Well, thanks for all the good thoughts and funny stories! The shirts are OK. One is a little snug now, but it's stretchy and something I mainly see as an underlayer anyway. The other was labeled "dry flat only" so I feared the worst, but it seems OK.

The bra is a little funky but still usable. Probably time for another one anyway. The tights are toast, I think, but they were only $4. All in all, not disastrous.

I've been married 33 years & my husband does all household chores with me ...except he is not allowed to touch the laundry.

I'm pretty fortunate in this respect. The only thing I have had to instruct him on is the difference between knits and wovens. We don't have a dryer, so we don't have to worry about that particular problem, and he is rather environmentally conscious so just about everything gets washed on cold except kitchen towels.

I hope his tooth is fixable!

The boy knows better than touching my precious clothes... lol...
Gosh, he is so petrified about damaging my stuff, he even hesitates to put his coat next to one of mine, in the coat closet. He actually snagged one of my coats pretty badly with his coat's zipper pull. We even had a tutorial on how to properly hang a coat: 1- Create space by "parting the waters" 2- Use correct hanger. Dude, a dry cleaner hanger should NEVER make an appearance in my closet, 3 - Flatten coat out and "bring back the waters together". Yep, I need to go down to that kind of level.
So glad you had minimal damage there!

lol poor of ur your hub lol sometimes we can act as crazies b when is about clothes but don't stress over on something material is fixable and u can buy it new again my hub isn't allowed to even wash his clothes lol i get so mad when he do it cuz he place everything (socks,underwear, and even bath towels ) in one load i get so frustrated but at the end he just want to help lol but lol nooooooooooo my dad one time killed my dark blue converse and my guess top by placing whites and colors and put clorox on the clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol

THis is such a funny thread. Janet, I am glad the results were not disastrous for your closthes.

Ah yes, meaning to 'help'. . . and after xx number of years, you'd think they've noticed we do things differently, but no . . .

In fact, at our house, my DH and sons only own things that can survive ANY type of washing and drying. They now do their own laundry and look out for each other - asking for extra clothes that need washing to fill up a load. Pretty cute!! I don't even put anything down the laundry chute unless I know it can survive one of their loads.

They've also learned to set a wet load of mine on top of the dryer for me to sort and dry/partially dry/lay flat/ hang/ etc.

You're SO not alone in this well-meaning-guy issue

IK, maybe regarding the weave. But he also put it on HIGH. They could also have had different finishes that just didn't hold up as well 20 years ago. It is amazing what one can wash and dry nowadays ! You are a brave woman. I can't ever bring myself to throw my cashmere in the dryer.