, in real life l have never heard anyone refer to “under garments” ever!

OP you’re getting a hard time because your reasoning for your laundry categories is…..uncommon…..I’m not on the same page as you on this one, but have a little sympathy as I do have Monica-level categories of towels for example. We’re all different.

I don’t separate out my everyday underwear from other clothes, but, I do separate laundry into 4 categories which need different wash cycles (dark/colours, light/whites, delicates, towels). My laundry system is a 2x2 Kallax cube storage, with a cube box/basket for each category, and as we get undressed we put the clothes in the right box so it’s all pre-sorted for the laundry. Once a box is full it gets washed. No one can see inside the boxes - not that that matters to me but it seems important to you. (Also have separate categories for cleaning cloths/tea towels and dog stuff but they’re downstairs). Hope that might be useful for you to adapt yourself.

OP, is it that you seperates hand wash/delicate bras etc?? I just have a seperate small laundry bin forbthem.

I was underwear separately, but it goes in the same washing basket. Can you not just put that mesh bag in the laundry basket? Easy solution.

Oh I do love a laundry thread.

Dirty clothes are dirty clothes, unless they have blood stains, in which case I do handwash the blood out and then put them in a bucket in the laundry. (No longer a problem for me - hurrah!)
Normal knickers though go into the laundry basket.

I'm old enough to remember when there were more choices of wash than 30, 40, 60 and 90. And I bought my washing machine on the basis that it WOULD do more temperature options than that - so my underwear (and anything else that needs washed at that temp) gets washed at 50°C because I find 40°C isn't enough, and 60°C tends to trash the elastic. I also use fabric softener in the 50°C wash because there are no towels in it - they DO get washed separately, without fabric softener.

I used to use cloth nappies for the DSs when they were babies - they were washed at minimum 60°C after presoaking in napisan.

Everyone does their laundry differently, I find - but I separate washes into colours, underwear/shirts, darks and towels. I only do washing at the weekend when the electricity is cheaper, so there's usually enough to make a full wash in each separation.

Other people's attitudes to laundry fascinate me. But nothing anyone says will change the way I do mine.

I take mine for walks with me in a backpack until I have enough to justify washing them with these electric price

ChipButtyCurrySauce
Mine go straight in the wash with everything else! I do minimum 3 washloads a day.
Why so many? Are there a lot of people in your household?

One general wash, one hot wash for gym kit (2 of us run 5 days a week) and 1 load of dog bedding (3 dogs!). It's more when bedding is changed.

Your vulva is not evil or gross. Live dangerously, put them undergarments in with the rest. Go on

On a serious note though if underwear ( namely my eldests ( lady leaks) or my youngest not quite remembering the beauty of toilet roll) has... well stuffs on it its binned instantly. Anyone else's is just washed with the washing but I do wash hot with 3 additional needs and a man that could stain his clothes in a safe room !

Meh. Fancy knickers and bras get thrown in at 40.
Cotton pants and knickers at 60. With everything else.
I couldn’t care less about sweat, blood and other liquids. I’m not washing them the machine is.
And it does.

To add, if l started worrying about everyone who had seen my knickers, l would have been the most worried woman on earth. 🤣😂🤣

This is a new one on me. Ours all goes in the same wash - it’d never occur to me to do anything else.

OP, I read in an old-ish novel recently of someone leaving her underwear on a chair at night, and ‘covering it with a square of silk kept for the purpose’.*. But the author did add that this was an old fashioned custom even then.

*Maybe this was in case the mere sight of it aroused uncontrollable raging lust in her husband when she wasn’t in the mood. 😂

I love how laundry threads always get so many replies

I have one wash basket, everything goes in there.

I separate my washing quite specifically - but until I wash it it all goes into the same wash basket (which is actually a tall fabric thing).

I wash all our underwear together - but separate from other clothes. I also separate dark top / light tops / light socks and trousers/ dark socks and trousers / delicate clothes for wool or hand wash.

Sometimes I do mix if it’s a small wash. However I do always wash clothes and kitchen towels separately.

More cleaner 😂😂😂😂😂

Why aren't you directing your guests to use the downstairs loo rather than the family one bathroom if you font like them going to that one. As they get up to go just tell them which one to use. 🤷‍♀️

My my...this is special.

There are people with some extreme hygiene issues on MN, that's for sure.

I am pretty...weird about it, I admit. I have separate laundry baskets for underwear, socks and clothes.

Unless you use them “period pants” that literally are soaked in your blood, I’m keeping & washing all pants/undergarments together with the rest of the laundry.

This is a wind up