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[sage]

My 46 year old hubby is still a teenager

 

Sage

[The Dogmother]

I knew this would touch a nerve here

 

She does her own ironing... takes ages but it gets done eventually. I usually do it on alternate weeks when she is with her dad at the weekend, or it wouldn't get done. I started that after all the beautifully laundered and ironed clothes ended up on her bedroom floor in heaps

 

I sort the washing on Tuesday and start to wash it, then do the ironing on Friday evening while I watch Gardener's World Live... that's the extent of my TV viewing.

[Griffin]

Three out of my four girls are nightmares with the washing I'm happy to do their washing, only if it's in the basket though. I'll pick up after the five year old but the others are capable of putting their dirty washing where it belongs. What I do strongly object to is my fourteen year old who will pile clothes & towels up in the corner of her room then dump it all in the washing basket in one go That's not playing ball Her favourite time for doing that would be on a Sunday afternoon, I would've completely emptied the basket then all of a sudden it's over flowing. Now if she does that she gets told to wash it all herself. It doesn't happen as often

[bluekarin]

My kids all went through a phase of when they had piles of laundry to put in their drawers, they were too lazy to do so & put it straight back in the wash

 

My YD is a devil for doing that. I have told her, if anything goes in for wash that hasn't actually been worn, then it ALL goes back into her room. She has got much better at sorting out what is and isn't dirty now It does annoy me that she will just leave piles of clean clothes everywhere and not put them away. I don't iron anything for her now as the amount of beautifully ironed clothes that have ended up in a screwed up mess was ridiculous I don't like ironing at the best of times. An evil invention. Why is it when she needs a top, that ALL of them get pulled out of her cupboard grr

[Ain't Nobody Here]

My YS tends to step out of or take off clothes, leaving them all inside each other (boxers inside trousers, t-shirts inside fleeces). I've learnt to look inside anything he puts out for washing .

 

I avoid getting either boy (or OH for that matter) to hang out the washing. If they do, every item needs ironing .

[The Dogmother]

Yes, I have to check pockets and do up zips as well or we have loads of tissues and rubbish in the machine

[Paola]

I am not liking the sound of this at all ED is 12 so I have all of this to come I will be of the mind not to wash anything unless its in the basket. I will prob dump the whole lot of clothes on said child's floor should they decide to put clean clothes in the wash basket

[Chickvic]

Oh this is so familiar! DD (13) didn't go to scouts on Wednesday because her black skinnies weren't washed. Where were they? Along with most of her other stuff - strewn around the bedroom floor. My son (11) is so much tidier, they both have a washing basket in their room and I ask for it every Friday so I can get it done over the weekend. I usually only get half of her uniform so spend ages nagging for the rest of it. DS puts everything in his basket - don't know why she can't manage it!

[Yorkshire Pudding]

Mine have a habit of getting home on a Friday evening and filling the laundry basket with a weeks worth of clothes off their floors. My DS would quite happily wear clothes until they rotted off his body but the girls do have a clear out once a week. I ask DS to put his washing in the basket and he does some of it but I end up with 10 odd socks and only a couple of pairs of undies with the rest in nooks and cranies all over his room

 

Snap! Both my boys do this, there are festering things under their beds and in corners . I do NOT pick them up but I do the laundry - but both boys know how, and have to peg out and take in washing or put in the tumble dryer.

[ubereglu]

We don't have a tumble drier, so everything gets hung up outside whatever time of year-usually it finishes off drying on the inside line later if it isn't dry. When we have been on holiday and had the benefit of a tumble drier Dad has always managed to shrink something...

 

Dad normally does the washing, as he gets up first, so that means it's finished early enough to be hung out before we all go out. We usually have a pile of things on the edge of the washing bin, (A rather practical old dry rot powder bin, from my Mothers' parents house, painted with some strange bird on by Mum when she was a teen!), which are to be hand washed.

 

I don't really understand why doing the washing is such a big deal,it's not exactly hard...

[The Dogmother]

You are quite right Liz, doing the laundry isn't a problem.... when the clothes are in the laundry basket. However most of us on here have to fit it in around working and other chores, so unless the children in question clear up after themselves and put it all in the basket, we don't have the time, nor the inclination, to go scratting around the house hunting for the dirty washing.

[ubereglu]

You are quite right Liz, doing the laundry isn't a problem.... when the clothes are in the laundry basket. However most of us on here have to fit it in around working and other chores, so unless the children in question clear up after themselves and put it all in the basket, we don't have the time, nor the inclination, to go scratting around the house hunting for the dirty washing.

 

Haha, I can imagine that being an issue-My Mum clearly had us all well trained! I think the only person that doesn't fit this criteria is my sister Sarah, who I always remember scouring through the pile of dirty clothes dumped on her chair, and her doing the 'sniff' test on them to work out if they needed washing!

[chickencam]

my DS filled my basket with clothes yesterday, I found out why this morning when his first port of call was the airing cupboard looking for clean socks and pants. I had a clear out a couple of weeks ago and got rid of all underwear that was too small or worn out, so he now only has about 10 days worth. I am hoping that he will realise that when he is down to the dregs he has to put some out for washing. I still found 4 pairs of pants and 7 socks down the side of his bed this morning which I will point out to him this evening

[patsylabrador]

We're a household of adults now so people just do the washing. They're very good, apart from the putting away bit. The only condition is that I put my undies in one of those little laundry bags otherwise the boys wouldn't plunge their hands into the basket. Fair enough. I can go a couple of days without having to do washing & they use all the proper wash cycles.

[squiffs]

I've been doing my own washing since I was 12. I still let it pile up longer than I should do, but in the end I've only got myself to blame if I ever run out of clothes.

[The Dogmother]

Ok, so this afternoon when she gets home from school, Rosie has to strip her bed and re-make it and empty/sort the laundry in the basket.

 

It annoys me - she DOES know how to do these things, just opts out and then stretches them over such a long period of time that nowt ever gets done I will report back tomorrow.

[Cinnamon]

I meant to say that I cured a small bout of ' clean washing being shoved back into the laundry as I am too lazy to put it away itis...'

 

I noticed the youngests school uniform back in the wash,clean, after a week of holiday,so I left it there & when it came to the Monday she needed it,she had to hoik it out & wear it...no choice!

I made a great deal of it being lain it with her Dads socks for a week.

She never did it again

[The Dogmother]

Madam has a whole pile of ironing to do... all stuff which I ironed last week and she then lobbed on her bedroom floor If she wants it, she will iron it!

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I taught my boys how to iron their school shirts when they were about 10. All went well till they decided they didn't care if their shirts were ironed or not . I didn't start ironing them again, I just hung them up carefully so they were as crease-free as possible .

[The Dogmother]

 

Rosie has these 'non-iron' shorts.. they are lying! Even after tumble drying they are still very creased and need ironing

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I don't have a tumble drier, so perhaps that's the answer .