Thursday, May 1, 2008

airing my dirty laundry

I'm going to put it out there in all of it's messy glory for some suggestions!
I HATE... DESPISE...DREAD.. REGRET THINKING OF EVEN DOING, CAN NOT STAND...my laundry!

I realize that there are so many worse things out there that I could have to do day in and day out, but this is one of those tasks that I just don't look forward to. I like to think I'm organized. It's almost compulsive, but I just can't get a good system down for my laundry. It's not even that hard of a task to accomplish, but I just can't get it to work for me. It's getting worse too because it did not used to be this bad. I used to just dread putting the laundry up and now it's the whole system of gathering, washing, moving to dryer, folding and putting away. I'm failing miserably! The commander does his own laundry now so maybe I could convince him to take on mine :)

Here's the messy glory from the start. I used to have two baskets (one for colors and one for whites). Now it all goes in the floor...GASP!!!!


From here..it eventually makes it to the washing machine where it sits until it might smell again so I have to wash it again (not earth friendly!)
Then it sits here for awhile to get extra wrinkly until the commander gives up on me and throws this pile on the counter.


Well I can't look at it all piled on the table so that forces me to fold it and it sits here for awhile.


Eventually, it will go here...almost back to the closet and sometimes (not very often) it gets put back up. Mostly, I just pilfer through and get what I need.
See, my system is so full of flaws! I just need to suck it up and get it all done in one night instead of dragging it out over a weeks span.


I guess some motivation came from that because I"m going to get it done..right NOW!

4 comments:

granolachic said...

oh i feel your pain...i HATE laundry...and ours piles up on our love seat where our dogs like to lay...

there is no good system unless it involves paying someone else to do it...!!

Lindsay said...

Wayne washes all of ours on Sunday nights and then it all goes terribly wrong after that! It never gets put up at my house either. We each have our own basket that we have to dig thru to find stuff. ugg.

Solar Powered said...

one load in every day after work...it's the only way to stay on top of it. i hate it too

Barbi said...

I feel for you, try keeping up with laundry from a family of FIVE...I never get it all done!!