Meaningless POLL: Laundry folding

I lucked out w/ the new Hubs...lol...I think he has a secret OCD w/ laundry....he hates when a hamper is full so laundry is always done, he folds (the right way, unlike me who will ball everything up), and he irons! I haven't done laundry since we moved in together over 3 years ago. My admission: When he's away (usually a week or so at a time) I bring my laundry to my Moms because she'll do it .

marty_ga

My daughter has a 2 story house with laundry upstairs next to the bedrooms.

Marty, maybe your daughter lives in my neighborhood, lol, because that's how ours is, too.  I'd never seen that done before we bought this house.  It is upstairs at the end of the hall.  Since most laundry comes out of the bedroom, well, it's quite convenient to not have to haul laundry baskets up and down stairs.  Never thought about busting a leak, though.  I know it's required that all 2nd floor laundry rooms have a plastic tray underneath the washer to try and prevent slow leaks from doing damage (we have the tray), but a large leak, well, maybe one day I'll come home and find my washing machine in the garage, lol.

I hate laundry, too.  Every once in a blue moon BF will do it, but he'll only wash his clothes.  His excuse is that he "doesn't know how I need my clothes to be washed."  Which is totally an excuse, but I'm glad he doesn't attempt to do mine, because he doesn't even separate whites from colors!!  So I'm more than happy to do it knowing I won't end up with streaky colored stripes on my white clothes.

I try to fold right out of the dryer and I use the top of the washing machine to do it.  If I take it someplace to fold it, wherever I toss it is usually covered with dog hair.  My laundry is pretty basic and easy to fold anyway ... jeans, shorts, shirts, underwear and a few towels. The guys all do their own.

Joyce

 I fold it eventually, and sometimes not even. I have two baskets. Sometimes I wear the clothes out of one, and put the dirty clothes in the other. I hate folding that much. Occassionally, I will fold some of it right of the dryer

Jewlieee

I have no problem getting the laundry washed and dried. Its just the folding and hanging that I hate

Same here. I detest folding clothes. I have a basket of clean clothes next to my bed right now.......over full, but it's all good with me! Who needs to bother folding when you're just going to wear it all again?! I have the same philosphy when it comes to making my bed... haha =]

DH does the washing and drying during the day and tosses it all on the bed.  At night I fold and put away when I am watching TV.  All I have to say is Riley's first chore will be matching and folding socks!!!  I hate that part.  I have been know to buy DH more sweat socks, just so I don't have to match and fold them!

aerial1313

I'm glad he doesn't attempt to do mine, because he doesn't even separate whites from colors!!

I spent many years living in apartments where we had to do laundry in common areas.  Like Callie said, we had to be vigilant about not letting clean things drop on the disgusting floor.  Also, I got in the habit of folding right out of the dryer so things didn't wrinkle on the walk back to our apartment.  I'm kind of anal about folding --- all towels have to be put in the closet with the folds facing OUT.  I had a roommate that told our friends she never put linens away because I took them all out and put them back in the closet the way I wanted to anyway (she was right). 

Sera_J -- your insight about grocery shopping is brilliant!  I hate it, too, and that must be partly why!  I never counted it out like that, but it's the definition of inefficient!  If I won the Lottery, I'd do laundry every day, as long as I could hire a personal grocery shopper and chef 7 days a week!

mrstjohnson

I have been know to buy DH more sweat socks, just so I don't have to match and fold them!

Lisa, you are soooo not alone!

sharismom

I'm just anal enough that I have to match each.  A white or black sock does not just get together with another white or black sock - they must be the same length, shade, etc.

Only recently have DH and I worked out a clothing system.  We keep three separate laundry baskets in our room: one for whites, one for colors, and one for darks.  I am TERRIBLE about washing and drying so DH does that, and puts the clean clothes into the newly emptied basket for me to fold.  Which since I work in retail, I fold with ruler-straight precision and then I fold SOCKS.

Infiniti

Yes!  Mmmm, folding socks...I LOVE it.  And I'm not kidding.  I will gladly fold socks all day long...

Want to come over?  I will exchange sock folding for a homemade Italian sausage lasagna?

I second (or third) what Lani said about grocery shopping.  Man is it tedious.

My ex-DH used to wash all my light colors and darks together in cold water, saying it was okay because the water was cold, but I owned a lot of grey underwear until I stopped putting my nice lightweight clothes into the joint laundry basket.

I used to wash my son's stuff separate from mine when he was a teenager.  The grimy socks and the smell of his deodorant or Axe spray would permeate everything - gag me. 

I fold everything straight out of the dryer, but then leave it in stacks on top of the machines. 

It's getting pretty bad at the moment since there is a mix of cold weather & warm weather clothing.  I really need to put some stuff away before the piles topple over....

I have ALWAYS hated putting my clothes away.  Before I got my house, I had to go somewhere every week to do my laundry.  Inevitably the clean clothes would remain in the hamper and I would end up throwing my dirty clothes on the floor next to it until laundry day when I was forced to put the clean clothes away so that I could use the hamper to go to the laundry.  lol  Now I have no incentive to put anything away, so it keeps piling up.

Oh well, a perk of living alone, I guess.  The dogs don't care.

I picked the 2nd option because my "laundry room" is waaaay to cramped to do anything but unload the clothes into a basket. And even that requires some flexibility!