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[wombat]

Right now I am in a contest of wills over laundry. See, my clothes go in the laundry right side out and ready to fold and wear, I take care of that when I take them off. Since I provide help and guidance to the youngest one, so do his. I've advised the oldest boy to take the time to do the same, but he doesn't. So for a month now he's been getting them back, clean and folded, just like he gives them to me. I'm sure he decided not to let me 'win' and start doing it before hand and just squares them away and refolds them before putting them away, but I had to make an executive decision that I don't care. If he wants to do more work and I don't have to...fine.

I had to read this a few times before I figured out what the problem is. It's that you think that clothes shouldn't be inside-out when they are folded and put away?

I put away inside-out clothes all the time. You can put them rightside out when you put them on. It's not like it's more or less effort depending on when you do it. I've only stopped doing it recently for t-shirts because I ended up with so many t-shirts the same color that I couldn't tell them apart inside-out. But otherwise, you can live a fairly productive adult life with a closet full of clothes which are half inside out.

Also, I am pretty sure that sometimes I put clothes in the laundry that are the right way round and the laundry turns them inside out. That never happens to you?

[theinevitable]

yeah, I turn them right-side-out when I am folding/putting them away.

When I came home from college my sophomore year, my mom was AMAZED AND ASTONISHED that I knew how to do my laundry. Did she think I was just wearing the same clothes over and over?

[jay-ell]

My 31 year old spouse doesn't do his own laundry because if he did, the machine would never be free for me to use. He has teenager-like tendencies to leave stuff in the washer or dryer for days on end.

We did recently subdivide laundry responsibilities, though -- I sort, wash, and dry, and he folds and puts away.

I recognize that it doesn't actually cause any harm for laundry to go in the drawer inside-out, but...I can't do it. It's too hard on my delicate sensibilities. I take a devil-may-care attitude on a lot of things, but that's where I draw the line.

[jaydub]

Also, I am pretty sure that sometimes I put clothes in the laundry that are the right way round and the laundry turns them inside out. That never happens to you?

I insist that this is true, but my wife refuses to believe.

[wombat]

I insist that this is true, but my wife refuses to believe.

I swear I read somewhere that this happens because, like, inside-out is the natural position for an article of clothing - after all, when you are making it, that's how it is. So when it's roughed up by the washing machine it's easy for it to end up back in that position.

[greenkoolayd]

i was doing family laundry when i was between 10 and 12.  also, hanging that shit up on a clothesline.  asherdan 2* doesnt have it so bad as it is.

*he's your first, right?

[Nabubrush]

My mom put me in charge of my own clothes somewhere in the 12 - 14 range. My bedsheets and all the rest, too. Of course, I don't have kids so I can't speak to it, not really. Some clothes turn inside out, but it's maybe a 5% thing? However, if you leave the socks wadded into a ball, you aren't going to be happy with the result.

If you leave a young man in charge of his own laundry and don't ride a little bit of herd on him at the start, there's the bare possibility that scabies/mildew will result.

[jay-ell]

My mom was of the mind that we should know how to do it, so she made us/asked us to do the occasional load, but she found it easier to do it herself the bulk of the time because she could not abide having it done half-assed (as teens are wont to do). I guess I'm basically the same way. But also, it doesn't seem fair to ask Pedro to do his own since I'm here with the laundry machines all day and it doesn't take much effort to throw in a load before lunch, then toss it in the dryer after I get the girl from school.

Boyface and Girlface actually like to help sort the clothes, and are getting to an age where they can do that fairly effectively if I give them specific parameters. And of course putting stuff on the clothesline is fun and exciting, too.

[AugustWest]

Everybody does everybody's around here.  Loads are pretty much constantly running, it seems like.

I started having to help with laundry at around 12 or so.  I used to have to iron sheets!  Not something that happens around here anymore.

[Doc]

My house there was a dirty clothes basket that everything went into, generally mum would sort and wash it, hanging out duties were randomly allocated according to proximity to a full washing machine and then they were dumped on a bed in the spare room and people grabbed what was theirs as they needed it/when dad came into their room and told them to get their damn clothes out of the spare room.
Now I live on my own I do one load a week (actually more like once a week and two days, I've noticed my washing day keeps shifting through the week until suddenly I'll need to do two small loads in one week to reset it), everything goes in there and whites I care about get a soak once every month or two depending on how bad they are and how much I care about them (work shirts should be bright and crisp, gym shirts having filth on them from the bar bell is a badge of honour.

I usually will right side a shirt before I wash it but I won't always unroll the sleeves.

I have suit ##### that are getting faded because I wear and wash them way more often than I wear the matching jacket, would hanging them out inside out slow this process? It seems like it should.

[KeithHernandez]

No, I don't think so, but washing them inside out might.  That is what you do with nice jeans anyway.

[jaydub]

. And of course putting stuff on the clothesline is fun and exciting, too.

I remember enjoying line-dried clothes.  I was too small to help much with getting them up, but I liked the way they smelled and felt once we took them down (and hiding from imaginary Bad Guys in the drying-sheets maze).

[KeithHernandez]

I don't actually wear jeans unless it is somehow work related.  I am more of a brown pant guy myself.  I just know what yer supposed to do.

The only pair of jeans I have bought in the last 10 years cost $4 and had bleach stains on them within a week.

[theinevitable]

I am slowly ruining my favorite pair of jeans through over-use/over-washing. I am pretty mad about this.

[theinevitable]

I am mostly mad because they are also my newest pair of jeans. I am probably doing something dumb to make them wear out this way. Like washing them right-side-out. They are just starting to get a vaguely fuzzy look.