I know this may sound odd, but I like doing laundry. Most of you with kids are already rolling your eyes, yelling at your phones, and thinking "He doesn't know what it's really like." Just a minute though. Hear me out.
I like doing laundry because it's one of the few things that you do in life you don't actually have to do. There is almost no "doing" in doing laundry. When people gripe, it's more because it's an everyday chore, especially in big families and I get that if the burden falls on one person, the monotony could be frustrating. I do laundry more often than a single person needs to but let me remind you, I have a cat. So I clean my sheets and my comforter at least once, if not twice a week. I also have staff shirts for work and being I only have two, I like to have worn them each at least once a week, so I'm doing two loads a week minimum. Then there is the towel issue. As many know from Facebook, I shared a home last year and part of this with a 25-year-old who never, not a single time, cleaned his towel. To say this was the most disgusting thing I ever co-existed with would not have been a lie, until this past Spring but we won't go into that.
So where is this going? As many of you know, I tend to count or add or time things. Most of it is simply my obsession with numbers but maybe it's also my obsession with efficiency and time management in my life. So here's the real deal. The other day I did two loads of laundry. One was clothing and one was bedding, including comforter, and towels. Total time: 3 hours and 8 minutes. Total active time: 13 minutes. Active time includes stripping the bed, putting clothes in a laundry bag, taking them downstairs, adding detergent. changing from washer to dryer, and folding. THIRTEEN MINUTES! Is that even worth calling a chore? In the time I did laundry, I made breakfast and ate it, prepped lunch and dinner, cleaned the kitchen counters, mopped the floors in the entire bottom floor, vacuumed the entire house, minus three bedrooms, changed the fish tank water, changed the dogs' "self-serve" water reservoir, took an online seminar, and chatted with some friends online. I started this all at 6:10 AM and had the clothes put away, the house clean, the pets happy, and even got paid from work in the process.
Other days I do one load and the entire process takes me about 6 minutes of active time. Oh the humanity. But damn, that fitted sheet thing. Without that one item, I could probably break this process down to under five minutes!
I like doing laundry because it's one of the few things that you do in life you don't actually have to do. There is almost no "doing" in doing laundry. When people gripe, it's more because it's an everyday chore, especially in big families and I get that if the burden falls on one person, the monotony could be frustrating. I do laundry more often than a single person needs to but let me remind you, I have a cat. So I clean my sheets and my comforter at least once, if not twice a week. I also have staff shirts for work and being I only have two, I like to have worn them each at least once a week, so I'm doing two loads a week minimum. Then there is the towel issue. As many know from Facebook, I shared a home last year and part of this with a 25-year-old who never, not a single time, cleaned his towel. To say this was the most disgusting thing I ever co-existed with would not have been a lie, until this past Spring but we won't go into that.
So where is this going? As many of you know, I tend to count or add or time things. Most of it is simply my obsession with numbers but maybe it's also my obsession with efficiency and time management in my life. So here's the real deal. The other day I did two loads of laundry. One was clothing and one was bedding, including comforter, and towels. Total time: 3 hours and 8 minutes. Total active time: 13 minutes. Active time includes stripping the bed, putting clothes in a laundry bag, taking them downstairs, adding detergent. changing from washer to dryer, and folding. THIRTEEN MINUTES! Is that even worth calling a chore? In the time I did laundry, I made breakfast and ate it, prepped lunch and dinner, cleaned the kitchen counters, mopped the floors in the entire bottom floor, vacuumed the entire house, minus three bedrooms, changed the fish tank water, changed the dogs' "self-serve" water reservoir, took an online seminar, and chatted with some friends online. I started this all at 6:10 AM and had the clothes put away, the house clean, the pets happy, and even got paid from work in the process.
Other days I do one load and the entire process takes me about 6 minutes of active time. Oh the humanity. But damn, that fitted sheet thing. Without that one item, I could probably break this process down to under five minutes!
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