1. I sometimes put clean clothes in the dirty clothes basket because I’m too lazy to put them away.
2. I don’t use pegs. And I don’t feel guilty about that.
3. I put creased clothes on (for me and my children) in the hope that before we are due to leave the house, the clothes will have straightened themselves out.
4. If they don’t get straigthened, I might pretend like the creasey/lined/scrunched up look is in at the moment. It never works with my children.
5. I hate ironing.
6. I mix whites with coloureds. THE HORROR!
7. I never pre-soak anything.
Wow….I must say, here her to the laundry doers, I do laundry too.
Number 1, Shaz is absolutely guilty of that…I have probably washed a few articles of clothing about 6 or 7 times, which have NEVER been worn.
We do #3 as well. Except the school uniform, its the ONLY thing that gets ironed at home. I iron, Shaz hates it too.
6 and 7…I too am guilty. With the amount of laundry we generate…seperate whites and colours….who has time…it goes in dirty, comes our clean…good enough for me.
hey me too:)
Totally agree with you about the putting on wrinkled clothes and just hoping for the best! But (and this is probably a dumb question) how do your clothes stay on the line without pegs? Whenever I put stuff on our clothesline without pegs, the cloths just blow/fall off.
PS- so sorry, i know i owe you an email. i’m just very overdue with my pregnancy (9-10 days today and counting) and am so jack of the whole thing that i’ve become a big, fat (fat being the operative word) grump and stopped answering emails, SMS and phone calls. i’ve emailed you back mentally about 20 times! promise i’ll get around to it soon. xx
OMG!!! The shame, the SHAME!!
I hope your mother doesn’t see this entry!
Thank goodness I’m not alone. I should do this confession thing more often.
Mousehunter: We generate that much laundry that I could do a separate wash FOR EACH COLOUR! Oh yeah, uniform and anything husband wears is ironed.
Umarah –
Susan: Dear Susan. Do not worry about the email – I am just glad I didn’t scare you with my fawning. Take it easy. InshaAllah not long for baby. I have received your mental emails through the telepathy and I’m glad to know you will be donating all your earnings and your spare time to look after my children. *cheeky grin*
Farhad: Well as long as her SON-IN-LAW stays quiet about it, it’s all good
haha when I was first away at college, I put black socks in with white t-shirts. The t-shirts came out grey. I never did that again lol.
Wasalaamu alaykum
I hardly ever do pegs either. But i smartened up: i put the clothes into hangers and then hang them on the line. And then my two servants iron them for me: Mr Gravity and Ms Sunshine. They can go straight into the cupboards. And, as i havent ironed in about six months (probably more), it seems to work. And if the garment is in desparate shape, i hang it on the shower rail and let servant #3, Mrs Steam, do the job.
In any case, most outer clothes (those that show, as opposed to the undies) will still have to end up in hangers, so this way we skip the peg bit, and gain some help with the creases.
You dont have to work any harder, just smarter. Please try this. People with real lives dont have time to iron.
I NEVER iron. Hangers sometimes. DH needs ironed pants? He can iron it himself. I need ironed suit? My job – once a year. Folding? Hah. And if it all goes into the cold wash, they can all go together.
So you live in Brisbane … my sister does too.
I like the washing and drying bit coz there are machines to do it but I wish they would invent a folding machine so that I can throw all the clothes in it and they will come out neatly folded.