having to do laundry
we had a pipe kinda burst today at my house. thankfully it burst all over the basement, nowhere else, but sadly that meant that it all landed on my large pile of clean clothes that i had sitting next to the dryer. the stack that i was gonna sort through tomorrow to decide what i want to keep and what i want to give to arc. so now, not only do i have to do the big project of sorting, i have to wash it all again. grr...
oh, and btw, whose stupid idea was it to make bottom sheets? what a stupid idea. then you have to fold them. they are obviously not essential to existence, cuz the people on lost don't have them, and they're more or less surviving (and if they're not surviving it has nothing to do with a lack of bottom sheets). i think i need to get stranded on a deserted jungle island with polar bears and monsters so i don't have to fold bottom sheets.
posted by melilotnfosco | 11:11 PM
27 Comments:
i think that's a bit extreme (unless it really is just for the tv show -- not very realistic;), but they do make life more annoying!
i want to take this opportunity to thank the bottom sheet maker. yes, they're a pain in the bottom to fold (maybe that's how they got their name), but have you ever stayed at a hotel that didn't use a fitted sheet on the bottom? the flat sheet comes loose while you're sleeping, and then gets tangled up with the top sheet, and then you can't sleep because nothing is right, but you can't change it because the other person is sleeping on top of it, and then you get crabby because you're tired, and your whole vacation is ruined - all because of a flat bottom sheet.
and bummer about the extra laundry
Yup very annoying. All I do is crunch it into a little ball and shove it in a drawer! (especially crib sheets- they're the worst because all they have -at least the good ones- are elastic all the way around.) I hate laundry! I think it's the worst thing about having kids!
i wouldn't mind laundry as much if I could dry everything ... i hate it when my clothes shrink or change in anyway (i'm what you might call "BI" or "behaviorally inhibited" -- melilot knows what i'm talking about;), so i don't dry a lot of them, but then they end up getting more wrinkles! ... and i hate ironing much more than i hate doing laundry ... also, my new washer is getting lint all over everything, and that's REALLY annoying! my aunt says it's maybe b/c my towels are new ... but i digress :)
I don't mind laundry and I never really thought about the folding the bottom sheet thing, but I really hate making the boys bunkbed because you can't put the stupid bottom sheet on without pulling the entire mattress off. Maybe I'll just stop making their bed and tell them they are playing "Lost".
bunkbeds and lofts are the worst thing about clean sheet day.
The biggest problem about laundry is that I love clean sheet day!
i love clean sheet day, too. it's a great reward for all the work i have to do to get the clean sheets.
i don't mind doing laundry really, except, like chelley said, the whole not drying everything thing. i can put some stuff on the line, but i don't what sweaters and stuff getting misshapen, so then i have to find a place to lay them flat, and really the only place is on top of the washer so if i have more than one thing to lay flat, i'm kinda stuck.
oh, and i survived a whole year in sweden w/o bottom sheets, so again, they must not be necessary to existence, so they can feel free to go away.
1. laundry: I hate to sound like the ignoramus i am, but what's a bottom sheet? is it also called a "fitted sheet"? The one with the elastic around the short edges that make the whole thing crinkle into itself and never lay completely flat? As for my ignoramousness, i blame it on two things: 1) my native language is Cantonese. me no speaka de inglesh. hehehe... 2) the B&B maid does the linen laundry so I have not used linen laundry terminology for 9 months. I've become a spoiled brat (lowering head and saying "d'oh")
2. dedication: chelleybutton ought to feel honored to have posts dedicated to her in at least 2 blogs!
3. work-out: you can always get a DDR set like chelleybutton!
4. wii: my older brother has one and it's "mad fun" (as sharon would put it). I'm pretty good at bowling (avg >200 pts!) but not good in any of the other wii sports. there are some wii games out there that are good for single players, like one called Rabbids (crazy bunnies) and Wario Ware.
yes, the bottom sheet and the fitted sheet are the same thing
Wow! Who would have guessed that such an innocent post would have been so popular??? And clean sheet night so rocks...member that Dharma and Greg episode?
if it's true that fitted = bottom sheets, then i don't think it's such a big deal. i like having the soft sandwhich feel between blanket and bed. I don't like the scratchiness of the mattress... and it just seems unsanitary to not have it. but just now rereading hobbitsister's first comment, i'm realizing maybe you're comparing a fitted vs flat sheet and then i agree with hobbitsister that the flat sheets are not as good as a fitted and many a vacation have been ruined because of that. and folding the fitted isn't so bad if you put the corners into each other... maybe i'm taking this too seriously. it's 8am. i have no sense fo humor in the morning. i'm allergic.
hehe, i like that ... i think i'm allergic to the morning too!
you need to update, melilot!
and soon
i love you girls
maybe you should do some more laundry topics. apparently it's a hotter conversation piece than max.
hobbitsister, a get-together where we watched max videos would solve that, i'm sure (remember, only 2 of you know who he is:) ... and haven't we already decided that what the topic of the post starts out to be is not necessarily what it ends up being? (the beauty of conversation among girls!:))
melitot you get points for biggest blog run-on conversation!
no, you girls get points for that. this is insane! :D
is this why you did a laundry post, didder?
no - i did mine because it was a pertinent topic at our house
yeah, apparently laundry is VERY pertinent for all of us!
i see
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