Wednesday, March 24, 2010

a necessary evil

My life is like a Tide commercial, everyday is laundry day! As I've been reflecting on my life I've come to the conclusion that I do laundry more than I do anything else. If we were to break down my life into a pie chart, I venture to say that 35% of my time is spent doing laundry! That is far too much! I think half of the problem is that the majority of my clothes require line drying, and this is quite the process, there's the initial hanging it up on a hanger, hanging the hangers on the shower curtain rod, then shuffling the clothes around to accommodate for showers in the morning, hanging them back on the rod, removing them once they're dry, blah blah blah, folding and putting away. The whole thing is annoying. This excessive laundry has caused me to think a lot about my situation. "Am I a super dirty person? Am I a clean freak? Do I have too many clothes? Do I not have enough? Do I like to change outfits a lot?" What is the deal??? All I can think is that this laundry explosion is going to have to settle down before I get a family of my own and have to do everyone else's laundry as well. I'll need 3 sets of washer and dryers! :) If you have any ideas I'm open for suggestions, but until then... I'm off to go put in another load of laundry!

4 comments:

  1. I love you! Keep blogging! Good job on your run! You inspire me...seriously love it. I feel the same way about laundry...I do loads everyday! I think the key is that I have too many clothes in this family...Miles is my problem! He goes through clothes like one would go through bottled water in a desert. Messy! Good luck though...you have too many cute clothes to rethink any of that:)
    LOVE AND MISS YOU!

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  2. oh girl i hear you! Every Saturday, I wash/dry our clothes, and then take them out of the dryer and carry them to our bedroom floor, where they remain all week long. We pick up clean clothes out of the laundry pile, and then put them back in the dirty clothes hamper to be washed again, then replaced on the bedroom floor!! Having the time to fold them just seems like an unrealistic dream!! Actually I'm sure I could make the time if I wanted to. But I don't. So the cycle remains. And I know it only gets worst once you have kids. Good luck. And congrats on your run, the way. I didn't see that post til now. Wahoo!

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  3. Yay for blogs! I just did the laundry today and I swear it took ALL day!

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  4. I just found and read your entire blog....I LOVE it! Your still the funny Berger from back in the day!! Hope your doing well! Tell Jen hi from me too :)

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