To not unroll DHs filthy socks before washing?

[pontipinemum]

This is meant to be light hearted!

DH said the other day that one of his socks was still wet after being in the tumble dryer. Not giving out just a comment.

He takes his socks off balled up and throws them into the washing basket. I've told him loads of times that how they are in the basket is how they go into the machine! A lot of the time they seem un 'un-ball'

He can and does use the washing machine but I do pretty much everyone's to keep on top of it. There are lots of jobs he does too.

DH is a cattle farmer and does a lot of welding/ mechanical work.

AIBU to leave them balled up?

I only unravel when they come out of the washing. Just give them a a hard flick in the air, it only takes a second.

My rule of thumb is: if it goes in the laundry basket / washing machine inside out, it gets hung to dry and returned to owner inside out.

I addressed this with DH in the very early days of our marriage - over 40 years ago.

His work shirts would go into the laundry basket with perhaps one sleeve rolled up, I'd wash them, carefully iron in rolled up sleeve, socks in a ball- laundered & carefully put back into the way that I found them, trousers, one leg inside out, the other right side out, jumpers would be presented all over the place. I returned everything carefully & correctly laundered & ironed back to the way that they were presented to me. When he questioned it I said that I thought that was the way that he wanted them since that was the way that he'd left them. If he wanted them to be laundered differently then he needed to unroll sleeves, un-ball socks & make sure that trouser legs etc are either inside out or the right side.

He very quickly got the message.

However, now that he's retired & still work & he does the laundry, I have to be careful to make sure that my knickers, tights & socks aren't in a ball and so on - what goes around comes around. 😂

Id be saying unroll your own ducking socks mate.
My own ex "D"h would fill his pockets full of tissues then leave them like that in the machine so that everything in the wash was covered in melted tissue and had to be sticky rollered inside and out to remove the tissue. Despite my threats and refual to wash, cook, clean for him any more which threat I carried out he did it for 20 years. Divorce was inevitable.
I think he did it to spite me, he went to work with tissues all over his clothes because I refused to roller the tissue off for him.
Ill never understand this level of fuckwittery.

My DH does this ALL the time with his work socks but DH would equally complain that I am murderous for putting my shirts into the washing basket with rolled up sleeves - for us, marriage is just unrolling each others garments before we put them in the machine 😂

This is incredible, I’ve seen DH and I’s respective futures 😂😂

Ah The sock doughnut.

I was sprayed with sawdust a few two many times and told him if he doesn’t unroll they’ll be washed a dried as I find them.

I come from a long line of women like myself. He was quick to see, I’m not a tyrant or whatever. It’s respect.

😂

Fold their dirty clothes? That's a weird one I'd do my own too!

Yeah, this is what I do with my own socks as I peg them on the line

@ChocolateHobbit

On another note, does anyone else have a little girl that takes off her leggings, socks and knickers all together and inside out, so the knickers are stuck on the inside and socks stuck in the legs?

my Mum does, but it's been many years since it was her problem 🤣

I used to teach my DCs to unroll socks etc before they went into the laundry basket from a very young age. Never had an issue. Also my DCs were taught how to peg clothes onto the line eg: tee shirts & jumpers pegged in the under the under arm sleeve. Just like my mother & grandmother used to do it. That way it doesn't stretch the item & peg marks where they would show.

Recently I was caring for an elderly relative who'd fallen & broken her shoulder, she commented how I was the only person who she knew that knew how to hang clothes on a line properly.