Your hamper is overflowing. Your baby is wearing olive green stretch pants with a too-small T-shirt. Her belly is hanging out. It’s kind of cute, but clearly, it is past time to do the laundry. What to do?
Step one: Wait at least two more days. There are clothes at the bottom of your drawers which no one ever wears. It’s not fair to those poor, out-of-style outfits. Give them a turn to see the light of day.
Step two: Come to terms with the fact that you must do the laundry. Roll your eyes a lot. This will make you feel better.
Step three: Sort the laundry into piles: linens, whites, colors, delicates. Leave the piles in the middle of the hallway so the entire family must step around them. Laundry obstacle courses build dexterity and develop large motor skills in children. Forget about the laundry piles, invite guests over, die of embarrassment.
Step four: Pick the biggest pile and dump it into the washer. Add detergent. Turn the machine on. Walk away and forget about it for at least 24 hours.
Step five: Return to the wash. Roll your eyes some more about having to re-wash this load since it sat, wet and abandoned, for so long.
Step six: Move clothes to the dryer. Remember them this time, and dump them into the laundry basket once the dryer stops. Forget about the laundry basket until the children are walking around naked.
Step seven: Prepare yourself for the folding of the clothes. Discover that the clean clothes, which have sat all twisted and squished in your laundry basket for too long, are now horribly wrinkled.
Step eight: Consider ironing. Laugh out loud. Decide that it would just be easier to rewash the load than iron it.
Step nine: Repeat steps four through eight into infinity, all the while wondering how your life became dominated by the detestable task.
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I am queen of the re-wash! That darn moldy smell…
I know! That laundry just grows and grows and grows and never quits. I’ve actually re-washed a load because it sat in my laundry basket too long and now was horribly wrinkly! (I thought I was the only one – thanks for sharing! I don’t feel alone anymore!)
That reminds me. I’m overdo for doing laundry. Crap.
Laundry…..the never ending saga. I don’t re-wash just because of a few wrinkles though. Instead take a wash cloth and dampen it, throw it into the dryer with the wrinkled clothes, fluff them for 20 to 30 minutes and no more wrinkles, take out what you need leaving the rest inside the dryer and repeat as necessary.
Wow – you sure have a lot of laundry piles. I have 2 – light and dark.
Maybe this is why I ruin clothes.
I have a wonderful solution. MEL (:
Boy oh boy, amen sister!!!! I don’t exactly mind doing laundry, I just really mind that it never ENDS! I get the hampers all emptied, clothes put away, and BAM! The hamper is full again. Never a sense of accomplishment, or wow, I’m done!