My dear son has known for two weeks that he needs to have two white shirts for the next two days. I told him and told him, check them out, and take them to the cleaners. So tonight he brings down half a dozen "white" shirts and says which ones should I (my son) iron. Since he doesn't separate his laundry, none of them are really white, so I say none. He doesn't believe me, until I hold a white paper napkin next to the shirts, one by one.

He is, of course, annoyed, and has to run over to the mall to buy two new shirts. I explain that if you wash white shirts with jeans and dark clothes, you no longer have white shirts - which I have explained countless times.

Sheesh.

I think every mom should be equipped with a tape player in each child's head, to repeat over and over the things mom gets awfully tired of saying.

By Juli4 on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 10:43 pm:

My husband wore white dress shirts often and would wear a white undershirt inderneath and thought it was ok to wear them twice before washing. That is until ALL his white shirts had rings around the collar that would not come off. He has since changed that practice.

By Rayanne on Wednesday, October 12, 2005 - 10:44 pm:

As a wife we should have those tape recorders for our DH's. LOL. Men never learn.

By Marg on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 04:35 pm:

I told my husband the other day, Women could virtually live without men, but men can't live without us!

They never grow up do they!?

By Karen~moderator on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 05:48 pm:

I've tried to teach my kids how to separate their laundry for that very reason. Jen finally learned, and takes care of her clothes. Jeff, on the other hand, throws everything in a single load, including towels, white socks, black shirts, jeans, etc. So you can imagine what his clothes look like - the black shirts have white lint all over them, and the white socks are now grey!

Jules is just as bad as Jeff is. Jason takes better care of his clothes though. Wonder if there is something to the fact that the 2 youngest of the 2 sets do it the right way?? LOL

By Dawnk777 on Thursday, October 13, 2005 - 08:00 pm:

Yeah, Gary got a shirt for Christmas that is a lint magnet, so why does he always throw it in with towels, when he does laundry?