Gabby wrote:

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> And what makes you think that's not her ultimate aim? Early in our marriage
> I ironed my husband's military uniform pants -- badly. He never *let* me
> iron his uniform again. My mission in life is to teach every military bride
> my trick.

LOL. My wife used to get upset about the way I did laundry. I thought that I
had a good system. Whites went with whites in hot water, bright colours went
with other bright colours in cold, and darks also got cold water. I used to do
my own laundry. It was rare to have anything white, so all the rest went into a
cold water wash. Apparently, I was supposed to separate the towels and other
heavy things that took longer to dry. I am still trying to figure out why she
cared. I would have thought that any woman would be happy that her husband was
doing laundry.

One day I screwed up and was the biggest idiot in the world, or so she would
have me believe. I went through he laundry hamper, took out her dainties,
separated the darks from the whites and did a load of laundry. After it was
washed I stuck it in the dryer. I thought that I was doing her a favour by
throwing her good wool skirt in with my load of darks. How was I supposed to
know that it was not to be machine washed or worse... dried in the drier.
Apparently, it had to be dry cleaned. AFAIAC, anything that is not supposed to
be washed should not be thrown into a laundry hamper.

:-)