- Why are washing machines in the UK downstairs? It seems daft to me carrying dirty clothes down the stairs then back up again when they’re clean.
- Without a tumble dryer it’s virtually impossible to get clothes dry in the winter, every radiator in the house is covered in clothes, which makes our heating system work even harder.
- Airing racks really don’t add to the look I was going for in the lounge. Plus, I’m always having to hide it when I do video conference calls for work as I don’t want my colleagues to be distracted by my rather large Bridget Jones’.
- Forgetting to hang out the laundry and having to wash it again and again to get rid of that musty smell.
- Forgetting to empty pockets before putting them in the washer and end up washing a load of dark clothes a tissue or worse a tampon.
- Matching socks
- Remembering at the last minute that the shirt you’d planned to wear out that night is still in the machine and trying to dry it with a hair dryer or the iron.
- My families inability to lift the lid of the laundry basket and put the clothes inside it, instead of piling them on top.
- Hubby’s aversion to the washing machine – I’ve actually stopped washing his clothes. He only noticed when ran out of pants and asked where they were, my response was ‘have you washed any’?
- and why do I have to use a separate cycle to spin the clothes???
Laundry has to be one of the most boring chores in the world. How can I make it more fun?
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tomato sauce x
Pollen is a nightmare to get out!
red wine
Red wine! Arghhhh!
Blueberries!!
Curry! it’s a nightmare to get out.
Curry for me, both the oil & colour stain.
Grass stains.
curry!
My daughter has just started hospitality and catering at college, by the time she comes home, try as I might whatever the stains are, they wont come ou fully
Curry was a nightmare for me
curry sauce
Bolognese… I found a really good stain remover by dylon that looked like a bingo dabber it was amazing, but I can’t find it now :(
Curry and Red Wine mix (don’t ask!)
Lily pollen
I find curry difficult to remove
Chilli Sauce
lily pollen !!!! not a good stain :(
Tomato soup!
Oil from a Marinated Chicken
I agree…turmeric is the absolute WORST!
Ink
Red wine and curry are a nightmare to remove.
Ordinary sweat stains for me.
Bolognese sauce
Shoe polish (black)
Grass stains on the knees and bottoms of kids jeans :-)
My little boy discovered his sisters black nail polish and made a nightmare stain all over his pj’s, sadly they ended up in the bin, not to mention the nightmare of the nail polish all over the window :-( Can look back now and smile though….
Biro and ink stains
Turmeric for me too! A nightmare
Butter…it’s the oil stain it leaves behind which stays forever.
Lily pollen – impossible to shift!
anything tomato based when my children were babies, could never get rid of them
curry
Beetroot
Ink is always a nightmare!
tomato sauce
Grass!!!
Lily pollen – nightmare
I’m such a mucky pup, every time I cook a curry it splatters everywhere or I drop it down myself and it is such a nightmare to get out of my clothes! Jen xx
Pasta sauce tomato based
Grass stains – my kids knees always get them!
eggs or bolognese sauce!
Coffee stains x
Baby poop can be tricky!
White board marker that son Samuel uses at school on school jumpers
GRASS!!
oil
Blueberries
biro pen
white gloss paint!!!!!!!
Not entirely sure what it was, possibly a combination of Coke and McDonalds special sauce …. but after 2 days without noticing, it refused to budge after 2 washes and one application of Vanish. On the plus side, kinda put me off putting Coke and McDonalds into my digestive system …. :-)
Bolognaise
Tomato Soup – and daughter spills hers down her clothes every single time she eats it!
Tomato pasta sauce x
grease on my white jogging hoodie (should not do the cooking in it)
spaghetti hoops
Beetroot on my new sofa, !!! My hubby is so clumsy ,, thanks for the chance to win this xx
Blackberries
The worst stain was grape juice all over a white top
Fresh Cut Grass Is A Nightmare To Get Out Of Whites
King Prawn Bhuna ….lethal might as well throw the item of clothing away!
Oil or butter stains are impossible to get out
Chocolate and butternut squash!
dried blood
Grass stains out of the kids clothes, I can never get rid of it
Engine oil is so difficult to remove
Madras Sauce is almost impossible to remove completely
ribena blackcurrent juice
black marker pen
Grass stains @anna8301
Not that I’m a messy eater but, I love my taco’s and some how I always seem to get a few spots of hot sauce with oil and guacamole.
Oil based salad dressing are a torture to get out!
Grease
Poo! But it comes out fairly easily luckily!
Sun Cream
mustard, berries and pomegranate juice!
Various stains of unknown origin always on white!!! There is much to be said for the goth look….
Curry is one of the worst.
Bolognese sauce
red wine……..followed by curry (almost literally!!)
Pollen from dada dills
Curry
Pasta sauce it gets everywhere
fresh orange juice x
Fake tan, it’s a nightmare on the towels!!
lily pollen
Grass stains
anything from an indian takeaway.
chinese curry sauce is horrendous, it stains everything that’s even in the same postcode!
Curry stains
Wine!
Curry
Curry, and as I love curry it’s a real nuisance!
Curry sauce is a nightmare
Pasta sauces and pen never come out :( xx
teen daughters make-up
any kind of spaghetti sauce
red wine
Baby poo!
Korma
Blue paint from nursery!
Grass
Curry ………………… :(
The kids use white board pens at school and these pen marks never come out.
Korma sauce
Marker pen and red wine.
Beetroot, as I learnt the other day!
Red Wine EEEKK!!!
Curry.
The worst stain my mum encountered from me as a child was tomato soup. As I loved Campbell’s Tomato and Rice soup. Luckily soap powders etc improved, thus my poor mum’s life improved. As she loved to see me enjoy my food, so would never deny me my favourite foods.
Pasta sauce
Car oil, more oil on my clothes than in the car
Lily pollen (flowers)
My 5 year old daughter’s cuffs on her school blouse are a nightmare from leaning in stuff, I have tried everything but you can still see marks.
I love lilies but can guarantee I will put my sleeve in the pollen
Beetroot on a tablecloth – had to embroider flowers over it!
rust, just can’t shift it
My daughter’s muddy knees from the park :(
Pen on school polo shirts, never comes off.
grease
I find Blue Poster paint a nightmare, my 6 year old comes home from school at least twice a week covered in paint, and I can never get the blue out!! even if I boil bleach on the stove!!!
Grass stains
Tumeric
spaghetti or chocolate
Paprika – just cannot shift it
Mud!
grease from a belt buckle!
curry xx
Beetroot, it’s a nightmare to get out.
Pen ink on my work uniform. :(
Lip gloss
The carrot crisps things my LO’s had when small!
chocolate
I adore dipping bread in olive oil and balsamic – the stains I have had to deal with courtesy of the oil!!
red wine
chocolate is a nightmare
Blood
Grease is a nightmare to get out
hi vindaloo curry is a nightmare to clean off :)
Spag bol, it will not wash out.
Baby food
tomato sauce
cooking oil
Stains are a daily issue for me, with having a 2 year old who is always messing. Can be anything from tea to what she had for tea that day.
tika masala
I can never get out those splashes of oil from hubs’ fry-ups, drives me crazy!
Grass
Has to be pollen from lillies have never managed to remove it…ever!
anything tomato and oily. We eat a lot of it
Curry and Tea! They both stain so easily.
lasagne
grass out of football shirts a nightmare
Paint, pretty impossible to remove
Tea
Tea
Ink or motor oil.
Even after years of washing they’re still there.
pen
grass stains
blood
Wife has lots of problems with blood being a nurse.
Red Wine
Curry stains are a nightmare, or tomato stains, especially if they are from ready meals as they tend to be more oily than homemade sauces.
I gave birth to my little girl in our living room – that left some interesting stains on the carpet!
Biro ink
has to be red wine!
lily pollen
bolognese sauce for spaghetti bolognese and dishes like that
Baby food
Red lipstick on my wedding dress
i groan when my daughter comes back from school and i see they’ve been having art! i dont ever remember it being so hard to get paint out when i was a child!. but then i wouldnt have known lol my mum might say different :)
Lily pollen, it ruined a lovely white top
Ecig juice is hellish it leaves a really greasy stubborn stain.
blood :)
curry stains
Superglue
beetroot,
Lily Pollen
Probably curry. My own fault for letting them eat it in the living room.
red wine!!! :/
Curry sauce
Creosote
All orange baby-foods!
Spaghetti Bolonaise…arghhh nightmare
Pollen from Lillies is virtually impossible to shift! These are my favourite flowers so always a problem in our house
Grease and Grass
Lily Pollen is so difficult to remove
oil – the stuff gets everywhere and it’s a nightmare to get off
Seems like everything they use to make school dinners, judging by my daughters school shirts!
Blackcurrant juice is a nightmare!
Engine oil
Curry and a very close second tomato ketchup xxx
Curry, I should make everyone wear a bib when they eat it.
Beetroot x
its gotta be grease. sometimes i get splash back from making a fry up
Red wine.
Beetroot
Nail varnish
Pasta sauce
blood from when my son scraped his arm
Honestly!? Curry and the stains out my little boys pants!
Nursery paint its a nightmare
Rust, my husband works with steel so all his work clothes come back orange
Mud just doesn’t come out – my sons football stuff is permanently stained as nothing shifts it.
Spag bol baby food
Mud!!!
Ink from a broken Biro
My mother in law’s curry is a nightmare to get out.
School paints!
felt tip pen
Spaghetti Bolognese! x
Blueberries –
Baby food
Explosive Newborn baby poo..eww!
Foxes poo, my dog loves to roll in it and he did this with his coat on not only does it stink I’ just could not get the stain out
Paint and glue off the children’s nursery clothes
Red pasta sauces are a nightmare!
I never expected it which probably made it worse. Crab apple juice. Was making a massive apple crumble and was washing and peeling the apples. I wore a white top and the juice just seemed to dampen it but then when it went in the wash the stain wouldn’t go. I always prepare myself against apples now.
Felt tip pen when the kids white polo shirts are full of it never managed to get it out yet.
Red mud
biro in school shirts :-(
Beetroot you’ve no chance its a dye.
Tomato Sauce
pen on my sons school clothes
Curry, nightmare! never comes out just fades to a luminous yellow colour!
Grass stains!
Red curry.
Has to be curry
Curry
I had terrible trouble with an old red wine stain.
When my daughter has pasta with a tomato based sauce it always stains her clothes i can never get it out!
Curry for me too!
Red wine is a nightmare to get off
Cherry stains, we had a tree at the bottom of the garden and a child who insisted on crawling through them!
Tomato seeds :(
blood from my sons foot ball match!!
Curry!! Especially on the hubby’s shirts after a night out! :(
I agree with you turmeric is an absolute nightmare to get out.
Ink, red wine, paprika!!!
the grease from chinese takeaway – my husband has a habit of wearing it on his shirt!!
Grass stains from football!
my hubbys home made curry is the worst stain i have to deal with
Red wine! Arghhhh!
Tomato sauce
Dirt on the knees of trousers.
A massive strawberry stain on the inside liner of my handbag.
Unfortunately mine is blood – husband fell and hit a window with his head last year :(