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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!

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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?

[Deleted User]

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!

[Deleted User]

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!

Electric Sheep

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

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. !

Electric Sheep

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

[Deleted User]

_Jamie_ wrote: »

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

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.

Electric Sheep

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

dark crystal wrote: »

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!

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!

Electric Sheep

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?

freshpopcorn

Electric Sheep wrote: »

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

Well yes. I do my mothers washing sometimes and she does mine. It would be waste of money if I was to just do my washing and she did her own!

Grayson

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.

Second Yellow

My mother doesn't be amused if I'm visiting for any length of time and need to put on washing myself.

I never in my life brought washing home when I was in college or any other time.