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meow 
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 Posted: 15 December 2006 at 2:09pm |
I fold all my washing as I get it off the line.. the only prob is that I leave it on the line for a few days sometimes haha! If I didn't fold it as I got it in, then I would never fold it.. I don't put things away straight after folding it though, that gets left for a while.. usually get distracted by Ella before I'm able to.
Last night I put all of Ellas' washing away, took me about 15 mins  We hadn't been home much and DP has been having work related functions most nights this week.. plus Ella won't go to sleep until after 9pm with the sun still out 
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kezplanet
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Posted: 15 December 2006 at 2:58pm |
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I'm the same, if I don't fold as I take off the line, it would be there for ages, sometimes still is just folded, try to make it a game with Ashlyn putting things away, have moved her draws around so she can reach more.
Someone mentioned blanked box ......... what a great idea hadn't thought about that one, must remember!! lol
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11111
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 9:44am |
Hey guy's well its great to know I not the only one.
I went to work yesterday and got relly sick so came home eary hubby finishd early too. When he wenrt to get the boy's I went to bed when I woke up htere was a huge pile of folded wasing on the bed to put away I went down to the lounge to find all the washing was folded and put away  my hubby rock's!!!!! thing is he did it to kinda rub it in if you know wahat I mean.
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busymum
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 11:38am |
Now if it was done to be caring....
I have other housework issues. I know I'm at home all day but I spend most of that time looking after the kids, arranging meals, and sleeping. And I think my DH is of the type that thinks, "you're at home all day but what have you done?!" Housework never ends so it's a bit depressing to start with but we'd both like to be living in a cleaner home.
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lizzle
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 2:33pm |
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My solution to that problem was hubby to be a house husband for a while. he then realised that life as a stay at home housewife was not all eating chocolates and watching Oprah. in fact, he apologized to me soon after becoming the main caregiver, for ever thinking that it was the "easy" way. Even now I remind him of it.
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james
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 4:33pm |
yepsame here washing will sit there for up to 4 days sometims if i get a spare min i might do it but then prob not 
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 9:17pm |
All our clean washing gets dumped on the spare bed. It stays there most of the time and we just grab what we want to wear from there!! In saying that I was a good girl and folded it all today as we had visitors coming and they have to walk straight past the spare room to the loo. So it is folded, just sitting on our bedroom floor now waiting to be put away
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 10:05pm |
lol I'm like that! First it's a mission to fold it and then it stays folded in piles for ages! That's unless Miss One-year-old gets them before me
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Posted: 16 December 2006 at 11:29pm |
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DH does most of the washing. Sometimes I remember to put a load on and hang it out. I tend to suddenly find a pile of my clothes folded up ready for me to put away every so often - must be the washing fairy!
Wonder how much this will change when I am on maternity leave??
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Bombshell
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Posted: 17 December 2006 at 8:49am |
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I am sooo glad i am not the only one....i hate doing the washing once i bring it in....I do not iron (hate it!!!) and will normally take basket up to bedroom on night i am watching tv and fold while watching it...BUT that is as far as i get often...it sits in piles...like organised drawer and closet piles for weeks!!! I make sure i put undies and socks (DHs) away and then all else is a free for all!!! He irons his shirts,....so pile them on ironing board....
I have in past four weeks barely managed to hang a bloody thing...but have some great big piles around the bedroom - luckily it is a big room but still.....
OMG I hate to think what i will be liek when baby comes...I am thinking or hiring someone to do ironing and putting away....is that terrible wifery or what?
I am sooo organised in my prof life but at home on these things i simply suck!
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Posted: 17 December 2006 at 1:00pm |
Im pretty good with folding washing, when I finally get around to doing the washing in the first place. But there is only myself and DH at present so that may all change.
I never want to be like my mum though. She absolutely hates ironing and always has a huge pile of ironing to be done. In fact she admitted not long ago that some of it had been sitting there for a year Why she doesnt buy clothes you never have to iron I will never know!
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nikkitheknitter
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Posted: 17 December 2006 at 3:09pm |
I wish I had Gaz's camera here so I could take a photo of the "washing couch" specially designated for piles of clean and unfolded washing.
It sits there so long that I get pissed off and throw it in piles outside each person's door.
At the moment there is about 2 months worth of washing on there... I live out of that pile 
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