WRONG?
As I sorted the clothes I now got why my hubby is always complaining about how the laundry seems to multiple on us. He told me, when I called him down to look at it, that he normally spends an hour sorting clothes...AN HOUR!
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| Piles of clothes after only 5 days!! On the right is a stack of dresses that hadn't even been worn but ended up in their dirty clothes baskets...somehow!! |
I decided this was ridiculous. I called the girls downstairs to see the piles of clothes I had made. Here is the dialog:
Me: How many days in the week are there?
Boo: 7!
Roo: 7.
Loo: (looks at sisters and says quizzically) 7?
Me: How many outfits should you wear a day?
Boo: One.
(they now seem to see where this is going)
Me: How many jeans do you think we have in the jean pile?
Roo: I don't know?
Loo: SIX!!!!
(oh to see that pile through a 3 year olds eyes)
Me: Nope! Lets count them!
All: One, two, three...TWENTY NINE!
Me: In five days how did you manage to wear twenty-nine pair of pants? That is like at least almost two pair a day. You also have dresses and skirts here. And I am not even going to count all the shirts in the pink (and redish) pile!!!
(realization that what comes next won't be fun hits the children)
Me: Ok. We can't keep doing this. Each of you are going to have to wash, dry and fold a pile all by yourself!
Kids: YAY!!!
Apparently that was the point...they wanted to do laundry! Ok, maybe not but they were all excited about it. The oldest, Boo, now has her load in and when she swaps it to the dryer, Roo is going to start her load and the Loo! She is the lucky one who gets the smallish load!
We have also decided we are doing one load a day and each family member is responsible for one day...including the three year old! I am sure she will need a helping hand with the detergent but she can start it, transfer to dryer and fold to the best of her ability.
Oh, and me? Well I get the 29 pair of jeans :)
I like your last pic ... Your pretty colored walls & TALL ceiling 'surrounding' your jeans! I dream of a tall ceiling! I'm sure that at least 1/3 of your tree would be through our ceiling! :) And, in this pic it looks like a mountainside out the window ... but, you're in TX ... That can't be! And ... I'd do a load, or even two or three, of jeans over a load of underwear any day! Much easier to finish up!
ReplyDeleteAly this is hilarious!!! I can totally relate to this!!! This also happens in Australia!
ReplyDeleteOMG this was a great reading :) My girls are still young but even if they are helping me I can so relate. After 2 days I always find in their laundry basket likes 6 shirts, 4 pants.
ReplyDeleteI love this post lol I have been thinking of doing the same thing. My buddy is always changing his clothes. I put him to bed in one outfit, and when I wake him up he is in a completely different set!
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