Tissues should be banned!

[Somethingsgottagiveeventually]

Why?

Dark load of washing ... Need I say more?

Both my dc were in cloth nappies too, might also be why I do not get these grossed out posts about cloth hankies.

My dd also uses reusable pads and period underwear. The washing machine is doing all the work and getting rid of what is needing to be washed out.

But a stray flaked up tissue, yes way more annoying to me.

Ha yes, I think cloth nappies makes us a little less squeamish 🤣
Worse than crusty hankies, in my opinion, is a wet snotty tissue in a pocket that contains the snot then bursts when you touch it. Happened to me when my oldest used a tissue and there wasn't a bin or a bag handy so I put it in my coat pocket, then forgot and later rummaged in the same pocket for something. Cold wet preserved snot was definitely worse than a crusty hanky.

I take your tissue and raise you - screws and nails, pens, loose change.... Argh. As soon as the washer starts up and I hear clinking I know what's happened. And yes, yes I should check pockets every time. Bad wife over here!

I don't iron anything. DS and DH iron their own shirts so if they want ironed hankies, they can iron their own.

Hankies were always ironed. As a kid, I did all the hankies as they were good for learning how to iron.

So now they get ironed still.

We wash hankies in with towels at 60, all the hankies probably add as much weight to the machine as one hand towel. I don't even know where my iron is.

On holiday a few years ago our apartment had a lovely laundry area. I decided I'd get ahead by washing my clothes before packing to go home. I'd packed a monochrome 'capsule' wardrobe. I was so pleased my case wasn't opened by customs on the way home. Every black item was covered in bits of white tissue.

One of my favourite quotes from the late Humphrey Lytleton was describing something awful as “the stray tissue of fate in the laundry basket of life”. Sums it up, really!

This reminds me of the time my dd came rushing to the kitchen with a pair of dungarees she had been wearing, to get into the wash before I closed the door.

After a short while, I hear this clunk clunk sound, and then there was total panic when she realized that she had left her phone in the front bib pocket. Emergency stop of machine to retrieve the phone. Into rice for the rest of the day, and it carried on working like nothing had happened. Those were the days of a good old Nokia. If it were today's iPhone it would not have last one turn of the machine.

I work with vulnerable victims and we have boxes of tissues all over because we get a lot of upset people. Banning them and having people sit using their sleeves is barbaric. Just check pockets before washing. Is this not a thing?

I think it was meant to be light-hearted.

And tampons

The worst!!

Well, actually, as I have recently discovered, not quite the worst. I accidentally washed a bra with the breast pads still in it (very slovenly not to immediately throw them in the bin but sleep deprivation etc etc) and that was TERRIBLE. Tissue like fluff but with added gunky absorption crystals. Headache, all in all.

The bane of my life! DS1 keeps using toilet roll instead of tissues and I have to wash the whole load again at least once to get it all out, I’ve told him I’m taking pocket money off him now to pay for all the extra water, leccy and detergent in the hope it’ll make him check his pockets better. He’s a teen, so more than capable.

OP, I can’t even blame DH - I put on a load of dark washing including a dark green dress with a forgotten tissue in the pocket. It was a complete snowstorm - the utility room floor was covered when I took them out of the washer. The worst thing is it’s not even the first time…

When DS was little, I made sure he always had a tissue in his school pants pocket. He had a habit of shredding it when his hand was in his pocket. It was a nuisance picking the bits out so I switched to cotton hankies for that reason but if he had a cold it was back to tissues because I didn't fancy washing snotty hankies 🤢

@Somethingsgottagiveeventually

Oh yes! Apart from the dark washing aspect what about when you have a cold? A good blow and your hands are covered with shredded wet tissues and general "moist secretions" after which [of course] hands need to be washed ...

I’m torn between what’s worse: when the tissues get a good wash and shreds everywhere, or when the tissue comes out exactly as it went in, balled up and dry inside. Makes me question whether I need to run the load again.

If it's balled up and solid, only the perpetrator suffers.
If it sheds, there are 10s of innocent t-shirts, knickers and socks paying the price.

If it's solid, I wouldn't re-wash. DH has to deal with it himself (usually by just wearing the item around the house as bumming around clothes until it can warrant another wash). But this morning's load, I had to re-wash because of the shreds.

Buy decent tissues and then they go through the washing machine and tumble dryer and come out lovely and clean and in one piece

Like a hanky? 😜

Sounds daft but sellotape. Or duct tape if you have it. You can get right into the corners of the pockets that way. Can you tell I do this too regularly 🤭

Oh god totally

It isn't always a dark load but it's more noticeable on dark clothes, I seem to do it all the time.

My DH has had about 1 cold in the entire time I've know him, I never see him use tissues. He has the driest nose of any human being

Yet tell me how he seemingly always manages to have a tissue in his trouser pockets?! Alongside the million and one screws, and change when again he hasn't got cash out in about 5 years?! And always on a dark wash.