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I always wash the laundry.
I hate, hate, HATE to fold it. It actually sits so long in the baskets that it piles up until every pair of underwear in the house is in there and we are forced to put it away. Generally my Dh is the first one to cave and fold. I would rather by new stuff than fold laundry.
I have a strong will.
Earlier today I asked him to change the washer clothes to the dryer; which he did. While he was switching them, he found a $5 bill in the washing machine.
Then he said he would be doing more laundry from now on since he found money. Although annoyed, I let him have it…even though TECHNICALLY it should have been mine since I asked him to switch it. (Rule: Whoever does the laundry gets to keep the money they find in it).
So the day goes on, I switch the laundry, run another load, throw clean laundry in infamous pile and he starts to fold it.
And finds a $10 bill.
WTF!!!!
Now he is walking around here like he won the lotto and stuck them both in his wallet.
Whose laundry money is it?
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In our home we rarely have cash so we can always easily figure out who’s money it was and we hand it over. But if it’s up in the air as to who’s it is I say finder’s keepers. Although I did like the suggestion above to randomly hide cash in the laundry to get hubby to do it! LoL
I would have to say finders keepers. My 10 year old is famous for finding money during the changeover. You know taking the clothes out the dryer, and putting the clothes from the washer into the dryer. I agree with you on the clean laundry pile up. I have tried that putting on the bed technique. I am guilty of just moving it to the chair. Would you believe as I am writing this comment there is a pile of clothes on the couch behind me?
I think it should go to whomever’s clothes it came from
I don’t really have an answer for you because we don’t find money in our laundry, lol. We rarely have cash and I watch mine like a hawk!
Good luck on figuring this out, lol!
Pamela Ford wrote:
I kid you not, I would just throw it all on the chair and go to bed…. ha ha ha!
Glad it works for you though
Trish, I never have this problem…. my DH never touches the laundry…
I do however have a solution for the “laundry build-up”…
I grew up in a home with a mother who HATED to do laundry. Swore I would NEVER let my house get like my moms did… My solution is to fold our clothes on our master bed. They come out of the dryer and go straight on the bed. That way they HAVE to get folded before we can go to bed. Normally I do this while watching something on TV.
It works for me, but then our washer and dryer are upstairs with all of the bedrooms too! Our children are older and know to pick up the folded clothes off of the dryer and put them away! (another pet peeve – leaving them out!)
Just a personal tip… hope it helps!
Sorry about your loss of money!
I do all the washing usually. We both use the money I find. Most of the time its just change. I say you both should get some of it.
I agree with PP. Doing laundry isn’t just washing and drying, the actual act of “doing laundry” includes the whole process. LOL.
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Finders keepers losers weepers. HAHAH. Just kidding!
Claire wrote:
i think your right. This seems fair. So the 5 is MINE becuase i washed and the 10 is his cause he folded.
It should go into a emergency fund money jar, for the whole families benefit. Then one day if you have an emergency you weren’t expecting and the money is not there to take care of it, you raid the emergency fund to help you pay for that unexpected emergency. You should have a list in the jar what does not constitute an emergency though, so the whole family knows and doesn’t think it can be spent on stupid not really necessary stuff.
If you don’t like that idea, then maybe it could become the Christmas Gift Jar where found money goes. It could help you pay for Christmas presents.
I say Finder’s Keepers unless you know whose pocket it came out of.
The lesson here should be to put your cash in your wallet/purse and not your pocket. lol
We are the same way. I HATE folding. But I have to say finders keepers. If I were him though I would split it with you.
The washer finds it. If its found before it hits the washer, its the washers. If its founf when going into the dryers? Its the washers, if its found when folding, its the folders.
…I always find it.. I never fold.. LOL
If it were me I would randomly hide money in the laundry to get him to do it! Its a small price to pay
absolutely u r wrong….sorry!!! but i am a stay at home mum and when ever i find money it goes in my purse and i make a point of telling my husband,but bottome line it.it really is both of yours,as u share the same bank account.so whatever as u Americans say
Just an observation, but what the he!! does checking pockets have to do with folding? I say you split it!
Sorry Trish, finders keepers:0(
You should put it in a jar and when you get enough go out to eat.
Sorry Trisha! The rule around here is that “washer woman (or person) gets the find.” It’s motivation to see it all the way through because sometimes it comes out in the washer; sometimes the dryer.
LMAO! His! I keep money I find in pants and in laundry and on counters. LMAO! Hubby knows. I take the money from the counters, because otherwise the kids do. I put it in a cup.
Now … that said – DH sometimes takes the change I collect and rolls it and then HE keeps it which peeves me off. LMAO.
Oh well…