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RadishRose said:
My washer and dryer is upstairs where the 2 bedrooms are, so that makes it easier. Folding and put away isn't always fun, but I'd rather do laundry than vacuum.
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me too... it's the darn stairs that kill my back when I'm vacc'ing.... I've got a Miele which is great but it's heavy, and I have a lightweight stick one too which I use just to run over the kitchen floor and hallways , but the latter doesn't do the stairs very well so hubs does them for me with the Miele when he's got a day off, or at the weekend ...
 
hollydolly said:
me too... it's the darn stairs that kill my back when I'm vacc'ing.... I've got a Miele which is great but it's heavy, and I have a lightweight stick one too which I use just to run over the kitchen floor and hallways , but the latter doesn't do the stairs very well so hubs does them for me with the Miele when he's got a day off, or at the weekend ...
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Oh yes, the darn stairs! I can't manage the Hoover on them, so I just use the stick vac. When Eric is around, he'll use the Hoover on them.
 
When I retired I was smart enough to figure out that my share of indoor household tasks needed to increase and that a smart man would pick up the ones that he liked the best. For some reason, doing laundry has always been a task that I sort of enjoyed so I just picked it up without any discussion and have been doing it reliably for the last 14 years. I also added cleaning out the dishwasher in the morning and cleaning up after breakfast. I am also largely in charge of lunch and all things related to coffee, wine and paying the bills. Being a Navy man, I do my own ironing.

This strategy has served me quite well. …. and I am well aware that I still come out ahead.

I do get annoyed when I find remnants of shredded Kleenex when I am folding clothes.
 
I love doing laundry and strangely enough I have always enjoyed doing it. It gives me a sense of satisfaction knowing that my family has clean clothes to wear and everything is hung up or put away in the drawers. I’m a bit OCD so that could have something to do with it as well, LOL. And now that we’ve moved to Florida I have my own laundry room which I’ve never had before and it’s just so much fun to be able to have an entire room dedicated to one of my favorite tasks.
 
Pecos said:
When I retired I was smart enough to figure out that my share of indoor household tasks needed to increase and that a smart man would pick up the ones that he liked the best. For some reason, doing laundry has always been a task that I sort of enjoyed so I just picked it up without any discussion and have been doing it reliably for the last 14 years. I also added cleaning out the dishwasher in the morning and cleaning up after breakfast. I am also largely in charge of lunch and all things related to coffee, wine and paying the bills. Being a Navy man, I do my own ironing.

This strategy has served me quite well. …. and I am well aware that I still come out ahead.

I do get annoyed when I find remnants of shredded Kleenex when I am folding clothes.
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Will you marry me? :)
 
Pinky said:
Will you marry me? :)
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LOL, well I am already spoken for, but on a serious note: I do think that men who do not help with household chores are making a mistake that costs them in subtle ways. The retired men that I personally know are in much happier marriages if they make a serious contribution inside the house (unless they are engaged in serious outside projects or work.).

The guy across the street doesn't do a thing and his wife's opinion of him is not that high. The second part of this equation is that everyday movement like doing ordinary chores is important to your health. Sitting on ones fanny all day is very bad, and going to the gym or walking for a couple of miles doesn't make up for it. My neighbor would benefit a great deal by getting up off his butt.

One of the more disgusting things I have seen was a guy running around wearing a sweatshirt with "I'm Retired, Don't Ask Me To Do A Da_n Thing." He looked proud of himself, but I doubt that he is happily married.
 
Iris Senior said, ". I love hanging it outside in the nice weather for that fresh clean smell ". When I was a kid, my mom would always hang the clothes on the line for that "fresh" smell, even though we had a dryer. I was the one, who had to take them off the line. She did this in the dead of winter, too.. So all the clothes froze to be rock hard boards. They were also frozen to the clothes line. So I had to wrestle the clothes off the line, and break them so I could scrunch them up, and put them in the dryer. All for that "fresh" smell. I never could smell the damn "freshness".
 
I don't like it when the room is so crowded that there is no room for me, or that I can tell in advance that while I can wash, I'd have to wait a long time to dry.

When I was in my twenties I was in a public laundromat and a fight broke out over who gets to use the dryer and there was a stabbing. I think I have PTSD from seeing that and doing laundry makes me nervous.
 
I don't find laundry annoying at all, living in an apartment. For years, I had to lug baskets of laundry down lots of stairs, and lug the clean clothes back up, which was certainly not easy, and would be pretty much impossible now. The problem was the stairs, not the laundry.
 
Fyrefox said:
The worst part for me is when you have a bulky item like a blanket in the machine, it throws the load off balance, and then the washer bumps and thuds in spin cycle as if it's about to come through the wall... :oops:
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HAHA. The Speed Queen washer I got five years ago has a counter-balance feature that prevents that. No matter how unevenly I fill it, it spins perfectly.
But the 30-year-old washer I replaced had to be filled perfectly even or it would actually walk across the floor.
 
Sunny said:
I don't find laundry annoying at all, living in an apartment. For years, I had to lug baskets of laundry down lots of stairs, and lug the clean clothes back up, which was certainly not easy, and would be pretty much impossible now. The problem was the stairs, not the laundry.
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Do you have a washer/dryer in your apartment, @Sunny?
 
I've always liked doing laundry, ironing, sewing, on my machine, house cleaning, cooking. I was always told that I'd make some woman a great little wife. Ha, Ha, Ha................. I could have turned out gay, I suppose, or a lady killer. Definitely, the latter.
 
Pecos said:
LOL, well I am already spoken for, but on a serious note: I do think that men who do not help with household chores are making a mistake that costs them in subtle ways. The retired men that I personally know are in much happier marriages if they make a serious contribution inside the house (unless they are engaged in serious outside projects or work.).

The guy across the street doesn't do a thing and his wife's opinion of him is not that high. The second part of this equation is that everyday movement like doing ordinary chores is important to your health. Sitting on ones fanny all day is very bad, and going to the gym or walking for a couple of miles doesn't make up for it. My neighbor would benefit a great deal by getting up off his butt.

One of the more disgusting things I have seen was a guy running around wearing a sweatshirt with "I'm Retired, Don't Ask Me To Do A Da_n Thing." He looked proud of himself, but I doubt that he is happily married.
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In our family we have a dividing of duties. I do the inside stuff minus the maintenance and he does the outside stuff and pool work. That keeps us out of each other’s hair as he has a certain way he likes it done and I have a certain way I like things done. I’m going to be married 40 years next year so it’s working for us. That’s not to say that we don’t know what the other person does, we do. He can cook he can do laundry, he can clean I can mow the lawn I can pull weeds, I can clean the pool but no thanks. LOL 😀
 

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