Am I the only parent who doesn't care if the laundry gets folded?

[Anonymous]

My teen boys have been doing their laundry for years. They combine their laundry, and have worked out a system where they take turns. They do their bedding and towels, sports uniforms, regular clothes etc . . . When things are clean, they pull out the dressy stuff to hang up before it wrinkles, and throw everything else in a laundry basket or drawer. Then they just grab things from there when they are getting dressed. I buy two kinds of socks, black and white, so they don't match socks, they just grab two of the same color.

I'm curious because I feel like other than this my house is orderly and my kids are pretty capable, but this one chore gets mentioned all the time here and it just doesn't happen in my house.

[Anonymous]

My teen does his own laundry and dresses from a big basket. As long as he hangs up his Church pants, I don’t really care.

I fold the other kids laundry….eventually

[Anonymous]

Did I care if stuff in my teens’ dresser was folded, or even state of their room/clothes? No.

[Anonymous]

Nope, I don’t care. DS is expected to do his laundry and put it away. I don’t care if it is folded or not. Most of what he is wearing doesn’t get wrinkled or the wrinkles fall out quickly.

But he has parents who don’t worry about clothes and don’t follow fashions and trends. We are a casual couple who want things to be clean and look nice but are not out buying clothes that are high maintenance and require specialized cleaning and care.

[Anonymous]

I don’t even know if they fold their laundry or not. As long as their rooms don’t look like a bomb has gone off I am happy.

[Anonymous]

Nope! I don’t care either

[Anonymous]

I don’t care either. They’re washing their own clothes and never wear anything dirty. That’s a win in my book!

[Anonymous]

I don’t care either! They wear clean clothes, I have no responsibility for their laundry, I’m not wasting energy on this. When room needs to be presentable, they move the basket to the closet and it looks great. Food/drink doesn’t go up to the bedrooms. It’s just clothes, who cares?

[Anonymous]

Not really. Okay, maybe I care somewhat. It’s not about the clothes themselves but sometimes they rewash clean clothes because it all ended up in a pile and they couldn’t tell which was clean and which was dirty. I find that mildly annoying but it doesn’t rise beyond a quiet sigh.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care about this at all. My husband also does all the laundry and combines colors and whites. Nothing is ruined. I don’t care at all about laundry. The few things I really care about go to the dry cleaner typically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t care either. They’re washing their own clothes and never wear anything dirty. That’s a win in my book!

+1

Take the win, this is great.

[Anonymous]

My almost 17 year old does all of his laundry but rarely puts it away. Oh well. He wears clean clohtes and that's all that I care about.

[Anonymous]

I don’t care. My DD17 has a pile of clean clothes on her bedroom floor which is put away only someone vacuums. Otherwise she just takes from it every day. It’s not worth it to me to fight this.
She’s a very bright and responsible kid, just a bit messy.

[Anonymous]

Oh I care. A lot. But I still don’t do it.

[Anonymous]

Not really. The fact that your kids are otherwise doing laundry and worked out a system sounds pretty good.