This is the reason for late afternoon breakdowns. It is what puts me over the edge around 3:00 and makes me call Earle all upset and crying. Silly, I know, but it is our laundry monster!!!! This is 3 days of laundry that has been washed, but not put away! If we are tired at night we tend to even put already folded laundry...back into the tubs because it is late and we want to get into our bed!! Occasionally, I will feel bad late at night because I see Earle quietly putting a load of laundry into the wash. I ask him, why he is doing laundry. He says that he is out of t-shirts or underwear and needs some for the next day. I feel like a bad wife and I usually say, "What are you talking about you have plenty of underwear!! Have you checked, THE TUBS??"
I thought since it was all out so nicely on the bed I would share. Please tell me you can relate!!
Yes, absolutely, definitely, I can relate. As I sit here & type, I have a giant hamper and a regular-sized laundry basket staring at me, full of clean clothes waiting to be put away.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind the sorting or the putting the laundry in the washer, but I have a real mental block when it comes to folding & putting it away. Don't know why.
As you are having a mental breakdown in the afternoon you should just pick up the phone and CALL ME!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe only way I avoid it is to fold as I pull them out of the dryer. That is the only way they get folded. Putting away make take a while but at least they're folded.
ReplyDeleteI can relate, and there are only two of us! I agree with the Flash family - I fold most of it as I take it out of the dryer, and hang up/fold the rest pretty much right away. Then the challenge is just getting it upstairs (note to self: next house needs laundry upstairs) and put away. My only urge to get it put away is that I can't stand the pile of new laundry that will start to build in the spot where our laundry basket goes, so I try to get the current basket unloaded and in place to catch the new stuff. It's never ending - don't know how you do it for four!
ReplyDeleteLaundry, shm-aundry...I SO agree! We are in such a little house now with so many of us, I have to do laundry nearly every night. We don't really have anywhere to put the dirty laundry, except one of the laundry baskets that lives on top of the washing machine. I have to wash as soon as it gets full, which is usually by the end of every day...which means it's late before it's all washed and dried...and I really don't have a single place in the house to put laundry where the other monsters can't get to it. So I do as someone else mentioned, I fold as I pull it out. Hanging clothes are laid out on the backs of the dining room chairs, stacks of clothes all over the dining room table. (The table is closer to the dryer than the bed...I'm lazy. AND our bed is just not a good option...it's in Bret's "office," and Conner and Micah only have a top bunk in their room right now. I read to them on our bed so that I don't have to climb up onto their bed.) Then I have to put it up either that night or first thing in the morning, or there's nowhere to eat. When I'm really tired I fold only the stuff that I don't want to get wrinkled. The other stuff goes into "the tub" in our bedroom...where it sits until I run out of kitchen towels or Bret runs out of underwear. It's exhausting, it's never-ending, sometimes I just grab the clothes off the table and put them right back onto the kids. They might wear the same set of clothes two or three days in a row. But at least that way I didn't have to put them up! I feel ya, girl. Hang in there...I'm with you, often doing no more than hanging... I so wish we could go grab some Starbucks together or sit at Chick-fil-a while the kids play. It seems like we're both going through a bit of the "stay-at-home mom blues" the past couple of weeks. Love you, miss you.
ReplyDeleteCarrie - I live out of a tub, too. You're totally normal. The most important thing is that your husband and boys know you love them. There will be plenty of time in later years when everyone is all grown up for beds with nothing on them. :)
ReplyDeleteMy dear friend, I can SO relate to this blog. I have mounds of laundry all the time and though I don't mind folding it, I hate the 'putting away' part the most. So I too have told Steve to look for underwear in the laundry basket. If it's not in the drawer, that's where it will be! Even the boys sometimes check the dryer if they can't find their favourite underpants! LOL
ReplyDeleteUhm... I am horrible about putting away the laundry! Do you remember mom and dad's house and their laundry room!! I am so bad that is exactly where josh and I are heading. I have no words of advice!!
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