You know the laundry never ends

[conuly]

Yes it goes on and on my friends.
Some people started washing it, not knowing how it was, and even now they're washing it, forever, just because....

Is it just me, or is the unrelenting existence of dirty clothes a huge argument for nudism in and of itself? At some point, our ancestors hadn't invented fashion, weaving, or soap. They may have had the right idea.

I know what you're thinking. You're saying "geez, Connie, it's not like you have to haul the water up from the stream yourself, and then plunge your hands in while it's still boiling!", and while that's technically true, at least that state of affairs would give me a semi-justifiable excuse for wallowing in my own filth.

God, I hate laundry. Laundry is worse than every other chore ever, because it NEVER ENDS. Even as you're doing it, clothes are getting dirty! And have you ever noticed that its only us? Cats don't do laundry. Pigs don't do laundry. Slugs don't do laundry, proving once and for all that the stupidest creature on earth is smarter than humans, because it hasn't fallen into the trap of clothes.

(Note to self: start making the girls do their own laundry)

Comments

[steorra]

I think dishes give laundry some competition.

[conuly]

Nah, when you're done with the dishes you have a nice, clear sink. When you're done with the laundry you have another load to put in.

[janewilliams20]

Sadly, yes. If you're wearing clothes, you have laundry to do :(
(Remember the Carling Black Label advert?)

[conuly]

No...?

[janewilliams20]

Was it really 1986? Maybe you're too young :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCemJAd3KZA

[conuly]

Yes, and also too American, I think. Still, funny!

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

At least you can fold laundry while watching TV.

[conuly]

There's an idea. I'll just put off laundry until something good comes on. With the state of TV these days, that could conceivably be a really long time!

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Yes, life must have been idyllic back in our Aquatic Ape days - lazily poking with a pointy stick along the beaches and riverbanks for tasty bits, paddling about in the pools, fleeing shrieking for the deep water when the leopard showed up... and no laundry at all!

Then the climate had to go and shift, dammit, and nights got chilly; then days got chilly too, and fur became fashionable for the first time. Still no laundry, though. We learned to make felt and weave cloth, but still nobody thought of trying to wash the stuff for a long time, till one day some vain hussy just had to ruin things for the rest of us.

The Mongol women would have beaten that bitch within an inch of her life. Put dirty clothes in the water, ick, how utterly disgusting - want the water-spirits to drown our children in revenge?!? - they very strictly did not tolerate any such dangerous folly. They weren't into going nude, either - no indeed, when a Mongol got a new garment, he or she put it on over the old garments; the more layers the better, in that climate. I don't know if they ever took them off at all, but certainly it was utterly forbidden to wash them.

"Start making the girls do their own laundry"

Absolutely! I'm amazed you're still doing all it for them this long. By third grade, children are perfectly capable of doing their own laundry all by themselves, but it's easier if they've been helping with it since preschool so they already know how to do everything.

LOL, I'm an old-school Nanny. Children do chores every day because that's an essential part of their education, lest they grow up to be helpless lazy slobs who expect to be waited on, and end up living in squalor. It's also their duty as family members to help contribute to their household as they are able. Grownups have to work hard at many tasks children can't do; it's only right that the children take on the tasks they can do, and learn to do them quickly and well without whining like babies about it.

It's a lot better to be a contributing member of the family than some kind of exotic pet, cute and lovable but messy, noisy, demanding, disobedient, very expensive,and of almost no use. Seems like these days, few people bother to explain to children that work is their ticket out of the powerless and degrading 'baby pet' category into some dignity as a competent person worthy of respect. Anyway, as puberty comes along, one's personal laundry gets a bit more... personal, and one might rather deal with it oneself.

[conuly]

They're scared of the basement, which, admittedly, has awkwardly placed lights they definitely aren't tall enough to turn on unaided. Also, I make them take out the compost and the trash, which they hate enough to make up for the fact that I don't make them do laundry.