Ladies of Hive Community Contest #70 - The Most Dreaded Chore
Hi Everyone,
When I saw the latest topic for the Ladies of Hive Community, I laughed. I have a list of things I hate doing around the house day in day out like loading the dishwasher, unloading it, dusting, cleaning the toilet but the one I dislike the most is doing the laundry. As many of you know, I have 2 young boys and boys can get pretty messy when they are out at a park or even playing in the garden. There were times in a day we changed 3 times due to various reasons meaning I need to start the washing pretty much every day. Now they are at school, you would think it will lighten the load, but the same thing goes around every day.
We have a habit now due to COVID we always change when we come home from outside to eliminate any germs lingering around the house. All the worn clothes goes straight into the wash to reduce any chances of getting COVID again. This also includes any uniform, socks, singlets and so on. Not only that, sometimes they go to sports after school so those uniforms will go in the wash also. For the 4 of us, that would easily be a load each day. I got to the point I can't be taking out the washing every day and on days it rains for a few days, I have nowhere to dry the clothes. So 2 years ago, we got a dryer and that solved most of the problems in the washing and drying department. Keep in mind that there are still sheets, pillow cases, towels, bath mats etc all on top of the daily washing.
The most dreaded part of it all is folding the clothes. Not only that, I would have to separate each stake to different owners and what occasions ie sports so by the the end of it, I would have lots of different piles. I hate doing it so much I would save at least 2-3 loads of washing and fold them together while I watch TV. This means I would wait a day or two before folding any clothes. By the end of the second day, one of our couches will be full of clothes ready to be folded from what you can in the pictures. I used to feel bad that I am not doing a good job getting the house in order but at a certain point, I just do what I can each day and get by. Folding the laundry isn't a priority and if anyone is desperate to wear a shirt I've just washed and its not in the cupboard, they can always search for it in that pile. Luckily my boys don't really care about what they wear which is why I can get away with the folding the laundry as they have so many other shirts to choose from when they go out. Let me invite @livinguktaiwan to see what is her most dreaded chore.
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Lol! I am yet to meet someone that likes laundry as a chore. It's not an easy thing to do without washing machine and now we have washing machine and it's not any less easy!
For the tech guys, we need a sorting and folding machine too! 😄
Interesting entry. 🙂
Hahahahah I get you, the dream machine for us would be an automatic washer, drying, sorting, folding AND put them in the cupboards hahahahaha
before folding whether ironed with fragrance first. I'm also sometimes lazy when folding clothes. but that was then now I have started folding every dry from the laundry
You are good, I used to fold them every day when its dried but since the second one was born, you want to do one thing but the kid wants something else and I forget about it and then by that time the second load is pretty my dried so its a cycle lol
Hmm, I thought the most dreaded would be the dishes.
Hmmm I think dishes would be top 3 for many families but laundry is the worst out of all imo hahahaha
I remember many years back watching 爱，回家。
黄家岚watching the washing machine as the clothes washes.
MIL asked doesn't the clothes wash automatically?
The truth is that washing every day is a chore. You would have to dedicate yourself to it.
I'm glad you made the resolution. Those who want a specific garment to take care of washing, drying, ironing and folding it.
Good for you!
Yah the specific material ones I do wash seperately and try to make extra effort to get them done well and hang them up.
How you feeling now? Still lingering or are you back to 100%?
The lingering cough still around even just not as bad after the dose of antibotics which ended on Friday. Might have to give the doc a call to see what else we could do. I've spoken to a few people who had covid and they had a lingering cough like me for a few weeks .... i guess maybe everyone is different?
thanks for checking up on me :)
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This has been one of the top 3 dreaded chores, lol. Thanks for sharing @travelgirl and have a lovely day!
LOL I have to say we probably won't find anyone doing the laundry hahahaha
Indeed!💜🤗
Ohhhhh, I too find the laundry work very taxing. Thankfully we are just 2 people so it's not much to do.
oh 2 people is much easier to manage. The moment you have kids, that is when things go downhill haha.
Wow great job weldon thanks for sharing @travelgirl
thanks for coming by :)
You’re welcome 😆