Laundry
I don't enjoy doing laundry. But since I don't have the money to just toss the dirty clothes and go buy new stuff every day, it is going to need to be done from now until the end of time...
My old approach of doing laundry is to do as much as I can on one day in the weekend and during the week attempt to cycle one load through (wash, dry, fold) a day but end up with a load in the washer and a load in the dryer at all times. Sometimes even having to wash a load AGAIN because I forgot to switch it over before it started to get that mildew-y smell. Yuck!
The only time I have absolutely nothing left to wash, nothing in the washer or the dryer and everything folded, hung up and put away is when gramma visits me. The second gramma gets here she takes over my laundry room and I become spoiled with not having to touch stinky boy socks or turn jeans right side out and remember to check the pockets and find all the little stains that need pretreating and...
Gramma enjoys doing laundry.
Gramma enjoys it because of how she grew up doing laundry. Her family didn't have electricity or a phone until she was 14 years old and she grew up doing laundry once a week with the boil-those-suckers-clean-method! All dirty clothes were put into a giant pot of boiling water where it was boiled and stirred and then boiled some more. Then it was pulled out of the boiling water and was wrung out by hand so it could be hung on the line to dry. Because of having to do this for years she now enjoys doing the laundry with a washer and dryer.
So I will too.
That is going to be my new approach to doing laundry. I will enjoy it. I am determined to enjoy it!
This week, I've stayed on top of the switching laundry over part a teensy bit better. Hopefully I will get better and better about staying on top of it and will stop dreading it so much.
Because really, I don't have to boil it and wring it out by hand!
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Ugh...I HATE laundry to. It just nevers seems to stay done. I try to do 2 loads a day...then take off on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteI love to do the wash. I never had to boil my clothes but there was a time when I did the wash by hand. Gramps was in the service and Yvonne was a baby and no disposable diapers and we couldn't afford to pay to do the laundry. We lived in New Jersey.
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