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October 2011 Moms
Dear DH, Stop it!
So you have stopped doing laundry. I have readily forgiven that for two reasons:
DD loves doing it. I don't mind folding but bending to switch loads hurts. DD loves doing that part so it's been fun.
and
You have taken over picking up the toys at the end of the day and sweeping, vacuuming and washing the floors because the doctor said it would help my poor back. I truly love you for it. I do.
But back to the laundry. I honestly don't mind doing it. After spending a week kicking the laundry's ass and catching up on all of it, it doesn't take very long to do it. I have three things I want to slap you around for though.
1) If it's not in one of the 4 laundry baskets (or on the floor beside the bed... the laundry basket is like three feet away, really? the floor?) I assume that it's not laundry. So when all those baskets are empty and the clothes are put away (or I think put away, that's point 2) I assume I am done laundry. So when you come home and say something like, "I am out of clean work shirts. Can you do me some laundry tomorrow?" I think "Say what?!" today along with the subject of point 2 I found out what you do with those shirts. Why the hell are you hanging them back up?! Put them in the laundry basket. You won't run out of clothes that way. I am not interested in doing a laundry treasure hunt.
2) After my last OB appointment when I complained about my horrible back, the doctor told me that carrying the laundry back up the stairs was probably contributing to my back pain. So you graciously said, "I'll put the laundry away if you sort and fold it." Since that day a few weeks ago I have noticed that DD and I are seriously lacking in the clothing department despite the fact that I have been washing every scrap of laundry in the house. I also realized that I am missing laundry baskets. When I opened the closet in our bedroom to put the luggage away I found three baskets of folded laundry stacked in there. STOP IT!!! If you aren't going to put it away, just take it to the top of the stairs I will deal with it.
3) I learned my lesson about checking your pockets when I do laundry. You have the most random crap in your pockets. You really do. After I washed the pack of gum and a black pen I learned that checking your pockets would save us money. I started checking your pockets every time I put a pair of pants in. Imagine my surprise when I pulled an ink stained pair of shorts and a t-shirt out of the dryer and found a broken pen. You have stopped putting pens in your pocket and now favor the collar or sleeves of your golf shirts. WTF?!!! Stop it. I have better things to do with my time than to look over every square inch of all your clothing to find where you are stashing pens. What's next? You socks?!
Like I said, I really don't mind doing the laundry. Just stop being a PITA about it and we will get along fine.
signed
your loving wife.
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Re: Dear DH, Stop it!
It's like you're in my head...
Ugh, I hear ya on the laundry thing. I just don't understand how hard it is to put dirty clothing in the hamper. My hamper was completely empty 2 days ago and I was seriously about to celebrate. It mysteriously became COMPLETELY full today with stuff that I know he hasn't worn in the past few days. My declaring "The hamper is empty. Anything you are looking for is either in the closet/dresser or in the washer/dryer" must have made him realize that he had some piles of dirty laundry under his side of the bed or in his bathroom. It made me SO mad b/c I was so happy to have finally been caught up with the laundry. It doesn't help that our dryer doesn't work well and takes (literally) 4 times to fully dry the stuff. Since we have other & more important expenses right now, it's just not worth fixing. So, that newly full hamper will take me probably a week to get through. ::sigh::
I also hear ya on the checking of the pockets. I can't even tell you how many times DH has forgotten to take his work badge or headphones out of his pants pocket only to have them destroyed in the wash.
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie
"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." --Thomas A. Edison
Hahah, I love this post. Fortunately DH and I moved from a 2-story to a single story earlier this year so laundry is much easier for me. However, he still cannot manage to empty his pockets before he puts his dirty clothes in the laundry basket. He works in road construction so he gets FILTHY dirty and the last thing I want to do is stick my hands in his pockets. Because of this I am constantly washing his chapstick!!!! And sometimes gum that gets stuck to the drum of the dryer.
I sort the laundry, I wash the laundry and I fold the laundry, but there are 2 things I won't do: I will not check your pockets and I will not put your clean clothes away. Needless to say he always has a pile of clean clothes on his dresser that stay there for about a week, but I refuse to put them away. One day he'll need to learn his lesson.
BFP #1 3/13/13, MMC 4/17/13, D&C 4/19/13
BFP #2 8/7/13, Beta at 4w6d = 3,796
I seriously laughed out loud...thank you.
I would also like to add that picking out a days worth of outfits out of the clean laundry and leaving the rest in the basket, then throwing your dirty clothes on top of the clean clothes so that I have to wash them ALL over again--is not helpful--and I am not going to do the smell test on your shirts.
You seem to have a lot more patience than me. I made it clear to DH that if he doesn't get it in the hamper, it doesn't get washed. If he runs out, that's his fault. When he started putting it on top of the hamper (the hamper was NOT full) I asked him if he'd lost his damn mind. I'm happy to do the laundry so that we're not wasting a bunch of energy and water, but ask that he at least is respectful enough to put the clothes in the hamper, not just leave them piled on top for me to then place inside so I don't have to stare at it all week. I think sometimes they forget we're their wives and not their mothers.
BTW, God help him if I found him hiding folded laundry in the closet. Especially if it was mine.
I LOL'd with the pens.
DH hides his dry cleaning. We have a big yellow laundry bag that we put the dry cleaning in and once a week I take it in. So one day he tells me he doesn't have any suits left... how is this possible? Well, turns out he doesn't put his suits in the bag, he puts them in a different spot so the jackets don't lose their shape and I'm not taking them. Seriously, I'm supposed to know that you don't put half of your dry cleaning in the dry cleaning bag and where you hide it? Well, since that little incident, taking in the dry cleaning has turned into his job!
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Do they just not understand? My DH & I got into a HUGE fight once because I washed his cell phone. Is it really my duty to make sure he doesn't leave important, damagable objects in his pockets?
He doesn't leave money in his pockets anymore because I told him whenever I find money I considered it a laundry fee - but I still find random important things, like work badges, atm cards, etc.
He has been good about carrying the bin up & down the stairs for me though.
Its used kleenex in my DH's pockets....and at least your DH puts his paired socks in the hamper....I find my DH's in the livingroom, diningroom, on the stairs, in his boots......then gets pissy when he doesn't have enough socks - because I really wanna walk all over the house to find which magical spot you dropped your socks this time...
I do feel fortunate that he will carry the hamper downstairs and the clean baskets upstairs - but it's still up to me to fold and put away.
I dread the extra laundry that the LO will cause,as its already a full time job and there is only 2 of us!