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Improve Your Writing Process with this Laundry Advice
“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
I have a confession as a 40-year-old woman.
I only learned how to do laundry properly this year. (Sorry Mum.)
To be fair, I know how to do laundry, and have known since I was a teenager. The whole process, right down to fabric softeners and washing instruction tag icons.
But it was only this year that I learned how to complete the process without an utter sense of disinclination.
Like so many, I am a human who can take a luxuriantly warm load of clean laundry out of the dryer, put it into a basket, and leave it sitting in the corner of my bedroom for days … or even weeks.
Perhaps you know this scenario; perhaps you do it yourself. Picking through the now-clean clothes for your daily ensemble, trying to determine if they are too wrinkled (#protip: hang it on a hook in the bathroom while you are taking a shower), never being able to find the match to that one no-show sock that you wear with that one pair of shoes — it’s a vicious cycle.
In case you’ve missed it, the part I’ve avoided like a pothole with a rental car is the folding and putting away of the laundry.
