Bringing the washing home

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?

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 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!

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.

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.

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

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

Not really the machine could be broke.

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

tomwaterford wrote: »

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

Parents my ass. How many them ever handed a bag of dirty laundry to their father to wash?!:pac:

donkeykong5 wrote: »

Feel you are all missing the point. When the mother does the washing 1. No colours run. 2. Nothing shrinks. 3. Football jerseys don't come out creased. 4. Washing has lovely fresh smell as well. That's because mothers know best. !

No, it's because adult children refuse to learn a very simple process. If they learned how to laundry, they would have no excuse to ask their mothers.:p

Lincoln Easy Poodle wrote: »

Would barely have enough to get me through two weeks (boxers etc), if also have a few good shirts for going out that would be worn and in the washing now and be worn and washed and worn again before the end of the Christmas I'd have to have them and I've a few things I like wearing otherwise that I would wear and wash and wear rather than using other things.

Also who wants to land back in Jan with a mountain of washing rather than a full complement of washed clothes so washing needed for a while after getting back.

I don't get the big deal anyway it's how I've always done it and my other siblings too, I find it weird that people think it's strange to bring washing into your own home.

Bringing the washing to your parent's home is not strange, expecting it to be done for you is very strange indeed.

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I know lots of women who love playing mammy to their growing up sons and daughters.
Try hand washing over a bath if you think it's bad and then using your machine will be fun!

Didn't you say you were in your 20s? Surely you are finished growing up by now?

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

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

My washing machine is broken. landlord is replacing it in January. So I'm bringing washing home

Plus I'll be there for a week. Easier to bring dirty clothes and clean them when I'm there.