Do You Ever Catch Up With Doing Laundry?

I really enjoy doing regular laundry and catch up with that easily. Bigger items like bedspreads/comforters are a pain and tend to sit and wait for me to feel in the mood.

Currently in my little condo I have the washer/dryer stacked/one unit machine. It is such a convenience to have my own, there have been a lot of years of my life where I was having to lug bags to a laundromat (tho that was preferable to the time I had to wash all my clothes/bedding/towels in a bucket when I was very poor while living overseas).

When I retired and sold my house and traveled and lived in long-stay-hotels, I would use the hotel washer and dryers, each hotel was different. Some had a rolling basket in the laundry room, but a lot didn't. Most, but not all, had a table for folding clothes. Always there was the problem of people not coming back in a timely manner to get their clothes out of the machines. And sometimes the dryers weren't working correctly and at the end I'd discover there had been no heat and my clothes were still wet.

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No set time or schedule. Retired not much in the way of laundry build up so only regular wash loads are the sheets & towels. His & hers separate laundry baskets for our clothes doesn't make a difference when it comes to wash loads, just convenient when the clothes are dry. Bought a ranch style home with nook in the hallway for washer & dryer.


Weather pretty good year round to hang laundry on the clothes lines I can set up on our back porch. If not the clothes dryer is used. Unlike the years when work clothes, kids clothes, social event clothes everyday around the house clothes built up laundry pretty fast. Retired life with free time every day to do something productive doing laundry is productive.:unsure:
 
MarciKS said:
I am forever behind on mine. I wish I had Barbara Eden to blink the housework done for me. LOL
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Would she do?

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Anyway, I'm about to dry my dog right now...

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I don't understand how TWO PEOPLE use up so many dishes and laundry...... I know it's not true but I swear all I do is laundry and dishes.

I use to moan and groan about the washer and dryer being in the garage, but when we'd come home from being on the road for months (and having to do laundry in dirty, broken-down laundry rooms), I'd get down on my knees and thank God for my own machines....
 
C50 said:
I'm not sure how you fall behind with laundry, honestly in my opinion it's one of the easiest chores. Toss a load in and go do something else, later toss it in the dryer and go do something else. The only time consuming part is putting it away, yet that only takes about ten minutes per load, my approach is fold and put away, or simply hang up.
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Thought I should add an edit to my post.

If you don't have a washer and dryer where you live or have some health issues making laundry difficult I can easily see falling behind with laundry. It's one of those chores that isn't a priority until you run out of underware.

I forget at times that everyones life isn't the same, my washer and dryer are centrally located in my home, and so far stairs aren't a problem for me. That makes laundry no big deal, but your situation may be different.
 
jujube said:
I don't understand how TWO PEOPLE use up so many dishes and laundry...... I know it's not true but I swear all I do is laundry and dishes.
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Exactly the same with me. I had to take doing laundry away from Huzz; his method is you take everything out of the dirty clothes hamper and stuff it into the washing machine until you can just barely get the door closed; no need to sort clothing by color either, that's silly; then wash everything in hot water & dry everything on hot.

So after him ruining--bleach spots on dark clothing, dark streaks on light clothing, etc.--a lot of our clothes, I took that duty away from him. He refused to wash anything in anything other than hot water with bleach because that's how his mother did it. I told him "they didn't have the cold-water detergents back then like they do now." But he said no his mother was always right. So I gave up on him doing it.
 
When I was younger we had a wringer washer and line dried all our clothes. After I moved out I went to the laundromat.
One thing nice about the laundromat was you could get it all done at once. I tended to procrastinate and the husband
and his oversize self could generate a lot of laundry. :D His grandparents gifted us a washer and dryer shortly after our wedding.
So its been around fifty years . Im on my second set.

At my old house the laundry was in the basement and the bedroom was on the second floor. I was younger then.
My present laundry is off the dining room. Much more convenient. When I was caretaking the husband I sometimes did laundry daily. Now that its just me its maybe once a week. I use my washer as a laundry hamper. When its full I wash the clothes.
Im washing clothes as I type. :D

I dont sort anything. I dont worry about things fading cause most of my stuff has been around for a while.
That and most of its the same color.
 
Everyone knows my circumstances. I lived alone for a good amount of time, but now my wife and I live together again.

Thing is, without my wife being around, I was fine with the laundry. Now my wife is back...... ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

Firstly, she has an entire shelf of various products to ensure the "clean is done right". Then there is a careful selection of what items go with what other items. Then there are little bags of special items that go together. Then there are special cycles of washing. And don't get me started on the endless folding, ironing, and additional scrubbing.

In fact, she HATES me to do the laundry. Apparently, for all my learnings, laundry is something I've not mastered. For me, I'm convinced my wife washes more clothes than we own. Or she's washing them twice, three times.... I don't know.
 
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