My son checked out a Smurf movie from the library. Smurfs. The original cartoon. Smurfs. It's raining like a sonofabitch, so I can't even throw him outside to do something. So I'm stuck with the Smurfs. Smurfs. Jesus Christ.
How does a single person generate so much laundry? Now, I do my laundry, my husband does his (you know because i am a liberated woman of 2013....or a horrible wife depending on who you ask) but last week he had a load in both the washer and dryer so I was forced to help with his laundry. Anyway, he had 14 t-shirts in just the dryer, and who knows how many in the washing machine. Wtf do you guys do that require you to perform three outfit changes per day?
I usually run 3 loads a week, 2 of darks and one of whites. With gym clothes, soccer clothes and work clothes not to mention towels, bed stuff and such I have a lot of laundry.
It's not that. He has 3 to 4 weeks worth of t shirts and probably a similar number of pairs of underwear to reduce the number of times he has to do his laundry. If you weren't such a horrible wife, he'd have a lot less to wash.
I usually do 3-4 loads a week. We both have smelly gym clothes, then regular clothes, then towels and sheets, and also his uniforms. His one set of cammies are like 1/3-1/2 of a load by themselves. He is 6'8" and the cammies are full body coverage, so they are just a huge mass of material.
I did all the laundry today. That's all my work and touristy stuff, plus all the boyfriend's stuff he wore while I was gone, and sheets and towels and gym stuff and so on. Y'know what I learned? He didn't wear a single pair of underpants the entire time I was gone. Boys are so gross.
Yeah see, the woman's way of doing laundry is that you do it weekly or more often so as to have reasonable size loads and such. The man's way is to not do laundry until we are out of things to wear. Once it's do laundry or go commando at the office tomorrow, THAT is laundry day. Maybe. If there's nothing else to do.
My bet is that the only laundry he did was his underwear because he ran out. He still had more t-shirts so there was no reason to do that load.
How often do you guys wash your sheets? If I'm not having relations I'll go months without washing mine, same with my towels. Boxers are different, same with shirts, those get washed after every use. Jeans, shorts and socks can be worn until there is a perceptible odor or they're hideously dirty.
I feel like taking a shower just reading that. That is fucking repulsive. You might want to see if there is some correlation between how often you have relations and how often you wash your sheets, too. I'm just throwing that one out there.
If you're a shower in the morning person, you should be washing your sheets once a week. If you shower at night before bed, once every two weeks is ok. You should have extra pillow cases so that you only sleep on each half of each side once. These are things I learned as a teen that helped prevent acne, and goddamn if it doesn't still work. Underwear socks, and tshirts are one time wears, overshirts are two or three, depending on if you were sweaty in them or if they got noticeably dirty. Gym shorts are two time wears if you're actually going to the gym in them, and then you only wear them at the gym. If you're just using them as lounge around the house shorts, once a week. Jeans are wearable for a week, khakis for half a week, dress pants and suit type pants are three or four times until dry cleaning. These are the rules of laundry. So let it be written, so let it be done.
Ah, laundry. A topic I know about. Usually, I end up doing 3 or 4 loads per week in the machine and one wash by hand in the bucket, which is my mom's work clothes, since they are made of a material which just creases if washed in the machine. Also, about once a month or so, I'll get my dad's aprons from work (he's a jeweller, so they get covered in all sorts of crap in that office). We have an indoor washing line set up in the bathroom, over the bath, because we live 2 floors up and there are troops of monkeys that come through the property at least twice a week. Our washing machine is a combination washer-dryer but the dryer part hasn't worked in some time (probably too expensive to fix) so I rely on the clothes drying via air circulated through the open window in the bathroom, which does not always work if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction. This was the case three days this week. At least the machine can still spin stuff - we already had to replace the drainage pump over a year ago, on a machine <5 years old. Fucking irritating. Don't buy an AEG, kids. I have had to hang up stuff EVERY DAY THIS WEEK. It fucking sucks. I don't know if anyone else does this, but I don't add fabric softener to laundry that's being washed in the machine - I find it's better to rather soak the items in a bucket with the softener for about 2 or 3 hours and then spin them to get it drier before hanging. The clothes seem to come out softer that way than if softener was applied in the tray next to the detergent/granular washing stuff. This week, I got a load of his aprons. 6 of the fuckers. Three of them ran so badly I had to rinse the bath out. Another two of them were so filthy that they required another wash. Next time, I'll just flat-out ask if he had a nice bath in the oily substance that covered the apron. Jeans I'll wear 5 or 6 times before washing - I've usually spilled something on them by then. Boxers that I sleep in - every 3 days; others would be every 2 days, since I change as soon as I get back from wherever I've been. In my experience, it's jeans and t-shirts that take the longest to dry. I try to wash my sheets once every three weeks in summer and every 6 weeks in winter. Towels are usually every three weeks, too, but the winds have been blowing from the wrong direction, so stuff that usually takes a day to dry is now taking two days, so they haven't been washed in a while. I don't have a huge amount of hanging space to work with.
My brother went a semester without washing his sheets. I'm guessing that he also never got laid during that semester. That's just nasty.
Let me clarify a bit, if I think theres a chance in hell I'll clean my sheets, towels, etc. I'm not going to have someone over who I'm interested in and not clean up. However, if I'm not dating or having someone over, I'm not likely to clean my sheets for a few weeks at a time. I genuinely don't understand why this is so horribly gross.
Yeah, I don't see the big deal either. I wash my sheets every 3 or 4 weeks and they don't get gross at all. It's not like I'm sweating at night, and I almost never wet the bed anymore.
Actually he does laundry weekly, so I would assume that those t-shirts came from one week. But that may be my fault on trying to apply logic where it doesn't belong. Maybe i can earn some good wife points, I do all the washing of sheets, towels and such, typically weekly.
Hell my freshman year and most of sophomore I went without sheets. When I finally did talk a girl into fucking me on a sheet less bed I got rug burn on my knees. I didn't get laid too often. As I got older my allergies got worse and since Im a sucker for having my dog sleep at my feet I wash them every week and a half now otherwise Ill be stuffed up errrr day. In general I have two weeks worth of clothes I wear so I do big working clothes loads every two weeks or so and small loads to refresh gym clothes and socks weekly.
I don't know too many guys who used sheets on beds in college. My favourite explanation: "Oh, they fell off the bed a few weeks ago." How many dudes here simply abandoned your laundry after college instead of taking it home with you?