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Momservation: <\/strong>Laundry left in the hamper doesn’t end up needing therapy to function as an adult.<\/p>\n

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\"laundry\"I\u2019ve got a dirty little secret.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve bought more underwear to delay doing laundry.<\/p>\n

In my defense, the kid was ripping through chonies like you wouldn\u2019t believe and obviously needed more BVD’s in his stock.<\/p>\n

Speaking of stock, I suggest buying some in Shout stain remover because it is a mother\u2019s best friend. I go through the stuff by the gallon.<\/p>\n

Which leads me to the question — Why should the person who makes only 10% of the dirty laundry be the one to wash it?<\/p>\n

Exactly.<\/p>\n

So I catch myself saying the other day after my daughter\u2019s volleyball game, \u201cDon\u2019t put that uniform in the dirty clothes. You\u2019ve got another game this weekend. And I\u2019m not doing laundry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sounds bad, doesn\u2019t it? It gets worse.<\/p>\n

She was about to diligently drop the well-used uniform and stinky socks in the laundry hamper but I told her she might as well leave it on the floor so she wouldn\u2019t mess up the clean clothes in her drawer.<\/p>\n

Not one of my Mother of the Year moments.<\/p>\n

Then there was my son\u2019s baseball uniform. Hubby was in charge of getting his baseball pants. He comes home with only one pair! The kid has at least two games a week! The odds of Son trotting out onto the field in bright whites just went down dramatically. I sent Hubby back for another pair.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sorry, but there\u2019s a lot of stuff going down around here to make this family run like the well oiled machine that it is. Doing single loads of laundry for an average of four games a week would bring the show to a screeching halt.<\/p>\n

I do laundry in mass. It\u2019s just how I roll. Huge piles of bleaches. Mounds of lights. Masses of darks. Mole hills of delicates. It can take me two days to get through it all. (Don\u2019t ask me about folding and putting it away \u2013 let\u2019s just say Hubby and I have an inside joke that his clean underwear are in the \u201cdrawer.\u201d That\u2019s code word for unfolded in the laundry basket.)<\/p>\n

Could my life be easier if I broke it into more frequent manageable loads? Maybe. Would it be more efficient? Probably. Do I want to do laundry that frequently? H-E- Double Hockey Sticks NO.<\/p>\n

Instead, you can find me playing some Corn Hole or making DubSmashes<\/a> with the kids. Because in my house a good mother means happy kids and stinky socks. And life’s too short to be stuck in front of a washing machine getting carpal tunnel from spraying stain remover. You can’t get those minutes back people. And socks can be Fabreezed for another wear…<\/p>\n

#Enjoythejourney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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