Laundry: IT IS NEVER DONE

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shhanrahan wrote:I don't mind doing laundry or folding it. I DETEST putting it away.

I could happily live out of baskets of folded laundry.

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Anonymous wrote:Laundry is basically never ending in my house. I go through spurts and do multiple loads a day, but they don't get upstairs. Then I have days where I take a couple hours and put everything away. Obviously my method is flawed. Why the fuck do they put washers and dryers in the basement!?!?! If they were in the same level as the bedrooms it would be so much easier.

Dishes bother me way worse than laundry though, we use paper plates 80% of the time

I am seeing many homes with washer/dryer at the same level as the bedrooms. Many people are remodelling that way too. It is the most sensible place for it.

I'm very excited to have my laundry on the second floor and in a beautiful, large, laundry room.

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I actually like doing laundry. I feel so accomplished once the clothes are washed, dried and folded and put away. I like my time at the local laundromat, when my clothes are washing and drying I tend to sit in my car and listen to music or read to myself.

I also like washing dishes by hand, again, I feel so accomplished doing this.

The chores I really hate are cleaning the bathroom and emptying out the kitty litterbox. Ugh.

When you live alone it is easy, however if you share your home with young children then it ALWAYS feels like while you are cleaning up one mess, they are at the same time creating another one as you sweat.

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Anonymous wrote:Really? You need to educate your family on what really needs to be laundered. Quit letting them throw everything in the wash just because they looked briefly at it.

What a bizarre and aggressive response. Family of 2 adults here, we reuse our towels for a few days, DH wears his pants a few days before washing them... and we still have 3 - 4 loads a week and I still don't like the chore, even with just a few loads.

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Having the laundry machines on the bedroom level has saved my sanity. We ended up doing 5 loads on the weekend and its not bad because the machines are practically right next to the closets.

The chore I hate is cooking. I have two boys and a DH that are thin as rails but can eat like you can't believe. If I make extra food it's still all eaten. Someways I feel like I am continuously in the kitchen making the next meal until they finally go to sleep.

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Anonymous wrote:I wash 2-3 sinks full of dishes every day bc I hate the dishwasher. It kind of sucks. I also have the never ending laundry chore like op,but laundry doesn't bother me as much because it smells so good and I love clean clothes.

The chores I hate: cleaning the bathroom. My DH is nasty and doesn't clean up after himself at all. The bathroom that he uses is so gross. I rarely use it and choose to use the main bathroom instead of the one in our room. I also get tired of cleaning the floors which seem to get dirty again minutes after I clean them.

Hmm. If you come over and do my laundry, I will clean your bathroom.

lol I wish! I'd do a thousand loads of laundry a week for you if you'd come to my house once a week and clean this one small bathroom! I don't even mind cleaning the main bathroom, it's just the lack of maintenance in between cleanings that makes it such a gross chore for me!

Why doesn't he clean it?

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Anonymous wrote:Really? You need to educate your family on what really needs to be laundered. Quit letting them throw everything in the wash just because they looked briefly at it.

What a bizarre and aggressive response. Family of 2 adults here, we reuse our towels for a few days, DH wears his pants a few days before washing them... and we still have 3 - 4 loads a week and I still don't like the chore, even with just a few loads.

I think pp has a point. Some kids throw everything in the laundry even if its not dirty. I also think the paper plates posters are wasting paper and money tbh.

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I don't find laundry that bad in the summer when it is shorts and t-shirts for the kids. It is the winter time with the undershirts and sweatshirts and heavy pajamas that get to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Really? You need to educate your family on what really needs to be laundered. Quit letting them throw everything in the wash just because they looked briefly at it.

What a bizarre and aggressive response. Family of 2 adults here, we reuse our towels for a few days, DH wears his pants a few days before washing them... and we still have 3 - 4 loads a week and I still don't like the chore, even with just a few loads.

I think pp has a point. Some kids throw everything in the laundry even if its not dirty. I also think the paper plates posters are wasting paper and money tbh.

Totally agree that you need to teach kids/people what should be washed at what interval. And, there's absolutely no indication in the OP that that is his/her issue. The way the PP just jumped right to "OBVIOUSLY this is your problem" like it was a statement of fact that the family just throws clean stuff into the wash is obnoxious.

My husband used a fresh, full-sized towel every shower when we got married. Irritated the shit out of me, but it was how he grew up and what he thought was "sanitary." I mentioned it once or twice but could tell it wasn't a worthwhile argument to have as newlyweds. It took over a year of marriage, and one day out of nowhere DH just started hanging and reusing his towel. I asked him about it and he said he had started showering twice a day due to working out and realized how excessive/wasteful the laundry was getting. Better to let him come to it on his own though.

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Anonymous wrote:For me it is the endless cycle of cooking and cleaning up. Between meal prep, cooking, cleaning up, washing dishes, I feel like I spend my life in the kitchen.

Oh, and packing my sons lunch. For some reason I dread that the most.

This is me too! I feel like as soon as I'm done with meal, its time to start the next...

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Anonymous wrote:I don't find laundry that bad in the summer when it is shorts and t-shirts for the kids. It is the winter time with the undershirts and sweatshirts and heavy pajamas that get to me.

Don't forget a few hundred tiny SOCKS. Love that the summer laundry has few-to-no socks in it (except DH's but his aren't nearly as maddening since they are large and don't lose their mates nearly as easily as the kids'), and I always feel intense dread in the fall as the little sock level starts to rise again.

But in general, the clothes laundry doesn't annoy me nearly as much as the household laundry - sheets, kitchen towels, placemats... i think just because i don't have a routine with those so it feels like they're always nagging at me.

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Socks are the bane of my existence. I loathe them. Keeping the kids' socks separate is my only hope.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate folding laundry.

Don't mind doing it.

+1

Folding clothes sucks the life out of me.

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I really enjoy laundry. And I like it on my first floor so that while I'm cooking or watching a show I can pull clothes from the washer to the dryer. And then I like folding in front of the TV.

We only go upstairs when it's time to go to bed so I wouldn't like the laundry up there.

I hate yard work. I hate pulling weeds, mowing, sweating and being eaten alive by mosquitoes.

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shhanrahan wrote:I don't mind doing laundry or folding it. I DETEST putting it away.[/quote

Family of four here with a 6yo and 9yo. One thing that might help is having the kids learn to put away their own clothes. My kid have been helping fold and put away their clothes since they were about 3. I help them by organizing their drawers and closets by type of clothes so they can easily remember what clothes go where. Also, we have several pull-out baskets (container store closet system) that house things like socks/tights/leggings, shoes (bottom big baskets), "specialty" clothes (sports uniforms, clothes to paint in, etc). We've never had an emergency "where is my softball jersey" moment and they put all of their clothes away, so I only have to put mine away. I fold DH's laundry, but he puts it away.