...to insist dh lets me wash kit after swimming?

[downbutnotout]

DH takes dd swimming in a public pool once every few weeks or so. If it were up to him, he would not wash their costumes and towels afterwards every time. He says it is not "environmentally friendly". He would rather dry them out on a radiator and then wash every few visits or so.

The very idea makes me break out in a cold sweat. AIBU?

Pokes head above parapet to say I never wash swimming constumes - just rinse and dry because washing knackers them as quickly as chlorine does. Ducks down again before all the clean people stone me to death.

yabu

I hardly ever wahs the swimming stuff

ds and I shower in it then remove so they sort of get washed in the showers afterwards

Actually dh does all his own washing and ironing apart from in this instance, which is why I wanted to run it past you lot, just to check I am not some mad OCD nightmare.

Ex competitive swimmer here - I've never washed my cossies in a washing machine! They get rinsed out while showering at the pool and just hung out to dry at home. If we've been in the sea they'll get a rinse in cold water at home. Occasionally I might stick them all in a bowl with a little bit of handwash.

Dh takes dd swinmming every week. I give all the stuff a cold rinse then a proper wash every - hmmm - not sure - when I think of it.

washing machines and detergents can damage swimsuits, so can the chlorine in the pool.

I just give mine a really good rinse in cold water and then dry them thoroughly.

I wash swimming stuff every time, including the towels. Like others have said, the chlorine eats away the material and towels end up on the floor.

I even swill the kids goggles out in clean water, that's if they remember to bring them home with them.

Cossies - always rinse in cold water at home. Occasionally put them in a delicate wash with other stuff I am washing already.

Towels - I try to be organised. I often take bath/shower towels that have been used a few times at home and so once we have used them again at the pool, I justify that they were about due a wash anyway.

I swam approx 5-7 times a week for over 10 years and I can guarantee you that I still have all my towels, they haven't rotten away and they certainly weren't washed every day! Also the shower after swimming will get off enough chlorine to protect the cossies, putting them in the wash is seriously unnecissary if you are doing it to keep them from rotting, I never put a swimming costume into a washing machine in the 15 years I swam.

lollipop - I do the wash mainly so they don't stink to high heaven of chlorine which I have found DOES eat at the material. Even after washing in a shower, having access to a spinner at the pool's changing rooms, they still smell of chlorine.

I swim 5/6 times a week and very rarely wash my costume or my towel. Maybe I'm just gross though.

My dd's swim once a week and I always wash the costumes and towels as soon as we get home. I am a bit obsessed with washing clothes though, school uniforms are washed every evening.

Oh my God Slatts, your bills must be massive!

I too swim 3 or 4 times a week but only rinse my costumes as washing them in detergent destroys them. I only wash towels every other time as well. Good grief Slatts you must get through loads of clothes. Washing them actually wears clothes out more than wearing them. I'm also glad I don't have your detergent and electric bills!!!!

What washing powder do you use that destroys your swimming costume ........ so that we can all avoid it

ha ha we are opposite. Dh thinks it sould be washed. I just take it down to the cellar, bring it up with other washing. Dry it fold it up. I don't wash it.

I fold up his clothes that aren't dirty and put them back into the cupboard too rather than wash them for the sake of it.

Sneeky slattern here.

i just get them in a bucket of cold water then let DCs stomp on them. towels def go in the wash. have you seen what's on the floors??

flum - doesn't the costume still smell of chlorine tho?

duo - lol at your kids stomping in a bucket and eewww! to what is on the floors [shudder]

Huh??? What's with all this non-washing thing? Why wouldn't a swimming cossie be washed as normal like any other garment that got dirty, eg after every time it's worn? And surely underwear's washed after a day's wear, so why not a cossie. And as for using swimming pool towels and not washing them.....blurgh. Actually, without being sarcastic, can someone enlighten me as to why swimming stuff needs washing less than anything else would, most people seem to do this and i don't know if i'm missing something?

Well I wash swimming towels after a couple of uses and I never put them on the floor in the swimming pool so don't think they need washing more than that. I don't wash the towels in my bathroom afer every use. I always shower after swimming so why would they need washing after being used once? The costume I rinse thoroughly in clean water because I once complained to the receptionist at the swimming pool that the quite expensive zoggs costume I had bought there had gone all baggy. She asked how I washed it and I told her I put it on a gentle wash in the machine. She told me that the chemicals in washing detergent would destroy the lycra in the costume and it would last longer if I rinsed it in clean water staight after use rather than washing it in the machine so that is why I don't use washing detergent anymore.

I wash swimming gear after every use. I think a lot of people don't though.

I'm not sure about the idea of chlorine ruining the costumes. IMO the quality of the costume makes all the difference. Swimming costumes from sports shops last a LOT longer than ones from department stores/frashion shops.

I'm not talking about a day's wear, I'm talking about an hour in a swimming pool where there is so much chlorine in the water I defy any germs to survive! I thought that was the point of chlorinated water??

As if going in the pool for a swim is the same as walking round all day in your underpants! That's a thoroughly ridiculous example to use for why you should wash a swimming costume!