What's the WORST part about doing laundry?

[RevCheesehead]

I absolutely hate separating the clothes. There's always one or two items that just don't fit anywhere.

And you?

[Fenris]

1. Folding/hanging.

x(

[mwdem]

2. Folding! Hate it with passion.

[LeftyMom]

3. Folding

It lasts forever.

[mwooldri]

5. Then imagine what my between-college job was.

Folding clothes at a semi-trendy men's clothing store. Then again it may be different as I view it as merchandise and not as clothing. It only becomes clothing to me when I buy it and then wear it.

Mark.

[billyskank]

102. I'll fold for you

I don't mind it. :hi:

[tjwmason]

114. You'd do anything for Leftymom though.

:P

:hi:

[billyskank]

120. Not anything

I wouldn't eat a Big Mac for her, not that she'd ask me to. But in a spirit of friendship I would perform a wide variety of services for her. :hi:

[tjwmason]

123. I can't say that I'd eat a Big Mac for anybody either....

But I'm just going to stop thinking about this "wide variety of services" before I say something which might offend you or get the thread locked. :P

[billyskank]

127. That was why I added "in a spirit of friendship"

because I have a policy against flirting too strongly with women whose boyfriends are built like a brick shit house. :)

[mwooldri]

4. The whole thing. Especially when your washer/dryer breaks down.

Then you have to figure out a plan B. This gets tight when you're short on cash and can't afford to take your washing to the launderette. Fortunately in our case we have family. Last time this happened the clothes got washed at home and dried at my in-laws.

If there's a worst part about it is folding up the clothes and putting them away after they've been cleaned.

Mark.

[joneschick]

6. that would be finding MY stuff when another householder

decides to do any laundry. sigh.

[RevCheesehead]

8. Do you each do your own?

In my case, it's a no-brainer. :hi:

[joneschick]

109. no -- I know some households that do that.

I consider it a household responsibility. You sort all the wash, you hang and fold everything. It get challenging. When the girls were little it was Dad, me and small, medium and large. Then they all got big.....

[merh]

7. I used to love to do the laundry!

[RevCheesehead]

10. ROFLMAO!!!

you are B-A-D!! :spank::spank:<----you probably enjoy this, too!

[merh]

12. What?

:shrug:


:hug: :loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

13. are you series?!

Um, think a larger version of "Hello, Kitty." :evilgrin:

[merh]

20. *sigh*

:( I know, and I can't ride the washer at the laundrymat or my friends house!

:cry: Damn Katrina! :argh:

[RevCheesehead]

23. But you WILL when you get your new house!

And you WILL get a new house! Even if I have to send a work-crew from here by myself.
:hug::loveya:

[merh]

31. I WILL, I know I WILL!!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:


:pals: and thanks for the offer to send a crew :hug:

If I need them, can they be really big chested and I can I make them not wear their shirts? :freak:


:loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

32. LOL.

Around here, the big-chested ones are the WOMEN. :rofl:

[merh]

37. Where was the Christmas happy you posted for us?

I want them all to look like him! :silly:

:loveya:

[RevCheesehead]

38. This guy? He's doing laundry right now.

[merh]

40. I will be more than happy to help him get any wrinkles

out of any items that might be wrinkled. :evilgrin:

[RevCheesehead]

42. I'll just bet you would.

He's got about 7 more loads to do.

























of laundry, you perv. :hide:

[merh]

44. And for a moment there

I had such high hopes :evilgrin:


A girl can always dream! :smoke:

[riona]

108. wake up, wake up, i've got laundry!!

:bounce:

[Catfight]

22. Where do you guys GET these animated funnies? Hysterical. nt

[merh]

35. Oh, you can find all sorts of things

at this link http://www.millan.net/anims/giffar.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Folding whites...especially socks. My family has too many socks.

Yuck.

[barb162]

90. I almost always lose a sock a month.

Where do they go...sock heaven?

[Lavender Brown]

11. Realizing that a stain just isn't going to come out

and I have to toss a favorite shirt (this happens to me a lot, because I'm clumsy and spill food all the time). :cry:

[Deja Q]

55. Nice to know I'm not the only one with THAT problem...

O8)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Actually, I pretty much enjoy doing laundry........

Most of the time, anyhow......

OK, hit me now!

I guess my least favorite part is making myself fold the clothes.....

But I do enjoy it once I get started ......:shrug:

[RevCheesehead]

17. You enjoy it?

Or you got used to doing it?

It's my least favorite chore... and it never, ever ends. :(

:hi::hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. A little of both, I suppose, my dear Rev.....

I am used to it......and I do enjoy it once I get started .....

Plus it doesn't hurt that I have a really nice laundry room where I can spread out......

Lots of storage and like that......

:hug: :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

28. Ah, a laundry room!

I have a basement. At least, I also have a laundry chute.

In one of my parsonages in NC, the washer/dryer were in the GARAGE. Yuk.

[bigwillq]

15. Socks

I hate folding socks.

[xmas74]

16. Ironing.

It really sucks.

[RevCheesehead]

18. I *never* iron anymore.

Unless I'm sewing. But then again, I never sew anymore, either. :)

[xmas74]

19. Most of my sewing is patches.

I've got a Girl Scout in the family so I have new patches to sew after every meeting.

[RevCheesehead]

21. And she doesn't have her sewing badge yet?

Damn - my mom did the first 2 or 3, then told me that that was something I could learn to do for myself. :)

[xmas74]

41. She's only five.

She can't get that patch until she's a Brownie. Right now most of her patches are just for fun.

[LostinVA]

25. Folding/hanging/putting away.... ugh

[libnnc]

26. sorting.

I can get the junk in the washing machine and then in the dryer, but when it comes to putting the sheets and socks back where they live...:banghead:

needless to say, we have a ton of clean stuff in the laundry basket...

[RevCheesehead]

27. I have a lot of *formerly* clean stuff now covered in cat hair...

because I ran out of space to put everything away. Damned small closets. :grr:

[yellowdogintexas]

166. we would make great room mates and our cats would love us.

I have that same arrangement.


and we are both Methodists, too.

[Sgent]

29. Ironing

But then... I don't iron as a rule. The "wrinkless" shirts from Brooks Brothers last a LONG time between ironings, and a local cleaner still does dress shirts (wash & iron) for $0.99.

[GOPBasher]

30. Folding, separating. and then I REALLY hate ironing. BTW

how are you doing, Rev? Sorry about your loss. :hug:

[RevCheesehead]

34. I'm doing better.

I have a few sad moments, but overall, I'm being sustained with prayer, support, and love. :hug::loveya:

[GOPBasher]

39. Glad to hear you're ok.

:hug:

[yvr girl]

33. matching socks

I have many pairs of black and navy blue socks.

[RevCheesehead]

45. It's even worse at night.

I stare and stare, and still can't figure out what color it is. :crazy:

[yvr girl]

53. especially in my place

I don't have a lot of bright light.

[liberaltrucker]

36. Losing a fucking sock in the dryer

Oops, sorry, Rev:blush:

:rofl:

[nutsnberries]

43. the only part i dislike is putting everything away.

i do several loads a day.

i don't mind sorting it, i don't mind washing it, i don't mind hanging things up to dry or drying them, i don't mind folding it all... i just don't like putting it away. i try to subcontract as much of that as i can.

[RevCheesehead]

47. Several loads a DAY???

:scared:

[nutsnberries]

50. well, on Sunday I give it a rest. ;)

I wash for 6. Kids do sports and generate lots of laundry.

[Dinger]

46. Putting Everything Away

Hi Rev!! Missed ya!!



:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

48. Hi, Ding!!!

Nice to see ya!! :hug::hi:

[In_The_Wind]

49. I don't have room to put everything away if it's all clean.

Unless I'm packin' for a trip.

[RevCheesehead]

61. Maybe that's why we have perpetual laundry?

I have GOT to get rid of some of my clothes.

[In_The_Wind]

70. You can't do that.

When you're needed away from home too many hours to do a regular wash you'll be happy for the extra stuff.

I bought risers for my bed. :) Now I have huge rubber-maid containers of clothes and shoes tucked away. My room looks so neat because I've got enough clothes for 12 days with me.

[RevCheesehead]

71. Oh, believe me, I already do that!

I have enough undies to go almost a month, if necessary. And this past month, it's been just that (except for the load I did while at Dad's).

[In_The_Wind]

76. Happy clean stuff.

:loveya: I'm going to say goodnight Rev. I think I hear my pillow calling me.

[fleabert]

51. pairing socks. i love the rest.

really, I love it. the smell reminds me of one of my first jobs, at a dry cleaner/Laundry. We 'shook shirts' on Saturdays to prep for Monday's pressing. My hands were always so soft after doing it - from the starch (that is put in the wash with the shirts in industrial laundries, not when they are pressed)

I have really good memories of that job. I wanted to press, but the boss said I was too young- it takes a steady and mature hand to do it. The folks that did it loved it too, had all worked there for years and years.

I have to add- I don't prefer to iron. I will do it, but not often. I think it's generally a waste of time. They just get wrinkled again when you get in the car or sit down. Any wrinkle that can't come out in the dryer is almost always going to stay.

[Shine]

52. OMG, don't get me started.

I HATE IT ALL.

I feel like that Greek guy Sysaphus (sp?), who was doomed to spend eternity rolling up the rock to the top of the mountain, only to have it roll back down again and start all over.

That's me and the laundry: It NEVER ends and I can NEVER get on top of it.

:eyes:

[eyesroll]

54. Donning a hazmat suit to deal with the upstairs-boys' laziness

The boys upstairs tend to leave laundry in the communal laundry room for days on end...sometimes, it sits in the washer (or on top of the dryer or on the floor) half-wet.


Two more weeks and we'll be moving to a place with a shared laundry room BUT our own washer/dryer...and adults living upstairs...

[RevCheesehead]

62. Good luck with your move!

Hope all goes well. :hi:

[reyd reid reed]

56. Putting them away

I try and get the kids to do it but usually find them -- still folded -- in the laundry the next time I sort.

And the stairs. Bedrooms are upstairs so that's where the laundry accumulates the most -- and where it belongs when it's time to put it away. Laundry's in the basement, though. Those stairs are gonna kill me one day...

I like the rest, though. Even the ironing's not too bad...when I do it.

And now for some shameless self-promotion:

http://www.opiummagazine.com/storysizzledyer071505.html

(I hope that works...I'm gonna look pretty stupid if it doesn't)

[RevCheesehead]

63. How cool!

Are you a writer? You certainly have a talent for it! :)

[reyd reid reed]

75. Thanks

[Flying Dream Blues]

57. I don't hate anything but the putting away!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

58. Never having enough quarters when I need to do laundry

One of the disadvantages of apartment life.

[RevCheesehead]

64. I remember it well.

In fact, the first time I got a parsonage with a washer/dryer, I just about broke down in tears, vowing to *never* complain about doing laundry again.

You're helping me re-think my position here! :hi:

[bertha katzenengel]

59. IT NEVER ENDS.

You have to do it every weekend. Or every day, if you have a bunch of people in the house. every g-d- day! And then you have to get the loads together. And then when the dryer buzzes you have to rush down NOW so they don't wrinkle. And if it's just towels in the washer, you think "it's just towels, I'll get them later," then a week later when you remember, you have to run them again and add laundry-strength febreze or something to get out the mildew smell....

god, i hate doing laundry.

:hi: Rev. Guess what? I'm an agnostic, not an atheist, today. Tomorrow, who knows? :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

65. Hi, Bertha!

Is the newly-found agnosticism due to laundry distress? :)

[bertha katzenengel]

68. *blink*

:rofl:

Honey, I have been vacillating between agnosticism and atheism for 20 years. Atheism usually wins. But I don't begrudge anyone his or her beliefs.

Right now I am so desperate for a community AND so desperate to sing that I am seriously tempted to go down the street and ask if I can join the choir at St. Paul's Episcopal. :shakinghead:

Yet there's a woman at work... when she was new i saw her reading a "Christian" romance novel on lunch break. One led to another and I told her I was a believer -- was meaning past tense -- and suddenly for months she has been all over me, won't leave me alone, telling me she's praying for me, asking me to pray for her. VERY nice woman. She was hit by a cab and the instant I heard I was at the hospital. But I would do that for anyone. I can't get her to go away. It sounds so cold but I can't take the constant godspeak, Rev, or even the attention. It brings VERY BAD MEMORIES.

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

How on earth did I get off on that?!

edited to get the timeline right - known this woman about 3 years

[RevCheesehead]

69. because she's bugging you.

I hate it when people don't respect boundaries. And too many fundies seem to think it's their mission in life to make everyone just like them.

Tell her you talked with your pastor (me), and have been assured that you're just fine, just the way you are. :hug:

[bertha katzenengel]

73. Thank you. It's not so much a conversion thing --

she misunderstood me. I told her I was a believer. When I said that I should have made it clear that "I used to be a believer." No, what she heard is that I AM a believer.

She's not trying to convert me. She acts as if I am one of her number. Well, I was, until age 23. That's why it brings back such bad memories.

I have pulled away seriously in the last few weeks in the name of my natural introversion, which she does respect. I don't wnat to hurt her feelings but neither do I want an episode where I say, "I don't want to hurt your feelings," turn into a lovey-dovey fest where she assumes everything's everything again.

What do I do, Sister? ;) as if you have my answers. but I appreciate your listening. :hug:

[RevCheesehead]

74. Tell her you're a lesbian?

Oh, wait - you don't want to stir her up, do ya? :evilgrin:

[bertha katzenengel]

83. LOL She knows! She and her husband, Bruce, and Mrs. V. and I

have dined together, gone to a baseball game together... These two Christians are truly followers of Christ. When Kathy was very, very sick a few years ago, Bruce, a cab driver in Annapolis (more than an hour from Waldorf), drove Kathy once a week for four weeks to a doctor yet another hour away from Waldorf in a different direction. And gave her a small discount.

I like them personally. I just don't want to spend any time with this woman anymore. I

Then again, maybe I should. Maybe I should just go to lunch with her and tell her, Look, D., I am a borderline atheist. I do not believe in your God. I enjoy talking with you and when say I will pray for you, I lie -- i'm sorry, please forgive me -- but I ALWAYS ask Kathy, who is a believer, to pray for you. Ect., etc.

I wonder what she'd say.

[RevCheesehead]

85. She might surprise you.

If she's that open and cool, I'm sure she'd have no problem with your (whatever you call it - spiritual journey?). As to the spending time together, relationships always change and/or evolve.

[bertha katzenengel]

93. definitely a spiritual journey

if i had to have a god, it would be the feline. i find it my mission in life to care for them as if they were my very children. i have to nurse them, neuter/spay them, feed them, give them shelter. Isn't that what Jesus said to do? And if we've done it to "the least," we've done it to him. (Except maybe the spay/neuter part.)

I believe Jesus existed. I don't believe he was god. But as a leader, a philosopher.... He and Mohandas K. Gandhi are The Men.

It's definitely a Journey. Mrs. V. bought me a ticket to go w/ her and a few others to hear Bishop Spong next month at the National Cathedral. I am thinking of going and I am thinking of not going. :shrug:

Yet there is no god. What on earth is going on?

I'd better go to bed. What a great conversation, Rev. Thank you so much. Sorry about 'jacking your thread. :pals:

[spindrifter]

60. Putting it away!

I don't mind any of the other parts--just jamming stuff into already crammed drawers.

[jukes]

66. separating is not a problem for me:

1. kind of light
2. kind of dark


i hate actually putting them away. i'm thinking of buying several dryers for my bedroom, y just leave the load in the appropriate dryer till i need it. if i want something not wrinkled, spritz the load, throw in a dryer sheet, y redry for ten minutes; wrinkles gone!

[eleny]

67. Here's why I love doing the laundry, lately...

Downy Vanilla Lavender softener. Smells way too strong in the bottle but makes towels and bedding smell like heaven coming out of the dryer. Vanilla is the strong note here. Mmmmmm!

I always miss a sock or some damned thing doesn't make it in the wash. Just like the dishwasher - I always miss a cup or something. Don't sweat this small stuff, Rev.

[Robeson]

72. I can't think of any. Doing laundry has so many positives....

...that there are no negatives.

[Oeditpus Rex]

77. Finding a rock

that's the right size and shape.

:eyes:

[RevCheesehead]

78. not to mention finding the spare loincloth.

:silly:

[hfojvt]

79. clothes are supposed to be separated?

Oooops :blush: My face is now as red as my underwear.

[KT2000]

80. Laundry is one of my faves!

Is there something wrong with me? I actually like doing the laundry.

[RevCheesehead]

81. Nothing wrong with you at all... but I have to ask...

do you have an unmarried brother? :hi:

[KT2000]

99. Sorry - he's married

:-( He does his laundry and ironing. Not sure if he likes it though. He like cats too!!

[Radio_Lady]

87. I hire myself out to my daughter and others. Take in difficult laundry

problems. Do all the laundry for the whole family -- husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandkids, when we are on vacation in Hawaii.

I figure if they cut of my social security, my old man dies, and I can't do anything else, I can always do the laundry.

It's really weird, folks.

[KT2000]

100. No - I get it!

I would do that too but I am on an ancient septic system.

My sister is the best ironer in the world! Her cuffs and collar look like they came from a good cleaners. Very impressive.

[Radio_Lady]

82. Tell you a secret: I LOVE DOING THE LAUNDRY!

The motion of the machines, whirling the clothes around, and that warm little laundry room with its dehumidifier. I feel so lucky I have a sink in the laundry room; and the best of all, it's on the upper floor of my two-story house, with all the bedrooms!

The color of the liquid detergents, figuring out how to take our spots, using OxyClean for so many things (except red clay... nothing really takes that out, does it?)

The smell of the dryer sheets -- like rain, sunshine, or even just natural. Soft cotton fabrics. Heavy jeans that go thump, thump, thump.

The mating of socks, then rolling them and putting them neatly into a drawer.

Even going to a pay laundromat and sitting around with other people, trying to figure out who they are and why they are here.

When I visit third world countries, and see laundry out on a line and even women washing their clothes in a river, I realize how lucky I am.

HOWEVER, I MUST TELL YOU -- I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I FEEL THIS WAY. I cut my eye teeth on two children, born fourteen months apart, and then add in three older children of my husband when we married in 1973. Laundry was the lifeblood of the house. Every child wanted to know, "Where are MY clothes? I have to get to school." Yeah. I knew. Three levels of the house. Bedrooms on the top level, laundry on the bottom. "I'll find your green shirt, all right, and then, Dad and I have to get to work!"

Now I'm a retired laundress. But my undies and socks are soaking somewhere in a sink in the house. And Grandpa never had to do any laundry while he was married to me!

[Radio_Lady]

129. Images won't load -- sorry for the delete.

[Broken_Hero]

84. matching socks...

hands down, no doubt, is the thing I hate the most about doing laundry. My wife has like 230847302940397840382yu439284703298743094 damn socks, of different color, hue, material, and trying to match all 2309809287403840324893 socks together, is enough to make me puke. And another thing, my wife hardly ever matches socks, arrggh!! married, life, you love it, or hate it...:)

[RevCheesehead]

89. my parents' solution to that:

they folded their own laundry. Each had items they wanted folded in a certain way. Rather than argue, or re-fold, they just folded their own clothes.

[Broken_Hero]

91. yeah...

what i do, is take my socks out, and I leave hers in a basket, and pretty soon, our dog gets into that basket, and gets his hair all over it, and socks have to be washed again, to set in a basket again, for our dog to get into again, repeat cycle...sheesh...:) Most of the time, she never puts them together, just finds two that look similiar, and puts them on, at the wee hours of the morning....

[Radio_Lady]

97. Isn't that special? Actually, my husband sometimes does re-fold

things.

No problem. I let him do it. I'm not THAT nuts!

However, I've been letting him make his own breakfasts and lunches. That's really good training to take over the job I really HATE --

COOKING!

(That's another story for another night.)

[barb162]

86. hahahah, who separates clothes?

Actually there's a lot of things I won't separate as I don't care if the darks have lint, like sweatpants. I really don't care as my cats will sit on my lap in 3 minutes and get their damned hair all over me anyway.

[RevolutionaryActs]

88. The whole thing?

:rofl:

[NaturalHigh]

92. Folding and Putting Away.

I will do laundry all day so long as someone else will fold the clothes and put them away.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

94. Unfurling stinky sweaty socks that sat under someone's bed for a week

But the best part is finding the money that so often gets left in a shirt pocket. That goes into the "Fun Fund". :D

[Radio_Lady]

98. Take the money and RUN! Stinky socks? Hit them with Spray'n'Wash!

Works like a charm.

I don't mind stinky socks too much, but stinky and MOLDY socks make me gag.

That's wet socks -- stuffed inside shoes -- and left there in Hawaii's or Florida's humid climate.

[politicat]

95. Not having a clothes line.

I miss being able to hang things up outside and just come back three hours later and take it all down, folding as it comes off the line. Now I have to make sure I get things from the washer to the dryer, and the dryer to the bed, and then fold it.

City's got a reg - no clotheslines that are visible from another person's property... and the yards in this neighborhood have chainlink or low picket fences. I've got a lilac hedge growing, but without radioactive fertilizer, it's gonna be a couple years.

ARGH. They make me PAY for a dryer and PAY for the juice to run it, and won't let me use the free, environmentally responsible FREE sunlight because someone might see a dishcloth or a pair of panties and have a freakin' heart attack about their property values.

Green city, my ass.

[twenty4blackbirds]

96. realising that I'm gonna have to do it again

[sarge43]

101. The static shock

The wool socks clinging like lampreys to the bath towels are especially nasty.
:hurts:

[NMMNG]

103. Putting everything away, which includes sorting/folding/hanging

I particularly hate all of the small stuff like socks, undies and washcloths.

[riona]

104. anything to do with it after it's dry

ESPECIALLY IRONING!

:mad:

[TheBaldyMan]

105. Finding a banknote in my back pocket AFTER the wash

I usually just flatten it out and dry it out later.

[wildhorses]

106. that part does not bother me...I hate to put them up but none of it

is worse than dusting...I despise to dust

[malta blue]

107. putting it away!

That is my nemesis. I have been known to have a stack two feet high of neatly folded clothes sit on top of the washer for days. I hate carrying it upstairs and putting it away.

[newportdadde]

110. Stairs. Our Laundry area is downstairs...

Down the stairs, up the stairs.. down the stairs up the stairs. Wasn't a big deal at first but as I get older I'm hating it more and more.

[China_cat]

111. Reminding my husband

that he left some stuff in the bathroom.

(He has this thing for HIS washer and dryer...I haven't been allowed to touch them in 25 years)

[chup]

112. my maid wont have sex with me while she is doing my laundry

[chup]

113. I mean housekeeper...guess they aren't called maids anymore

[mcar]

115. Folding, putting away

Then doing it all over again next week.

[Strong Atheist]

116. Starting. nt.

[anarch]

117. worrying that my clothes are going to be dirtier when I'm done

I really don't like the community laundry room in my apartment. Second worst thing: crappy dryers that don't work half the time, and never being able to get my money back when they don't. x(

[Left Is Write]

118. The worst part is finishing everything, folding, ironing, hanging and

putting it away, only to discover that while you were finishing, somebody made five more loads of dirty laundry.

[LynneSin]

119. SKIDMARKS

Not that I ever get them!

[RevCheesehead]

122. My dad calls those "nicotine stains."

I have no idea why, but I think it is damned funny. :)

[LynneSin]

Damn funny until you come across a pair that ain't yours

:puke:

[XemaSab]

121. Now Reverend,

there's an easy solution to that.

Don't sort your clothes.

:hide:

[RevCheesehead]

124. or an even easier solution: don't WEAR any clothes.

Laundry, it seems, is the price of Original Sin. :evilgrin:

[XemaSab]

128. "After the ecstasy, the laundry..."

[Bassic]

125. Eum.. doing laundry.

:)

[no name no slogan]

126. Truthfully, I love doing laundry

I rarely got to do it when I was married, because I didn't do it the "right way" for my (now ex-) wife. One of the first things I really got into again after we split was doing laundry. In a weird way, it was liberating to do it for myself again.

As long as I don't wash an inkpen. That can be a mess.

[APPLE314]

130. Running around naked until it dries. - n/t

[Radio_Lady]

150. Oh, I used to be a "closet nudist" but I won't discuss it here. That was

in my younger days -- in Florida, at some of these places:

http://goflorida.about.com/cs/floridabeaches/a/nude_guide.htm

The beach closest to our home is discussed here:

http://goflorida.about.com/od/atlanticbeaches/p/bch_haulover.htm

When I moved to Massachusetts, I tried to encourage others in my extended family to try swimming in a secluded backyard, and I got chastised for it. My bad. I still like the idea of "clothing optional," but in Oregon, at age 66, with a temperate climate -- I'd probably get a lot of laughs and there would be pointing -- and my husband would KNOW I'm nuts!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

From August 1956:

[RetroLounge]

131. I haven't done my own laundry in over 10 years

So I don't hate any part of it...

:hi:

RL

[Radio_Lady]

132. OK, RL (from another RL), I'll bite. Who does it in your family?

Or have you finally realized that science fiction ideal -- clothes that clean themselves! I've been waiting for that since birth!

[RetroLounge]

134. My wife does it.

The first time we did laundry together, I asked her why she was separating colors from whites. At that point, she looked at me and said go away. I've never had to do it again.

We're separated, and she still insists on doing it...

RL

[Radio_Lady]

148. Well, that explains it. Clearly, you exhibited no aptitude for laundry.

"Just carry that basket and put it in there, please."

Man, you're SEPARATED from your wife and she's still doing your laundry? Is that what you're saying? What's up with that? You still livin' in the same house or apartment together? Damn nice of her, I'd say.

When I got separated, I put most of his clothes on the front lawn one day -- in boxes, of course. That was it. Somebody else has done that guy's laundry since that day, February 14, 1971. You may notice it was Valentine's Day, and not a very good one, as I reall. I got a mind like a steel trap..... :)

[RetroLounge]

172. No we live separately

I just bring the clothes back home once a week.

She will be moving upstairs from me and we will share a laundry chute and laundry room, so it just makes sense still...

Yes, I live a surreal weird life.

RL

[Radio_Lady]

176. Believe me, I've heard wilder stories than yours! The folks I won't

forget are the authors of the book "Open Marriage" whom I interviewed in the 1970s. Ironically, I searched for Nena and George O'Neill, and found she just passed away a few days ago. I just learned of it in this New York Times article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/books/25oneill.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Nena O'Neill, 82, an Author of 'Open Marriage,' Is Dead

By MARGALIT FOX

Published: March 26, 2006

Nena O'Neill, one half of the husband-and-wife team whose best-selling book "Open Marriage" helped spread the youthful sexual revolution of the 1960's to the middle-aged, middle-class Middle America of the 1970's, died on March 9 in Manhattan. She was 82 and lived on the Upper West Side. The apparent cause was respiratory failure, said her son Michael.

Part anthropological survey, part marriage manual, "Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples" caused a sensation in the United States and abroad when it was published in 1972. Written by Ms. O'Neill and her husband, George, the book spent more than 40 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.

Published by M. Evans & Company, "Open Marriage" remains in print in paperback. It has been translated into 14 languages and has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide, according to the company's Web site.

"Open Marriage," as the book's champions said emphatically and often, was never intended to be a guide for swingers. Indeed, the book embraced marriage. Its purpose, the authors wrote, was simply "to strip marriage of its antiquated ideals and romantic tinsel and find ways to make it truly contemporary."

MORE AT LINK ABOVE --->

I recall going home to my husband with a copy of the book, and reading it to him. We were just living together at the time (I was doing the laundry... ta-da!). I said, "Let's try this out, OK?" He said, "I really don't think so!" So we actually got married in February 1973.

Guess what? I'm still doing the laundry!

With a wink in her eye,

Radio_Lady

[CC]

133. Mine I don't mind doing

at all. I quit doing the DH's years ago when he complained his shirts were hung back wards on the hangers and I didn't put his stuff away right.:shrug: Then he didn't put his own stuff away at all so now he does his own laundry. That was probably the first month we lived together.:rofl: Now my least favorite part of laundry is putting the hammocks, hanging cubes, tunnels etc back in the ferret cage because you have to become a contortionist to get some of them where they will fit. And yes ferrets have laundry, weekly unless you want stinky ferrets.

[RevCheesehead]

143. Ferret laundry!

I never thought of that, but hell, you'd need to do that, wouldn't you?? :)

[CC]

153. Oh yeah and actually have

cat and dog laundry too, the dogs have their blankets to lay on and the cat beds need washing once in a while but the ferrets are weekly. But the cat and dog stuff is easy to just lay where ever BTW was putting the ferret bedding etc back in the cage. :rofl:

[BikeWriter]

135. I need to do it right now!

[WolverineDG]

136. finding your cell phone in the washer

:(

guess who did that lately? :dunce:

dg

[Radio_Lady]

137. Wolverine, did you actually wash the cellphone, or did it just get wet?

When I accidentally spilled water over my Magnavox cellphone while carrying it around in my backpack, the Verizon store where we shop said -- just take the battery out and let the phone dry overnight. Magically, it worked in the morning!

(However, if you put it through the whole wash and rinse cycle -- it's probably kaput!) Sorry about that.

Someone I know dropped his cellphone in the toilet while leaning over to flush. It was in his breast pocket. I imagine it happens often to lots of people. These devices are handy, small, and prone to snuggling in your pocket. Like an Ipod or MP3 player. They'll get washed, too.

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[WolverineDG]

139. Oh, no, not just a little wet

it went through the whole cycle, even smells like downy. :( at least i have a front-loader so all it got was a gentle ride instead of being beaten to death by the agitator.

dg

[Radio_Lady]

147. "Smells like Downy," huh? Well, you can always hang it somewhere --

as a cell phone shaped air freshener!

I'll but you won't do THAT again...

In peace,

Radio_Lady

OT: Are you by any chance involved with the University of Michigan Wolverines in Ann Arbor, Michigan? My Dad went to school there in the 1930s and became a lawyer, and my doctor/son-in-law from Detroit graduated much later, too!

[WolverineDG]

149. Pockets will always be searched in the future

Nope, the Wolverine in my name doesn't come from UM, although I've been told by a Michigander that I now have to cheer for the team. At least when they play Wisconsin. ;)

dg

[Radio_Lady]

151. OK. I visited your abandoned blog today.

I started a lonely blog in 2005 at www.livejournal.com
I wrote one entry and then, months later, I requested the adminstrator delete it!

But I'm trying again on the DU. Check out my journal! The DU makes it MUCH easier!

Loved your description of the Museum of Modern Art! Oh, and your musings on Mr. Cheney's quail-shooting incident. That's about it...

I'll have to "Google" the Santiago de Compostela Pilgrimage. Don't have a clue!

On Edit: I got it! Here: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/santiago/spancmno.html

Have a great weekend, "dg the Wolverine" -- and say "hi" to Wisconsin (the pink blog says you're in Texas...).

Are you runnin' from the law, podner?

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[WolverineDG]

152. Thanks for that link!!

:hug:

And for visiting my little blog. I need to go back & post there again.

Nope, not running from the law. It was the name of the school mascot in "Red Dawn." I just slapped it together with an email address I used to have & voila! WolverineDG was born! :)

dg

[Radio_Lady]

155. No problem. "Red Dawn" -- that's it. By Justin Richards.

Here's the link I found:

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/r/justin-richards/red-dawn.htm

Re: Your Blog ---->

Wolverine, besides doing the writing in a blog, I feel you have to generate traffic and comments, or else it seems as if you're speaking to yourself. At the DU, you can put in your comments in one of the forums, automatically copy the whole conversation to your journal, and you have a built-in audience.

You already have over 1,000 posts at the DU? I don't know much about you, but I would encourage you to start again here, even with what you have already generated. An audience makes a big difference.

However, you may just want to blog secretly. Some DUers are putting in no personal information at all, which is an option. Or you may prefer to stay with Blogger.com and your blog can be more like a secret diary that you don't want your Mom or Dad to see -- or the kids, for that matter!

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[WolverineDG]

158. Thanks!

I hang out mostly in the Countdown & Texas forums. :) I've got a journal on DU too, but again, I get to it when I can. I just haven't had anything of interest to blog about lately. :)

dg

[RevCheesehead]

144. That's bound to be added to the KOEB lore -

right up there with Patsy's unfortunate encounter with a mattress on the road. :hi::hug:

[WolverineDG]

154. LOL!

I remember that story! :rofl:

dg

[miss_american_pie]

138. When the kids leave things in their pockets

Crayons are not fun.

Neither are worms.

[Book Lover]

140. Gathering the quarters (nm)

[DanCa]

141. No matter how hard that i've tried

I noticed that I can't get high from doing lines from powdered tide. :(

[swag]

142. The paparazzi.

[LaraMN]

145. Finding shrunken pants.

:evilfrown:

[Magrittes Pipe]

146. Shrinking the dog.

dolo will never forgive me. :cry:



edit: and don't even ask about the time I tried to iron out his wrinkles.

[fight4my3sons]

156. folding and putting away

I do laundry every day, 2-3 loads. Now with these kids going outside and getting dirty I have to try to get stains out of everything. They seem to go through an unbelievable amount of clothes. Finding all of their little socks and matching them up drives me insane sometimes. At least my husband irons his own clothes.

[Pithlet]

165. Ugh. Yes.

I have two boys, 2 and 5. The socks are horrible. I used to love doing laundry, but now it is the daily chore from hell, especially now that grass stained knees season has started.

[Ilsa]

157. Discovering something that wasn't supposed to have been in that load. nt

[Piltdown13]

159. Bedroom -- second floor. Laundry machines -- basement.

It's an older house (probably close to 100 years), and the stairs are really narrow; the ones down into the basement are also kind of rickety, and there's a really low-hanging beam just over them. So I have to go down those rickety stairs just about bent double carrying a basket of laundry. It's also really easy to forget and smack your head on that beam on the way back up :-(. Still preferable to a laundromat or apartment complex laundry room, though!

Other than that, I actually kind of enjoy doing laundry. Ironing, though...that's a different story!

[Orsino]

160. Giving the money to the GOP. n/t

[Lisa]

161. hauling the basket upstairs to the garage ...

.... only to discover that my landlady has already started a huge load of stuff with more waiting in the wings! So I won't be able to get to the machine until that evening, anyway.

Until fairly recently, my least favorite part was opening the dryer door ... some items would fall on the cement floor ... and inevitably, my landlady's cat would have urinated or coughed up a hairball right on that spot, so I'd have to put things through the cycle again! The cat gave up the ghost last year, but they got a puppy instead ... so there is still an omnipresent hazard (piddle, hair -- and the dog following me into the garage and either biting me on the rear end when I'm getting stuff out of the machines, or suddenly deciding to grab a pair of my undies and make a run for it).

[Skittles]

162. I don't care for the folding

everything else is cake but the folding, well, it really must be done right away....and there's always that missing sock :o

[KitchenWitch]

163. The fact that it is never truly done.

[Xipe Totec]

164. I Wouldn't Know,

I've never done it myself.

Tell me, what is it like?



:hide:

[bettyellen]

167. my neighbors steal my quarters

i leave them out of habit, from when i had nice neighbors who would stick my stuff in the dryer for me, sparing me a huge schlep.
these fuckers steal my quarters, forcing me to double schlep, maybe triple schlep (to the grocery for more change).

[yellowdogintexas]

168. IT NEVER ENDS> There is always a load of something which

needs to be washed/dried/hung/ folded/put away/ironed

my house really has no good place for clothes hampers either, the staging area for the dirty laundry. I recently bought a new laundry sorter to assist with this issue. It has helped some.

I still hate it.

But not as much as when I had to go to the laundromat ugh .

I used to go to this laundromat in Cambridge that had like 14 washers and 2 dryers, and a spouse who did not want to wait until the towels were dry before leaving the laundro mat. I should have just let him use the damn sour towels. ick.

[RevCheesehead]

169. I used to keep two laundry baskets in my bedroom closet.

Then move them downstairs when it was time to do the wash. But now, I've got a laundry chute. That's wonderful, except that I don't think about laundry until I see the clothes piled at the top of the chute. :)

[lindisfarne]

170. Several loads a day? With all due respect, how?? Towels are clean

after a shower, so why wash them every day (presumably, you're clean after a shower). Just train each person to hang their towel up (and keep track of which one is theirs) (easier said than done, I know).

OK, if you have 4 children under 10, maybe. If they're older, start training them to do the laundry!!

[RevCheesehead]

171. Not me!

I have several loads to do, but only because I've been busy with real-life matters. I'm on loads 5 and 6 of a 10-load project... and I live alone. Well, the cats don't produce laundry - but they don't do it, either. :)

[LibertyLover]

173. Hate

putting it away again. Also hate when I miss pre spotting a stain prior to washing and find it afterwards, usually too late to do anything about it.

[rhino47]

174. I loathe putting it away.

I have putting groceries away too.A theme perhaps?

[FlaGranny]

175. Folding sheets.

Folding sheets is the absolute worst. I try to just wash them and put them right back on the bed, but have to switch to another set sooner or later.