How to tell there's a toddler in the house

You come downstairs from an exhausting bedtime routine and think, oh good, the washing’s finished already. Then you realise that it hasn’t, *someone* has pressed rinsehold and it’s just sitting there soaking wet…


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7 responses to “How to tell there's a toddler in the house”

  1. dottyspots avatar
    dottyspots

    Ahhhhh, that’s where a child-lock on the washing machine comes in handy 🙂

  2. Hmmm…by that definition, my husband is a toddler…

  3. Or, alternatively, you find someone’s thrown a whole loo-roll down the toilet…… (naming no names, but it just happened here..!)

  4. Deb, me too! The number of times it’s been turned off before the spin cycle ‘because it’s too noisy and I was listening to music’ 🙄

  5. Maybe having my washing machine outside in the garage isn’t quite so bad after all…

  6. We have a child lock on ours which is great, DS3 hasn’t shrunk any woolies since we had this machine *but* it doesn’t stop the on/off button so he can still switch it off when its got 10 minutes to go and you have to start the whole flipping lot again OTOH when someone else accidentally leans on it reaching into the cupboard at least DS3 can still get the blame

  7. So that’s why my dishwasher was “broken”… 😉 Also having fun with “loo-rolls” here.

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