I had a reason to...

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Hurray.

Was going to make the following statement.

It's Thursday and I am very much alive and happy, Yesterday, Wednesday was beautiful. WB came home early and we went to get the washing machine.

Tomorrow (hopefully) the long search for the washing machine will be over. After all the looking, the Internet searching, the measuring, and waiting for it to arrive, it's finally here. The new one is out of it's crate, hooked up, and (almost) ready to go. The only problem it that we have to re hook up the vent so that it won't be twisted. I can't be excited until we're sure that it is indeed level and working. So far so good. It's a beautiful machine.

And it looks like it will be able to wash our clothes, towels, sheets, blankets... just about everything that we have to wash. I'm still a bit worried about the furry blanket. That would be huge even for the old washing machine. I have devised a laundry schedule that should work so that we aren't washing huge amounts of laundry at anyone time. I've used this schedule when Pup was little, so I know it works. Always clean clothes and towels. This is a good schedule for a family who has a washer and dryer (or clothes line) at home.

It goes like this:

Monday towel day (all the towels in the clothes hamper)
Tuesday clothes day for one person (all dirty clothes in their closet hamper)
Wednesday clothes for a second family member(all dirty clothes in their closet hamper)
Thursday clothes for a third family member (same as above)
Friday either clothes for a fourth family member or another towel day
Saturday sheets each week/shower curtain and/blankets once a month also kitchen towels

Sunday nothing. no clothes washing on this day.

I used to have Tuesday-Thursday as a different color laundry or white clothing day but it was tedious separate and ti put up clothing for different people. Now it's a day devoted to each family member or two if you have to double up. Because no one family member dirties up that many clothes, it's actually not too bad. I have a clothes sorter and each person has their own laundry basket/dirty clothes basket. Just bring it to the washer, sort the clothes in the clothes sorter, wipe out the laundry basket (the plastic kind) with a disinfectant wipe that I'll keep next to the washing machine, then put the clean clothes back into that same clothes basket. Either the person who's clothes are being washed comes and gets their clean clothes at night or I'll put them on their bed. This worked for us before and has the benefit of getting put a laundry basket/gear when he moves to his own place. The first week that I tried it, I kept thinking, "Ah ha. So this is what it feels like to have all the wash you need to or plan to do done before midnight. No more mountain of laundry or searching about to wash clothes. Unless it's something unforeseen, clothes get washed without lots of stress. Yay." I recommend this method if you're not domestically inclined because once you get the system set up you don't have to think about it. Everyone knows that towels are on Monday nights and Friday mornings, they know when their laundry day is incase they need something special washed, and it's designed to that the people who use the dry cleaners can have them ready to take to work with them. Sigh. I love clean laundry but hate to do it. This is the only way I've found to keep us sane and in clothes. Even Pup, who normally doesn't really care about laundry, is glad to see it here.

In case you're interested.



The good news is that, while the washing machine is slightly smaller, there is so much more room in the closet. The machine is actually two machines in one. There's a washer on the bottom and a dryer on the top. This means that the part where the dryer was located is not free space. We NEED the storage space. Plenty of room for brooms, the ironing board, the iron, buckets and still have a place to hang clothes. I'm hoping to install a shelf or two for laundry detergent. In the past I've stored this type of thing in a small plastic laundry basket. That way if any thing spilled, it would spill into the basket and not on the machine or onto the floor. This worked because I could store everything needed into one space and the basket had a solid bottom. LOL Never knew I'd be this happy about laundry but it costs a small fortune to wash and dry clothes at the laundry mat. This works.

I'm not particularly good at housework, but even I'm excited.


LOL Hugs, it's really good to have a washing machine again.


AuthorAnn and now slightly more domestic Ann.

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