I'm here to bitch about laundry...

[TwinFoxes]

OK, so I know I'm lucky that my DH does a lot around the house. But honestly I just wish he'd leave the laundry ALONE. I've been sick, so he did some laundry (which I didn't know, or I would have tried to stop him.) I go into the laundry room today, and there's a pile of clean clothes on our rolling cart, about three loads worth on TOP of the drier, a load IN the drier, and a load still in the washer (I assume because he ran out of room to make another pile). DUDE! The laundry has to come upstairs eventually! When you yourself come upstairs, do you think about MAYBE carrying a load?

And let's get into his technique. Clothes that are "pretty much the same color" (like bright pink and white ) go into the same load. No need to pre-treat those food stains on the girls' clothes! At least he has given up washing my clothes...except for the random "wash in cold with like colors" piece that just gets scooped up in the backhoe he uses to load the machines.

I feel bad typing this (but it is the bitching post after all), because he's sooo wonderful, and does so much. But dude, please, just leave the laundry to the professionals (me!)

[buddyleebaby]

I TOTALLY understand.

[niccig]

Oh, I hear you. For a while, DH did the laundry and I had to put up with his system. Now, we've swapped jobs and I've got it back...I now always have clean underwear and no stains on any clothes.

[tamie]

I completely understand. Wish I could send a laundry fairy over to your house to make it all go away!

Sometimes, I feel like I just need to start the laundry all over again after DH does it.

[kristenk]

Originally Posted by niccig

Oh, I hear you. For a while, DH did the laundry and I had to put up with his system. Now, we've swapped jobs and I've got it back...I now always have clean underwear and no stains on any clothes.

Nicci - I think you meant "system" with quotes!

DH doesn't try to do any laundry, but he messes with the dishwasher too much. I will readily admit that I'm somewhat anal about our dishwasher, but if you don't rinse the dishes *very* well, little bits of food will circulate and end up stuck onto our glasses. Yuck. And why does he think that sticking a very dirty fork (with food stuck between the tines) tines-down into the silverware compartment will actually succeed in getting it clean? I can understand when you do it the first time, but the twentieth? Aaaaargghh.

Oops. Sorry, OP. I think this was your BP vent! I'm amazed that your laundry room is clean enough to stack that many piles of laundry.

[ohiomom1121]

My husband ruined a brand new silk nightgown I bought when we were first married and has been banned from the laundry room since! He's good at many things, but laundry is not one of them.

[ladysoapmaker]

Oh, I understand. My DH does stuff similar. I don't complain because he does do the laundry. The older two kids are old enough so I typed up and posted in the laundry room how to do laundry "my way". They still mess up but I'm not getting reds & whites mixed up. I just have to replace bras more often because they keep drying them in the dryer. And explaining the concept of "if the clothes are still wet and they are not sweaters" run the dryer for an additional 15 minutes so they dry seems to be eluding all of them. more then once I've went to grab a shirt and it was damp and musty smelling.

jen

[VClute]

Preach it, sistahs! I've also had to ban DH from helping fold laundry. He thinks any white sock goes with any white sock. Not so! DS wears a different size from DD! And my cotton beige socks are different from my cashmere blend beige socks! Oy!

[niccig]

Originally Posted by kristenk

Nicci - I think you meant "system" with quotes!

Yes you are right. DH's "system" involves me buying more clothes and underwear, so he doesn't have to wash as often. And then he complains about the stinky clothes smell from the 3 sorter hamper that sits in HIS closet...still has not connected the dots on that.

[Momof3Labs]

My DH has pulled some laundry doozies, too - most recently throwing a pack of brand new DARK BROWN microfiber towels in with a load of whites (mostly household and baby). I cried when I pulled that stuff out of the dryer and saw what he had done. Other times, we've had exploded pens, pockets full of crap, the list goes on.

He's banned from washing my stuff without consulting me first, and I don't like him to wash the kids' stuff but he does it sometimes anyways when he washes his own stuff (I refuse to wash his stuff - see pen/pocket issues above).

Oh, and when he pulls a load out of the dryer, he does bring it out into the living room and lay it all over the couch. But that's it. Then he's "done" the laundry. Even if it is still damp!! Unless he thinks that he's communicating with the laundry fairy, who comes along and puts it all away when he's sleeping??

We should unite together and vow that we will not raise our boys to be as laundry impaired as their fathers! And hopefully our future DILs will thank us one day!!