Comments on: The Plan – part 3 – Laundry

By: Becky

Becky — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:12:26 +0000

Good point. And you’d think they would care about how they come out of the closet, but not always (and for at least one – never). Of course, according to all those strangers I run into at the grocery store, my house (and consequently the closets as well) should be just as neat as a pin at all times since all my children are girls. HA!!! You’d think I’d be use to it after hearing it for so many years, but no. I still fight the urge to ask them if they actually have any daughters.

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:52:01 +0000

Well, I can’t abide total sloppiness, and the towels do need to be somewhat orderly or there’s just gonna be chaos in the towel closet. But, there’s just no use (for me, anyway) in getting all uptight about how they hang their own stuff. If it suits them, then I’m ok w/it. They just have to understand that if they don’t like the way the clothes come out of the closet, then they had better do something about how the clothes go into the closet.

By: Becky

Becky — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:55:59 +0000

Ouch! I guess I’m a little picky then when I insist on clothing being hung on the hanger a particular way. I do wish I could relax about that one. And about the way they fold the towels. Okay – they can fold their own anyway they want, but I’d really like it if mine were folded the way I like (because they don’t fit in the cabinet well the other way). Should I mention the obsessive way I insist on the kitchen towels being folded? I just do those myself. Wow – seeing it all typed out like this, I really do need to relax about some of this. Might make laundry a lot less stressful.

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:19:37 +0000

StuffMart has those cheap-o wash-cloths $5 for a million cloths (I forget how many really). They also have what they call “bar mops”. I like those for drying dishes. Good enough quality to last a few years, quite absorbent. Totally cheaper than paper. Make the change. In a few months you’ll forget you ever did it differently.
Now I need to get on that cloth napkin band-wagon!

By: MotherHen

MotherHen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:16:05 +0000

I’m always amazed at the things that can escape a kids notice. Not surprised, just amazed. That’s the very sort of thing I would expect from my own kids. But, truly, having someone else process the clean laundry is a real time saver, even if we never get free of being the machine operators ourselves.

By: Cyndi L.

Cyndi L. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:07:50 +0000

Oh! Congrats on the non use of paper towels. We are paper towel freaks and do plan on moving away from them. (My mom almost never used them.) We have purchased Shamwows and will eventually replace the paper with towels and rags. Though I hadn’t thought of the extra laundry that it will cause. Oh, well. We are trying to move toward less consumerism.

By: Cyndi L.

Cyndi L. — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:02:20 +0000

My oldest daughter (almost 13) is my laundry folder. I’ve was trying to train her to load and wash and transfer to dryer but I really feel more comfortable doing that part myself. You see when we got back from vacation a couple of weeks ago, I had her doing laundry from top to bottom. The problem… the DH had unhooked the water and forgotten to hook it back up. The DD didn’t notice that even though she put soap in the washer and “ran” it, that the clothes were coming out dry. I caught it TWO days later when I put a load in because she was busy with school. OH MY GOSH! All that laundry folded and put away that wasn’t really clean! Upside to that little story… at least we didn’t need a new washer… My DD had shown me a few things from the loads she had washed and we pondered why some things weren’t looking clean. I was thinking a new washer was going to be needed. Oy Vey!