Wednesday, July 21, 2010

I hate laundry day

I was sitting here thinking about what I needed to get done today and I realized I need to do laundry. A sense of dread came over me and I wondered why laundry was such a loathsome task.
And I have figured it out.
I hate laundry day because right now all the clean laundry is ironed, folded and put away. All the dirty clothes are piled in baskets in the bedrooms. And there is no laundry on the floor. Even though the laundry in the baskets is dirty, they aren't making a mess of my house.
Now fast forward to when all the laundry has been washed. Now all the baskets are full of fresh laundry that must be folded (I don't like doing this) or ironed (really don't like doing this.)
Once I get around to folding the laundry I look around and all of a sudden all my laundry is on the floor needing to be put away and heaven knows it takes me a good couple of day to get around to putting laundry away! It usually ends up folded in a basket on the floor since I can't stand to have clothes all over the floor.

So while my house is clean now and all the dirty clothes are tucked safely away in their baskets, as soon as the washing and drying are done it is inevitable that it will end up all over my floor.

Now I'm sure most of you are thinking "Why don't you just put the clothes away once you get them folded?" Of course this would be the logical resolution to my problem. However, there are some things that I just really HATE doing and putting away clean clothes is one of them. (putting away clean dishes is another. I'm seeing a pattern... hmm) With 3 kids I usually get distracted and I have a hard time getting focused on the task again since I didn't really want to be doing it in the first place.

Oh, well. The laundry must be done and I am the one who must do it. So here's to hoping I can get it all washed, dried, folded and put away, all in one day.

1 comment:

Brittany said...

I am the same way! I don't really even mind folding it, it's putting it away that I HATE! And why? It only takes a couple of minutes, but I still hate it! it usually sits on the back of the couch for a day waiting to be put away.