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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People also have lost the ability to cook, do their own grocery shopping, and pick up their own takeout.  We are the laziest society ever [/quote]

You can't take it with you and time is precious. [/quote]

Well this attitude is your problem right there.

If you view your time as something that should only be "spent" on things you find enjoyable or rewarding in narrowly defined ways, you are going to be a dissatisfied, impatient, unhappy person.

Being a human being in a living, mortal body requires a certain amount of caretaking. Even if in the modern world and with enough money you can outsource some of that caretaking, some of it you will NEVER be able to outsource. You can't pay someone to go poop for you, or take your showers. I guess you could outsource brushing and flossing your teeth but... why would you do this.

Learning to efficiently but diligently perform basic caretaking and hygienic functions, including laundry, is just part of being a person. Laundry truly does not take that much time unless your clothes are very hard to clean (which is a choice, especially in this day and age when most jobs allow people to wear machine washable clothes that don't need to be ironed). If you cannot dedicate the 30-40 minutes a week to laundry, then what else are you considering to be unbearable drudgery? This is such a basic activity.

This is why some religions and philosophies advise learning to engage in a form of mindful diligence, particularly while doing these daily chores. If you can find pleasure in the act of folding laundry, flossing your teeth, trimming your toddler's nails, packing a lunch, you can find true and rewarding joy in life. And when you find this, you stop having this attitude of "my time is running out, I can't waste it on these pointless chores!" Instead, you realize that true happiness comes not in clearing your schedule of all drudgery so that you can spend it laughing uproariously while sky diving and inventing an app. True happiness comes in the ability to enjoy the something as simply as the physical act of folding a t-shirt and placing it in a drawer. [/quote]

When I outsourced laundry it was because I had two small children and a full time job and I was exhausted. Time can be precious for reasons that have nothing to do with whether you enjoy chores. [/quote]

No one who spends time posting on DCUM on New Year's Eve should be trying to argue that their time is too precious to do laundry, sorry.

Nine times out of ten the "time is too precious for laundry" people are using their time savings to scroll tik tok, watch reality shows, or other useless activities. Outsource it if you want but don't try to pretend it's because your time is too precious. It's not.[/quote]

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