Does the laundry ever end???
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Hi All:
Since having both kids at home all the time there seems to be a never ending
stream of laundry either waiting to be done, waiting to go in the dryer,
waiting to be folded, waiting to be put away..... Plus more and more
housework, which I cannot possib.y keep up with. The first order of business
next week is to get a cleaner. I told hubby if we were not going to be
paying $600 per month for Waldorf we could definately afford a $50 cleaner
once every 2 weeks. He agreed.
Dawn
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Since having both kids at home all the time there seems to be a never ending
stream of laundry either waiting to be done, waiting to go in the dryer,
waiting to be folded, waiting to be put away..... Plus more and more
housework, which I cannot possib.y keep up with. The first order of business
next week is to get a cleaner. I told hubby if we were not going to be
paying $600 per month for Waldorf we could definately afford a $50 cleaner
once every 2 weeks. He agreed.
Dawn
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Dawn Falbe
Personal Development Coach
Relocational Astrologer
(520) 579-2646
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The Path of Least Resistance is Inside of You
www.astrologerdawn.com
Enlightening women on how to live their Soul Purpose
"The people who get on in this world
are people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and,
if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw
"The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school."-George
Bernard Shaw
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Diane
Aaarrrgh! I've been successfully ignoring it all day, and now you remind me! Now
I guess I'll have to go fold some.
:-) Diane
NumoAstro@... wrote:
I guess I'll have to go fold some.
:-) Diane
NumoAstro@... wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> Since having both kids at home all the time there seems to be a never ending
> stream of laundry either waiting to be done, waiting to go in the dryer,
> waiting to be folded, waiting to be put away..... Plus more and more
> housework, which I cannot possib.y keep up with. The first order of business
> next week is to get a cleaner. I told hubby if we were not going to be
> paying $600 per month for Waldorf we could definately afford a $50 cleaner
> once every 2 weeks. He agreed.
>
> Dawn
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NumoAstro@... writes:
that is one of the first orders of business. . . getting a cleaning company
in the exchange.
lovemary
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NumoAstro@... writes:
> I told hubby if we were not going to beHey!! I want one of those.. . . for $50 I mean!!! When I start my business,
> paying $600 per month for Waldorf we could definately afford a $50 cleaner
> once every 2 weeks. He agreed.
>
that is one of the first orders of business. . . getting a cleaning company
in the exchange.
lovemary
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Fetteroll
on 9/21/01 6:14 PM, NumoAstro@... at NumoAstro@... wrote:
Encourage kids to go without socks ;-)
Have a separate laundry hamper for each person and one for towels and sheets
so the laundry is already sorted.
Don't separate whites and coloreds. (Integration is a good thing ;-) Does it
really make a difference with kids' play clothes?
Don't fold, except for good stuff that needs to be presentable. Get larger
dressers and just toss t-shirts in one drawer, sweat pants in another,
underwear in another, socks (if you can't wean them off them ;-) in another
-- and make sure they're all the same color and style. Or perhaps different
styles for each kid. Minimize the clothes they have access to so there can
never be that many things to wash. How many shirts and pants does one kid
need? In many parts of the world one pair of pants is it.
Teach the kids how to run the washer and dryer.
Have kids (and adults if you can persuade them!) dress and undress in the
laundry room. Then get rid of dressers in the bedrooms and you can have
utility shelves with baskets for each person's clothes and a rack for
hangable things in the laundry room.
And my personal favorite: Get a husband who does laundry. :-)
Joyce
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> Since having both kids at home all the time there seems to be a never endingRethink why you do things the way you do them. Break rules!
> stream of laundry either waiting to be done, waiting to go in the dryer,
> waiting to be folded, waiting to be put away..... Plus more and more
> housework, which I cannot possib.y keep up with.
Encourage kids to go without socks ;-)
Have a separate laundry hamper for each person and one for towels and sheets
so the laundry is already sorted.
Don't separate whites and coloreds. (Integration is a good thing ;-) Does it
really make a difference with kids' play clothes?
Don't fold, except for good stuff that needs to be presentable. Get larger
dressers and just toss t-shirts in one drawer, sweat pants in another,
underwear in another, socks (if you can't wean them off them ;-) in another
-- and make sure they're all the same color and style. Or perhaps different
styles for each kid. Minimize the clothes they have access to so there can
never be that many things to wash. How many shirts and pants does one kid
need? In many parts of the world one pair of pants is it.
Teach the kids how to run the washer and dryer.
Have kids (and adults if you can persuade them!) dress and undress in the
laundry room. Then get rid of dressers in the bedrooms and you can have
utility shelves with baskets for each person's clothes and a rack for
hangable things in the laundry room.
And my personal favorite: Get a husband who does laundry. :-)
Joyce
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Barb Eaton
Joyce great list of ideas! It made me feel better to know I'm not the
only one to do most of these things.
How do you get past the stinky shoes with no socks? I'd probably have to
leave them outside in our case. PHEW! <BWEG>LOL!
Barb E
on 9/22/01 6:47 AM, Fetteroll at fetteroll@... wrote:
only one to do most of these things.
How do you get past the stinky shoes with no socks? I'd probably have to
leave them outside in our case. PHEW! <BWEG>LOL!
Barb E
on 9/22/01 6:47 AM, Fetteroll at fetteroll@... wrote:
> Rethink why you do things the way you do them. Break rules!
>
> Have kids (and adults if you can persuade them!) dress and undress in the
> laundry room. Then get rid of dressers in the bedrooms and you can have
> utility shelves with baskets for each person's clothes and a rack for
> hangable things in the laundry room.
>
> And my personal favorite: Get a husband who does laundry. :-)
>
> Joyce
>
Sharon Rudd
Hi Joyace
Do you really do this stuff?
Sharon
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Sharon
> Encourage kids to go without socks ;-)__________________________________________________
>
> Have a separate laundry hamper for each person and
> one for towels and sheets
> so the laundry is already sorted.
>
> Don't separate whites and coloreds. (Integration is
> a good thing ;-) Does it
> really make a difference with kids' play clothes?
>
> Don't fold, except for good stuff that needs to be
> presentable. Get larger
> dressers and just toss t-shirts in one drawer, sweat
> pants in another,
> underwear in another, socks (if you can't wean them
> off them ;-) in another
> -- and make sure they're all the same color and
> style. Or perhaps different
> styles for each kid. Minimize the clothes they have
> access to so there can
> never be that many things to wash. How many shirts
> and pants does one kid
> need? In many parts of the world one pair of pants
> is it.
>
> Teach the kids how to run the washer and dryer.
>
> Have kids (and adults if you can persuade them!)
> dress and undress in the
> laundry room. Then get rid of dressers in the
> bedrooms and you can have
> utility shelves with baskets for each person's
> clothes and a rack for
> hangable things in the laundry room.
>
> And my personal favorite: Get a husband who does
> laundry. :-)
>
> Joyce
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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on 9/22/01 12:21 PM, Sharon Rudd at bearspawprint@... wrote:
Hi Joyace
Do you really do this stuff?
Sharon
Except for the no socks which was my daughter's idea, the only one I use is
the last one, the husband who does laundry. :-) But I love brainstorming new
ideas for other people to implement. If I try to do it for myself I edit to
much and put too many roadblocks in my own way.
Though actually the most radical idea, keeping the clothes in the laundry
room, was used and suggested by some other real live homeschooler.
Barb Eaton at homemama@...:
Joyce
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Hi Joyace
Do you really do this stuff?
Sharon
Except for the no socks which was my daughter's idea, the only one I use is
the last one, the husband who does laundry. :-) But I love brainstorming new
ideas for other people to implement. If I try to do it for myself I edit to
much and put too many roadblocks in my own way.
Though actually the most radical idea, keeping the clothes in the laundry
room, was used and suggested by some other real live homeschooler.
Barb Eaton at homemama@...:
> How do you get past the stinky shoes with no socks?Washable shoes.
Joyce
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I bought more laundry baskets, and stackable ones.
Sometimes a person or two will be living out of the basket for several days.
And the clean laundry gets dumped on the couch in the den, so it is the duty
of those watching videos to sort laundry. Nobody's job to finish it off
totally if we're not having a party or something, but it tends to happen that
we'll eventually cart away the piles of towels, and I tend to pick up rags
and dish towels on some trip upstairs, and the worst problem is socks.
I've considered throwing away all unmatched socks and then just buying new
ones every season. Socks are cheaper than the frustration and stomach acid
of getting mad about lost socks.
But as it is, we have a basket of unmatched socks. That stays separate.
Newly washed socks are matched and the new oddset gets checked against the
basket. Some pairs are made; some additions to the odd-socks are made.
The laundry doesn't end.
Neither does the dishwashing.
School attendance wouldn't change that anyway. You'd just get more pressure
for a certain item or uniform to be clean NOW than you get with
homeschooling. Our only pressing piece of clothing is Kirby's karate
gi/thing.
Sandra
Sandra
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Sometimes a person or two will be living out of the basket for several days.
And the clean laundry gets dumped on the couch in the den, so it is the duty
of those watching videos to sort laundry. Nobody's job to finish it off
totally if we're not having a party or something, but it tends to happen that
we'll eventually cart away the piles of towels, and I tend to pick up rags
and dish towels on some trip upstairs, and the worst problem is socks.
I've considered throwing away all unmatched socks and then just buying new
ones every season. Socks are cheaper than the frustration and stomach acid
of getting mad about lost socks.
But as it is, we have a basket of unmatched socks. That stays separate.
Newly washed socks are matched and the new oddset gets checked against the
basket. Some pairs are made; some additions to the odd-socks are made.
The laundry doesn't end.
Neither does the dishwashing.
School attendance wouldn't change that anyway. You'd just get more pressure
for a certain item or uniform to be clean NOW than you get with
homeschooling. Our only pressing piece of clothing is Kirby's karate
gi/thing.
Sandra
Sandra
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Sharon Rudd
Unschooling does make the landry more interesting, ie,
the kids have much more interesting "wardrobes" than
most school kids!
Sharon
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the kids have much more interesting "wardrobes" than
most school kids!
Sharon
> School attendance wouldn't change that anyway.__________________________________________________
> You'd just get more pressure
> for a certain item or uniform to be clean NOW than
> you get with
> homeschooling.
> Sandra
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odd socks make great puppet fodder. we keep a bag of em on hand for whenever
the urge to create strikes.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
the urge to create strikes.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
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From: <SandraDodd@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Does the laundry ever end???
> I bought more laundry baskets, and stackable ones.
>
> Sometimes a person or two will be living out of the basket for several
days.
>
>
> And the clean laundry gets dumped on the couch in the den, so it is the
duty
> of those watching videos to sort laundry. Nobody's job to finish it off
> totally if we're not having a party or something, but it tends to happen
that
> we'll eventually cart away the piles of towels, and I tend to pick up rags
> and dish towels on some trip upstairs, and the worst problem is socks.
>
> I've considered throwing away all unmatched socks and then just buying new
> ones every season. Socks are cheaper than the frustration and stomach
acid
> of getting mad about lost socks.
>
> But as it is, we have a basket of unmatched socks. That stays separate.
> Newly washed socks are matched and the new oddset gets checked against the
> basket. Some pairs are made; some additions to the odd-socks are made.
>
> The laundry doesn't end.
> Neither does the dishwashing.
>
> School attendance wouldn't change that anyway. You'd just get more
pressure
> for a certain item or uniform to be clean NOW than you get with
> homeschooling. Our only pressing piece of clothing is Kirby's karate
> gi/thing.
>
> Sandra
>
> Sandra
>
>
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We've used odd socks for everything we can think of
from hobby horse heads, stuffings, puppets,to
dolls,dog chews, to bandages for burned hands, etc.
But what I want to know is the ultimate modern
question of WHERE ARE THE OTHER SOCKS? I've read many
theories and done actual searches in the interior of
washing machines, under beds, in closet corners, even
UNDER bathroom floors, outside, under the car seats,
sofas, inside of upholstered furniture....and still
there are missing socks. Is there a parralel world
filled with beings somehow making use of all the OTHER
socks? Perhaps there is some relationship to thrift
stores that have mountains of unmatched shoes?
Sharon
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from hobby horse heads, stuffings, puppets,to
dolls,dog chews, to bandages for burned hands, etc.
But what I want to know is the ultimate modern
question of WHERE ARE THE OTHER SOCKS? I've read many
theories and done actual searches in the interior of
washing machines, under beds, in closet corners, even
UNDER bathroom floors, outside, under the car seats,
sofas, inside of upholstered furniture....and still
there are missing socks. Is there a parralel world
filled with beings somehow making use of all the OTHER
socks? Perhaps there is some relationship to thrift
stores that have mountains of unmatched shoes?
Sharon
.......................................................
> odd socks make great puppet fodder. we keep a bag of......................................................>
> em on hand for whenever
> the urge to create strikes.
> Johanna
> I've considered throwing away all unmatched socks__________________________________________________
> and then just buying new
> > ones every season. Socks are cheaper than the
> frustration and stomach
> acid
> > of getting mad about lost socks.
> >
> > But as it is, we have a basket of unmatched socks.
> That stays separate.
> > Newly washed socks are matched and the new oddset
> gets checked against the
> > basket. Some pairs are made; some additions to
> the odd-socks are made.
> Sandra
> >
> > Sandra
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In a message dated 9/22/01 1:35:30 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
bearspawprint@... writes:
something. Paper clips?
And then paper clips turn into coat hangers.
Sometimes there are LOTS of paper clips and sometimes none, and then there
will be wire coat hangers you've never seen before.
I think that evolution leads to ballpoint pens, and ballpoint pens escape the
house.
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bearspawprint@... writes:
> . Is there a parralel worldI have heard, but will never know for sure, I guess, that they turn into
> filled with beings somehow making use of all the OTHER
>
something. Paper clips?
And then paper clips turn into coat hangers.
Sometimes there are LOTS of paper clips and sometimes none, and then there
will be wire coat hangers you've never seen before.
I think that evolution leads to ballpoint pens, and ballpoint pens escape the
house.
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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It seems I'm always 2-3 loads behind at my house, but here's a different
perspective. Ds learned all about the toilet works the other night (11:30p!!)
and wanted to see the washing machine work next. As we're standing there
watching it swish back and forth and I'm telling him how great it is that it
washes things for us, and how we'd have to do it if we didn't have a washer,
it hit me. Without that machine I'd have to scrub each item of clothing by
hand. Every bath towel, dish towel, shirt, sock, bra, etc. This probably
sounds extrordinarily hokey and pollyannish, but I have a whole new outlook
on laundry. It's almost a fun, sacred thing. I was just overwhelmed with
gratitude over that whole thing. Just thought I'd share.
Brenda
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perspective. Ds learned all about the toilet works the other night (11:30p!!)
and wanted to see the washing machine work next. As we're standing there
watching it swish back and forth and I'm telling him how great it is that it
washes things for us, and how we'd have to do it if we didn't have a washer,
it hit me. Without that machine I'd have to scrub each item of clothing by
hand. Every bath towel, dish towel, shirt, sock, bra, etc. This probably
sounds extrordinarily hokey and pollyannish, but I have a whole new outlook
on laundry. It's almost a fun, sacred thing. I was just overwhelmed with
gratitude over that whole thing. Just thought I'd share.
Brenda
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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In a message dated 9/22/01 12:59:35 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
crma@... writes:
this thinking, 'can she do that?!? mismatched socks?!? well, I guess she
could, wow!' Amazing how many guidelines I follow without even thinking about
it.
Brenda
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crma@... writes:
> My daughter wears two different colored socks. She started it when she wasThank you for releasing another law from my head! Just socks, but I'm reading
> 3 since she wanted more color in her outfits. Now it is part of her
> fashion. A couple of other girls she plays with have started it too. One
> is older and she made the comment that she didn't have to sort her socks
> now.
> I don't have to sort Megan's socks - they just go in a bin in her drawer and
> she picks out what she wants to wear that day.
>
this thinking, 'can she do that?!? mismatched socks?!? well, I guess she
could, wow!' Amazing how many guidelines I follow without even thinking about
it.
Brenda
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In a message dated 9/22/01 2:35:24 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
bearspawprint@... writes:
Brenda
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bearspawprint@... writes:
> Is there a parralel worldFaeries....:-)
> filled with beings somehow making use of all the OTHER
> socks?
Brenda
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Johanna SanInocencio
Being mom to six children, I understand completely. I even have my great
grandmother's washing board handing up in my laundry room. Whenever I get
discouraged with the never ending flow of laundry, I look up and think about
all the things she had to do by hand. She also had six kids, 2 girls and 4
boys with the girls at each end.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
grandmother's washing board handing up in my laundry room. Whenever I get
discouraged with the never ending flow of laundry, I look up and think about
all the things she had to do by hand. She also had six kids, 2 girls and 4
boys with the girls at each end.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
----- Original Message -----
From: <brendaclaspell@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Does the laundry ever end???
> It seems I'm always 2-3 loads behind at my house, but here's a different
> perspective. Ds learned all about the toilet works the other night
(11:30p!!)
> and wanted to see the washing machine work next. As we're standing there
> watching it swish back and forth and I'm telling him how great it is that
it
> washes things for us, and how we'd have to do it if we didn't have a
washer,
> it hit me. Without that machine I'd have to scrub each item of clothing by
> hand. Every bath towel, dish towel, shirt, sock, bra, etc. This probably
> sounds extrordinarily hokey and pollyannish, but I have a whole new
outlook
> on laundry. It's almost a fun, sacred thing. I was just overwhelmed with
> gratitude over that whole thing. Just thought I'd share.
>
> Brenda
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
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I was laughing as I read this because when my best friend and I were
teenagers, we used to swap socks as a sign of friendship. Rarely did we have
matching socks. The red and yellow pair was our favorite.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
teenagers, we used to swap socks as a sign of friendship. Rarely did we have
matching socks. The red and yellow pair was our favorite.
Johanna
Life is the ultimate learning experience!
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From: <brendaclaspell@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Unschooling-dotcom] Does the laundry ever end???
> In a message dated 9/22/01 12:59:35 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> crma@... writes:
>
>
> > My daughter wears two different colored socks. She started it when she
was
> > 3 since she wanted more color in her outfits. Now it is part of her
> > fashion. A couple of other girls she plays with have started it too.
One
> > is older and she made the comment that she didn't have to sort her socks
> > now.
> > I don't have to sort Megan's socks - they just go in a bin in her drawer
and
> > she picks out what she wants to wear that day.
> >
>
> Thank you for releasing another law from my head! Just socks, but I'm
reading
> this thinking, 'can she do that?!? mismatched socks?!? well, I guess she
> could, wow!' Amazing how many guidelines I follow without even thinking
about
> it.
>
> Brenda
>
>
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>
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