Okay, so it's not really. Keeping on top of the laundry is one of the few things that I can handle, even with a brand new baby in the house. But it is hard work!
Now that there are 4 of us, and two of us tend to need more than one set of clothes some days (most days for the smallest!), I need to do a load pretty much every day, certainly every day I am home. Our washing machine is only 4kg so it's not a very big load, and with it also being the dryer that means I can't have clothes washing and drying at the same time.
I like to delude myself that someone is actually interested in this! But I feel like we have washing around the house all the time in one form or another. The laundry basket brought down to the kitchen waiting to load the machine, wet clothes in the machine waiting to be dried, dry clothes in the machine waiting to be taken out, clean clothes in the living room waiting to be folded, folded clothes in the bedroom waiting to be put away, and of course the delicates that can't go in the dryer and get hung on hangers in the bedroom for a couple of days. It just goes on and on! Occasionally I'll have a couple of days off and then I'm confronted with a mountain, which is even less appealing.
I think that's enough complaining.
Can you imagine having to do all of this by hand? Having to wash it all with your hands and wring it all out then have it hanging around to dry? (I hang mine when it's dry, but I can't stand it hanging round the house. There's literally nowhere we can put the airer that it's not blocking a used doorway, and we don't have an airing cupboard.) I can't even imagine what it must have been like before washing machines were a necessity.
I like to remind myself how lucky I am :) Now stop blabbering on woman and get some ironing out!
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