My wife and i had an argument she insisted you don’t need to flip it insdie out and i said we should,the inside part is touching your body so it’s dirty and have to be washed thoroughly since it’s touch your skin,my wife said the outside part is more important since all the dirt and grime from outside stick into it more and your body always clean,what do you said people.
People,do you flip laundry inside out during washing or not?
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The only things I flip inside-out are graphic t-shirts. In my brain, it helps preserve the graphic. I don’t even know if that’s actually true or not, come to think of it. I’ve just always thought it sounded logical.
I turn things inside out for one of two reasons
to protect the outer print from fading or damage
to protect other laundry from something on the material. Like velcro on coats or straps on bags.
I flip all my Lululemon leggings inside out to prevent the outside from pilling or damaged by stuffs like Velcro or zippers.
Only when there’s a decal on the front such as on t-shirts.
If your clothing is submerged in soapy water, the soapy water goes inside and outside the item. Both sides get washed flipped or not.
I don’t even separate colours.
I flip clothes inside out if it’s part of the laundering instructions or if it seems like it would be easier on the garment when washing.
It never occurred to me to consider the dirtiness of the side of the clothes as a factor for flipping the garment, but if I were to consider this, I agree with your wife. The dirtier part is the part that’s been on the outside touching everything.
You don’t understand how a washing machine works. Both sides of the garment get equally soaked with water and detergent and thus equally washed. Turning a piece of clothing inside out will have literally zero effect.
Never ending debate about washing…lol
If this is your biggest issue, you guys have a great marriage and no, I’m not being sarcastic.
When I do laundry, I generally don’t care because the material is usually thin enough that it really doesn’t matter. Shirts with buttons, skirts, tshirts, blouses, underwear, pants, bras in a lingerie bag – they are always either unbuttoned/unhooked or have leg/arm holes and it all gets washed evenly. My two exceptions are jeans and dress pants that aren’t dry clean only.
It’s recommended that you wash your jeans between 5-10 wears and while I think that’s a bit much, my husband will wear his at least 3-4 times, unless there are his yard work pants. I usually only wear my jeans twice, but for jeans, I turn them inside out both to get clean because the material is far more dense and also to preserve the color (could be a total myth about the color, but my brain is happy with that). For dress pants, I also turn them inside out for the color because they are usually dark, but also because sometimes my laundry soap leaves a weird residue. I also turn them inside out because he is constantly on the go at work and I’m sitting in meeting after meeting and sometimes the conference rooms get up to literally 90+ degrees in the afternoons and I’m a sweaty mess by the end of the day.
I get important graphic tshirts turned inside out as u/Repulsive-Box5243 said. I have OG band t-shirts from the very late 80s and into the 90s that I got from concerts. If I do put them in the washing machine, I turn them inside out, but I typically just hand wash those.
Can’t remember the last time I pulled clothes out of the washing machine and the inside was still dry and dirty 🙄
Why would you think it doesn’t get washed? By your logic, flipping them would ONLY wash the inside-now-outside and keep the outside-now-inside dirty 🤷🏻♂️