Bringing the washing home

Galway_Old_Man

Chatting with a few lads in the office this morning about people's Christmas plans. From that the topic of dirty clothes came up (as it does ) and everyone of them who is going back to their parents, are bringing their laundry to be done! I understand it a little (well maybe moreso for younger lads, but some of these are in their thirties) but think it's taking the mickey a little to land up and have your Mum going straight into the Aeriel! Happy Christmas!

Mr. Incognito

Anyone who cannot wash their own clothes in their thirties has failed at life.

mansize

Thats pathetic OP.

eviltimeban

How do these 30 something lads wash their clothes now?

mansize

eviltimeban wrote: »

How do these 30 something lads wash their clothes now?

Bring home to mammy on the sahurday?

me_irl

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

From that the topic of dirty clothes came up (as it does )

"See that ludicrous display last night?"

"No, but speaking of, I Trainspotted the bed last night. Going to bring it home to the mammy. She always gets the sweetcorn out of me smalls."

Absolute man-child w@nkery thing to do.

Those lads should have been a crusty sock under the bed.

Winterlong

Hard to believe that any adult over the age of 18 would have their parents do their washing for them. It is one step away from having your parents wipe your arse.

Agricola

Well I never........... I feel nothing but disdain, nay borderline contempt for these babymen who cannot manage such a menial domestic task as washing their own underpants.

osarusan

Am I the only one who wonders if this thread was started with a specific user in mind?

Sad stuff if so.

Rainman16

I bring washing home, occasionally, but I do it myself. I grew up in a house when you had to look after yourself. It's sad that grown men still rely on "Mammy" to look after them.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

It's insane. How hard is it to separate your washing, bang it into the washing machine, throw in your detergent and wait an hour?
Hardly racing stuff. No excuse in this day and age for anyone wearing dirty clothes or not washing their own clothes frequently.

GLaDOS

Ha, what losers.

I make my girlfriend do it

Galway_Old_Man

mansize wrote: »

Thats pathetic OP.

I'm not the one doing it! I've a couple of young'ins now, only a few years til they're landing at my doorstep I suppose!

I imagine they're well capable of washing their own lads, just that since they're heading home for a period they're well... taking advantage of the situation.

The Backwards Man

osarusan wrote: »

Am I the only one who wonders if this thread was started with a specific user in mind?

Sad stuff if so.

Thought that meself.

I think the disdainful posters here wouldn't know all that much about mangles or soap flakes themselves

steddyeddy

Complete failures at life if they're still relying on mammy and daddy for basic self care in their thirties. When I lived in student accommodation I lived with three PhD students who did the same. We had a washing machine and bills were included so I didn't see the problem. It's not good to spoil your children.

steddyeddy

osarusan wrote: »

Am I the only one who wonders if this thread was started with a specific user in mind?

Sad stuff if so.

I doubt there's Boards users who actually do this (I suspect there's trolling involved).

steddyeddy

Winterlong wrote: »

Hard to believe that any adult over the age of 18 would have their parents do their washing for them. It is one step away from having your parents wipe your arse.

It does happen unfortunately. I think some kids lead quite sheltered lives but I think the users who talk about this are trolling since they constantly bemoan those on the dole.

Galway_Old_Man

steddyeddy wrote: »

It does happen unfortunately. I think some kids lead quite sheltered lives but I think the users who talk about this are trolling since they constantly bemoan those on the dole.

Is there not some kind of rule about accusing people of trolling?



Oh well if that's not the case... So three posts in a row eh? Seems like trolling to me :P

Pinch Flat

We've a few fellas in our office who haven't mastered the basics like not leaving sh!te all over the toilet, loading a dishwasher or putting the correct rubbish in the correct bin (recycleable / non recyclable), so bringing the washing home doesn't surprise me.

The amount of people here in their 30s with out basic life skills is unreal.

steddyeddy

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

Is there not some kind of rule about accusing people of trolling?



Oh well if that's not the case... So three posts in a row eh? Seems like trolling to me :P

I wasn't thinking of you when I wrote the post OP. Sorry for the confusion.

Glenster

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Anyone who cannot wash their own clothes in their thirties has failed at life.

20s surely.

A 20 year old who cannot wash their own clothes is a failure..

Stonedpilot

OP is obviously a student, leave him be!.

Goya

osarusan wrote: »

Am I the only one who wonders if this thread was started with a specific user in mind?

Sad stuff if so.

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Thought that meself

How come ye think this? Looks to me as if you were the only ones bringing another user into it but maybe I'm missing something?

But anyway, washing and drying your clothes is one of the easiest chores there is - going to the trouble of putting them all in a bag and bringing them home to your mother is bad form. Not just in your 30s but from when you move out.

andekwarhola

Galway_Old_Man wrote: »

I'm not the one doing it! I've a couple of young'ins now, only a few years til they're landing at my doorstep I suppose!

I imagine they're well capable of washing their own lads, just that since they're heading home for a period they're well... taking advantage of the situation.

Just boil the sh1t out of the entire wash.

Sorted.

NiallBoo

Glenster wrote: »

20s surely.

A 20 year old who cannot wash their own clothes is a failure..

Twenty is ridiculously late IMO.

Not to put too fine a point on things, but I'm surprised at anyone who lets others do their washing once they reach puberty.

Your clothes are the most physically intimate items you have. I think having other people wash it is just weird.

kfallon

NiallBoo wrote: »

Your clothes are the most physically intimate items you have.

My cock & balls say hello trout.....

billyhead

I am a male in my 30s and my Mum drops out to my house when I am not their and does a few jobs including bringing home clothes to be washed. I tell her their is no need to but she is adamant she wants to do it. This wouldn't count as being a loser would it

Using the parents facilities? I've no problem with anyone bringing their washing home and doing it there. Landing it on the mother is a bit on the lazy side.

Anyway, anyone over the age of 2 who doesn't do their own washing is a spoiled brat. I did my own washing before I was even born and moved out by the time I was 5, worked 25 hour days putting a roof over my head, ate nothing but dust and grass, and it never did me any harm.

Pfft. Snowflakes.

TheMercenary

Yeah replace your mother with a machine... at Christmas.

Stay classy AH.

NiallBoo

billyhead wrote: »

I am a male in my 30s and my Mum drops out to my house when I am not their and does a few jobs including bringing home clothes to be washed. I tell her their is no need to but she is adamant she wants to do it. This wouldn't count as being a loser would it

Yes.

1. Your mother does your washing.
2. You're an adult that's unwilling or incapable of saying no to your mother.
3. Sounds like she's doing other house-work too...

In fairness though, there's lots of ways being a loser* and I'd say everyone ticks at least one box.

(*eg. posting on boards.ie.)

freshpopcorn

Kind of a long story but we didn't get a washin machine until u was nearly fourteen and I'm in my mid twenties now.
So when we were growing up my mother did all air washing by hand.
Everyone in our house can do their own washing but we've no system. If I've a few pairs a of jeans that need washing and theirs somebody else's to be washed we just wash them all together.
I did a little bit of hand washing by myself and it's hard work and to me and my mother using a washing machine isn't really a job. It takes very little time or effort.
One thing I do know tough is some mammies love doing washing!

NiallBoo

Candie wrote: »

Using the parents facilities? I've no problem with anyone bringing their washing home and doing it there. Landing it on the mother is a bit on the lazy side.

Anyway, anyone over the age of 2 who doesn't do their own washing is a spoiled brat. I did my own washing before I was even born and moved out by the time I was 5, worked 25 hour days putting a roof over my head, ate nothing but dust and grass, and it never did me any harm.

Pfft. Snowflakes.

How does one wash a snowflake anyway?

NiallBoo

NiallBoo wrote: »

How does one wash a snowflake anyway?

With Fairy of course. If you did your own washing you'd know that!

NiallBoo

Candie wrote: »

With Fairy of course. If you did your own washing you'd know that!

Ha! Naturally.

Unfortunately I'm just afraid to steep out of my Comfort zone.

MilesMorales1

I always thought stuff like this was a myth, grown men bringing their washing home to mammy, then I saw don't tell the bride and there was one bloke who still brought his dinner round every night, blokes whose parents did their washing, cooking, cleaning, all sorts. It's embarrassing.

freshpopcorn

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I always thought stuff like this was a myth, grown men bringing their washing home to mammy, then I saw don't tell the bride and there was one bloke who still brought his dinner round every night, blokes whose parents did their washing, cooking, cleaning, all sorts. It's embarrassing.

Women have it done as well!

Don't see the problem. just loaded in the full washing bag into the car this evening for heading back, how else is it going to get washed when I'm gone home for two weeks? Doesn't mean you can't wash yourself but weekends or weeks you head back it makes sense to bring the washing.

Hollister11

I'm 20, still live at home and my mum still usually does it. She does my dad's and brothers, so she just tells me to put it in the basket until there's a full wash being done. Don't get me wrong now, I do it when needs be, but I'm usually told not to.

_Jamie_

Vvvveeery occasionally, I bring washing home with me but it's just if I've been disorganised. But I always do it myself even then. No way is my mother having to handle my dirty underwear. Nobody likes doing laundry and nobody should have to do someone else's, especially a grown child's.

Neon_Lights

Being in my mid twenties, and having lived with a couple of housemates, I'm shocked by one thing I've found, the utter incapability of the young people of this country to get stuff done in the house.

I think my ma trained me well to get stuff done, and obviously there are other tidy people out there, I've just hit a poor sample.

But at the same time, there's some amount of crusty mammied individuals out there.

Here's a small sample of the things I've encountered:
-Can't use common appliances (oven, hoover, washing machine, iron)
-Who leave cupboards, presses, drawers wide open for housemates to walk into/spoil food
-Forget they've left an iron/pan on, watching "the youtube/fashebook" and nearly burn down the house.
-Put the base of an iron flat onto the ironing board after attempting to Iron.
-Who use party plates and plastic cutlery because they couldn't be arsed spending 2 mins washing up.
-Leave indecipherable gunk/rot/rotting vegetables rust water on countertops/kitchen floors/cabinet doors and not wipe it up
-Block the sink, and don't have the common sense to get even drain unblocker.
-Are incapable of finding a bin schedule online, and deciphering what bins to put out on what day.

Yes I do feel the millennial generation in this country, (for the most part) is fooked. And they have the neck to put that they're "tidy" on their references.

Vojera

When I was 17/18 and in first year in college I used to bring my washing home at the weekends. It was criminally expensive to do laundry on campus. But once I settled and stopped trekking home to Donegal every weekend I had to do it myself - and the money I saved on the bus covered the washing.

So I don't mind students who are trying to save money doing it, but I would think less of an adult who works full time and lives away from the family home bringing washing home and expecting someone else to do it.

_Jamie_

Lincoln Easy Poodle wrote: »

Don't see the problem. just loaded in the full washing bag into the car this evening for heading back, how else is it going to get washed when I'm gone home for two weeks? Doesn't mean you can't wash yourself but weekends or weeks you head back it makes sense to bring the washing.

Very easy to pack enough clothes and undies for a two week stay somewhere, especially with a car.

Pac1Man

Hollister11 wrote: »

I'm 20, still live at home and my mum still usually does it. She does my dad's and brothers, so she just tells me to put it in the basket until there's a full wash being done. Don't get me wrong now, I do it when needs be, but I'm usually told not to.

That's not weird so I wouldn't worry. It's a different story if you live away from your parents though.

Trust me, when you start to lob the clothes through the circular hole and press two buttons on the machine, your life won't change and you won't suddenly grow as a person like some would lead you to believe.

Electric Sheep

Is there a shortage of launderettes in Galway or something? You could have them washed, dried and folded in less than two hours, and arrive "home" to your parents house with nice fresh clothes for the holidays.

I do not understand the infantilized Irishman, and don't tell me it's women too, I have never met a woman who would hand her mother a bag of laundry to do.

_Jamie_

Electric Sheep wrote: »

Is there a shortage of launderettes in Galway or something? You could have them washed, dried and folded in less than two hours, and arrive "home" to your parents house with nice fresh clothes for the holidays.

I do not understand the infantilized Irishman, and don't tell me it's women too, I have never met a woman who would hand her mother a bag of laundry to do.

Well, I'm female and like I said, sometimes I've been disorganised and have had to bring home laundry with me but yeah, what's with getting your mother to do it for you? If your hands work, there's no excuse! And there's no way she'll enjoy the task either. It's drudgery.

red bellied

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Anyone who cannot wash their own clothes in their thirties has failed at life.

Not really the machine could be broke.

Electric Sheep

red bellied wrote: »

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Anyone who cannot wash their own clothes in their thirties has failed at life.

Not really the machine could be broke.

You do realize that people knew how to do laundry before washing machines were invented?

heroics

I met a guy in his 30s coming out of the apartment block and he had a suitcase with him. Asked was he going on holidays and he said no just back. Dropping the clothes up to his mams. Couldn't believe it. If I did that my mother would laugh at me between telling me to get out and f*ck off and she never curses

Cupcake_Crisis

I'd be mortified to show up on my mams doorstep with a bag of washing. I'd know better too, I'd get a slap around the head with it if I did.

tomwaterford

_Jamie_ wrote: »

Very easy to pack enough clothes and undies for a two week stay somewhere, especially with a car.

Tbf....I dont even own two weeks worth of clothes and undies like



But I have no problem beleiving the OP....lads I used be friends with would be closer to 30 than 20 and still get parents to wash and occasionally buy their clothes for them
(I presume they still do?)



I think they were intimitated by all the settings....when in fact one setting deos about 90% of the washing

dark crystal

freshpopcorn wrote: »

One thing I do know tough is some mammies love doing washing!

Ah yeah, we live for that sh!t!

There's nothing I like better after a hard day working, than coming home to cook, do the homework, clean the dishes, tidy up etc and then finally getting a small window of 'me' time to chill out by getting all that delicious laundry done. Oh, it gives me the chills it's so exciting! The endless sorting, the sniff testing, the drying, the bending, the folding. It's the absolute highlight of every mother's day.

How some selfish adults deprive their mothers of such bliss is beyond me. Beyond me!