Laundry Dilemma, Three Simple Questions to Save Your Sanity
Our laundry was a disaster and if answering three questions were
going to help us we would have been thanking anyone for any
advice. So I decided that it would be a goal of mine to be on
top of the laundry so whoever showed up whenever they showed up
at our house laundry would not be an obstacle on the way to the
kitchen.
First I need to go back a little ways. My wife of twenty seven
years and I have raised four children and held down our careers
in spite of the odds against it and we are still together and in
love. Our children three of which are grown, well almost,
twenty-four, twenty-one and nineteen are happy well adjusted and
on their way to becoming a positive contribution to society. We
still have a nine year old and the third grade is tougher than
we remember.
The twenty-one and nineteen year olds have moved out and have an
apartment five miles away. They are girls so that took away a
lot of the laundry and a lot of the laundry doers all in one
move. Our son twenty-one years old and our nine year old are at
home and believe me both contribute to the laundry in a big way.
Now you can imagine that with three teens and one toddler our
laundry was a disaster. We could never find the time or when we
could find the time we could not find the energy to get our
laundry done and put away.
Now our house by no means was dirty just cluttered with laundry,
no surface area uncluttered, mounds of laundry waiting to be
washed and another mound waiting to be put away. I remember four
or five laundry baskets lined up in the dining room and our kids
having the time of their lives pulling each other around in
them.
I tried every way including the military way to get everything
going in one direction but to no avail. Things just seem to be
out of control and no sign of returning to normal. So I was
going crazy and thought to myself that whenever I go to
someone