I don’t mind doing laundry. What’s so hard about throwing some clothes in the washing machine, then throwing them in the dryer? I can almost always find 10 minutes in the day for at least one load.
I hate putting clean laundry away. Hanging, folding, stuffing in drawers. I don’t have time for that nonsense, so it goes in the laundry basket for later.
Later doesn’t come very often. The baskets fill up with wrinkled clothes. Mornings are hectic digging for socks and underwear. Eventually when I run out of baskets, I have a marathon folding session and take care of everything.
But recently I sunk to a new low. The boys and I were both sick for weeks. I don’t know what we had, but it stuck around for a long time. I think Wade even caught a second bug before he was over the first. I washed laundry because even sick people need clean t-shirts, but I didn’t put it away. The baskets filled up. And up. And up.
One afternoon I couldn’t stuff anymore laundry in the baskets. I grabbed an empty Pull-ups box waiting to go in the trash.
Yep. The laundry went from the dryer to the box.
We all recovered. Eventually I took the clean clothes out of the box, and put them away in the closets where they belonged.
Still, it’s shameful when your clean laundry pile is so high you have to put it in boxes.
I think I may have to give up that Homemaker of the Year award.
My poor laundry goes from the dryer to the couch, where the cat sleeps on it and then it gets hung up.
I most admit that I also hate folding and putting laundry away. I have been known to leave the last load of laundry in the dryer until; I realize what we want to wear is in the dryer.
I even forget about laundry in the washer, then I have to re-wash it because it smells funny. It’s shameful to admit, but I’ve re-washed a load three or four times before I finally remembered to put it in the dryer.
I forget the laundry all the time in the washer and to wash it again the next day. That moldy smell is awful! They do wear their pajamas on the weekends, holidays, summer to get their character fixes lol 🙂
Well, glad to know I’m not the only one!
hehe. I remember at Christmas time I had some empty storage boxes laying around and my laundry basket was full so I used that as a second one lol. Also, I have a worse lazy thing. A lot of the time I dress my kids the night before. It saves time in the morning instead of all the rushing around.
I’ve never dressed my kids the night before, but it’s not a bad idea. I may have to try that!