I just have my servants do it.
I wish.
I just have my servants do it.
I wish.
I do . My wife is starting a new job this week so whe has been doing it for a week and a half. I can’t find my clothes half the time. But I sure love her for helping when she can. Well, that and putting up with my nutty ass .
My husband does his own laundry, and I do mine.
I do the sorting, (hand and automatic) washing and hanging/drying chores. Laundry collection and hanger collecting is handled by the boyfriend and the teenager, as well as putting away. So I guess I do about 75% and they do the rest?
There is no given person that does laundry here. If something needs washed, someone will wash it. I’d say I do it around 50% of the time.
My husband isn’t here, except on weekends, and I really want him to enjoy his time at home, and to relax. I don’t ask him to do anything, as he’s done his job all week. I’m a houseleech, and have nothing better to do with my time. But, if he decided to do laundry, which he does on occasion, he does it.
Our daughter also does laundry.
I am the caregiver for my grandma, and she lives with us, so there is usually lots of laundry to be done with 4 people in the house.
I am the only one that will hang laundry out on the clothesline, though. Everyone else tosses it into the dryer.
Apparently, the ‘fresh air’ that the laundry is sometimes hung out in, doesn’t smell as nice as Downey or Snuggle.
Go figure.
I’m divorced with two teenagers, half time. My son is a Junior in high school and his mom and I were directed by his college entrance counselor to free him from all duties except studying for tests. Now, it is summertime and he’s done with school, I have him back under my control! He and his younger sister WILL EACH DO ONE LOAD OF LAUNDRY and ONE DAY’S DISHES EACH. That is all.
I do laundry for the whole family (wife and 2 small kids). I am the stay-at-home dad. I also cook, clean, sweep, mop, scrub, order, pickup, sort, etc. I do not iron.
Do you not sort your clothes?
Hanging laundry out on a line is the norm over here, even if it’s a tiny apartment. However, the air ain’t quite so fresh in Bangkok. That’s why we bought a dryer.
Siam Sam, I guess I can understand that the Bangkok air isn’t exactly pleasantly fresh all the time!
But…we live out in the sticks in west central Indiana.
The worst that can happen is someone burns trash/leaves nearby.
Yet, I’m the only one in the house that appreciates laundry that has dried in the sun and wind.
Oh, I’ve been told today that the line-dried laundry is ‘just too scratchy’ and it ‘smells funny’.
sighs deeply
Odd.
I don’t seem to have a problem with it.
I don’t do *all *of the laundry, but I do wash the majority of it. I don’t know that there’s necessarily any particular reason for it; I’m just the one that does it. That’s how the chores here seem to get divided. There really aren’t “my chores” and “her chores”, but we naturally seem to divide things up for the most part.
I’ve gotta go now; it’s time to move the laundry around (Really, it is. The sheets need to come out of the dryer so the clothes can go in.)
We both do laundry, but Pepper Mill is home a lot more often than I am, so she does more of it. Nevertheless, I do quite a bit, and I fold all the time, regardless who put it in.
I did my own laundry throughout college and grad school, and when I was on my own, so it’s just natural. (I didn’t do it at home – my mother believes in a strict demarcation between male and female jobs. Guys don’t do laundry in her universe.)
And yet, every other ad for laundry softener shows laundry lines, plus often the labels show flowers and grass; sometimes, even clothes on a line.
Middlebro does part of the laundry. SiL’s parents are living with them; one of the points of contention with SiL’s Mom was that she rejected the notion of a man doing any kind of housework (who does she think cleaned for her husband when he was deployed, the Tide fairy?) - sometimes Bro gets home so dirty from his construction site that he doesn’t put himself into the machine 'cos he doesn’t fit. She’s doing a lot of the laundry now, but Bro rightly claims that there’s a difference between not having to worry about overdue laundry and not being allowed to toss your overalls in and hit the “on” button when the machine happens to be one that you paid for.
Lilbro has a cleaning lady. Any time he complains about the cost, Mom asks whether he’d be able to clean up after himself and he shuts up.
Sunday is laundry day at our house. Susan, lovely wife of mine, and I share the duties equally. Washer, to dryer, to folding - we both pitch in.
Early in the relationship, I converted a whole load of her stuff into Barbie[sup]TM[/sup] clothes. Since then, I have not had to do the laundry.
It was an accident. Really.
Regards,
Shodan
Husband has been in charge of doing the laundry when we do not have a maid. It has been so since day one. He complains that nobody does laundry to his satisfaction. So I let him satisfy himself
WordWife does most of the laundry - and certainly most of the folding, but I have been doing more of it now that I am in a regular exercise routine and: 1) need clean workout clothes; and 2) don’t want to have dirty, sweaty workout clothes lying around.
I did all of the cooking, but now I do most of it. She does most of the kids’ scheduling planning and homework supervision, grocery shopping and lots of other around-the-house stuff…
We both usually feel like we are sharing fairly, which is what really matters…
I do it all. My last husband “helped” me with the laundry once, and tossed one of my dresses into the dryer, where it cooked into a permanently different and unacceptable shape.
This husband thinks I sort too much. As far as he’s concerned, you got your lights and you got your darks, whereas I subdivide into about seven categories. Then some of my stuff must be washed in mesh bags and hung up to dry…it’s just better I handle it. He does the lawn.
However, the kids hang and fold their own clothes once I’ve cleaned them.
I do it all, but there’s none of this folding lark.
I wash, I dry, I throw it in a pile.
We pick out what we need and iron work clothes as needed.
I grew up domesticated due to a large family, I lived in my own place for six/seven years before mrs. essell moved in. She came straight from her parents place where her dad did all the housework.
So she was a) used to the man doing such things and b) had no clue how things like washing machines work.
OTOH she has done the washing twice in the four years we’ve been living together.
My wife washes her clothes, I wash mine, and I usually do the sheets and towels as well. She washes anything other than clothing that requires special treatment, like tablecloths or whatnot.
I was 37 when we got married; I’d been doing my own laundry for 19 years by then. Couldn’t think why that should change just because we got married.