Laundry vent!

[always quiet]

DD, 12, has cheerleading after school yesterday. Since it was a game, she needed to wear her uniform to school all day. She gets home at 5:30 and changes in normal clothes. We eat dinner and she spends the rest of the evening sitting doing homework...takes a shower when she is finished. Could someone possibly tell me WHY the clothes that were on her back for less than 2 1/2 hours, sitting inside the entire time are now dirty enough that I have found them in the hamper?!!

I have enough wash without washing the clean stuff!!

 

[Mackey Mouse]

I am glad those days are over.. laundry wise that is.. I do miss the hustle bustle of kids in the house doing what they do best.. making messes.... but we raise them to be independent and move on to being grown ups.. I raised two cheerleaders so I do understand... take care...

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Oh my! A laundry post.

 

[ahutton]

Okay - I'll throw my vent in just for fun, hope you don't mind! Why is it that I am the only one in the house that can put clean, sorted and folded clothes away? My DH is wonderful, very helpful, but will walk to the couch each morning (I've tested this a couple times) and get dressed there rather than carry the clothes into our room and put them in his dresser drawers!

 

[Christine]

I feel your pain! My DD, also 12, is very guilty of this. She wears a school uniform all day, leaves it on until about 7:00 p.m., decides (after 3 hours of my nagging) to change to some regular clothes. Takes them off, into the hamper, and on with the PJs. These lay on the floor a few days and are never worn again.

To boot, my DH put clothes away for me this weekend. Many of *my* clothes ended up in my DD's drawers. How he cannot figure out that she weighs 80 lbs and I weigh 145 lbs and our clothes are not the same size, is beyond me. Anyway, all my clothes that got put into her drawer were pulled out by her and put into her dirty clothes hamper!

 

[Mishetta]

OMG Christine!! What an awful thing to do!! I would have my DD do the laundry if she had done that to me!!!

Okay..now I'll brag about my "perfect" DS! He too, wears his clothes for just a couple hours at home watching TV (after switching out of his school uniform) & then throws it in the hamper!! PLEASE!!! I have enough laundry that I don't need to do clean laundry all day long! I know the reason though, it's much easier to toss his clothes in the hamper than to take all the trouble to hang it on his clothes tree in his room! ARGGHHHH!!!!

I too am the only one to put clothes away! My DH will put his own away (since I just leave them on the bed) but my DS, he'll let them pile up but then when he's looking for something, he goes to the draw & says "where's my Red Wings tee-shirt??" It'll be on the top of the pile on his dresser too but he won't see it!! I'm doing another "piling up" survey right now. His clean folded clothes are about 2 feet high right now on his dresser. Lets see how high they can go!!

But in all fairness I must say that both my DH & DS put their dirty clothes in the hamper. My DH is obsessive compulsive & he even folds his underwear before carefully placing it in the hamper! Oh the things we live with for love!!

 

[LisaTx]

I thought boys were supposed to be the messy ones?

My DS15 never gets a spot on his clothes. I never have to check his shirts to pretreat them. My DD12 on the other hand can get her clothes dirty sitting perfectly still in a sterile room. She's a master. She also throws everything on the floor. Even the clean clothes I just washed.

I no longer do her laundry. She does it herself. Just this weekend she was complaining about how much laundry she had and I heard her mention something about how maybe she should hang her clothes up. Maybe there's hope for her yet.

 

[llebrekniT]

Listen closely They don't care! None of them! They aren't going to change! I live through this everyday of my life and the only thing that works for me is this - I once heard that you have to find the blessing in everything. So all I can do is look at all that laundry and realize I would rather have it this way than the opposite, which would be no laundry, because that would mean either we have no clothes or there was no one here for me to take care of. I know it doesn't make it go away, but I'm telling you, nothing will! They're just bad and they don't care

I would like to add my vent though - when they put dirty clothes back in the drawer! They are trying to make me crazy!

Play the lottery - maybe you'll win and then you can hire someone to do the laundry. Besides that - GIVE IT UP! You aren't going to win!

 

[always quiet]

I hang the laundry outside to dry, then carefully fold the clothes and place each pile of clothes on the persons bed (3 kids - I do put DH's clothes away). A couple days later, I will hear a complaint that they are out of sock, undies....a specific shirt...They'll ask me when I am going to do the wash. I will go into their room, tear apart the bed that they have slept in for how many nights and find the once neatly folded pile of clean clothes, now a wrinkled mass under the covers!! All the clothes then will wind up back in the hamper with them complaining that I didn't tell them they HAD laundry to put away!! HELLO!!! The laundry is ON the bed BY the pillow!!!

KIDS....Gotta love 'em!!!

 

[disneygals]

llebrekniT...

ROFL at your post! You're right! They don't care AND they think we're insane because we do. Just like I could never fathom what MY mother was ranting about!!

Vivienne

 

[Mskanga]

How about when they take a shower, take out clean towels to dry clean bodies and then throw the tolwels on the floor because they are dirty?? You mean they cannot use the same towel twice? DH does that all the time and guess what I do? I hang it again when he goes to work, let it dry, fold it and put it back in the closet, then he thinks I washed it and put it away all the same day!

 

[LadyAurora]

LOL, Mskanga. Good idea.
My hubby exhibits all of the behaviors described above. I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks.

 

[CRB#33]

Join the club!

and the answer is:

Because it's much easier to chuck 'em than hang 'em.

 

[JetMom]

I have 3, count them 3, DS's who wear uniforms to school - change into play clothes for a few hours - and throw them into the hamper.

I have given up stressing about it.

When people ask me what I do in my spare time - I answer "The Laundry"

 

[HauntedMansionGeek]

I love a good laundry rant! LOL

When DD started to do her own laundry is when she started to "get" it. 12 isn't too young to begin the process.......

What's cool about it is now that she's 25, she recently admitted that she was awful.......admitted that she was a pig, that she would take things and not return them, DENYING in the mean time that she had ever SEEN whatever it was that was lost and was now left laying under her bed!

They DO grow up, thank GOD!

 

[mtemm]

possibly why at 12 mom taught me how to do my laundry and told me I was responsible for it now. Something to consider, anyway!

 

[Krisu]

And lets not forget when wet towels are put into the hamper

 

[disykat]

Put in the hamper? Apparently my 8 year old thinks it is easier to throw the clothes behind his dresser, under his bed, under a pile of toys etc. than to put them in the hamper. The darn thing is - when I only wash what's in the hamper he doesn't give a rip. He just puts them back on dirty. I had to put "clothes in hamper" on a checklist along with "brush your teeth" etc. that he goes through every morning and evening.

 

[FreshTressa]

Yah, it is kind of sad all the work we do that no one seems to care about. My son is the same way, comes home from school, which is 3 hours long, tosses his clothes on the floor and changes into play clothes. Then those get tossed on the floor at the end of the night then he only wears his PJ's once.

Wash, Dry, Fold, wash, dry, fold....

 

[Dave A]

As a recent empty nester (Twins at college) I will tell you you will miss them.
Dave