instead of weeks of clean laundry piled up all over my bedroom. Laundry! But I just put the LAST load in the dryer, and there is clean laundry in the dressers, laundry in the kitchen, etc. And I could even get in the rhythm of washing and drying, but folding and putting away was somehow beyond me? Today I cleared out the huge piles of clean laundry that “somehow” grow in between my bed and the wall (somehow being because I would put clean clothes on the bed so I’d fold them before bedtime- LOL). I always played the “well someday I’m going to get the hang of doing a load a day” game in my head. Today is my first designated Laundry Day, and while it has been awful, I can totally see where this is going to work for me! Speaking of laundry, I’ve been slooooooowly reading through your book (not because of the book, it’s just been a rough year), and finished the chapters on laundry a couple days ago. Do you have my book? It’s waycheaper than $50 and includes the laundry routine that changed my world, even though I don’t love laundry. Yes, I know for sure this was only one week’s worth of laundry since I do have a laundry system that works. I figured they were easy enough and kind of gross to send in. We didn’t just drip dry, wear sandals and go commando for the week. ![]() I washed our socks and undies and towels. Watch the video to see my in-the-moment thoughts.ĭo you use a wash and fold service? Have you always wanted to? So the ultimate lesson from this experience is that I’m more than happy to do my own laundry every week, especially now that I feel like I’m saving at least $200 each month by doing it. It’s been a while since this went down, but now that I’ve googled, that kid owes me 34 cents. I googled and that water weighed a THIRD OF A POUND!!! One of my kids just happened to have a little trash at the bottom of their basket.Ī little trash that included a third-full water bottle. Yes, there have been days when I would have hauled my baskets off the scale and said, “Never mind!” but this was not one of those days.īut in all of this, you know what the worst part was? Look what I found in the bottom of one of those laundry baskets AFTER everything was washed, folded and paid for: Yes, I’m totally aware that a better prepared, more logical thinking, less bananas-from-book-writing version of me would have weighed my laundry before I left the house. I did like picking them up all neatly folded (so much neater than I ever fold), but I didn’t like it $50 worth. So, I had pretty much decided this experiment was a failure even before anyone washed any of my clothes. And that was cheaperthan the other places I’d seen at $1.50/lb! Fifty cents doesn’t seem like much, but for fifty pounds of laundry that would have been another twenty-five dollars!!! ![]() Yes, I did struggle not to hyperventilate when I saw the woman filling out the ticket. At $1/pound, I paid more than fifty dollars to have someone do my laundry for me. one week’s laundry for our family of five (which includes two man-sized teenage boys) weighed a little more than fifty pounds.įIFTY POUNDS!!! And that does not include socks, underwear or towels. And I have this blog where I can write about such things. So, last spring, when I was writing my next book (due out February of next year) and was completely overwhelmed since that already-overwhelming task was happening at the same time as end-of-school spring activities AND a kid in driver’s ed four nights a week in a town twenty minutes away, I decided I’d try it out.Įven though I’m a cheapskate, I was desperate. ![]() The idea of dropping off wadded up dirty clothes and picking up clean and folded ones seemed like the definition of luxury to me. Of letting someone else take over this task I don’t love one tiny little bit. I’d always wondered how wash and fold laundry service worked, and I’d always dreamed of doing it.
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