Hand Washing

Oh! I thought this thread was going to be about washing your hands...

I very, very rarely wash any items of clothing by hand except on holiday!

Ana, L O L .

I wash a pair of black trousers as the dye runs !

Ana I am in total agreement with you re hand washing, including hand washing items on holiday!

First thing I look for in a washing machine is a hand wash programme. X

I require a hand-wash programme on the washing machine and a 'machine washable' label on the garments.

Hand wash program here too.

I thought it was going to be about OCD or handwashing to prevent passing on germs!

I wish I had handwashed my best jumpers, they do say machine wash but seem to have shrunk.

as there is only one pair of trousers seems to be a bit extravagant IMO to put in machine what with water meter and price of electricity .
We had our ultility bills in today and nearly had a blue fit . We don"t use any more units it is just that price has risen SO dramatically !

Better than foot washing in the bath though (:

Rinsed 3 times?never heard of this. I hand wash quite a few items and only rinse twice at the most, so that you can see all the suds are gone.So I suppose it all depends on how soapy they are.I like hand washing things!

Yes, I expected this to be about OCD.

Has anyone ever tried to rinse anything cotton-y "until the water comes clear"? Impossible!

Even though I have "hand washing" programme on my machine I always wash jumpers by hand I always have done then dried them flat in a towel and they always keep their shape,my sister washes all her jumpers etc in her machine and they either go out of shape or tend to grow a few sizes

I seldom ever hand wash except for bras because of the wires in them. When I do, I try to rinse until water goes clear but end up giving up on that & thinking that's near enough.

My mother drummed into me that the rinsing was most important part of the wash cycle - she always rinsed three times and sometimes more if she wasn't satisfied that all the soap powder was out.

My mother did the same. She would rinse until the water was absolutlely clear. I have to admit when I hand wash the water wouldn't be to my late mum's standard, well neither would much else really.

First of all, I'm sorry the heading of this thread wasn't clearer and was only about laundry instead of OCD. I would start an OCD thread to make up but I don't suffer from it except in a mild way.

Heartened to see I am not the only one who hand washes and rinses until the water is clear(ish). Apart from convenience, thrift and quickness, another benefit of hand washing is that it is gentler on the clothes.

I read somewhere that a garment is past it's best after about 35 washes and I think hand-washing is far less wearing to clothes than a machine cycle.

What's hand washing?

If you hand wash, you need to wring out the garments before you rinse or you won't get all the washing powder/liquid out. My hands have never been quite up to wringing, so I am grateful for the hand-wash and spin programmes.

I put more delicate items in net bags in the washing machine on a gentle cycle as I don't like handwashing (my washing machine doesn't have a 'spin only' cycle either). I always seem to soak myself when handwashing.
Even so, some of my jumpers have shrunk.

I'm with you, Nonnie!

I shove everything in together on 30*, whites and darks separately of course. 'Delicates' go in a net bag so they don't get hooked up with 'indelicates'. Everything has always come out unscathed and I've been doing it for nigh on 40 years. I only hand-wash stuff which will run and do it in cold water. I can remember having to hand-wash terry nappies when on holiday 35 years ago - never again TG

I use my old tights for woollen jumpers and avoid wired bras. my daughters wired bras are washed in my frequent half loads to help keep them from getting squashed.

with the exception of a few items my husband has bought, unless I can chuck it in the WM I don't buy it.

I don't hand wash, wired bras go in net bags.

What's all this with bags, tights etc? Just shove it in and it will be OK. Another thread is about not doing the ironing but the washing seems to be complicated on this one. I haven't had knitwear go out of shape nor had a problem with wired bras. What do they get up to if not bagged? (all sorts going on in my mind!!) Mine are only M & S so probably don't have the added activity which yours have.