I haven’t done laundry in a couple years but my clothes are always neatly folded
How proto-cat burglars help me live my life
I started doing my own laundry somewhere around the 6th grade. I figure there’s at least 3 decades of me doing my own laundry.
I’ve taken my shirts to the cleansers, though, ever since I was in college. I am a disaster with the iron. I can do it, but I’d prefer not to.
Fast-forward to the current day...we have 7 people in our house. The washing machine is constantly going. Then it usually takes an eternity for the clothes to dry.
There’s always a lag. A big one.
Between work, preparing meals, and general parenting…there was very little time to do my laundry. No time at my own convenience.
As I type this here epistle, the laundry machines are working right in front of me. It never ends.
I decided to cut to the chase and stopped doing my laundry altogether. I couldn’t take it.
Putting an end to my laundry-doing has been one of the best decisions I’ve ever …
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