I knew I had a lot of laundry piling up. A lot. Since I didn't want to spend my entire day off going back and forth to the laundry building, my motivation prompted me to tackle some of it tonight. At 8pm, I had four piles. Half made it to the washer and the other half will be dealt with tomorrow. At 9pm, my wonderful husband volunteered to do the drying cycle, which includes a 15 minute high heat cycle that I find too boring to sit there and wait for, and too short to walk home and back. So off he went with his audio book in his ears, happy as can be. A few minutes later he came back with wet laundry, and report that all dryers were taken or broken, and that there was a long waiting line. So, we let the clean wet laundry hang out for a while as we went back to our activities. Naturally, it slipped our minds. Sometime after 10pm, I decided it was time for bed, until I realized that our wet laundry was no less than our sheets and duvet cover!! AH! So there went my wonderful husband to the laundry building (again, and through the snow) to check on the waiting line. I hope he comes back in 15 minutes with dry, warm and lovely-smelling clean sheets for us!
Lessons learned:
1. Never do laundry on weekends, and especially in the evening hours.
2. Never wash bedding before bedtime.
3. Buy a washboard?
4. Always thank your spouse for doing the dirty work (even if it's clean).
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Not sure a washboard would help. In America we don't sell the right soap for real hand washing clothes. :o)
ReplyDeleteHooray for Matthew!
when i read the title of this blog - i thought - that's me!! i always tell andy, we'll know we made it when we have washer and dryer in unit!! i should just be grateful that we don't have to HAND WASH all our clothes like my mother did when we were young and before the days of washing machines.
ReplyDeletesorry - i should clarify - before the days of washing machines out in the mission field. this country had washers long before i or my mother was born!
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