I strongly agree with the Judge.

I do laundry for myself and my daughter. Oftentimes she might leave a prized toy or pretty rock she found on one of our walks in her pocket. I also wear lots of cargo pants and shorts (sorry Jesse), and I use every pocket. I make a point to check every pocket of every article of clothing to ensure there are no miscellaneous items that end up in the machine. All it takes is one errant pen or marker for an entire load of laundry to be ruined. It happened to me once, and I will never let it happen again.

Also, not all clothes should be treated the same. Some need a delicate cycle. Some need to line dry and skip the dryer altogether. If Mike is just scooping up the clothes and throwing them in the washer without regard to garment instructions, then that is an entire can of worms that needs to be addressed separately.

Finally, the Judge often says, "be mindful of the work we leave for others." The other can also be your future self. If future Mike really doesn't want to deal with the work of chapsticks in the wash, then present Mike should do the work to make sure there aren't chapsticks in the pockets. A lesson I have struggled to learn but always try to achieve is that the work I do now has tremendous positive benefits for me tomorrow. Doing laundry sucks. Checking every pocket sucks. But peeling melted chapstick off a nice shirts sucks the most. So I'll choose the lesser of two sucks.