I almost put this in GQ, but it’s so silly and anecdotal that I just couldn’t bring myself to do it.
About halfway through folding and hanging three baskets of laundry, I realized that I had yet to find a shirt that wasn’t inside-out, and most of the pants were at least halfway inside-out as well. I know that when they went into the wash, some were inside out and some were not. Why is it that they always end up inside-out, thus requiring the most amount of work to put them away? Is there any way I can reliably stop this from happening? Or is this just a laundry corollary of the law that if you drop your toast, it will always land buttered-side down?
I don’t know about your household, of course, but I have developed the habit of deliberately pulling my tshirts off inside-out and washing them that way. Somewhere along the way, I got the notion that this tended to make printing and/or designs on the shirts last longer. (I have not done any rigorous testing to determine whether this is true or not, it’s just the source of the habit.)
As for pants…I have no idea. Mine usually come out of the drier right-side-out.
When my husband pulls his pants off, they often have one leg inside out. If I don’t catch it, they remain so through the laundry ballet. He aslo can’t seem to put socks in the laundry right side out, so I end up turning 10 pairs right side out all at once. I hate that. So the answer is, it just seems like you’re turning out more , because you’re doing them all at once, and its a PITA.
Balance all that does is, ensure your tees to have more lint on them.
My kids’ clothes are almost always wrong-side-out, because they forget to take them off properly. Adult clothes rarely turn themselves inside-out, except for some of my thin T-shirts. Baby socks are anybody’s guess, as they usually come out in a little damp ball of sock.
Balance, I agree that printed T-shirts last longer if washed inside-out, but that may depend on the quality and method of printing. I have some from 1987 that still look fine, and some from last year that look horrible.
I’m betting it has something to do with how your washer is made, particularly how the agitator is designed and how it works. The washer here in our apartment building and the ones I use at the laundromat are standard uprights with standard agitators. My clothes rarely turn themselves inside out. But some of the newer fancy schmancy models with fancy schmancy agitators, I could see them doing odd things with the clothes in their care. The laundromat is supposed to be getting new machines soon. Maybe I’ll get a chance to see if there’s a difference in the near future.
My wife and I came to an agreement fairly early on – she would continue to do my laundy as long as I learned to turn the shirts and socks rightside out. (I do more of other tasks so it balances out, but it only took a little training.)
I’ve noticed that many garments on the washing instructions say to wash it inside out.
My laundromat has posted rules that include that when drying a blanket or comfortor, you MUST put a tennis ball in the dryer.
What’s up with that?
Since I don’t play tennis I haven’t washed my comfortor, but I don’t see why putting a ball in there would do anything.
What I want to know is why, when I dry bedlinens in our dryer, everything ends up wadded inside a pillowcase or duvet cover? I take great care to ensure that the duvet cover is buttoned up and that each item is put in the dryer separately, not just hauled out of the washer and thrown in.
Every single time - the duvet cover comes unbuttoned and all the sheets end up inside the duvet cover or if there is no duvet cover to hide in, the pillowcases.
I can’t imagine the contortions required to get a sheet inside a duvet cover/pillowcase while tumbling about in a dryer.
I take great care to ensure that the duvet cover is buttoned up and that each item is put in the dryer separately, not just hauled out of the washer and thrown in.