Does frugal mean only things financial? Or can I be frugal with my time? How about being frugal with my energy? I know that my definition includes these aspects. I’m just wondering if this post will qualify for the Frugal Friday Carnival @ Biblical Womanhood.

Well, we’ve been revamping the laundry system aboard this Pirate ship. What? We DO laundry! We’re not REAL Pirates. Although, I imagine real Pirates cleaned their clothes, sometimes. They certainly spent enough time keeping their floors clean swabbin’ th’ deck, matey, Arrrg! Now, let’s wander back to the original point, laundry.

Have you been keeping up with all of my laundry wonderings lately? Having read in several WFMW posts about the growing trend of NOT sorting the dirty laundry before washing it, (I think the official term is “Bachelor Style”) I decided that maybe all of this sorting is just an archaic ritual that used to serve a purpose, and no longer has any real value and therefore should be relegated to the category of “BIG HAIRY WASTE OF TIME AND EFFORT.”

So, in an ordinary week, we sort on Monday and work like crazy all week to get it all done as soon as possible, usually by Thursday. At which point I can start thinking about bedsheets and the shower curtain and odd-ball stuff. This week I finished the regular laundry (clothing and towels) on Thursday morning.

So, I decided to see what would happen if I just grabbed an empty basket and stuffed some laundry in it and wash what ever happened to land in the basket, willy-nilly, devil-may-care, bachelor style. Now, granted, a mere 24 hours has passed, but I see results RESULTS! I have done 4 loads and realized that this is going to change my life. It’s a grand new way of thinking about the laundry and what needs to be done and when and how. This is freedom, people!

I amaze myself with how rigid my old sorting ways had become. I just now started a load of Pirate clothes, only to turn around and find a wash-cloth on the ping-pong table. HORRORS! In the old days (before yesterday) I would have had to dedicate a basket for towels and find a sensible place to set it so it could be added to easily until a whole load accumulated…..blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No more of that foolishness! I just tossed it in the washer WITH THE CLOTHING! FREEDOM!

And we’re heading into the weekend with EMPTY laundry baskets in the bedrooms! FREEDOM!

Aren’t you glad that the laptop doesn’t speak camera. Otherwise The Cap’n might be tempted to post a video of me doin’ THE FREEDOM HAPPY DANCE! I am that happy, but I am also alot happy that I won’t be on YouTube doin’ the Happy Dance. But I found a superbly suitable substitute. See if you don’t laugh out loud watching these animals doin’ the happy dance for the new laundry freedom at my house.

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