Monday, July 16, 2012

What 4 loads of laundry taught me

Don't leave your laundry sitting in piles upon piles for weeks and weeks upon end.
It doesn't end great. 

First you have to haul everything that you own (plus the husband's things) to the neighbor's laundromat because yours only has one washer and dryer.
One measly washer and dryer for 15 apartments...you definitely read that right.
Plus the neighbor's apartment will save you 50 cents a load. 

Grab everything, haul over, almost trip down 9 steps over 4 times.
Start 5 loads of laundry, set timer for 32 minutes.
Timer dings but the dryers are not available, every single one is taken.
Everyone of them is just sitting there will clothes ready to be taken out
but the owners of those clothes didn't realize someone else would like to use it
so they left them there for 20 minutes.
After 2o minutes you decide to haul the wet 5 loads of laundry into the car
Drive two blocks to the 1.25 (dollars) laundromat to finish what you started.

1 hr later, and 5 dollars in quarters down you begin folding all the laundry.
It is takes three people walking in, starting, and finishing their laundry for you to stack your pile
Into 4 laundry baskets.and in 4 laundry baskets it almost doesn't fit. 
Thankfully the three laundry baskets fit neatly and snugly in the back with the seat down and the remaining basket cuddled up in the front seat with you. 

Arriving home it takes 6 trips to make all the laundry appear in the master bedroom
Seeing as you are a woman you did as much as you could while doing the task at hand:
1. Carry white laundry basket up
2. See recycling bin hasn't been taken down, takes out to recycle.
3. Carry next white laundry basket up with now empty recycling bin
4. See mailman putting mail in mailbox, grab key on way down for last trip
5. Carry large white laundry basket up, throw keys for mailbox and phone into the last basket
6. Carry the blue laundry basket to mailbox, open, retrieve and at last drop last basket on bedroom floor.

Now go eat an orange.

2 comments:

Jessie said...

Laundry at apartments *really* stinks...

Adam B said...

I'd recommend eating some chocolate instead. I wish I could say I understand, but I've had my own washer and dryer in my apartment since before we got married. It's definitely worth it!