Previous laundry experience - 50 years. Yikes! References furnished upon request.
Wringer washing machine, no dryer - 6 years.
Laundromat and hand wash - 10 years.
Automatic washing machine, no dryer - 6 years.
Automatic washing machine and dryer - 28 years. Yippie!
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Combine the chore of laundry (or any other task) with your personality and a fun activity. I'm a morning person, so I do laundry on Saturday and Sunday mornings during airings of "The Practice". I wear headphones in the basement, so I don't miss a word. All laundry is done and put away by 9:00 am Sunday and I'm ready to go.

1.make your kids do it
2.outsource it
3.wear fewer clothes
4.smell worse
5.accept wrinkles
6.move to Greece
7.buy and only wear 3 pairs of yellow nylon jump suits
8.wash clothes on rocks by the river for a week or until you realize how good you have it with your Maytag

Laundry is something I find easy. Just do a couple loads a day while you are doing other things-checking email, making dinner, watching something, etc. And I fold towls and jeans,shorts, towls, dishclothes, etc but otherwise all shirts and nice pants get hung up and I don't bother folding underthings. I work full time so don't want to waste any time by specifically putting aside "laundry time" and just do daily around other activities. I hate the idea of dirty laundry sitting there though.

6.move to Greece

Thanks 06902 - this made my day!

I don't get the angst over laundry. You put the whites in one basket, the darks in another basket and the sheets and towels in a third basket. You chuck one basket in the machine and it washes. Then you chuck it in the dryer and it drys. Then you fold and put away - even with a very large load, this shouldn't take more than 15 minutes. If you do your laundry once a week you really shouldn't have more than 5 or 6 loads. I would much rather do this than say clean out the refridgerator.

jezebel, you really used a wringer washer??? I have actually never seen one working, but looks like a real pain in the butt.

I've got a laundry ferry that lives at my house. She works for pocket change...

1. Make everyone responsible for his/her own laundry.
2. If you're organized and all that, set aside a weekly chore time -- when everyone is doing annoying drudgery, it doesn't seem as bad as when you're folding and they're watching TV.
3. Trade laundry for some other chore that bugs you less but drives your spouse nuts.
4. Lower your standards. I've discovered that clean laundry can live quite well in the laundry basket, if you just drape the wrinklables over the top. Helps if your closet has a door. :-)

jezebel, you really used a wringer washer??? I have actually never seen one working, but looks like a real pain in the butt.

Posted by: VaLGaL | September 29, 2009 8:13 AM | Report abuse

The wringer washer was in my parents' flat. It was actually fun until I was a teenager. The washing of diapers was eeew. Line drying in the winter was a challenge.
My parents had noo problem putting their kids to work. I did cooking, laundry, dishes, and general housework for a family of eight until I left home. Since I never had to haul water, chop wood for fuel, or plow a field, worry about the Czar or Hitler, I knew had it much, much better than my ancestors.

1. Just do it and kwitcher bellyachin'.

2. The laundry room on the first floor is a good idea; we had that designed into the current house and it helps a lot.

3. Teach the kids to do it. They'll need to know when they go off to college or otherwise move out; get 'em started young.

Seriously, when we had all four kids living at home, we did about 20 loads of laundry a week. It took forever. We taught the kids how to do laundry and taught them one simple rule: if you're doing a load, do EVERYTHING that goes in that load, no matter whose it is. We have the extra-super-duper-jumbo-large-giganto washer; fill it up. If you're going to wash your two pairs of jeans because you need one of them now, go through the hamper and get all ten pairs of jeans and wash them all at once.

(Sigh - with two in college, it's stunning how much less laundry we do.)

We taught the kids how to do laundry and taught them one simple rule: if you're doing a load, do EVERYTHING that goes in that load, no matter whose it is.

Posted by: ArmyBrat1 | September 29, 2009 8:51 AM | Report abuse

Odd. Didn't you post that you do a lot of the laundry in your house(between the CIA thingy) - not your kids?

Laundry is my nemesis...I know it sounds ridiculous but I can so relate to this post. I have no problem washing it, but folding it and putting it away is the worst job ever, in my opinion. I feel like I am washing 2-3 loads a day with all the girls stuff and usually it just ends up in piles of clean laundry in the basement. I am not sure there any tips to make it easier other than suck it up and get it done.

My rule is you learn to do your own laundry at age 10, but that only gets me out of about 2 loads a week. I have also started paying my 10 year old to fold her sisters' laundry. She is good at it and doesn't seem to mind so far. They have to put it away.

This is my favorite complaint!!! oh laundry - it's sooooo hard!!

and i used to believe it too - until wife got sick and i became the do-all guy.

gather and sort laundry - 10 min

load - 2 min
move to dryer, insert new load - 2 min
move to dryer, insert new load - 2 min
move to dryer, insert new load - 2 min

fold - 30 min (while watching tv)

put away - 15 min

sure, you've got to be around for 1/2 a day to do it like this, but if you're too busy then maybe your schedule is the problem.

now ironing... that's another issue all-together!

I do one to two loads a day and more on the weekend. I also think you could teach elementary school kids to fold laundry. The towels and sheets are pretty easy. I plan on teaching folding towels and sheets first and then move on to their own clothes. By age 12, all kids should be responsible for their own regular clothes, bed linens and folding family towels.

It would help a lot if my husband did some. But he is responsible for just his own personal laundry. We take his dress clothes to the cleaners. He still can't seem to do it regularly and just keeps letting dirty clothes pile up.

My husband used to do all the laundry all the way up to putting it away. All I had to do was put my own clothes away and sometimes the kids.

I am very sensitive to the fragrance they add to laundry detergent so when my husband finally said he could no longer live without his scented clothes, we divided the laundry up. I do all my clothes and the household laundry. He does all his laundry and the kids. This means that I do two loads a week: dark and lights. This isn't terribly onerous.

It takes seconds to stick my clothes in the washer and dryer and I have no problems at all with folding in front of the TV. I am a bit slow at getting them into the drawers at times but even that takes about 5 minutes. I think I spend more time building the chore up to more than it is so that I am always pleasantly surprised when I rediscover that laundry doesn't take that much time.

I have also found that if I wash a load at night and dry in the morning, it's not so bad. Laundry is folded and put in individual piles - everyone has to come, get theirs, and put away.

My daughter also learned how to do laundry at 10. Laundry is her responsibility during the summer and on school breaks.

I hang all clothes possible for the adults. I have a laundry line in the basment running next to the dryer. For the kids, the clean clothes are dumped out of the laundry basket on the top of their beds, and they can organize or not according to their tastes. Socks and underwear are not folded by me unless their mine.

I still hate it, but I'm less angry about it.

I'll take laundry over doing the dishes any day, but it does pile up if you don't do it on a daily basis. So I do one laundry-related task each day, whether it's putting a load in the washer or dryer or folding and putting away clean clothes. If your kids are school age, then they can easily help with sorting, folding, and putting away clothes. If you find the task overwhelming, ask for help. Your family can't read your mind and know what you need/want help with.

The best tip I have for laundry is to hang up your clothes that aren't sticky/dirty and wear them again.

But anyways, how we handle ours is:

Last person out of the shower in the morning: start one load.

Before dinner: move that load to dryer.

After kid is in bed: fold the load, sometimes together while we chat.

First thing in the morning: put that basket away (with kid's help); collect next load and stick in washing machine to be started after the shower.

We do sheets on weekends so as not to have to make the beds on weekdays.

Agree that I dislike ironing!!

Whoever is making dinner that night starts a load before hitting the kitchen. The washed load goes in the dryer before we start doing dishes and usually gets folded while we're watching The Daily Show after our daughter is in bed. Putting the folded clothes away the part we're terrible about, we have fiive laundry baskets that sometimes set around full of folded laundry until Friday. I hate to spend the weekend getting caught up on chores, but somehow vacuuming and cleaning the bathrooms always ends up messing up my Sunday afternoon...

I don't understand why laundry is so difficult for so many people. We have 2 kids and we do 4 or 5 loads a week, mostly on the weekends. We do a mid-week load on Wednesdays.

We don't sort it, just fill up the washer with a load and do what ever we're doing. When we come back, we move it over to the dryer and put in the next load. Then we fold it and put it away in the evening when we are hanging out watching TV.

Actually, laundry is the one chore I don't mind (even the diapers!). I guess I just don't understand the big deal, if you have a washer and dryer. It takes all of like 2 minutes. I do a load everyday, generally (my kids are still little enough that they get their clothes filthy and frequently require multiple clothes-changes during the day). I put the stuff away while my oldest is taking her bath at night- I sit outside the bathroom and fold on the floor so we can chat while I'm getting it done.

I will admit that I don't seperate whites and colors, and I've never had a problem. I do wash any new red clothes seperately first, though.

We are totally in the 'if it isn't the skin layer wait til it walks on it's own to wash' category - amazing how that reduces laundry. It kills me when the son puts clean clothes in the laundry. I figure that having him wash his own will solve that problem.

We generally use commercial breaks to take what is in the dryer and bring to the couch for folding, move what is in the washer to the dryer, and put the next load in to the washer. We usually do it on Sunday nights because thats our night to sit down and watch the Amazing Race... Everyone helps with the folding and the man and I take turns getting up to do the shuffle.

During commercials we run the folded clothes up to our rooms and put it away (it's a race to get back before the show starts)...

Works for us and we are a basement to 2nd floor family...

Of course the Bun is due in December so it is all going to go straight to h*ll in a laundry basket soon...

One approach for bigger families is for each person to have their own laundry basket. Your dirty clothes go into your basket, when the basket is full it all goes into the washer, then into the dryer, then the clean clothes get dumped back into the basket for that person.

No sorting, no folding. Everything gets washed in cold water and goes through the dryer; if you want things hung up or folded, you have to make your own arrangements.

PS when I am really being good we bring it upstairs to line dry outside, which totally throws a crimp in the routine, but is worth it.

There are a ton of great systems for taming the laundry monster. There are still two problems - finding the one that works for YOUR family and then STICKING with it.

For me the only thing that keeps the dirty laundry pile from becoming overwhelming is to do one load a day, start to finish (back in the drawers/closet).

And wow, a laundry room on the first floor sounds like heaven!

Jez, you gots mad Google skillz! :-)

Yes, when the kids were younger I did almost all of the laundry when I wasn't home. But IIRC that was in the context of a discussion repeated many times on the OB blog, particularly started by LMS.

One side goes: the kids do their own laundry. I do my own. End of story.

My side went: seems like a massive waste of time, energy and water. DD wants to wash two pairs of jeans because she wants to wear that one 'really cute' pair tomorrow. She's going to do a whole load of laundry for two pairs of jeans, when there are eight other dirty pairs of jeans in the hamper? No - wash all ten at once. It doesn't matter if you got 'em dirty or not; wash 'em all and save the planet.

Other side: no, if it's not hers she doesn't have to wash it. She washes her own; I wash my own. It's not a waste if she does a full load of hers stuff.

My side: yes, IF she does a full load of her stuff, but that's rarely the case with my kids...

... and so on.

This flash-back has been brought to you by Google.

"Jez, you gots mad Google skillz! :-)"

Pure memory. This stuff isn't that difficult to retain......

"Yes, when the kids were younger I did almost all of the laundry when I wasn't home. "

Posted by: ArmyBrat1 | September 29, 2009 12:02 PM | Report abuse

Nice trick. I'd like to do housework AND have sex when I'm not home.

Best tip I can think of is don't procrastinate. If you don't like doing laundry, then it becomes a bigger issue than it should be. Stay and top of the pile and run a wash every few days and it won't become an issue.

My favorite time to run a wash is at night, after the kids are asleep. It's the only job I can do at this time, given how groggy I usualyam. Makes me feel less guilty for being parked in front of the TV.

:Nice trick. I'd like to do housework AND have sex when I'm not home."

If you're nice to me I'll show you how to accomplish that. :-)

But yes, that was a clear typo on my part; it should have said I did the laundry when I WAS home (or "when I wasn't traveling") - either would have worked, but I what I wrote was incorrect.

Nice trick. I'd like to do housework AND have sex when I'm not home."

If you're nice to me I'll show you how to accomplish that. :-)

Posted by: ArmyBrat1 | September 29, 2009 12:15 PM | Report abuse

My religion frowns on that sort of thing, but thanks for the offer.

Laundry agonizing? Really? For goodness sakes, if you were hauling the dirty laundry to the local river and washing it by hand or pounding it against the rocks, that might count as anguish. But running a few loads of laundry in the comfort of your own house while you watch tv.... really, anguish?

I enjoy laundry. It's a great excuse to watch tv for me. In fact, the only time I do watch tv is when I do laundry, so I save it up for the shows that I want to see. It is my special me time.

Laundry agonizing? Really? For goodness sakes, if you were hauling the dirty laundry to the local river and washing it by hand or pounding it against the rocks, that might count as anguish. But running a few loads of laundry in the comfort of your own house while you watch tv.... really, anguish?

Posted by: emily8 | September 29, 2009 12:20 PM | Report abuse

Typical Brian navel-gazing. But anyone who likes "Mad Men" can't be all bad.

when we did our renovation, we moved the laundry room from the basement to the upstairs. Heaven! I used to throw a load in when i'd take a kid for a nap, then throw it in the dryer when they went to bed.
Now, I throw a load in when we take the kids up for bed, and there's a load from the day before in the dryer, so I fold that. WHen I go to bed, I throw the load in the dryer.
The older child has been putting his laundry away since , well, for a few years. For tthe little one, well, he'll probably have to do that soon enough. If I finish folding after they're asleep, I just put the laundry in their rooms, but don't put it away, I'll put it away the next day.
When we do the sheets, well, I always find it great if they're done and put away in the next day or so. Since we rarely have seven loads in a week, there's usually a day or so when I don't have to do laundry.
DH is wonderful, will help fold the laundry if it's there, and if there's a lot in the laundry room, he's even been known to start a load, which will then motivate me to finish it up.

I love folding the wash. There's something about taking a big messy pile and making it nice and neat that's very satisfying. (I also love mowing the lawn for that very reason. We don't have carpet, but I also love vacuuming carpet.) My husband hates it. I hate unloading the dishwasher. So, I'm on clothes, he's on dishes. We split the yard and floors.

I'm with the teach-the-kids crowd. The boys have done most of the laundry for the last 3-4 years. Admittedly, they don't fold and put away - just dump clean stuff into a basket, or if all the baskets are already full, they'll dump it onto mine and DH's bed.

I can't explain the reasoning behind DH teaching them *that*, instead of teaching them to fold and put away. DH never folds anything or puts it away either.

Apparently, I'm the only one who knows *how* to fold, or *why* we have dressers and closets in the house. So, when I've tossed clean clothes off my bed and onto the floor a couple of nights in a row just to be able go to bed - then I'll get into a folding frenzy, and each stack of folded clothes gets handed to the owner with a command: "Go put this away."

And then my bed isn't buried under a mountain of laundry for a while, again.

Oh, I *do* have a tip, now that I think about it.
We have two sets of sheets for each bed, and two sets only. One day over the weekend, the sets that are in the laundry basket goes through the washer and dryer and then goes right onto the beds. The sets that were on the beds go into the laundry basket to be washed the following weekend. Thus, I never, ever have to fold sheets, which I hate.... :) I hope this will help to alleviate some of your anguish!

I'll do dishes for sex, but laundry is a different story. For one thing, I really, really suck at it and besides, a man has to draw the line somewhere...

My cleaning lady comes on Wednesday.

She'll take dirty laundry down to the laundry room. She doesn't do the laundry, how would she know what should be hand washed or not put in the dryer? She just delivers it to the room. This means that all clean laundry needs to be cleared out Tuesday night.

So we have a deadline - laundry must be done and put away by Tuesday night. I do it and fold it. Husband or children take it back upstairs to be put away.

Some weeks I do it all one night, other weeks I do a load a day. It all depends on my schedule. The important thing is that it must be done by Tuesday night.

Tuesday night is also frozen pizza for dinner night - frees up time to get the laundry finished and put away.

In my strange little house in GA, the washer & dryer are in the kitchen. Yep, just to the right of the stove. It's actually kind of nice, because I don't suffer from the 'out of sight, out of mind' that I used to experience with a separate laundry room. Plus, with how often we have people over, you learn quickly to not leave your clean skivvies in the laundry basket on top of the machine.

And the only way I get through folding and putting everything away is with tv. It sounds sort of sad to me, but seriously, what else are you going to do? Sometimes music, but usually some mind numbing show that you don't have to actually watch.

I live in an apartment building where personal washers are prohibited (the building pays the water bill), so just having my own washer and dryer would make it easier! I utterly loathe having to schlep laundry down to the gross basement laundry room, where I have to sit with it until it's done. I do get a lot of reading done that way, but laundry time is not good for multitasking. About the only plus of the laundry room is that we have two industrial-size washers, so two full sets of sheets plus several of towels is a single load, but other than that it pretty comprehensively sucks. I re-wear a lot of clothes (and the business stuff goes to the dry cleaner anyway), do a fair amount of handwashing of necessities, and have enough sheets and towel sets so that I only do laundry about every two weeks.

I do laundry for my mother when I'm visiting - her home aides get the time off, so somebody has to do the work - and having the laundry room right off the kitchen is an absolute godsend. My only tip is: leave the stuff that can sit in the dryer overnight for the last load of the day. Stick it in to dry and go to bed, and who cares if your towels are wrinkled in the morning?

Whine Whine Whine. Just think how much laundry you could have gotten done in the time it took to write this drivel

to deal with the whole - what goes in the dryer? question, I bought some lingerie bags, and anything that does NOT go in the dryer goes in one of those bags. So whoever (um, me, only) has stuff that doesn't go in the dryer, puts it in one of those bags, and whoever is doing the laundry knows what doesn't go in the dryer. This worked well when we had a nanny/au pair.

atlmom - we actually have BUNCH of stuff that doesn't go in the dryer because it will shrink and, um, some of us can't tolerate any smaller clothes. :-) Serioucly, we hang dry a ton of t-shirts, polo shirts, etc. Does cut down on the electric bill; but it means that kids have to be taught what doesn't go in the dryer.

AB: I also told DH that stuff like swimsuits and bras don't go in the dryer. He only starts minimally looking thru the stuff because I told him it helps with the electricity bills...

BUT my next dryer will be gas. I'm looking forward to it, even tho that would mean running gas to the laundry room and also getting a new washer dryer. But, still, I'm waiting...

Laundry doesn't bother me too much, although I have to admit line drying clothes outside in the fall is difficult because that happens to be stink bug season! Between that and the regional windstorms, putting up and taking down clothes off the line is...interesting, to say the least.

We have a pretty good system for laundry. Sheets, towels, and bath mats get done on Sunday mornings. Our kids' clothes get done when their hampers are full (usually on average of once a week). Our seven-year-old already knows how to sort her darks from her lights, and she even learned how to put in detergent and start the washer already. Getting her to do that on a regular basis will be a slight challenge, but she's up for it. I can't throw their sheets in together yet because the 2 1/2-year-old still needs Dreft for her detergent (her crib sheets go in with her clothes for that reason), but our older child has no problem with the detergent-and-fabric-softener routine with her sheets and the bath towels (before anyone complains about the need for fabric softener, let me just say that since we live in a mountainous county, we have HARD water!).

As for me and my husband's clothes, the day they get washed depends on what day(s) he has off that week so I can wash his security uniforms all at once. Not to mention it means I can separate the lights from the darks and still have full loads of each in order to save water and electricity. On rainy or humid days, I still use the dryer, but I try to line dry things outside when I can.

On that subject, anybody know any way I can keep those dratted stink bugs away from the clothesline so I don't end up taking all day swatting them off the dry laundry or bringing in a zillion hitchhikers with me? Or am I better off simply not using the clothesline in the fall?

"Our seven-year-old already knows how to sort her darks from her lights"

Have you reserved her spot at MIT yet?

Simple. Stay single and don't have kids. One load a week on Sunday evening; two if you do all the sheets and towels. Buy clothes that don't have to be ironed.

Back in the good old days Mom had a wringer washer. Clothes would slosh around in the tub powered by an agitator. Then wring them through to a tub of clear water, then wring again into another tub of clear water. (Don't get your hands caught in the wringer -- it could crush bones.) Then haul the baskets out to the back yard and hang on a clothes line in the bitter cold or broiling heat. Most times in winter the clothes froze before they dried or they had a stinky wood smoke smell from burning fireplaces. Needless to say her knuckles were cracked and raw from cold wind on wet hands. She'd have to schedule laundry when it was not raining and we may have to go a while without that special shirt still in the hamper. So, when mom got sick in 1968 Dad discovered what a chore laundry was because he had to do it. When mom came home from the hospital there was a new automatic washer and dryer in the basement.

I thought I had died and gone to heaven when I moved into an apartment with washers and dryers, but you had to deal with other people's dirty clothes in those machines and the dryer hogs who don't come get their clothes out after they've dried. Now I have my own washer and dryer in my own house and can do laundry any time I want. One load a week. Two max while I'm watching CSI on DVD.

Meant to respond to this from dennis: "We have 2 kids and we do 4 or 5 loads a week, mostly on the weekends."

Wow - those were the days. Of course, dennis' kids are younger than mine, but when all six are home, each week we have 5 sets of sheets; a minimum of 9 towels (each of the girls uses two) plus washcloths and hand towels (more if the girls decide mid-week that their towels aren't sufficiently clean). Plus dishtowels, other handtowels, etc. Now add clothes for six people - during school, at least two sets per day because the kids ARE going to change. (And sometimes it's more than two sets.) Five loads a week for four people is just, miniscule. :-)

baltimore: we always would take people's stuff otu of the dryer and put it on the table nearby. If they were lucky, there was a table in the room. Otherwise, well, don't leave your stuff in the dryer...

My religion frowns on that sort of thing, but thanks for the offer.

Posted by: jezebel3 | September 29, 2009 12:19 PM | Report abuse

Yes, hard to have sex when you are into human sacrifice, kinds of spoils the mood......

I use a laundromat on the corner. I thought it would be intolerable living without a washing machine, but it doesn't cost much, and I can do 6-8 loads in 2 hours. I do laundry out of desperation, once every 3 weeks, and I'm in and out of there in a couple hours. It's not a bad life.

Now there's no point in folding underwear, undershirts, pajamas, jeans, athletic clothes, and other things that either nobody sees, don't show their wrinkles, or are worn to places like the gym where people understandably look at you funny if you come in with ironed and pressed shorts. Arguably sheets are in this category too, but I fold them to make them easier to put away. Shove unfoldables in a drawer. Why would anyone ever spend their precious time folding underwear, in a world full of paper-clip collections and the excitement of compulsive pencil sharpening? I hang up all other clothes.

We keep a big dirty pile on the basement floor, everything goes onto the pile. I work at home on Friday, which is wash day. No sorting whites and darks (today's detergents are good enough), wash the biggest loads possible. After the dryer, you get a second big clean pile (on some boxes). Saturday/Sunday morning is put away day, the pile comes upstairs. We have more closets than drawers, so everything gets hung except underwear and socks. Only sheets and towels are folded. No chores after noon on Saturday and Sunday - gotta have some fun!

atlmom1234: I have tried that but the dryer hogs threatened to punch me out! People are really territorial about their laundry.

One building I lived in had a lot of university students who only did laundry on Saturdays and took up every single washer and dryer in the basement because they'd wait until they had absolutely nothing else to wear. THen they'd leave their stuff in the machines so other people couldn't use them. Selfish inconsiderate brats. The building manager locked the laundry on Sundays so us working folks only had one day to get the laundry done. Bummer.

My husband and I take care of our own clothes, which helps. But really, my secret is--LOTS of underwear. I can wear pants forever and usually shirts twice (except in summer), so as long as I have plenty of underwear, I can go 3 weeks or so without doing (clothes) laundry. Then it all goes in one load (big washer), on cold and delicate. The clothes seem to get clean. I don't find towels and sheets take much time to wash/dry/fold.

Lots of good tips here. I'm not perfect with laundry - my whites soaked for a good 8 hours yesterday and my drying rack is still full of dry clothes - but line/rack drying is not only good for the environment, and your energy bill, but it also speeds up the process. I do a load of 'dryer' clothes (my husband insists on his clothes being tumble-dried) then as soon as that is done, I do a load of clothes and hang them up, since they are finished far before the dryer.
My favorite energy savers are to run the washer at night (lower electric rate) and line dry as much as I can with a small fan running (speeds up the air-drying process, most stuff will be dry by the next morning or evening). Then if the towels or sheets are 'crisp' I throw them into the dryer for 15 minutes with a dryer sheet before folding and putting them away. During which time, you can put in the next load...

06902...very funny! However, I do appreciate the fact that she's learning that already...I didn't start doing my own laundry till I was 13, and that was because I got sick of my dad's "tighty whities" getting mixed up with my stuff when Mom did all the laundry.

Come to think of it, maybe she did that on purpose to get me to learn to do my own laundry already!

Yes, hard to have sex when you are into human sacrifice, kinds of spoils the mood......

Posted by: pwaa | September 29, 2009 4:57 PM

I've never found that to be true. After a good entrail reading, I can't wait to jump DH's bones.

Tee hee hee!

We are just finishing a weekend-killing mountain of laundry. Thank goodness DH took me seriously when I looked him in the eye this Friday and pleaded for help! He did most of it this time. As for tips, ironically, the time when I was most relieved of the laundry beast was the few months after my 3rd son was born (8 months ago), and I HAD to have a clean nursing tank every day, of which I owned only three. Which means...you guessed it..I had to wash AT LEAST one load every 2-3 days. Of course, I made that load count! Hubby's work pants, and underwear for the kids, etc. The laundry never got to be too much. After this weekend, and always dreading the laundry, I am seriously considering culling my underwear drawer, so I only have 4-5 pairs of undies. I bet this would force me to keep up with it, and give me my weekends back:)

Oh yeah...that mountain doesn't include our cloth dipes, which I don't really count as laundry. I don't mind them for some reason, and certainly won't let them get out of control too often, as they stink up my bedroom. These get washed every 2-3 days.