Ten Sarcastic Steps to Clean Laundry for Moms

06/30/2014

As I sit here and type, a gigantic pile of two-day old unfolded clean clothes awaits me. I’m a mom and laundry is my nemesis. If I could afford it, I would wear an outfit once and then donate it to YESS. Unfortunately, that just isn’t in the cards.

I would rather clean bathrooms, vacuum, or scoop the cat litter than do laundry. Just thinking about it makes me want to have a nap.

Below is a look at the painful laundry process in our house. Perhaps you can relate.

My Ten-Step Laundry Process

Step 1:  Pick week-old laundry off floor and take to laundry room.

Step 2: Get interrupted.

Step 3: Run out of relatively clean clothes and recall the laundry you were about to wash last week.

Step 4: Start washing machine.

Step 5: Get sidetracked and forget laundry in washer.

Step 6: Remember laundry in washer the next day and rewash.

Step 7: Later that day, remember laundry and put in dryer.

Step 8: Remember full dryer at midnight and, too exhausted to fold, restart dryer.

Step 9: The next day remove clean laundry from dryer and leave in a giant unfolded pile either, a) on your bed, b) on your floor, or c) squished back into the laundry basket.

Step 10: Depending where you left the pile of clean clothes, put away today, tomorrow, or next week. Folding optional.

Sigh. Those clothes aren’t going to fold themselves. Away I go.

Do you follow any of these steps?

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