Okay…so the laundry…too put it mildly… is killing me!!! I mean seriously, I just can’t catch up on laundry to save my life. I debated going out and buying each of us 2 more packs of underwear because we literally have enough clothes to go about a month, okay…Noah and I have enough clothes to go about a month without washing… but the problem is, I run out of places to hide the dirty clothes!
The first obvious sign that the laundry monster is visiting out house, you can’t walk in our closet (clothes hamper location), the second, the bathroom door stays half open (laundry hiding place #2). Then the reality is this, I pull out underwear and towels to do only, but this is only a quick fix…because eventually as days go by…it still builds… all I am doing is slowing the monster down. Which leads to my next problem… My monster has a friend…and his name is Socks… I know everyone has been visited by the Sock monster, but most people find that he will eat one of each pair of socks…slowly to make the pain sink in. Not my sock monster, noooooo, I would have to get one with a stomach bug, my sock monster keeps throwing up socks all over the place…at the bottom of each basket of folded clothes waiting for a home, on top of dressers, on top of the dryer….i even have bags full of his ‘leftovers’ and a whole basket waiting to be coupled…. good grief, he leaves his trail everywhere!!! Correction, everywhere EXCEPT the sock drawer.
And you know, even when I get close to catching up on the laundry it only leads to another problem, putting it all up. If there is anything I hate more than washing and folding it is putting up the clean laundry. so even when I start making a little progress on the dirty clothes monster, I start building up stacks of clean clothes, in the laundry baskets, on the dresser, hanging from the door ways…
So then, my husband has the nerve to tell me… ‘Do I have clean underwear’ or worse yet, this morning when he is looking for a pair of black dress socks, which I had actually paired some and put them in the sock drawer… he does the UNTHINKABLE… he dumped the basket of the sock monsters on the bed trying to find some, but it wasn’t just about trying to find clean socks, he was trying to let me know that he can never find anything when he needs it in my mess of a house…at least that is the message I got. So I proceed to pull out the clean pair I had placed in his sock drawer just to be a smart aleck right back… but it didn’t help, because all I got was the look that said, ‘well it’s not like there is EVER a matching pair in there anyway’.
Am I giving up? Nope, I refuse… this weekend I am cleaning my house and next week, I have a plan… I am breaking up the rooms into specific days that I will spend 30 minutes cleaning up every evening. Noahs room and the computer room are Monday, the living room and Noahs bathroom are Tuesday, the kitchen and laundry room are Wednesday, the family room and floors are Thursday and our bedroom and bathroom are Friday. Can I do it? Um, I had a little more umph before I actually typed this out and re-read it, now I am feeling a little tired… LOL… no, I can, I can do it!!! We’ll check back in on Attack of the Cleaning Monster this time next week…stay tuned…
And if your wondering how the Love Dare is going, see the paragraph in read…
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