Monday, February 2, 2009

SHOUT OUT to Laundry HATERS


This is my laundry
I think we have been living out of those laundry baskets for a week now. And yes some of those clothes on the floor are clean, they just don't fit in the overflowing laundry baskets, so they make their way to the floor. One of the baskets has given out with all the pressure, so sad. This is not all however. There are full laundry baskets in every room, and there is laundry in the washer and drier. I am literally dealing with Mount Kill-a-man-laundry over here. Now every once in a while I will actually tackle the laundry, it happens about once every few months or so. I will wash, dry, fold, and put away everything, if you can believe it. And I celebrate my victory by not doing laundry for a week so the insanity can start over again. I know it's a brilliant plan. I will get to the bottom of every laundry basket except for the one in the laundry room, that one holds things I swear I will get to one day, but they're not all that important for every day life so month after month they collect dust and lint, it's fabulous. See I figured the more laundry baskets I have the better at laundry I will become. But old habits die hard, and instead of getting to the bottom, I use them as storage, pretending that somehow my magical animal friends (you know the ones from Cinderella) will come to my rescue and do everything for me. Instead, I am left to deal with the craziness all on my own. That is until Kelcey steps in and decides if he wants clean clothes he's gonna have to do it himself.
See my whole thing is laundry wouldn't be so bad if it didn't have about a million steps. First, I have to lug the dirty clothes in overflowing baskets down three flights of stairs. Yeah, laundry room in the basement, not the best idea. That alone makes me doomed to fail. Anyway, Then I've got to practically dive into each basket and separate, darks ,and whites, and pinks, and towels, and sheets. Then I overload my washer because I have so many things to wash, and bigger loads mean I get done faster, right? Then I have to dry, and fold, and lug all folded clothes up three flights of stairs without dropping anything since it's teetering. Oh and then I have to hang, and shove clothes into too-small drawers. It's all insane. And it never ends. I won't even go into folding socks, especially kid socks.
So this is a SHOUT OUT TO ALL THOSE LAUNDRY HATERS out there. Can I get a WHOO WOO?

12 comments:

  1. You are so funny... I can barely keep up with my laundry and its just me!!! :)

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  2. Uggggghhhh! Don't get me started! I often take the laundry OUT of the baskets, and put it onto our bed with hopes of folding it during the day, but then we go to bed, and back into the baskets it goes! I HATE LAUNDRY!!!! I especially hate the putting it away part!

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  3. your totally speaking my language! i hate laundry!

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  4. Whoo Hoo from me! Laundry is not one of my favorite things! We live out the basket too! As of right now, I have two baskets sitting in my room, one it the boy's room, a stack of folded stuff on the couch, and a load in the dryer! So much fun! It never ends. :(

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  5. Okay, so it was Whoo Woo, not whoo hoo. Either way, I'm with you girl!

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  6. WHOOOOOOO WOOOOOOOOOO
    I am so glad to know that we are not the only family that lives out of laundry baskets. I can wash, sort, dry but the folding and putting away is such a pain! I wish I had little animal friends too but those only happen in fairy tales and I live in the REAL world. Where is my fairy tale???? WAAAAAAAAAAA

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  7. You are so funny! I remember begging everyone in the family to walk around naked for at least one day so that I could actually say the laundry was done and there was no potential for dirty clothes. Good idea no? I think my kids were in high school before they realized that not everyone had to rummage through a sock basket for socks every day.

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  8. Yeah, that sock basket was a pain. But, now I've got a basket of my own. I don't know how you can handle a family's laundry. I can't even handle my own.

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  9. "Mount Kill-a-man-laundry" That's funny on so many levels. :)
    I might have told you this before but laundry is one of those chores that I think to myself "I'm going to be doing this for the rest of my life"
    Possible idea: I do four loads a week and I have four baskets in our bedroom for each load. Whites, light colors, dark colors, and jeans and towels. No sorting! Jaaromy can't quite remember so I'm considering making tags for the baskets to remind him which basket is for what load.

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  10. Oh Lyenna,...you make me laugh! I think most normal people have a week or two when we live out of the laundry basket for lack of time, energy, or whatever!?! I hope to see you on Saturday.

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  11. TOTALLY!! You can get an extra Woo Whoo from me cuz right now my pool table is being used as my laundry folding table!

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  12. Lyenna~
    Becky and I are thinking of doing the Ragnar Relay in Logan this year. Its over the 19th and 20th of June....website is www.ragnarrelay.com/wasatchback
    Its $80 each person with a team of 12. Let us know!

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