I did laundry yesterday.  I am not saying that to have you pity me.  I know everyone must do laundry.  I just don’t understand how three people can achieve the enormous amounts of laundry that I must do each week.  I did ten loads yesterday.  Luckily, I have a huge washer and two dryers or else it might have been fifteen loads.  You would have thought, looking at the piles of folded laundry for each family member, that none of us had a single thing left in our closets to wear. 

My hubby and my daughter change clothes frequently.  As far as my husband goes, I blame his mother.  She must have changed his clothes every single time he got a speck of dust on him.  I know for a fact that he can’t eat a meal without leaving the whole mess on his shirt.  It’s like a “look what I ate” puzzle by the time the meal is finished.f  That goes for snacks too.  He just can’t keep from getting things on his shirt.  As far as I know there aren’t bibs made for men in a 2XLT, but if you know where I can get some please let me know.  His shirts look like my maternity tops looked when I was way out there!  I don’t know if he’s eating challenged or what.  He also has to shower and change clothes after golf.  I don’t mind that.  I have smelled him after golf.  When you are sweaty or dirty or stinky, by all means please change clothes.  On the other hand, if you are just changing clothes because you have decided you are going after a different look, hang what you are wearing up and then make a new choice.  I know that I wear the same pair of jeans for 2 and sometimes 3 days before I wash them.  They usually are only perfect after they have been on my body for at least 12 hours so unless they have dirt or Precious juice on them I put them back on.   I have also been known to sleep in the same t-shirt I have had on all day if it isn’t dirty.  This disgusts my hubby.  He thinks I am going to bed dirty.  He will wear the same pajamas for a week though, and I have tried to tell him that after eight hours asleep for five days he has effectively been in the same clothes for 40 hours.  I find that disgusting.  So you can see we each have our issues.  My daughter changes her clothes several times a day because she attends different venues, many of which are open to those who smoke.  She needs to change clothes often just so she won’t smell like an ashtray.

These things wouldn’t be issues if I liked doing laundry.  I hate doing laundry.  I have heard of people who enjoy laundry.  I think they are androids.  Exciting people have better things to do .  I would rather do almost anything than laundry.  I don’t need much of an out to keep me from doing the wash.  A phone call, a good movie, a nice hot bath…anything can talk me out of doing the laundry.  The biggest problem with doing laundry is not the laundry itself, it is the process.  Sorting sucks.  I don’t mind putting it in the washer, but remembering to put it in the dryer is tricky.  I despise folding, and then once it is clean, folded, and ready to be put away I have trouble getting people to finish the process.  Boppy is pretty good about taking the laundry upstairs, at least mine and his.  Since no one specifically claims the towels they usually spend quite a while on the bar.  I end up taking a few of them upstairs at a time until they are all taken.   I am usually doing laundry again before all the previous laundry has been put away.

I wish there were a washer that washed the clothes and then at the end of the cycle became a dryer and dried the clothes without having to change machines.  Then I want to have a maid or “assistant” to hang up the shirts, pants, and skirts and fold the rest.  I don’t think that’s asking for to much.  You see, dear ones, I have a life.  It may not be a great life, but it’s mine and I don’t want it mucked with.  I have another alternative.  Everyone can do their own laundry, the problem with that is I don’t want to be the only one dressed.  I guess things will remain the same…I mean I am the only one complaining.  I’ve heard of people who do their laundry every day…but why in the hell would you do something so boring every single day?  I would much rather devote one day to being bored and play the other six.  So, I am good to go until next Sunday and then back to the washboard.  Thank God the creek is up!

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