3 wet knackered phones... and now I have washed his passport!!!

[jazee]

Um . . ? ? I ask myself. Why the hell do I find I keep washing items in the washing machine. . . Where do all these items come from . I never wash MY phone or MY money or even MY passport!!!! so how come eveyone doesn't pause to think "have I emptied my pockets before I put these items in the laundry". HELP Well I suppose it could possibly be my fault as half the time I am the one who scoops huge bundles of stinky clothes off the bedroom floor.
You see I do live with 4 males. That explains eveything. Or does it?

I have to to date washed..:
3 phones
one ipod
lots of money (blocks the drain...!)
and on one notable occasion..

I washed AND tumble dried a dead bird that my cat had kindly left for me in the wash bag !!!!!!! Having chucked a load in the wash then in the tumbler I noticed thro the glass door something strange.. it was VERY fluffy...!!

In my defence I have 4 teens..I try to check most pockets but in the 'scrape it off the floor' rush I do miss some...!

i would not check anybody else's pockets - but then i'd never wash anything not in the laundry basket.. to me putting something in the basket is an indication that the thing needs washed and it has had it's pockets emptied.

assuming as we're talking about pockets that we're talking things like jeans here not pants and socks, then how do you know the pair on the floor even need washing?

Thanks badger, I am still hopeful

OMG Macforme...

you made me laugh my pants off

That is so bloody funny. It's the sort of thing that would happen in my life. I have 3 cats. The youngest, 8 months would always
put a toy mouse in my hessian shopping bag and would always make me jump out of my skin when I was at the checkout. Although after the third time I wasn't so jumpy....I then thought, o yes, one day it WOULD be a real one! Not yet though.
And, yes, I have come to the conclusion from all these comments that I do need to check pockets, but gone is the day where I scoop items of bedroom floors. DH things will be thrown into the corner of his cupboard..."the jumble sale".
Have a feeling that its gonna be a REALLY long process of realisation that as a grown man HE needs to put clothes in the landry.

One of my abiding memories of childhood is the little line of banknotes pegged to the washing line next to my fathers trousers....

I don't buy clothes with pockets for me since I washed and buggered a valuable watch (21st birthday present). I do check DS's clothes, but they are usually not too bad. I don't check DH's because God knows what is in there and I am certainly not putting my hands in it. However, both of them are now resigned to the fact that if they want clothes washed then said clothes had better appear next to the washing machine in a fit state to be washed.

I also only iron stuff for ds, and he is going to be learning to do his own within the next year.

(And DH has done all the cooking since we married 15 years ago. Amazing what you can achieve with the odd strategic burned saucepan early in a relationship!)

I have no claims whatsoever to domestic goddesshood. In fact, I probably bat for the other side..

I trained my children from small to put laundry in the basket. Now they're teens, they check their own pockets, I certainly wouldn't replace anything damaged by washing that shouldn't have been in the machine. And I'd fine them if they broke it.
But picking up another adult's clothing, checking it before washing it? Not unless they were incapable of managing it for a good reason. I'd let him leave the house crumpled and smelly.