<p>Both kids home from college and I have been inundated by Laundry!!! All of a sudden, I remembered back to when they both lived at home…both played high level sports…and I was constantly doing laundry…and now I am at it again… :)) Who said the holidays were easy???</p>
<p>I am always creeped out that kids bring home dirty laundry, whether by car or plane. Yuck.</p>
<p>Can they do their own laundry? At least at home, they won’t need to find coins to put in the washer and dryer like they may have to do in the dorm or wherever they live at college.</p>
<p>I know each family has taught their kids different thing for all sorts of reasons, but my two boys have been doing their own laundry since they were 13. This is because i got tired of telling the first yo quit putting perfectly clean clothes in his laundry basket. After months of threats, I said that’s it. I’m tired of being mad about this, now you can clean your own clean clothes. I think it’s about time you had them do this for themselves. </p>
<p>Laundry is one chore I like doing. I alway have a sense of accomplishment with a pile of fresh laundry. </p>
<p>My kids no longer bring their dirty laundry home but I will probably do theirs before they fly out. </p>
<p>S is in college and D lives on her own but they both bring dirty clothes home. Much cheaper and easier to do laundry at home. They do their own wash.</p>
<p>It doesn’t bother me at all. However once H went on a fishing trip with his dad, BIL and other guys. He then visited his parents for a few days after the trip, and then brought the laundry home! Eeew! I got to do days old fishing trip laundry. Now that creeped me out.</p>
<p>My sophomore brought home one laundry bag full of dirty clothes, one laundry basket full of dirty clothes, and one laundry basket full of clean clothes. He didn’t even bother to bring a suitcase home. </p>
<p>My son aways comes home with huge amount of dirty laundry and I happily do it for him because it’s my chance to do something motherly again and he appreciates it. But after that one time he does it the rest of the time he’s home. </p>
<p>I haven’t done my children’s laundry since they were in 6th grade! I do occasionally help, though. The ick factor for me is how they store the clean clothes in the hamper…</p>
<p>Oddly, I don’t mind doing my kids’ laundry. It’s out of character, but it doesn’t bother me. We do it together, kind of and it’s a way to chat about things without sitting still, I guess.</p>
<p>My oldest barely even comes home anymore and certainly doesn’t bring her laundry! Enjoy having the kid with you for longer than a week. Soon enough they are mostly gone.</p>
<p>All I can say is D had best not bring her dirty laundry home to me lol. I stopped doing the kids’ laundry by the time they were 10 or so. As it stands now, everyone does their own, including my husband. I recently married after being single since my oldest was 12 weeks old and he was flabbergasted that I wouldn’t do his laundry. Apparently, his ex-wife doted on him and the household “chores” were very gender-related. He’s still in training but I think we’re okay now lol. I think if I hadn’t worked full time plus while my children were younger I might have done it but my kids were pretty self-sufficient early on and had chores by the time they were in kindergarten.</p>
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<p>And yet he divorced her? lol </p>
<p>I don’t mind doing laundry. It’s one of the easiest chores there is…the machines do all the work! </p>
<p>Mine have been doing their own laundry since about 6th grade, when they felt throwing clean clothes back into the laundry was easier than folding them and putting them away. (What in the world makes kids think that!)</p>
<p>Now they still bring home laundry, but they then do it themselves. Now they have their own laundry on the second floor, so I don’t even have to tussle with them over laundry times.</p>
<p>I’m in the “if they can reach the dials, they are old enough to do the laundry themselves” camp. That said, I do help out if they have lots of tests/HW/sports training. I, too, was horrified to see that the nice clean laundry that I did for them as middle schoolers was promptly put in the bottom of the laundry hamper because they were too lazy to put it away! Things changed around here that day…</p>
<p>@UCDAlum82 ~ aren’t two sets of w/d wonderful? I have my own small stackables in the master bath; everyone else uses the extra large ones in the basement. Well, sometimes I let D use mine because she has small loads occasionally and will flip mine to do hers, bonus!</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids ~ no kidding, huh? After 18 months I’m just finding out really how much she did for him lol. Man can’t boil eggs (good thing I like to cook and better thing that he loves to dine out) and needed some refreshers on vacuuming and dish washing but otoh refuses to let me take out the trash or mow the lawn. So far, its a win-win for me.</p>
<p>My late MIL was a maid so she made sure that her sons (daughters too) could clean, cook, iron, and at least sew a button. Her thinking was that no one was going to wait on any of HER kids! My H does his own laundry for a different reason though. His style of doing laundry is so different from mine I can’t take it so we’ve never mixed clothes-except for the time he sought to prove himself right and turned all of my underwear pink. My kids all start doing laundry in about 6-7th grade. My S hates to cook, but he’s so good at laundry that in the military he did a brisk side business doing other guys’ laundry.</p>
<p>27 year old D still brings laundry home almost every time she visits, but she does it herself for the most part. She loves doing laundry, but has to go outside to a basement laundry area in a different building of her apartment complex - not fun. She appreciates the “free” laundry at home and the only annoyance to me is that she lets the dryer goes until it buzzes which means most of her clothes are crispy. Since she doesn’t iron for the most part, I’ll admit that drives me a little crazy:) </p>
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<p>yikes…I would be more concerned that he may be missing all that.</p>
<p>One of my college students brings laundry home, the other has hers done before she comes. However does complain about paying $1.25 for one load of wash, and one load of dryer. Next year her apt will have washer and dryer. I let her fill up her laundry container from the larger laundry soap from Costco/Sam’s. She likes saving her $$ for other more important things like fashion.</p>
<p>H is not keen on doing laundry - he respects my time in part because I do the laundry. He doesn’t pester me then about my lack of keeping a great neat house. At some point, I will improve on that… </p>
<p>We used to bring our laundry to the in-laws when we were in college and do it while we watched Saturday football. My MIL always offered to do both of our laundry. I won’t even let MY mom touch my dirty laundry, let alone his mom. ew!</p>
<p>She still does her older sons’ laundry (mid to late 20s) when they come over. Mindboggling to me lol</p>