So whose responsibility is it to empty pockets of coins?

I've had to place a call to Electrolux to get a guy out (thankfully tomorrow) as we've what sounds very, very, very much like a coin stuck in underneath the bowl of our front loader.

DH always puts loose coins in his pockets and is generally pretty good about removing them but I would say at least once a month there's a loose coin in the machine. He's 36 years old - surely I shouldn't have to check his pockets before washing his clothes (okay so this is a vent too!).

This drives me crazy too. Nothing worse than having to fish around in a washing machine full of suds, water and clothes trying to find the 5 cent piece that is making so much noise and driving me nuts.

Responsibility of the wearer to empty pockets first, methinks.

In an ideal world you wouldnt - but I think in this case you will need to. I dont think you are alone here with this one. I skimped on the pocket checking yesterday as there was no jingle but low and behold a texta pen in hubbys pockets. Tissues are my pet peeve! I dont mind the role of checking though as I grew up watching mum do it with dad (he was a builder and often had lots of small nails in his) - and anything to protect my new awesome washing machine!!

I realy dont think double checking is too much to ask - but understand your frustrations.

Goodluck with washing machine man!

DH always has things in his pockets.

It's his responsibility to remove anything in his pockets, I won't check them and I don't care if things end up in the wash, he is old enough to empty his own pockets! (Usually it's just coins or tissues, but his mobile phone did end up in there once)

My other pet hate is when he takes his clothes off, and puts them in the wash basket inside out.
I always turn them the right way when I do the washing, but when he does the washing, he washes them which ever way they were left in the basket.

I think the pockets should be emptied by the wearer before throwing clothes in the dirty basket to be washed. That is the rule in our house, DH learnt the hard way.

Whoever doing the washing.

I am more than happy to empty the pockets (and keep the $ for me )

Me too! For some reason the kids leave their lunch rubbish in their pockets - that is most unpleasant after it has been washed let me tell you.

This is how it works in our house. Whoever does the washing checks the pockets and keeps the money.
Hence the reason I find DD is only too happy to put the washing on.

the laundry person gets to keep the money at our house too (me) but there is never any money in pockets.

I get plenty of tissues. DD1 had an ipod shuffle in her pocket the other week, which I didn't find until after it had been washed (it was my i-pod)

Yep whoever is washing, then they get to keep what they find, I have a small money box in the laundry and when it's full I spend it on me me me.

ooh pet hate here. Dh and DSS are meant to empty pockets but I have to check all the time (and pocket the cash rewards ).

I've washed Dh's wallet and mobile from not checking pockets in the past.

Anyone else watched an iphone spin round and round for 30 mins?

It should be the wearer's responsibility, but I don't see the harm in double checking.
My DH is pretty good about emptying pockets, in fact, I can't remember the last time he left anything in there. I still check anyway, because I hate dealing with the aftermath of a tissue going through the wash.

DF is hopeless.

But I always go through his pockets because the main culprit is always tissues. Oh how I hate trying to shake out and pick off tiny little bits of tissues off of everything