Since I started working from home, it feels like I’m doing a lot more laundry than ever before. Mind you, I don’t do more housework than normally. It’s just laundry that seems to be overrunning my life.

I can’t even remember what we did before I suddenly found myself running up and down stairs with endless laundry baskets. I’m sure we didn’t walk around in dirty clothes. And it seems logical that we wore more clothes when I had to change for work and then change back into house clothes. These days I can do one outfit all day long but laundry is mushrooming.

There are definitely more dirty dishes since I now eat only at home but I don’t do more dishes than before. I never did any, actually.

This is one of those little life mysteries that surround the process of laundry in a way they don’t any other process.

12 responses to “The Mysteries of Laundry”

  1. Sternococktail Avatar

    Beware of the Big Bad Bear!

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  2. Pen Avatar

    You’re only wearing house clothes, now, and that means you’re wearing those until you run out and need to do the laundry. So even though you have a lesser amount of clothes to change into, you do more loads of laundry because those clothes take a shorter amount of time to get dirty.

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      This explanation makes a lot of sense. I just realized that I drop the house clothes in the laundry basket every day and I didn’t used to do that.

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  3. Sternococktail Avatar

    Sometimes the pictures appear, sometimes they don’t. And the links even disappears? Haven’t found any way to edit here

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  4. Dreidel Avatar
    Dreidel

    Aren’t you a good environmentalist? Instead of wasting electricity or gas energy and poisoning the water supply with harmful detergents, you should be taking your laundry to the creek in your back yard and heating it with a rock!

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    1. Clarissa Avatar

      Is that the kind of weirdo I look like?

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      1. Dreidel Avatar
        Dreidel

        No — but that method is environmentally friendly (worked for the Indians and Pilgrims).

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        1. Clarissa Avatar

          I spent the first half of my life using the environmentally friendly Soviet methods of washing by hand and drying outside on a clothesline. Plus, washing and reusing a single sad plastic bag for months. I think this buys me some leeway today. 🙂

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          1. Dreidel Avatar
            Dreidel

            Yes, I also seem to remember washtubs and scrub boards and clotheslines in a faint, long-ago childhood memory from back in Tennessee — but it’s been a while.

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