It has been SO nice to have such large laundry machines in our new house! Our past set was fine, but this is WAY better. Obviously, we can fit more into each load, and with six people in one house, we go through a LOT of laundry. Today, I will give you my laundry list (see what I did there?) of first world problems pertaining to having humungous laundry machines.
To offer some perspective, I’ll tell you about a specific load I did today. I washed all of the kids clothes today, and it was a good full load. It included 26 shirts, 10 sweaters/hoodies, 15 pairs of pants, 29 pairs of jammies, 22 pairs of socks (and two that don’t match) and 8 pairs of underwear. That all fit in one load! Pretty impressive, am I right?
The washer takes forever! I probably put two heaping hampers worth of clothing into the machine, so I can’t really blame it, but it washes for over an hour. The dryer takes EVEN LONGER! Like a SOLID hour and half, often more. I think the dryer bugs me more than the washer does. Firstly, the digital timer thing will tell me there are ten minutes left to dry, and when I go to check it ten minutes later, it say there are thirty minutes left. It can’t make up its mind! I think part of that is that, with so much clothing, the lint trap fills up halfway through the dryer cycle, and it doesn’t dry as efficiently. Another pet peeve is that, my two hampers of laundry are all fluffed to perfection, and I cannot come even remotely close to fitting them back into those two hampers. This is a VERY small problem, but it annoys me, nonetheless. You know when you overfill the dryer and even when something is dry and freshly removed from the dryer, its still wrinkled? Ya, thats all of my kids pants. For some reason, they’re back for that. Sigh.
I know, I know. “Hailey, do smaller loads.” I think I shall.
So I’ve decided! I’m going to break up the kids laundry by rooms. A load for Rowan and Dekker, and a load for Laela and Solly. That should eliminate some annoyances. Don’t lump is all together just because I can.