h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Having shoved all my washing in the machine after a long weekend away, I was disturbed to discover when the cycle was complete that I'd managed to dye some of the lighter items a pale blue. The culprit I suspect is a large black cotton wrap, and I think that was its first time in the wash. The victims were a plain white t shirt ( easily replaced), and a thin white cotton cardi from craghoppers, which is not so readily substituted. Oh, and a pair of pjs but I don't really care too much what they look like.

I've had laundry disasters before-you'd think experience would be a better teacher!

I have a horrible feeling that my son's favourite dinosaur top is a bit pinker than it was before I washed it this week. I am blaming some tights my daughter got sent home in when she had an accident, but mostly I am hoping he won't notice.

I, too, feel that I should have got the hang of this by now.

I once ruined a whole load of adult non-underwear by forgetting that *someone* keeps pens in his shirt pockets and doesn't always remove the pens before removing the shirt. I'd checked all the trouser pockets...

I found the best solution to such things, is just have an entirely, or near entirely wardrobe of black clothing... seriously saves me a ton of time on laundry, everything is black, or various shades of blue, which play nicely together in the washing machine well, cept I ruined it by purchasing some white underwear, a while back, but I just handwash that to avoid problems

I ruined some brand new and expensive lingerie the other week myself. It's now a dingy grey rather than ivory. I've had even more practice at laundry than you Sol.

I was really cross with myself.

I tend to only buy colorfast clothing, but even so I'm very careful about not mixing dark colors with light ones.

My laundry mishaps are more likely to be overlooking a tissue or two that was in a pocket of a shirt, after which the entire load has chunks f white lint that have to be picked off one by one

Quick tip for that: wrap a loop of duct tape, sticky side out, around your hand. Then you can pat them all off very quickly.

i never wash my clothes, just buy new ones

I just bought some new shirts, because many of my old ones are too big now. That's the downside of losing weight.

Definately is... three of my favorite, black shirts, and the most expensive shirts I ever bought (though they were on an amazing offer at the time), are now so big I just can't wear them £300 worth of shirts... destined for the charity shop... I'm kinda trying to make do with some of my shirts, which are a bit too big, as I seem to not quite be small enough for L, but XL is like way too big I've a wardrobe in the spare room now, full of jeans that no longer fit, starting from about 40 something inch waist, down to 34.... and the 32" and 30" jeans I do wear, arn't exactly looking as tight as they once did not to mention corsets that no longer fit