am i being unreasonable? (7)

[bossykate]

need to bring a case before the Court of Mumsnet!

swapped chores with dh for a while, he took over the laundry for a few days, i took over cooking and cleaning up in the evening.

he washed an expensive cashmere jumper of mine in the ordinary wash with ordinary detergent. it shrank and is now unwearable.

would it be fair to ask him to replace it?

i await the mumsnet verdict...

bossykate, I'm really sorry to hear you lost your baby. I've only just found out, as my thread-checking is a bit haphazard these days.
Take care & hugs, xx

I'm also skeptical about the Men's Brains thing. Does it mean that one person in the household is forever destined to do ALL the cleaning, forever more, until the couple are in their old age? What a depressing thought. Speaking of which, when disability strikes the only one who can 'see' dust, I expect that in most cases, men miraculously gain this aspect of their eye/brain sight along with the caring role.

thanks, droile. hope all is well with you.

Well I'm sceptical about that men not being able to do housework, my dh is brilliant at it and his jumpers are all cashmere so he jolly well knows how to treat them (takes them to the dry cleaners lol!!)

BK definitely ask for a new one.

I'm with CountessDracula, Lucy123 and sobernow (and maybe some others I've missed on my quick scan!). My dp is a whizz at housework and I am a terrible mess-maker. He cooks every evening, he does virtually all the laundry and it's me that shrinks my woollen sweaters by chucking them in the machine on the wrong setting. We once compared household chores and it appeared that my one job was to set the alarm clock radio to wake us up in the morning (that was in the days before dd arrived!).

So definitely a new sweater is in order - plus he should be put on permanent laundry duty until he mends his ways