To bin a ruined expensive jumper

[newmomaboutthreads]

Help!!

I've shrunk my husbands jumper. I think it's quite expensive, it's Pal Zileri 100% extra fine Lana merino.

It has a hand wash symbol and so I just stuck in the machine on low heat. It would now fit a 5 year old!

Would I be unreasonable to just bin it and hope he never asks about it or can this be fixed at all?

I'm thinking bin it...

I ruined an ex's t-shirt once. I knew he loved it so I found a t-shirt shop to remake it (it wasn't expensive, just a sentimental band t-shirt) in the same colour, same font, same design etc. I gave that to him before telling him I wrecked the original. Turns out he didn't give a shit but was touched I'd sorted another..

I would definitely get a replacement and apologise.

Some wool is machine washable as PP said but I would hand wash expensive or precious items.

I’ve also felted my own knitting by accident 😭and DH’s grandpa’s regimental scarf he inherited (never forgotten)

Some wool is machine washable as PP said but I would hand wash expensive or precious items.

I’ve also felted my own knitting by accident 😭and DH’s grandpa’s regimental scarf he inherited (never forgotten)

technically not it's wool treated with a chemical that's gives it a plastic coating to allow you to machine wash.

Now this is the sort of advice I didn't know I needed

Very devious ……..

but I was thinking the same 🤣😬

Find a five year old who will enjoy it

I would definitely do this 🤣

Fess up. He had no business putting it in the general wash, if he buys fancy fabrics he should wash them himself.

Personally I'd make something out of it - kindle case, hot water bottle cover, cut stars or hearts out and make decorations etc. sew on beads or sequins for a Christmas decoration... This is my idea of fun but I know it's not everyone's!

Just own up and tell the truth. Surely honesty is the most important aspect of a relationship?

I wonder what the responses would have been had the dh shrunk the jumper and tried to hide it?

Not the solution, sorry, but I read recently that fabric is no longer "shrink treated" before being made into mass market fashion, and that's why there is more shrinking these days. Apart from killing them in the machine, that is.

Having been in this marriage, & watched variations involving unhappy friends, I just wouldn't be in one where I couldn't say:

'Sorry Fred, I washed your posh jumper which you chucked in with everything else & this appears to have buggered it.'

& the response wouldn't be:

'...oh ffs Corvus, that's WHY it wasn't in the general wash pile...no idea how it ended up there, my bad...' or 'oh - I had no idea that would happen when it was washed'.

If I have clothes that need to be looked after separately, I'm fairly careful about keeping them from the general pile.

That'll please the DH.

"look over there, @newmomaboutthreads that woman's handbag is exactly the same colour as my Pal Zileri 100% extra fine Lana merino that disappeared... wait..."

Gosh, I'm really feeling like the poor relation here! No one else seems to have expressed any surprise that this brand of jumper (which I of course have never heard of!) allegedly costs £550 - £600! That's so far out of the realm of my experience that I would be wary of touching such a garment, let alone tossing it casually into the washing machine! Definitely a mixed bunch on Mumsnet - but I suspect I'm very much in a low income minority!

@PKNI I have never heard of the brand either. I buy all my clothes at thrift shops...

She said there would be drama about it if she told him the truth.

Her words were "whole drama about carelessness" - from a man who doesn't do his own laundry and casually dumps his expensive, superfine merino wool jumper in the basket for her to read the washing instructions he clearly never read himself.

Maybe I'm being generous in assuming he dumped the jumper in the basket. It could have been tossed on the floor beside or so.ewhere within ten to fifteen feet of the basket...

Well said!

Sometimes safety is more important.