I was pretty excited when I put my last load of laundry in the dryer, and checked the time to see it was about 11:50am. While it wasn’t like ten loads or anything crazy like that, I still felt very accomplished. Know why? Because we have a laundry obstacle in our house. An obstacle that makes laundry take waaay longer than it should.
We have old machines, but they have great settings and I really like them. However, a long time ago already, the washer started squeaking. It has gradually become an unbelievably loud squeal. However, its only loud when it starts to spin dry. Not the whole time, just when it starts, almost like it warms up. So twice per cycle. Not a big deal. (Actually, its horrible, but I don’t want to fork over money for new machines…)
Our laundry room is in our basement, so its easy to wash clothes while the kids and I play downstairs in the day. But then the washer squeals. And Dekker runs over to close the door to the laundry room. Sooo helpful, right? But our washer doesn’t have a buzzer at the end or anything. So oftentimes, our clothes sit and sit and sit in there until I finally remember, and then I deal with them. So laundry can easily take twice as long as necessary. I’m very proud that I completed all of our wash in a logical amount of time today 🙂 Go me!!