It's really frustrating how one has to do laundry.
I'm wearing what one might term an "outfit" today. Undershirt, underwear, button-down, jeans, jacket, socks, shoes, accessories, etc.
Let's say I want to wear this outfit again this next weekend when I'm out. Well, not without washing it.
Therein lies the rub.
Can I wash this outfit all together? Hell no.
First, it must be separated. Jacket, shoes and accessories don't need washing. All good there. Undershirt and underwear can go into the same pile, as they're similar colors and types of fabric. Button-down requires special washing and hanging. Jeans will leak blue if I wash them with anything too light. Ugh. Socks are easy, but don't fit into any previous category.
Now, with one outfit, I have multiple loads of laundry. Will I waste detergent to run four to six loads of laundry with one item a piece? Of course not. I now have to wait until there are enough clothes in each category to actually justify a load of wash.
I know what you're thinking. "Uh yeah...we all know this...that's the way it's always been."
That's my point. Isn't that stupid?! In all our infinite wisdom and technology, we haven't figured out a better way to create clothing? We have cheese in a can, and e-mail in our cell phones, but we can't think of how to make one red sock not turn every white I own, pink?
This almost ranks up there with how rediculous windshield wipers are. Again...we have cars with cruise control that can detect upcoming vehicles and apply the brakes if you're coming up on them too fast, yet we don't have a way to rid your windshield of rain, snow, and ice that doesn't completely suck ass.
Anyway...forgive the rant today. I spent a lot of time doing very little laundry, and can barely see out of my windshield because of all the residual snow/slush crap that's dried on it, and is difficult to remove with shitty wipers.
Happy Monday.
I'm wearing what one might term an "outfit" today. Undershirt, underwear, button-down, jeans, jacket, socks, shoes, accessories, etc.
Let's say I want to wear this outfit again this next weekend when I'm out. Well, not without washing it.
Therein lies the rub.
Can I wash this outfit all together? Hell no.
First, it must be separated. Jacket, shoes and accessories don't need washing. All good there. Undershirt and underwear can go into the same pile, as they're similar colors and types of fabric. Button-down requires special washing and hanging. Jeans will leak blue if I wash them with anything too light. Ugh. Socks are easy, but don't fit into any previous category.
Now, with one outfit, I have multiple loads of laundry. Will I waste detergent to run four to six loads of laundry with one item a piece? Of course not. I now have to wait until there are enough clothes in each category to actually justify a load of wash.
I know what you're thinking. "Uh yeah...we all know this...that's the way it's always been."
That's my point. Isn't that stupid?! In all our infinite wisdom and technology, we haven't figured out a better way to create clothing? We have cheese in a can, and e-mail in our cell phones, but we can't think of how to make one red sock not turn every white I own, pink?
This almost ranks up there with how rediculous windshield wipers are. Again...we have cars with cruise control that can detect upcoming vehicles and apply the brakes if you're coming up on them too fast, yet we don't have a way to rid your windshield of rain, snow, and ice that doesn't completely suck ass.
Anyway...forgive the rant today. I spent a lot of time doing very little laundry, and can barely see out of my windshield because of all the residual snow/slush crap that's dried on it, and is difficult to remove with shitty wipers.
Happy Monday.
11 Comments:
now i'm not saying i'm the laundry professional or anything, but i know how to do laundry. been doing it pretty successfully for the past 10-15 years. last week i managed to ruin a pair of cords by washing with a new shirt i had just bought. i kicked myself in the ass for doing that. what a loser. i fail as a housewife... which is probably why i have a full-time job.
Oh, stop your whining. I have a husband and three little thizzles laundry on top of my own. I have loads to do everyday. DAILY!
I don't totally mind doing laundry, as long as I don't have to touch my husband's crusty socks. After sitting in the hamper for a couple days, they tend to petrify and nothing disgusts me more. Can't they make socks that don't get so gross?
Popo, what is up with our men's feet. Skywalker's socks get all hard and shit. I refuse to do socks, he has to put them in the wash machine himself. I keep telling him that if he wants to masterbate with socks that ok, just tell me the truth. I mean, how can their be any other explaination.
Pizzle, I hear you. I am waiting for the day when my laundry will just get done. You know, all by itself. Also I almost killed myself the other day because I refuse to get new windshield wipers. Damn fucking things!
I refuse to separate out too much. I do a white load and everything from beige to black goes together. Sheets I do separately, because only because they need so much room. I hate laundry.
I gotta say, yo....not feelin' ya on the laundry rant. Laundry is easy and I don't mind doing it.
Mainly because Jen does it.
I also like to seperate the whites from the colors. It's very Zen, for me.
Oh, and I meant to tell you that Myspace sucks.
Oh yeah, I know all about repeat outfits, that have to be remixed, cause the collar has a bigger ring, that I will ever have on my finger..lol
Right there with Shanshu on this one. Doing laundry has always been easy for me. I just put it in the basket, and it always seems to magically appear on a hanger in my closet soon after. On occasion I have to say sonething like "Hey, why are my jeans not in the closet? Do you think I like hitting you?" and shortly there after, the problem resolves itself with little or no further need for effort on my part. You need to get a better washing machine PJ.
badtouch.
*Posting things that he shouldn't be posting on his anniversary.*
Mothers everywhere are doing a great injustice to women everywhere by doing thier sons laundry with a smile for 18- infinity yrs. Soon as trent can reach the buttons, he shall learn to seperate, proper tempertatures, and folding. And his future wife can thank me :)
OMG. I know exactly what Rit and Tinapopo are talking about. I don't touch my husbands socks with a ten foot pole. I don't turn them right side out, and I don't match and fold them. I dump them in the washer and from the dryer they get tossed in a hamper where he can dig them out if he wants. They're lucky to make it to the drawer. And I'll be damned if I touch any clothes that are inside of one another to seperate them, such as boxers inside of pants or t-shirts inside of long sleeved shirts. Those sit there until he figures out how to seperate them.
Shanshu and Badtouch are pigs.
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