Real scene from my household just now

[Anonymous]

You fold laundry in the kitchen? Agree with DD.

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Anonymous wrote:She owns 7-8 laundry loads worth of clothes??!?

That's all you took from this?

Op, tell her kindly that if she does her own laundry she won't have to worry about where you put it. Leave it at that.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop doing her laundry. Now.

I do agree that the kitchen island is a weird and potentially gross place to put laundry.

Oh stop. Some of us still help our kids do things. My mom did and I grew to be a fully functioning adult. I also do things, for my DC and DH, because I like doing things for them. Geez. We don't have to throw our kids to the wolves at 18.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You fold laundry in the kitchen? Agree with DD.

That's where MY small stacked washer and dryer are so YEAH, some people fold laundry in the kitchen. We don't all live in suburban tract "mansions".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way to many enraged psychos here. OP and her daughter seem to get along pretty well.

OP is clearly a man since the scenario he posted said "Dad."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Way to many enraged psychos here. OP and her daughter seem to get along pretty well.

OP is clearly a man since the scenario he posted said "Dad."

Could be pretending (or changing details). No one really knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You fold laundry in the kitchen? Agree with DD.

I also have a stacked laundry closet in the kitchen. Island is an easy place to fold and put away. It's easy to sanitize, and cleaned multiple times per day. If anything having it their makes me keep up with laundry and quickly put it away.

[Anonymous]

Who is the idiot who thinks a bathtub can't overflow?!

Alternatively, where can I buy one of these magic bathtubs? I spent a fortune repairing drywall and replacing ruined 1st floor furniture after our 2nd floor tub overflowed and I'd like to avoid ever having that happen again.

[Anonymous]

Why don't you have a nanny doing laundry

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Scene setting: DD graduates from HS. She's been overwhelmed in recent weeks with finals, etc. and got WAY behind on laundry. We're talking like seven or eight loads. She finally got working on picking up her room (the clothes were strewn everywhere -- you couldn't see the floor). Since she was making an effort, I took pity and decided to help (since I know she will soon ask me for money to buy clothes for college and my position is I'm not giving you anything until you go through what you already have and decide what to keep/what to donate, etc).

Anyway, this scene just played out:

(DD walks in from garage, where she was just back from running a graduation-related errand. She looks disdainfully at the piles of folded clothing I've arranged on the kitchen island, which I cleaned previously.)

DD:

Dad, I appreciate you doing my laundry, but can you NOT put it on the disgusting counter?

(DD proceeds to walk to sink and drink directly from the faucet.)

AND SCENE

Haha. I'm glad you see the humor in this. It probably killed her to give you the begrudging thanks at the beginning. Drinking from the faucet is like the mike drop - presumably she didn't want to responsible for a putting a glass away afterwards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Scene setting: DD graduates from HS. She's been overwhelmed in recent weeks with finals, etc. and got WAY behind on laundry. We're talking like seven or eight loads. She finally got working on picking up her room (the clothes were strewn everywhere -- you couldn't see the floor). Since she was making an effort, I took pity and decided to help (since I know she will soon ask me for money to buy clothes for college and my position is I'm not giving you anything until you go through what you already have and decide what to keep/what to donate, etc).

Anyway, this scene just played out:

(DD walks in from garage, where she was just back from running a graduation-related errand. She looks disdainfully at the piles of folded clothing I've arranged on the kitchen island, which I cleaned previously.)

DD:

Dad, I appreciate you doing my laundry, but can you NOT put it on the disgusting counter?

(DD proceeds to walk to sink and drink directly from the faucet.)

AND SCENE

Would be my teen if I allowed it. I hope he only did laundry bc of finals stress. Now that that’s over almost college student should be doing their own laundry.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You fold laundry in the kitchen? Agree with DD.

I also have a stacked laundry closet in the kitchen. Island is an easy place to fold and put away. It's easy to sanitize, and cleaned multiple times per day. If anything having it their makes me keep up with laundry and quickly put it away.

Since when do clothes need to be sanitized? When I was a teen we sat ourselves in many places that were gross. The family kitchen island is not one I’d be worried about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You fold laundry in the kitchen? Agree with DD.

I also have a stacked laundry closet in the kitchen. Island is an easy place to fold and put away. It's easy to sanitize, and cleaned multiple times per day. If anything having it their makes me keep up with laundry and quickly put it away.

Since when do clothes need to be sanitized? When I was a teen we sat ourselves in many places that were gross. The family kitchen island is not one I’d be worried about.

Island ... is easy to sanitize. Not the clothes

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think my household of 3 people could get a backlog of 8 loads of laundry if we tried. Maybe once one counted in bed and bath linens.

we don't have enough clothes for 8 loads. We do clothing laundry every 4 days. If I wait 7 days, they would start running out of clean shorts and tshirts to wear.

Lol. With the exception of underwear, my kids don’t mind grabbing clothes from the floor or from the laundry basket to rewear when they run out of clean clothes. It drives me crazy.

[Anonymous]

You all can get water sensors for the floor of a room. Connect it to your alarm system. That way any water on the floor triggers the alarm.

These have been a huge lifesaver for me in catching early water leaks.