What are the effects of doing laundry on general cleanliness?
My wife loves to clean. She is always trying to get all the dishes done because she loves the feeling of having a clean home. This is why she refuses to do laundry. Doing laundry might, at first thought, seem like a great way to sterilize your living conditions. But in reality, it can create such a mess that it is impossible to ever have a clean home again.
Think of what happens when your clothes get dirty. Many people toss them in a bin, and many other people toss them on the floor before crashing into bed. The dirty laundry needs to go somewhere, so most people then put it in the washing machine. While it's washing, you put on new clothes. This makes them dirty. So by the time you get your laundry done, you will still have dirty laundry that needs to be taken care of. This is the cyclical nature of clothing. You are never done with the task.
The major problem, however, doesn't come into play until the end of the drying cycle. Where do you put the clean laundry? Not in the same bin that you had all your dirty laundry in. Then you wouldn't have anywhere for your dirties. So you toss it on your bed, or on a clean part of the floor, or on the couch. Then the nightmare happens. You have to rush out the door because you're late for work (you knew you shouldn't have started in the first place, you knew this would happen. But you didn't have a single clean pair of socks...) and you leave your house with a big pile of clean laundry. How long does this pile last? It depends on how much you washed. It's tough to find time to fold so many clothes, so they sit there, on average, for two weeks. During this time, you pick up your clean clothes off the floor each morning as you get dressed, and before long, you've forgotten which socks are clean and which are dirty. After all, you have piled your unfolded clean clothes in the same place you normally toss your dirty clothes. When you can no longer tell which socks are which, round 2 of the laundry nightmare begins. You have to wash them all. Once again, you have no socks.
And just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, you suddenly remember that you didn't ever dry that batch of jeans, and now they're sitting, moldy, in the bottom of a damp washer. From last week. The funny pink slime comes with a funny pink smell, and now your whole apartment smells like bad cabbage. Good luck cleaning THAT. You now have to RE-wash all the jeans before you can even get started on the dirty socks. Your projected 2 hours of laundry has just turned into 3 or more. Your living space hasn't been clean for a week and a half, and now you have no clean clothes, and you've spent so much time doing laundry that you have neglected other chores. This cycle is vicious and never-ending.
I argue that since America has the resources to do so, we ought to buy a new outfit every time we soil one. This method will ease the stress of millions of laundry-doers nationwide, thus sparing innocent children from the unnecessary wrath of frazzled mothers. This change will be beneficial to society as a whole because everyone who currently does laundry will be saving time that they would be able to use for entertainment or educational, or a plethora of other non-stressful uses.
Sources: My apartment (2007-present).
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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We have very different laundry experiences...
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