Outsourcing for Fun

Nellie, you should dump your laundry on your bed! This way you can't even go to bed at night until it's all folded. It really sucks, but the work gets done...

That is so not true. You just shove it back in the basket!

Or sleep with it piled up at the foot of your bed.

[alison]

That is so not true. You just shove it back in the basket!

I SO did not need to know that that's an option!

Oh honey - you're talking to the girl who has gone out to buy new undies rather than doing the laundry.

Or sleep with it piled up at the foot of your bed.

I take that one, please.

[Sheherezade]

I have found my tribe.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

I feel like you're all sitting in my head right now... Ahhhhh...there is nothing quite like knowing that you are not alone in the world!

Now I am doing laundry and dumping it in a box to move Deal with wrinkles when I unpack!

[DCJenn]

Guilty admission- I'm a freak about HOW my laundry is done- and then I leave it for the cleaning lady to fold. She folds everything perfectly! Even the bottom sheets from the King bed.

She's worth every penny.

Jenn

[Vishenka69]

Or sleep with it piled up at the foot of your bed.

Oh honey - you're talking to the girl who has gone out to buy new undies rather than doing the laundry.

I'm guilty of doing both too. As I type, there's a basket of clean clothes by the bed and a dryer full of another load.

Nellie, DH found a guy at the hospital that has a landscaping degree (hospital pays better and has benefits) and he's currently doing our yard. Tell your DH to ask around.

[bokelley]

I always have good intentions of folding and ironing the laundry as soon as it is done. But it never ever happens. Usually 3 days later I will iron and fold... Non-wrinkle fabrics are the best and that downy wrinkle release is amazing...

Guilty admission- I'm a freak about HOW my laundry is done- and then I leave it for the cleaning lady to fold. She folds everything perfectly! Even the bottom sheets from the King bed.

She's worth every penny.

Jenn

My cleaning lady also says she does laundry, I've just always felt like the volume of actual CLEANING to be done limited the amount of laundry that can be accomplished. I need to talk to her about this now that we're on a more regular schedule ....

DH actually folds our laundry. He hates how I fold (and I make no effort to improve my skills). It just doesn't happen regularly, so I end up with baskets of stuff waiting to be folded.

Also file under "if I have my act together"...I have a babysitter a few days a week so TenE can have an uninterrupted nap while I do school pick-ups. While she is sleeping, the sitter will fold kid laundry for me, provided there are clean kid clothes to fold.

[Michele]

I have a cleaning lady every other week. I also take my dogs to the vet clinic (and and pay) to get baths every other week.

What I want:
Live in house keeper/life manager AKA a wife (laundry, dishes, cleaning, organizing, errands/gifts)
Yard service (grass, weeding, plant maintenance)
That home beautician Vishenka mentioned!

[MrsK]

Live in house keeper/life manager AKA a wife (laundry, dishes, cleaning, organizing, errands/gifts)

This is so funny. When I was single and the only woman at my firm, the men used to tell me that I could work late/weekends/whenever because I was single and did not have the responsiblities. I kept telling them I needed my nights and weekends because I didn't have a wife to do laundry, dishes, cleaning, organizing, errands, etc.

[HouseofWool]

Live in house keeper/life manager AKA a wife (laundry, dishes, cleaning, organizing, errands/gifts)

I keep telling DH that I need a wife while I am working full time just so we can keep up on stuff!