Usually, laundry is my husband’s job. He had surgery about a month ago, and so I’ve been doing the laundry while he’s been recovering. Funny what you learn while doing the laundry. Here’s a few things I’ve been musing about:
-My daughter has approximately 42,973 sweaters. Now, who else in my family is a sweater lover? Oh, yeah, my mom. Next thing we know, HelloKitty and my mom will be going to ugly sweater parties. I shudder at the thought.
-It seems Flip has already acquired the longstanding man tradition of wearing holey underwear. I suppose I need to have that conversation with him now about not wearing underwear with holes in them, lest the paramedics lose valuable time saving his life, because they were laughing at the state of his underwear.
-We have too much clothing. I’ve done enough laundry in the last 3 days to be able to outfit every man, woman, and child in Africa and I still am behind on the laundry. Time to start getting rid of clothes.
-SpiderMan lives up to his name by having the real Spider Man on every single item of clothing known to man. Shirts. Sweaters. Pants. Underwear. Socks. I mean, seriously, who makes Spider Man socks?? And who buys them? Oh, yeah. Me.
-Even though we have too much clothing, it’s still sad to get rid of clothing. It’s like bagging up little bits of my life and shuttling it out the door. There goes the dress HelloKitty wore to her first day of Kindergarten. There goes the pair of pants Flip wore to his first dance. Ah, memories.
-Speaking of memories, why did I just wash my old band shirt from high school? I wore a size THREE in high school. Let’s just say I no longer wear that size. Or anything close to it. Who was wearing that shirt, the ghost of my former self?
-Whose bright idea was it to put the cat litter boxes in the laundry room? Oh, yeah, me. Well, whose bright idea was it to get cats, anyway? Oh, yeah, me. I guess the only person I have to blame for the scattered bits of litter all over the laundry room is me. No, wait, I can blame the cats. Yeah, that’s the ticket. Those darn cats.
-Doing the laundry is enriching. No, really, it is. I made $1.68 today because certain persons in my house totally fail to remember to empty their pockets before dropping their clothing on the floor. Awesome.
If anybody needs me, I’ll be buried under Mt. Washmore. Thanks.
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Funny article; thanks for the laugh!
Posted by: SAHMmy Says | November 5th, 2007 3:55 pm |
Add this to your list: what is it about kids that causes them to remove socks and underwear inside-out? Maybe I should just wash it as it lands, so they'll get it right half the time.
Posted by: FeeFiFoto | November 6th, 2007 1:21 pm |
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