Comments on: Doing laundry

By: Brian Keaney

Brian Keaney — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:13:51 +0000

As another writer who has just written a blog entry about doing the washing, I thought you might be interested to have a look:

http://odyllicforce.blogspot.com/2008/12/most-disappointing-book-i-ever-bought.html

By: violetismycolor

violetismycolor — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:28:48 +0000

there’s just way too much to remember and our poor little human brains are stuffed so full by our age that they just can’t hold it all…this is what my son’s girlfriend (also a Neuroscience Ph.D. student … whose lab is all about memory… told me.

By: Bev Jackson

Bev Jackson — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:07:42 +0000

Ha! There are some perks to getting really old…like me. You just forget to do laundry!

Happy Holidays, Barb!!

By: cassie-b

cassie-b — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:31:56 +0000

Great post! After reading what you had to say, I realized that I know that stuff too. There’s even more to that than remembering computer passwords. And if you goof, you may have years of “pink” clothes (or whatever other terrible thing that can happen) to help you make sure to remember next time.

Cas
And I just hate new red clothes – same reasons.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:48:09 +0000

Several years ago I bought tie-dyed shirts that had been hand dipped in dye. You remember them, I think. They were all the psychedelic rage. Problem was, the colors ran and ruined not only the shirt but every other item in the load.

Then my mother told me about washing the new tees with salt. Regular old sodium chloride. Sets the color (only have to do it once per garment). I tried it and it works. When I remember to do it! Problem is, I think of it just about halfway through the wash cycle and then it’s too late.

There is color remover stuff, but it is very caustic and doesn’t always work.

All of this from a lifetime of doing laundry. When are they going to invent self-cleaning clothes?

By: Creechman

Creechman — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 15:15:42 +0000

I dunno what U R talking about. Throw the clothes in. Spin the knob to “hot.” Add 3/4 measure of Tide. Wait for the buzz. Put into dryer. Spin another knob. Wait for another buzz.

Then leave the crumpled remainders on the couch for six days.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:41:20 +0000

You are so right ! Everyday ordinary tasks are really just a series of steps. “Knowing” that particular task means knowing all the different steps and how they proceed logically, having all the right equipment and knowing how to work it, not to mention the planning involved like making sure you have laundry detergent and dryer sheets.

It is amazing to me that business has been analyzing workers tasks for years and putting processes in place to make them more efficient and less costly yet in our homes sometimes we often employ magical thinking and assume that these tasks are so simple and so mundane that they will get done without any forethought.

Now if you have all this information stored in your head about how to take care of each individual piece of clothing what happens when you are not able to do the laundry and someone else has to do it??

By: Eric Mayer

Eric Mayer — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:50:35 +0000

Great post. Not to mention highly instructional. Washing instruction tags?? Wow. Who would have guessed. Where do they keep those?

Laundry doesn’t require much memory on my part. Remember where the washing machine and detergent are. Remember to let water into the machine, and put the clothes in. Close machine, turn it on….voila! (See, I can even recall foreign languages!)

Don’t worry about forgetting to put the dryer sheet in. It’s more important to see that the wetter sheets are in there first.