Ok, so I really shouldn’t have any complaints, since we are only a family of two so far, but one thing we’ve found that we always seem to be doing is laundry. It piles up a lot quicker than you’d expect for two of us. I don’t think we’re particularly messy people or that we overuse clothes, but I have no idea how we manage to get so much laundry. I used to do my own laundry and I admit, I’d regularly wonder if I’d wind up burning out the motor of the laundromat machines. Of course, those are made to take that kind of abuse, but now that we’ve got our own machines, I worry about it just a little more.

The other week, we had the confluence of laundry storms – the laundry apocalypse. I have no idea how it happened. It was probably a bit of laziness, procrastination, and absenteeism, but I came home one day to realize I was scraping the bottom of my underwear drawer, looking for something resembling a cloth to cover my, ahem, more sensitive spots. Trying to find something that didn’t smell horrible and didn’t wiggle away when I tried to put it on really makes you rethink your laundry strategy.

Needless to say, I came home that day and we wound up doing about 5-6 loads of laundry.

Of course, the aftermath of Laundry Apocalypse occurred: the Folding Hereafter.

If you’re like me, you suck it up and fold, then put stuff away in the drawers (unless of course, you realize that your drawers actually don’t have enough space for ALL of your clean clothes as you’ve subscribed to hamper method of clothes storage: keep enough dirty laundry so that you don’t need to overstuff your drawers and closet. Hmm. Maybe we have the origins of the Laundry Apocalypse right there.).

However, if you’re C, you subscribe to the “pull it out of the folded laundry pile” philosophy of clothes storage and the clothes sits on the couch for a couple of weeks as it dwindles down. 🙂

Needless to say, I am quite scared of what will happen when our little family expands…

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