My wife's idea of doing laundry is leaving clean clothes in a bag to wrinkle

[Anonymous]

That's my idea too... wash and leave in laundry bins till I feel like folding. Don't like it - fold and put away.

[Anonymous]

Put your shirts in the dryer with a wet cloth. The wrinkle will go away. Grab them and fold.

[Anonymous]

My H did his own laundry after the first year of our marriage, when my folding wasn't up to his standards. I did fold, but not correctly. I thought him doing his own laundry was a great idea. I was a SAHM until my kids were both in school but I had plenty to do without his laundry. I also taught the kids to do their own laundry as soon as they were tall enough to reach the dials. We were married 25 years and the divorce was not laundry related.

I dated a guy after my divorce who would pile all his clean laundry on the dining room table, in a huge pile of wrinkly clean clothes, and then pluck out what he wanted to wear with no regard to how wrinkly he looked. When he asked me to move in with him I offered to do the laundry just to keep it off the dining room table (and also because he paid all the bills.) I would wash and fold his clothes and deliver them to the bedroom in a basket (we had to buy the basket, he didn't have one.) After awhile he said, "You could put my clean clothes in my drawers if you want, I wouldn't mind." I said, "No thanks, you go ahead and do that."

Guys and laundry....sometimes a mystery!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If she washes why don’t you fold?

I did that, but only after the clothes were left to wrinkle

Then fold it when it comes out of the dryer, that part is on you.

I wasn't around when they came out of the dryer, hence ... This.. whole.. thread....

from one DH to another, here is what i do... put the laundry back in the dryer, run it for 15 min or so then fold. not worth posting on dcum dude. women will beat the sh8t out of you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's my idea too... wash and leave in laundry bins till I feel like folding. Don't like it - fold and put away.

+1
And my wife’s idea of doing laundry is to wash without telling me and then go to sleep.

[Anonymous]

I would just let your wife know that from now on, I would be doing my own wash.

That way you do not have to worry about wrinkled laundry.

Problem solved!

[Anonymous]

My husband does his own laundry - why can’t you?

[Anonymous]

I hate the male attitude towards laundry. So much entitlement and expectation. Refusal to so much as put clean clothes away.

I remember my dad telling me in an aside about his (second) wife: "I don't think of doing laundry as "hard"." I gave him a talking to, believe me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Put your shirts in the dryer with a wet cloth. The wrinkle will go away. Grab them and fold.

This. Also, folding laundry is the best chore. You get to watch TV while you do it.

[Anonymous]

Is she using a laundromat? Who puts laundry in bags? That seems like a lot of extra work.

[Anonymous]

Who puts clean laundry in a bag, folded or not???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And yet, she apparently did more than you? I think the appropriate response is to say thank you and tell her you’ll do it next week (so it can be done to your standards).

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I did four loads of your laundry!" I've heard again and again, as if I owe her the biggest thank you in the world

But really, all she did was put them in the washer, then the dryer, then let them sit in laundry bags and get wrinkled

Am I supposed to bow down and thank her for her great act of kindness?

I don't really get it

Divide up the household admin equally, and whomever has laundry shouldn’t half a$$ it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Put your shirts in the dryer with a wet cloth. The wrinkle will go away. Grab them and fold.

This. Also, folding laundry is the best chore. You get to watch TV while you do it.

Exactly why my tv hound husband chose this task!

[Anonymous]

OP, time spent folding laundry = less time with one of her AP's.

Standard DCUM advice applies here: Divorce ASAP.