Using a clothesline to dry, and a washing machine that takes 2.5 hours per cycle has drastically changed our disposition on what is actually considered "dirty." For example, shirts worn around the house or out
during the day can be clean for say, five days. Workout clothes are now on a two workout cycle before washing (excluding Wells’ socks that have learned to walk themselves to the washing machine after each workout). PJ’s can now be worn for about a week. And it might be safe to say that jeans just might not ever get dirty again. My personal snootiness has really been put to the test with the bath towels. Two uses of the same towel sends me to therapy so this has been a LARGE adjustment. Also, by design the bath towels are a lot less plush because it takes them so long to dry. For this, I am forever exfoliated. Then there is the question of what to do with my wet “littles” as the English call them. I am not about to hang my underwear on the clothes line so I decided to hang them from every door knob possible. And where are most of the knobs you ask? The kitchen! There is one on every cabinet door. This means that in order to get a snack, make coffee or get a drink we have to navigate through my throng…of thongs!
Another word on laundry…and maybe not even the last word February 18, 2009
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I think you should seize this opportunity to have some guests over and explain to the Spanish how Americans believe that hanging underwear in your kitchen keeps the demons out. There’s no greater feeling than spreading a fake custom about some nonsense food or belief to unaware foreigners.
The Asians have been doing it to us for years.
Great post… I’m still laughing from that photo. Yea… jeans are good forever.
tht reminds me so much of our summer in NYC where we also had a washer, but no dryer!!! LOVE IT