I have a lot of $40-50 shirts; I definitely follow the directions so the silk screening doesn’t get fucked. Though they only require being inside out and using cold water.
Do the manufacturers just do this to not be responsible if the shirt doesn’t survive the machinery?
Some are damaged by washing in high heat or tumble drying them. Not like straight away but over time.
This is me, the only exception is hand knitted or crocheted items. They’re literally the only things I’ll actually respect wash instructions on. If someone takes the time to make me something by hand, or if I spend the time to do it, I’ll treat it right. Otherwise, that shit is going is going into the washer with shirts, jeans, two towels, a flat sheet, a little bleach, some powder detergent, and some downy. I know you’re not supposed to downy towels, but ain’t nobody got time for separating laundry in this bish.
That’s fair. If it’s been hand crafted with love that’s something different than, I dunno, some random sportsball shit I have from Walmart.
Ew, you have sportsball equipment? The gay agenda is going to need a word with you. You’re hurting our image. We abandoned respectability politics in the 2010s. You need to update your plan, or you could face serious fines and a loss of the ability of walk super quickly for no reason.
It was a shirt and it was on sale!
Relatable
If it doesn’t survive the machines, it doesn’t belong in my house
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Hang drying and you don’t need to iron. (And clothes hold longer and needs a few kW/h less power).
Same with toddler toys:
“It can go in the dishwasher, the washing machine, or the garbage”.
In goes a red shirt, out comes a pink tea cozy.
if that is how it be, then it always were a cozy
This is one of my favourites of his, I love the action hero face in the last panel
Dryclean only means “I will never wear this sweater again”
I try to follow the instructions so the clothes survive for longer, but with older clothes with tears and shit, anything goes
I don’t think I’ve ever hand-washed anything. Then again, most clothes these days are build to be pretty disposable and include plastics instead of only natural fibers.
Anything that breaks in the washing machine/dryer/dishwasher trifecta, doesn’t deserve to live in our house.
None of my plates survived the washing machine. Fucking IKEA.
They just want you to put your plates back together.
And the dishwasher shredded my laundry. Stuff just isn’t built to last anymore.
“Best I can do is make it quick”
Punchline to the original Dilbert Comic (also fuck Scott Adams)
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