Flat mate hogging the bloody washing machine!

Person_one

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Washing your own clothes with some stranger's? *shudders*

Honestly, there's no need for notes, even faintly humourous ones, as that's far too passive-aggressive.

A chat and if there are no results, just take his out, dump them in a laundry-basket and do your own.

Stranger? They're flatmates, and when you wash stuff it all comes out clean anyway...

MrsAtobe

meritaten wrote: »

Why not leave a polite note?

Dear Flatmate
I would like to book an appointment with the washing machine on XX/XX/XXXX. While I appreciate YOUR devotion to cleanliness, unfortunately mine is now sadly lacking as the machine is constantly in use while I am in residence.
Please indicate in writing if this date and time are acceptable.
yours
The Dirty One

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

paulineb_2

Flatmate, or lodger, you commented about putting the rent up

I agree, a conversation is needed.

ska_lover

Hmm devious ways? Pour some beach in the drum..

BitterAndTwisted

Person_one wrote: »

Stranger? They're flatmates, and when you wash stuff it all comes out clean anyway...

Sounds like his stuff is going in clean. Still, I wouldn't want to wash my clothes with anyone else's unless I was on more intimate terms with them. Everyone else is entitled to feel differently.

Person_one

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Sounds like his stuff is going in clean. Still, I wouldn't want to wash my clothes with anyone else's unless I was on more intimate terms with them. Everyone else is entitled to feel differently.

Well, you can feel however you want, it doesn't really make any sense though! I bet you eat off plates that have been washed up in the same water as other people's plates, and the sheets in hotels or hospitals aren't single use.

VitaK

Stuff always seems to go missing when you wash together.

BitterAndTwisted

"Everyone else is entitled to feel differently".

It doesn't matter whether it makes sense to you or not: it makes sense to me. Anyway, I daresay my own qualms and foibles aren't of any interest to anyone else on this thread, apart from me. And discussion of them is most certainly not going get the OP's laundry done.

Pop down in the middle of the night and fill the machine while he's asleep, I say!

The_Magnificent_Spoon

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Sounds like his stuff is going in clean. Still, I wouldn't want to wash my clothes with anyone else's unless I was on more intimate terms with them. Everyone else is entitled to feel differently.

I would agree with you 100% (including that it would be fine if I knew them intimately!) - I understand the points about its getting washed and so all coming out clean anyway, but I deffo wouldn't like my nice clothes having to go round with his hippy rags on an extended spin :rotfl: its more a privacy thing I think, than an 'eww his clothes have given mine clothes-aids!' thing.

The_Magnificent_Spoon

ska_lover wrote: »

Hmm devious ways? Pour some beach in the drum..

I like your thinking! Pink dye would amuse me more than bleach though possibly :rotfl: