How do you get men's white y-fronts clean without using bio detergent (which they are so often allergic to) and a boil wash, which ruins the elastic ... c

"Can't you just teach him to wipe his bottom properly?"

It's not that.

Napisan does not get baby poo stains out of nappies.

With boxer shorts, wouldn't that final inevitable drip go down his leg?

Teacher11! He is very clean! He has a bath every morning.

Quit knocking my old man. I have no doubt whatsoflippinever that his pants are no worse than the next bloke's. It's just being white cotton that shows the slight discolouration up. And, like I said before, hard water doesn't help with whiteness.

tigger his pants go in on their own.

Anyone tried Lidl's stain removing powder? I couldn't live without it - it gets all sorts of stains out of fabric, and is also brilliant for cleaning brown stains off teacups, coffee pots etc.
I don't have an OH to wash pants for, thank God, but that does mean I have to buy dusters!

Umm............. jinglebellfrocks, do you separate your whites from your colours when you do the washing? Just asking.

Oh, it really isn't that bad. I meant men in general.

Bin them and buy some M & S 'cotton slips' or boxers. I should also have a word with the DH. Mine doesn't deliver his to the wash basket looking as if they need washing.

Shove him in the back garden and turn the hose on him and then give him a scrub with the yard broom. He'll thank you for it.

Thanks Gaggi - you have just reminded me about the efficacy of Napisan, which does wonders for white, not cotton bras and pants. I have never had pants problems with my very clean old man but badly stained dish towels and cloths get an overnight soak in the sink (cleans the sink too) with a dilute bleach solution and into a 40 wash in the morning with great results.

Why do men find it so hard to not leave 'marks' ? Is it laziness or just leaving 'their mark' excuse pun. Maybe dating back to neolithic time when they peed and pooed wherever. Just a thought

Thank heavens the other half wears boxer shorts (much more flattering) and since I read him an article that showed what sort of things men can pick up if they don't change their underpants every day (thrush is the least of them!) he changes them every day. Many, many years ago, as a young married woman, I visited my mother and had to take a trip down Putney Hill to shop for her. It was a bitterly cold day and she insisted that I put a pair of my father's on over mine, to keep warm. I have never shopped so fast in my life, terrified that I would have some sort of accident and everyone would see what I was wearing!

Don't know if this would work for the pants, but Napisan might be an answer.

On the steamed pud theme, my newly-married sister-in-law made a steak and kidney pudding, using a garter (you can tell it was a while ago) to secure the cloth, as she had no string. Henceforth, s and k known as garter pudding.

If pressed I use Vanish spray or powder, but like the idea of the Aldi one - I use a lot of Aldi products, will look out for that.

However I do feel there is a limit to being ecological (and I am pretty careful, recycle a lot etc) but like disposable nappies I do think there is a time to chuck. And mucky white knickers is definitely one to chuck. And the time in your life that you most want help is with Smalls in nappies, so young mum's are entitled to disposable in my book.

Anyway I once did a price check on the difference between disposable and Terries. There was little difference price wise by the time you added on soaking stuff, washing machines and tumble dryers, soap powder, plastic pants, liners, electricity and how ecological is all that.

I always wash dish clothes and t-towels at 95 and towels and sheets at 60......Terry towelling nappies were boil washed for first two and so much easier when the disposable nappies arrived.

Dear jings a good old soak in a mild bleach solution (a few good squirts into half a washing up bowl of lukewarm water) rinsed out and bunged in a regular wash does the trick wonderfully...sparkly white on the washing line.
Personally, I do love a clean recycled pair of undies for dishcloths/dusters not only from the save the planet point of view but they're lovely and absorbent compared to j cloths etc. I sound like my nan lol!

Can't you just teach him to wipe his bottom properly?

BIN THEM!!!

Chuck them away!

My mother suggested soaking white cottons, teatowels etc in diluted bleach. DD's teacher once referred to her to me as "Jane of the dazzling white socks" !!

My hubby is a bowłer so needs white pants. His bowls gear often has grass stains! In desperation one day when I had ran out of posh laundry spray ( which never took out the grass stains anyway..) I used orange kitchen spray from Aldi. A quick squoosh, leave for a few minutes, give a quick rub, then use my usual non bio wash! Best stain remover ever for ALL types of natural stains!

Perhaps I'd better not have another go. Might not be the best thing for the diet. Oh! It's a shame.

We used to have both jingl, I loved the crispiness of the baked suet but the steamed pudding put a good layer of stodge round your ribs in the winter

I'm pretty sure my mum-in-law used to cook her bacon and onion suet roll in the oven.

I have never been all that successful in boiling puddings (sweet ones only) in cloths. The outside always seemed a bit wet and claggy. This thread has made me want to have another try.

No! Don't do that!