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I mean, why does it matter how you
fold DIAPERS when they are just
gonna get POOPED on anyway? |
How do you all sort out laundry with your partners?
For years, we each just did our own laundry. But three years into David traveling all the time, and his laundry piling up because I didn't want him spending our family time doing laundry on the weekends, I decided to take over laundry completely.
I honestly don't mind. It's not like I love laundry, but I
do work out of my home office, which happens to be right next to the laundry room. So when a student is late while I'm teaching, I'll switch a load, or while I'm creating invoices or answering emails, I'll switch another load. I generally do 6-8 loads of laundry on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and it's finished.
I thought it was working quite well.
UNTIL ...
I apparently do not fold his clothes properly.
This is not surprising, and it should in no way be construed as a "man has wife who does his laundry, but is critical of her folding techniques," even though I suppose that would be a factual headline. I am the one insisting on doing the laundry, however, because I am tired of the massive piles of dirty clothes on the floor and doing everyone's laundry helps keep me on a schedule.
A few weeks ago, he said he would rather me not fold it at all than to fold it incorrectly.
So I stopped folding his clothes. Sometimes I carry up a wad of clean clothes in a laundry basket. Sometimes I just lay everything flat in a big pile and put it in his office to deal with. I'm not sure I love this, however, because now there is just a big pile of
clean clothes rather than a big pile of dirty clothes, so how is this solving a problem?
He asked me, "Would you like me to show you how to fold them?" I promptly replied that if he enjoyed being married to me, he would absolutely
not teach me how to fold his underwear. But since it seems important to him, I would watch a YouTube video that shows me the way he likes them folded and adjust accordingly.
He has yet to send me such a video, so the wads of clean clothes continue. I suggested that he maybe create his own YouTube video, but then I thought that might make him a huge enemy to all women -- a video of a man teaching his wife how to fold his old fraternity dance t-shirts probably does not endear him to the world.
And, my friends, he is very endearing. He just cares a little more about right angles and matching socks than I do.
I asked a friend about this, but she was no help because she uses a FOLDING BOARD. Someone point me in a more civil direction?
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