Do ties need washing?

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I reckon we have some 20 year-old jobbies that have never been washed.

Is this normal or disgusting?

Depends if the dribble stains are showing?

20 yo jobbies - that is pretty disgusting.

You do know what a jobbie is in Scotland, don't you?

DH's ties never last that long but he sometimes puts them into the dry cleaner if they are stained.

DH firmly believes they are self-cleaning. He is wrong though, especially as they tend to do double duty as his bib.

Disgusting. Lumps of food and everything.
Throw them in the washing machine.

Think of all those male gynaecologists with flappy ties who do smear tests.....

Unless the gynae is VERY inexperienced, it is rather unusual for a vagina to actually eat a tie

What if the gynae's patients are male though, eh?

Gynaes usually wear bowties, don't they?

don't throw silk ones in the washer

I don't think that ties and washing machines go well together, they tend to lose their shape.

lol @ vagina eating a tie.

no ties are not self cleaning. 20 years is pretty disgusting, yes.

check the label before putting them in the washing machine. all of DHs ties say dryclean only.

If the gynae's patients are male then he is exhibiting a worrying lack of experience

YY all ties must be silk surely, isn't that some sort of Rule?

But dry-cleaning a load of ties seems extravagant

Disusting.

My dh wouldn't be caught dead in a tie, so it's not an issue for us so maybe I'd feel different if it was. I put the dc's in the wash every Friday.

My gynae doesn't wear a tie, he is open-necked

rather scruffy actually, in fact his shirt tails are usually flapping so perhaps they ARE likely to be eaten

you can hand wash silk ties - just don't wring 'em - roll them in a towel & then hang them up until they're dry.

Nylon ones can go in the machine.

Silk ties come up well in the machine but then I just lob everything in.

Do you remember those ties from the 80's that had an entire crocodile or the like?

I am now wondering what kind of ties MrMP wears. The ones that my DH wore 20 years ago were quite minging.

Perhaps one like this?

Oh no ties in the washing machine is a bad idea! It wrecks the linins so the knot never lies flat afterwards.

Spot clean with babywipes and occasionally dry clean.

Do gynae's not do men then ? So who looks after men's bits? I bet they don't wave THEIR ties around willy nilly.

My gynae tucks his tie into his shirt about three buttons down. It looks rather silly.

This is weird, I had never really thought about it before.
I wash DS's every week, but never DH'S.

That would be an urologist, the men's gynae.

Dh's ties are mainly like school ties, so not particularly adventurous

My first husband had one of those piano ties...

Actually, it's an andrologist for men's bits.

Beyond disgusting.

Ties need to go to the dry cleaner's regularly.

Is there no french term for 'beyond disgusting' Bonsoir?