Laundry day woes (have fun)

[RoninPA]

Did my laundry this morning (helping mama out). Got it washed and put it in the dryer. When the dryer said everything was dry got it out to fold. Lo and behold, 6 of 7 tee shirts were inside out, 5 of 7 underwear was wrong side out, one long sleeve shirt was half wrong side out. Pants were ok, socks were ok. What is it? Everything going into the washer was right side out. Are there little gremlins in the washer and/or dryer that say, let's mess with Ron today?? Wonder what would happen if I turned everything inside out before I put it in the washer

 

[thinckley]

If you could find proof, it could well end a long-standing argument I have been having with my wife. I have claimed on multiple occasions that I know my shirts were right-side out when I put them in the dirty clothes and that the washing machine or dryer is turning them inside out.

 

[Jeepnik]

That's funny, I was taught to was clothes inside out. It's easier on the outside of the fabric. Perhaps it's a message from the laundry gods.

 

[coach]

My wife often complains that I seldom turn t shirts right side out. Guilty as charged.

 

[Jeepnik]

I usually take clothes out of the dryer and fold as is. When I go to wear it I just make sure it's right side out.

In truth , growing up things were properly folded. But military basic cured me of that. Seriously, get gigged for an improperly folded handkerchief.

 

[WAYNO]

I do most of the laundry. And I also experience my t-shirts and choners most often leaving the dryer, inside out, regardless of the orientation they entered.

I can't blame myself, as I didn't do it. And since nobody else handles my laundry, I cannot blame them, either.

I think laundry gremlins are the only reasonable culprit.

 

[turd]

Got the dern gremlins here, too, yes I do.

 

[JAYDAWG]

What's laundry??

 

[gnappi]

Yup, the same gremlins (or their relatives) who steal one sock of a pair, and who unload previously loaded guns necessitating a "press check"

 

[Ride1949]

 

[arfmel]

I consider it a success if the washer doesn’t tie my pants and shirts in a knot.

 

[eveled]

Or bend off a zipper tab

 

[GunnyGene]

What's laundry??

It's something the non-fur bearing humans do.

 

[Bob Wright]

I consider it a success if the washer doesn't tie my pants and shirts in a knot.

You got that right! My shirt sleeves often wrap around one leg of my jeans. Sort of reminds me of a game my daughter had as a child, called "Barrel of Monkeys." The monkeys were made so their "hands" would interlock.

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

This laundry thread reminds me of a sign reportely placed in a Chinese laundry:

"We don't break your buttons by machine. We do it carefully by hand."

Bob Wright

 

[jimbo1096]

I make sure all my shirts and pants are right side out when I put them in the washing machine. My ratio is about 40% of my t-shirts are inside out about 80% of my underwear, so I don’t know how that happens. But I haven’t lost a sock in quite well, so that’s a plus.

 

[Watertender]

One time I was working a midnight shift and blew the soot off the tubes on the boiler that was running.
We were burning #6 or Bunker C oil. 5 minutes after I blew the tubes there was one very upset woman pounding on the boiler room door using combinations of cuss words that I never heard before.
She had her sheets drying on a clothesline and when I blew soot it speckled her sheets with all sorts of little chunks of greasy oil.

 

[Fox Mike]

Have never figured out how I can put four matching pair of socks in and somehow get three pair and two odd socks out.

 

[Danjet500]

I am not allowed to do laundry. My wife is very adamant about that. I have no choice but to agree!

 

[Doublebarrel2]

Clothes are sewn together inside out and then turned right side out. They are just returning to there natural state. That my theory.

 

[Rat76]

Interesting thread. I too do the laundry & am not seeing this issue. I'm wondering if the presence of an agitator in the washer makes a difference.

Our machine is a top loader without an agitator. The previous machine was a front loader, never ever again, dang thing did structural damage to the laundry closet.

Before that? I know it had an agitator, but CRS Syndrome sets in.

 

[turd]

Mine is a top loader without agitator. I was wondering if the lack of agitator did it?

 

[RoninPA]

We have a front loader.

 

[Rat76]

Well, so much for the agitator theory, I guess it's gremlins.

 

[vito]

I used to do laundry all the time but my wife would always criticize how I did it. She claimed I put things in that belonged in a separate load, that I didn't fold her stuff the way she liked them folded, and more complaints. So now I don't do laundry ever, even just a load of towels, and feel free to tell her that she needs to do some laundry for me and not put it off. We've been married 58 years and if she's happier doing the laundry herself, who am I to argue?

This all reminds me of when we first married and moved into our first apartment, the landlord agreed to pay for the paint if we wanted to repaint some of the rooms. Within minutes of starting the painting my new wife complained that she didn't like how I was doing it and to let her do all the painting. For the last 58 years I have not touched a paintbrush. I should have done a crappy job mowing the lawn, washing the cars and numerous other chores early in our marriage and I could have been living a life of leisure by now.

 

[Watertender]

I think vito figured it out perfectly!

 

[Cholo]

I use a front loader and everything comes out as I put it in, only cleaner LOL I do come up one sock short all the time and then it suddenly appears out of nowhere.

Neither here nor there: This thread reminds me of this--1:47 Language Warning!

 

[Johnny-Baseball]

I am not allowed to do laundry. My wife is very adamant about that. I have no choice but to agree!

Laundry is but one of the many things my bride (of 46 years) won't allow me to do. Others include:
Drive her car.
Cook any meal other than for my own consumption.
Trim hedges (I get to sweep up and bag the cuttings).
Wear shoes (of any kind/make) inside the house.

All things considered, I'm ok with her proscriptions.

 

[KIR]

I have always done my own laundry and yes, in the early days before I wised up, I did get some of my whites shaded pink. However, one can learn even from our mistakes. Living in an apartment, my wife who was the smart one (who has since passed quite some time ago) picked out a stackable washer/dryer. However, at least I was the one who picked it out to be a Maytag after reading in Consumer Reports that it was the best as the tub would not rust out like a lot of the other name brand washers. It has been 38 years and still going strong. Our local Maytag dealer repairman changed the 220v to 110 and when we moved into our home, changed it back, so great customer service!

 

[redhawker]

It's the same guys that steal that one sock that are turning those inside out.