{"id":45,"date":"2008-01-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/laundry-day.html"},"modified":"2008-01-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T23:00:00","slug":"laundry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/01\/laundry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Laundry Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s laundry day in the Vollmer house. For those who don’t know, I HATE laundry. Always have. I was quite lucky as a kid — I did a lot of chores in my house growing up (washing dishes, mowing the lawn) but laundry was never one of them. I think my Mom had her way<\/em> of doing laundry and it was just less work to do it herself rather than deal with us kids messing things up. I understand completely — I get nervous that Dave might accidentally let a bra or sweater go into the dryer and we all know what happens then!<\/p>\n

Anyway, before kids, and while Dave and I were both active duty Air Force, our laundry was easily a 1\/2 day chore, once a week. One load of whites, one load of colors. Our uniforms were usually being professionally cleaned, so we didn’t even have to worry there.<\/p>\n

Of course NOW, particularly in the wintertime, during Timmy’s potty training (that’s another posting, we’re in the home stretch!), the clothes pile up like crazy. Once a week is a no-go. But I’m not disciplined enough to do it daily, which is what many of my friends claim to do: 1-2 small loads per day = 10-15 minutes worth of work per day.<\/p>\n

What I do is probably worse: 5-6 very-large-loads every 4-5 days, 1-2 hours of folding\/putting away.<\/p>\n

And then I really take my time — I’ve been known to let the clothes sit in the dryer or in baskets in the laundry room for as many as 5 days. I’ll just pull what I need from the piles. But typically, I can do everything in one day.<\/p>\n

So go ahead — take my poll! I’ve been wondering if I’m sort of a freak because I don’t<\/strong> do laundry daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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