Is there anyone else??
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Topic: Is there anyone else??
Posted By: 11111
Subject: Is there anyone else??
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 7:19am
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Ok so this is getting to be a real problem I am really good getting washing washed, dryed and off the line, but I can never saeem to find the energy to fold it and put it away Hubby is getting really furstrated with it all on our bedroom floor. Does anyone else have this problem or is it jsut me. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: My3Sons
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 7:27am
LOL you should see my washing pile (which is clean and dry, just needs to be put away) some weeks...........at least its clean I reckon! ------------- Mum to Mr 10, Mr 6 and Mr 4 
 
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Posted By: mum2emj
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:06am
argh! washing! it is never ending it seems, just get all caught up, hubby comes home with his work clothes and then theres new towels etc... argh! i hardley ever make it to the clothes line though just straight into a dryer! gosh im shocking! lol, so you do better than me. im sure you arent alone deb 
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Posted By: daikini
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:15am
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We cannot use our (bigger) couch because it is regularly piled high with clean washing waiting to be folded! ------------- Becca, mum of 2 girls & 3 boys |
Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:22am
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Maybe hubby should help out and help fold and put away?? would save him getting frustrated about it!
I'm just like that! Ashlee's room's a mess coz I put her clean folded clothes on the single bed because usually she's asleep and I don't want to wake her up with the noisy dresser drawers! |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:22am
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yep us too, our couch is permanently out of commission. Hey, It's clean, it's folded (60% of the time) and if he really wants it done he does it.. lol. but he "doesn't do clothes" hence why sometimes the girls good clothes are folded in a pile on the couch.. cos i need time to hang them up.. and there are usually far better things to do.
speaking of washing.. I better go hang some. Mike has embarked on an anti-dryer campaign since realising how much our power bill has skyrocketed since moving to a house with a dryer, and an air coniditioning system which he had on super high heat over winter cos he feels the cold alot. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:26am
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I also definately reckon that the washing triples with each kid you add. The few days after Ayja's birth i was astounded at how suddenly there was just so much damn washing.. and it wasn't all hers.. it seemed like suddenly everyone elses washing was more too. and no longer just 1 load a day, was more like 3! especially now with daycare where they can come home wearing the same clothes they went in (which would be a miracle) or some days have the entire contents of their daycare bags come home in plastic bags all sandy/painty/sopping wet.
ggr washing ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:27am
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Me too. Our couch is generally covered in washing sometimes folded sometimes not.
If we have visitors it gets moved onto the blanket box in our room. I'm feeling really virtuous at the moment though cos it all got folded and put away last night  ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: MyMinis
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 8:27am
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Im totally the same, DF gets so annoyed, but usually when I take it off the line Haleigh grabs it all so quick I ahve ot run around the house ot fetch it all. I so dont have the energy for that.
I hate washing, but I think vacuuming is the only bit of housework I actually enjoy ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 9:02am
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Im in that club. I'll wash it, hang it up and get it in but when it comes time to folding and putting away it usually sits there for a few days before I do it, or if I know the MIL is coming around then I make sure its out of the way. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: aimeejoy
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 9:07am
If I know my MIL is coming I do more washing cos she always folds it or me! Although she does it different to me and I end up refolding half it before it goes away. I am slack t actually putting it in the drawers once its folded  ------------- Aimee Hannah 22/10/05 Greer 11/02/08 |
Posted By: jax
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 9:14am
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I have a big basket of clean washing from last week sitting in our bedroom as I write this *sigh* ------------- Jacquie - Mama to Erin, 13.07.06 - Chief Cat Chaser & Marmite Sammie Eater 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 9:16am
I have 2 loads waiting to be folded, one being hung out as soon as I'm off here (just suddenly needed to sit down), and one more to put on  I tend to fold the washing in lots of 3 loads which is actually pretty often but not every day. What's working best at the moment is that DH helps get the kids ready for bed (we basically dress one each) and I fold while that's all going on.------------- |
Posted By: EllenMumof2
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 9:16am
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mine gets washed and bought in and sits in the basket in our room i normaly fold it once a week
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Posted By: Peace
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 9:17am
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I'm naughty, I got my mum to come and help me fold my last load while I ran about putting it away hehe!!
FOLDING SUCKS! ------------- DD1 May 2006 DD2 March 2011 DD3 August 2012 |
Posted By: ellabellame
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 10:10am
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yay! i'm not the only one. once the clothes are clean i just seem to procrastinate so i don't have to fold it and put it away. it just seems pointless to me, i mean, i'm just going to get the clothes out again and unfold them when i wear them lol. in saying that though, i did just fold about 3 loads worth of washing this morning, it is yet to be put away though. ------------- |
Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 10:12am
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I hate washing. I dont mind doing it and hanging it out etc but folding is horrible. I just pile it on my table till either the mountain falls or someone comes over, and even then 9/10 times it just gets quickly shoved on my bed
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Posted By: luna
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 11:29am
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Haha .. I will join the no fold club! I have 1 lot on the couch waiting and another lot in the basket waiting ... and of course half a clothesline full drying as we speak.
I made hubby help me the other night - just when he was nearly finished, I bought in another lot (and then a 3rd lot) he said 'can you stop doing that' ... LOL  ------------- Selina http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 12:06pm
| I have started folding it all, i put the boys and mine away and hubbys is left on a chair and i leave it to him to put his own stuff away. he asked me if I could put his away when i put mine away and I said, well, i can do it all sometimes if you do too, so i left a huge pile for over a week. it wasn't put away so went back to just doing my own. |
Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 12:59pm
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he he, good idea liz. and.. as i am on here, I never did hang out that washing - decided to go back to bed for a cat nap since am on nights tonight... so really, this time i AM going to hang the washing, really. ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 15 December 2006 at 2:09pm
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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 ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: kezplanet
Date 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 ------------- Kerryn, Mum to Ashlyn(29/3/04), Anastasia(1/11/05) & Abigail (24/02/09) |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 9:44am
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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.------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 11:38am
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 2:33pm
| 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. |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 4:33pm
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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 ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 9:17pm
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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 ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 16 December 2006 at 10:05pm
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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 ------------- |
Posted By: miss
Date 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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Posted By: Bombshell
Date 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! |
Posted By: yalanna
Date Posted: 17 December 2006 at 1:00pm
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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! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: nikkitheknitter
Date Posted: 17 December 2006 at 3:09pm
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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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