Monday, July 7, 2008

Men and Laundry...the two don't mix!

I am done folding and putting away the laundry. YAY! I really had been ignoring it for quite some time as evidenced by the amount that I just folded.
As you can see, Ben and I are not good at laundry. He loves to put the clothes in the washer and dryer and he loves to pull them out of the dryer and throw them on the floor but he does not love to put them away...so I do it. Not a problem. He does so much around the house that I can fold the laundry every week (sometimes two when I am extra busy...I mean lazy.) But this is what drives me up the wall, I mean it really makes me lose it and I get the rage (Maggie and Nell know that the rage can be a scary thing!) but I have no one to rage to because it's nap time and I am alone. This is why I love this blog...I will unleash the rage now and on a side note, Ben is actually the world's best husband with just a couple of shortcomings, one of which will be described now.

Ben's shirts are always inside out and it makes me loony to turn them right side in and then fold them. And he wears like a gajillion (thrown in for my book club ladies) t-shirts a day because I just fold like 27 of them and they were all inside out. Now I am no right side in girl myself but I am the folder (most of the time) so I am allowed to leave my shirts inside out, I am only annoying myself but Ben is not. He is not allowed to annoy me with this anymore. I am taking a stand and I will not fold his shirts that are not right side in or is that right side out? I have been typing right side in but now that I think about it, wouldn't it be right side out? Hmmmm....


Anyways, now that the rage is gone and I have taken a stand against Ben's t-shirt problem, I feel better and I can go about my day. I will most likely continue to fold Ben's laundry, even if it inside out, because I truly love Ben and I know he works a crazy amount of hours a day and then comes home and takes the kiddos off my hands for the rest of the night. I just had to put this out there and now I am done. :)

5 comments:

Jennifer said...

It's funny how the little things can really set me off too. Especially when you are up at 5:30 am!

Sarah said...

You are too funny...

You laundry is nothing compared to my Laundry Mountain.. Viv actually climbed up the pile and told me she is going on an adventure on the mountain. It is that bad! I will take a picture and post it for you.

I am an inside-outer too.

Anonymous said...

My hubs does the same thing -- tshirts and socks. I told him that I was no longer turning them right-side-out and it was his job. He is also really bad at emptying his pants pockets, so if he leaves $$ in them and I find it then I get to keep it! That'll teach him.

Shannon said...

ummm... yeah. totally feeling your pain on this one. i am like ben though... doing the laundry is one thing, but i despise folding. so whether inside out or not, i am totally grumpy whne doing it :-)

Anonymous said...

Oh man, seriously - watch out for Kelly's rage. She once tried to stab me with a mechanical pencil!