To ask for ideas to trick DS onto giving me his work hoodie off so that I can wash it?

[Marie2023]

DS started an apprenticeship a few weeks ago. He loves it so much that he wears his work hoodie all week and all weekend. He never seems to take it off. Consequently, it’s filthy. His work shirts and trousers are washed and he showers every day, but I have not managed to get the hoodie to wash it. His GF stays over most nights so I don’t want to creep into his room to get it.

So I need your imaginative ideas for how to get his hoodie to wash it. Please keep it lighthearted. Thanks.

Please do not do this. Don't infantile him like that

I don't even understand why this is a question you have to ask. Surely you just say "son your hoody needs washing regularly like the rest of your work clothes. Get it in the washer"

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Don't get the GF to get it. It isn't her job, nor is washing his clothes, yours. Let the mucky article get told by his mates that he is filthy. He is old enough to work so he is old enough to keep himself hygienic.

Can’t you just say ‘DS, that hoodie is filthy! It needs a wash.’? Say it in front of his GF if that’ll help.

How is this a problem?

Seriously "right Jamie.. you're disgusting, grow up"

Sorted

And ask him if he can buy/get an extra one.

Agree with most of these posts, if I want my 18 year old to do something I ask in front of his girlfriend. She will then "remind" him!
Mine doesn't have a uniform but he does have favourite shirts that I practically have to tear away from him.

Meet me on my dog walk this afternoon with him. I've got three big, smelly dogs who will be absolutely filthy as it's pissing down. I'll get them to jump all over him and cover him with mud and moss and bits of twig. This service will cost you three small pieces of chicken.

Stop infantalising your sons, you're doing no favours for their future wives

He’s old enough for an apprenticeship so he is old enough to take the flack for being dirty and smelly. Do nothing.

Lock him out in the next rain storm, be ready to throw soap.

"Son, you need to get yourself a second work hoodie, that one's going to crawl into the washer by itself."

Please do NOT enlist the GF as a weird back up Mum who somehow ends up partly responsible for other people's hygiene.

Why not just say "your Hoodie needs washing it's starting to smell". No need for secrecy or subterfuge

Get nice smelling laundry detergent and then ask him if he likes it and then suggest you wash the hoodie with it

Yup, this is a great idea if you want to completely humiliate your son at his work 🙄

If he's old enough to work, he's old enough to do his own washing at a time he deems fit and not when you think it needs doing. His choice is he wants to wear a filthy (I bet it probably isn't) hoodie.

if you have issues with smell, or the hoodie coming in contact with furniture or something else specific then explicitly say those things.

Explain to him if he doesn't keep his uniform clean, he's likely to get in trouble at work.

Then explain to him he's a big boy now so he's going to do his own laundry from now on.

Leave him to it

If he ends up smelling too bad/greasing up the furniture, don't let him in the room

It's that magical time in a boy's life when it's time to grow up.

I don’t understand how he’s old enough to have a girlfriend stay over at night but not old enough to know how a washing machine works or that clothes require washing regularly.

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For God's sake op. This is why So many men can't take care of themselves! Tell him his hoodie fucking stinks and surely he's noticed?

Seriously dude, it smells. Put it in the wash now!

If he's old enough to have an apprenticeship and a girlfriend, his clothes are no longer your problem.

Up to him, surely?

Chase after him with some febreeze.