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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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 Posted - Aug 20 2007 : 1:08:09 PM
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I fold it when taking it off the line (in season), and bring it back upstairs to the living room or bed room to fold in the "dryer" season. I really like the line more because, besides the great smell and crispness of the clothes, I feel like when I bring it in all folded, my work is done!! Getting it put away quickly is the trick!
Sharon
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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La Patite Ferme
True Blue Farmgirl
623 Posts
Jenn
CA
USA
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Posted - Aug 21 2007 : 2:23:21 PM
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Add me to the sicko list.
I like doing laundry too, it forces me to slow down and do something mindless. I usually bring loads in and fold them on the chaise in my bedroom. That way if I don't get it all done it's not visable from the front rooms.
After my divorce it was amazing to me how enjoyable these simple tasks were. I relished doing dishes and looking out the window, folding laundry on the kitchen table while cooking dinner, just simple tasks that allowed my mind to go someplace quiet.
I don't think God ever ment us to go at mock speed like we do. |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 12:16:12 PM
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I'm a bit compulsive, I guess, when it comes to folding. I don't love it or hate it, it's just a necessity. I DO hate clothes in a basket...it's like digging in quicksand for something.
I bring it all into the bedroom, and take it out of the basket according to "what it is". dh's t shirts first, dh's work t-shirts next, dh's button up shirt's, then dh's socks and underwear, then the same for me, then it's jeans and pants, dh's first then mine. So I have multiple piles going but they all have a reason, see?
We have 3 different colored towels in the bathroom, and 4 of each color, so when I wash them all, and then fold them, I fold them my favorite color to least favorite color, stacked that way, to take into the bathroom shelves.
I also do the color separation thing to my skittles, but that's another story for another day!
"She was built like a watch, a study in balance ... with a neck and head so refined, like a drawing by DaVinci"...
NY Newsday sportswriter Bill Nack describing filly, Ruffian. |
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Rosemary
True Blue Farmgirl
1825 Posts
Virginia
USA
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Posted - Aug 22 2007 : 1:59:30 PM
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| If I don't do it right out of the dryer (or off the line), it doesn't get done, and that's really depressing -- so much needless ironing ahead! My laundry room is too small, so I just schlepp everything into the dining room and organize things there. Someday, I'd love to have a laundry room UPSTAIRS so I wouldn't have to cart baskets up and down stairs all the time. Ugh! |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Aug 23 2007 : 11:32:10 AM
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Okay- I wish my landlords would just get my washer fixed already! Having to wait 6-12 hours for my washer to spin my laundry out really just dampens my cleaning energy bursts!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora!
http://home.test-afl.tulix.com/aleeandnora/ |
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joyfulmama
True Blue Farmgirl
1175 Posts
Debra
Silver Springs
NV
USA
1175 Posts |
Posted - Aug 24 2007 : 09:01:49 AM
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The kiddos dump the laundry on my bed. I fold it and they put it away. Since we are a large family living in a very small house we are using rubbermaid buckets for the kids clothes.. so everyone has a number that there clothes go into.. anything that needs to be hung is hung in my closet.. not the most effective way of dealing with things but it works for now.. I miss my laundry room. I made a ironing table that is in storage you can see it on my website under jan/feb http://myvintagehome.com I loved that table.. I could fold on it, I could iron my vintage linens on it.. it was so much easier than a ironing board.
I am glad you are feeling better... Do you have kids? inlist their help! :-)
blessings,debra |
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katiedid
True Blue Farmgirl
601 Posts
Kate
West Jordan
Utah
USA
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Posted - Sep 03 2007 : 8:00:57 PM
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OK, I am enlisting some help...I have 4 big tubs of laundry in the hall...they are all overflowing....They are starting to smell....
All of this talk of fresh, warm clothes has gotten me pumped up!
I *will* tackle this mountain!
I *can* win the war against laundry! Everyone cleaned their rooms and closets..the kids went on a hike today and played in the river...then came home and showered...everyone needed their OWN towel....I changed my bedding and the littlest kids' beds...that makes like 23 load in it's self! No sweat! I have a clothesline, sure it only reaches my belly button on one side...
Who am I kidding...give me some pep talkin' sisters! I need it!
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Leezard
True Blue Farmgirl
950 Posts
Elizabeth
Novi
MI
USA
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jo Thompson
True Blue Farmgirl
603 Posts
Jo
the mountainside of the Chugach
in Alaska
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - Sep 03 2007 : 9:49:39 PM
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I LOVE doing laundry, my husband thinks I'm a lunatic about it. He calls me "laundry woman".......... I decorated my laundry room just so it would be nicer when I fold away. I know it's weird..... by the way, my laundry was a dark hole before I spruced it up. jo
 
plus it's very green, like Babe the Blue Ox when it's snowing madly outside, I make believe it's green.............
"life is drab without a lab"
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lasagefemme
True Blue Farmgirl
65 Posts
Lisa
eastern
Washington
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2007 : 03:14:27 AM
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Katie.....how'd ya do today??? Get any of that laundry done? Tomorrow...my *new* clothesline comes in. Its a 5-line retractable one, made in the USA and ordered in by my new friend at the little True Value Hardware in town. Here it is.....recommended by a friend online who has had hers for 10 years and moved it 4 times.
http://www.farm-home.com/cgi-bin/miva?/mn/t9_main.mv+SORT03+HCS+006420+0510+JDISTRIB3283-2453~~~~~~~
I'm enlisting the two older kiddos...they're 4 1/2 and 6 1/2. They'll get laundry aprons and everything :)
Lisa
*Drink RAW milk* |
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sweetthunder214
Farmgirl in Training
26 Posts
theresa
smithville
tx
USA
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Posted - Sep 11 2007 : 06:01:28 AM
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| Wow.. what a beautiful laundry room. I wish I had a room for the laundry. Mine is a part of the "mud room" I guess is what you would call it. I live in a trailer home and its at the end of the house along with the door that everyone uses to come and go. There is also a bathroom back there but there is no real room to do anything. It is virtually impossible to keep clean. Everyone walks through leaving shoes and what ever else is in their pocket on my dryer and there are always dirty clothes piled in there. What a horrible way to introduce company into your home. I would love to hear from anyone who has a similar situation and if you do something special or just blow it off to life.. |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Sep 13 2007 : 08:42:09 AM
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What a lovely laundry room, Jo!
Right now I am sitting with 2 loads of laundry on my couch begging to be folded, some in the washer and more in other rooms of the house that need gathered, sorted and washed. Luckily I got through about 5 loads of laundry last night!
Alee
The amazing one handed typist! One hand for typing, one hand to hold Nora!
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Maryjane Lee
True Blue Farmgirl
2195 Posts
Maryjane
CA
USA
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Posted - Sep 13 2007 : 11:07:25 AM
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Love your laundry room Jo! It is nice...bright and cheery ! Love your drying racks to!
Hugs, Maryjane Lee
The Beehive Cottage~est. 1971
"Sisters on the Fly"
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Edited by - Maryjane Lee on Sep 13 2007 11:09:16 AM |
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myfairlady636
True Blue Farmgirl
226 Posts
Janice
Fort Bridger
WY
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - Sep 14 2007 : 1:36:13 PM
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I like to fold the laundry on my bed too, then I can put it right away while Im in the bedroom.. If its the kids stuff.. I send it to them to fold.. and put away.
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