Laundry Rescue Mission

As I walk into the laundry room, the piles of dirty laundry are overwhelming. Where on earth did all these clothes come from? There are only four people living in this house the last time I counted. Has another family moved in without my knowing? Are my sons taking in laundry for pay? Surely these are not all “our” clothes. I go to the closets and check, they aren’t empty. So where did all of these clothes come from?

After asking both boys and getting a resounding “no” from each. Neither one would admit that they had taken in someone else’s laundry. So it must be coming from here. How could four people possibly dirty up so many clothes? Well, it isn’t as difficult as it seems.

My oldest son works, has practice for sports, and still another set of clothing that he sleeps in. There is three outfits per day. The youngest is a sport nut. He goes outside several times a day to “practice.” How many changes of clothing he goes through is beyond me. My husband has work clothes and “hanging out” clothes. Oh, and can’t forget about his “going to town” clothes and his sleeping clothes. That is up to four outfits per day for him. I must be the lazy one. Either, that or I am the only one that will wear dirty clothes. Honestly, I will not wear dirty clothes. I just am not as active as they are. And even with that, I sometimes go through two outfits per day. I have my hanging out clothes which double as my sleeping clothes and my going to town clothes. Luckily, there are several days that I just take my morning shower, throw on some hanging out clothes and take a seat at my computer for another day of work.

So we are up to at least nine changes of clothes per day. Add in at least four showers, and you have a ton of laundry. Yes, we do laundry each and every day. If not, when we try to walk into the laundry room, it will knock us down and a search party will have to be called to rescue the brave soul that attempted to do laundry. After battling with this same old routine for way too long, I knew we had to make a change. If not, then surely there would come a time when we would not make it in time to save which ever family member drew the short straw to do laundry.