Results: This is the Way to Wash Our Clothes, Wash Our Clothes...
Published on 04/27/2024
It seems rather strange that someone would ask etiquette expert Miss Manners who should empty the pants pockets that were to be laundered. But then again, I did spend a few irritating minutes picking the remnants of a Kleenex from the towels I was folding yesterday.
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To borrow a phrase from those external political surveys: If you HAD to choose, who should be responsible for emptying the pockets of clothes to be washed....
The individual who wore the garment
73%
1100 votes
The individual who is doing the laundry
27%
400 votes
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Gentle Reader tells Miss Manners that she has "laundered many coins, golf tees and rocks over the years." Is this this a problem in your home?
Always
5%
76 votes
Sometimes
26%
384 votes
Rarely
35%
528 votes
Never
19%
283 votes
Not Applicable
15%
229 votes
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While Gentle Reader seems somewhat resigned to the coins and golf tees, she is more than a little piqued when the pocketed items are along the lines of Chapstick or ball point pens. Have you ever unintentionally laundered....
Money (coins or bills)
57%
858 votes
Rocks
11%
165 votes
Golf tees
7%
98 votes
Roly poly bugs
2%
30 votes
Nails, screws, or small tools
22%
336 votes
Loose batteries
5%
71 votes
Markers (without the cap)
7%
100 votes
Chalk
1%
22 votes
Kleenex
57%
848 votes
Small toys such as Lego, Hot Wheels, or Polly Pockets
8%
123 votes
Keys
8%
126 votes
The stray red item that turns the whites pink
11%
164 votes
Silly Putty
1%
13 votes
Crayons
6%
88 votes
Candy
20%
302 votes
Not Applicable
20%
294 votes
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Gentle Reader is quick to tell Miss Manners that she doesn't want to nag. She also informs Miss Manners that she has no wish to "dig through pockets." Well, pulling fuzzy Tootsie Rolls, half eaten cookies, or roly poly bugs from pants pockets isn't likely to be on anyone's Top Ten Fun Things to Do List. But her position makes me doubt her laundry skills. I was taught to pull those front pockets inside out to eliminate pocket fuzz building up. Do you pull the pockets out before tossing them in the machine?
Yes
22%
323 votes
No
61%
913 votes
Not Applicable
18%
264 votes
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I come down hard on the position that pockets should be emptied by the wearer and re-checked by the laundry doer. But at our house, the issue of pocket emptying responsibility is purely academic. Everyone does their own laundry. Who does the laundry at your house?
I do
56%
840 votes
My partner/spouse
12%
179 votes
No one- we send it out to be done
2%
30 votes
A non-family member- housekeeper, nanny or the like
3%
41 votes
Whomever caves in first...
4%
62 votes
We each do our own
10%
143 votes
Not Applicable
14%
205 votes
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