Comments on: Folding Inadequacies

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:13:13 +0000

Pass it over here.

I’ll do it if you do my ironing ;)

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:26:30 +0000

Why bother?
If you don’t want to fold clothes, don’t fold them.

1. Toss them into bureau drawers unfolded, OR
2. sort them into baskets unfolded and deliver the baskets to the appropriate rooms, OR
3. leave them in one huge pile and let people extract what they need as they need it.

The laundry in our household runs somewhere between options 2. and 3. Anyone who doesn’t like it is free to sort and fold whatever they like. (That includes the babysitter, although ours never did…)

The department of health hasn’t shut us down yet.

By: marianne

marianne — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:28:58 +0000

Obvious solution:

1) Get a sissy maid…

AND

2) Get someone to fuck you from behind…

AND

3) Stop giving a shit what your babysitter thinks of your undies.

By: hamboy

hamboy — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:37:15 +0000

Hell, most of the time my laundry doesn’t even make to the basket. It usually just stays on the drying rack until I need it, or is replaced by more clothes to dry.
The few times I do get inspired to fold it and put it away. I just do it during the ad breaks while I’m watching TV. That way you only do it in bits and don’t have to sit through TV ads.
Never thought to get my shags to do it. Though one did make me a pie the other day in payment. Bloody nice pie. lol

By: aag

aag — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:56:09 +0000

Awesome!

Can you pay your rent in lube and condoms?

:)

By: redheadeditor

redheadeditor — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:47:15 +0000

I don’t mind any aspect of laundry and even iron a mean shirt. I will simply move in with you and we will split household chores. A commune. There, problem solved.

By: sexie sadie

sexie sadie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:31:04 +0000

Every time I cleans my house I reward mysself with a hot steamy shower and a waterproof vibrator.

Could work with the folding flaw too, doncha think??

xo~Sadie

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By: Mountain Girl

Mountain Girl — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:09:48 +0000

I’m with archdiva–withholding privileges was always a better motivator for me. I suppose everyone responds to a different carrot-on-a-stick.

My clean, folded laundry never seems to get put away. Much to my dismay, my new overstuffed living room chair has become the receptacle, only to have the piles hurriedly tossed on the bed if someone comes over.

But even worse, I HATE to unload the dish- washer. I’ll use clean dishes out of it til there’s nothing left but a spoon and a drinking glass, while 2 sinks full of dirty ones pile up. I’m pathetic.

By: aag

aag — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:04:21 +0000

“… the key is to do it one basket at a time, so you’re not overwhelmed”

Aye, there’s the rub…

By: Tina Marie

Tina Marie — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:53:08 +0000

I always had a huge pile of clean, unfolded laundry. But in the Great Life Overhaul of ’06, I decided I was going to fold when laundry came out of the dryer.

What worked for me was deciding what _had_ to be folded. Shirts get hung, so they don’t need folded. I threw out every sock I had and bought several bags of standard white cotton socks, so they don’t need paired – they get tossed in a drawer. Panties also don’t get folded – they get tossed in a drawer. Jeans do have to be folded and stacked.

So now I dump the basket on the bed, and quickly sort into piles: shirts, jeans, panties, bras, socks, other stuff. I count the shirts, and go get that many hangers from the closet, then hang them all. Fold the jeans. Drop the panties, socks, and bras into the correct drawers, then fold and put away whatever’s left (nightshirt-type things, workout shorts, etc). The whole process takes 5 minutes, and the key is to do it one basket at a time, so you’re not overwhelmed.