My name is Lisha. And I have a laundry problem.
I’ve mentioned my aversion to folding laundry before in passing, but I doubt any of you understood the extent of it.
Yes, we have a sock problem.
It’s not unusual to find in my beautifully decorated master suite, several baskets of clean clothes lined up against the big dresser. I place them there so I don’t snag a toe on the basket during the night, and to obscure them from the view of passers-by upstairs. Because, while I’m ashamed of my little secret, I’m not yet ready to reform my ways.
The usual modus operandi for laundry goes like this:
A load of clothes gets put in the washer.
At some point Later that day it gets put in the dryer.
Eventually When dry, the hanging clothes are properly hung upon removal from the dryer to avoid wrinkles (we actually do that), and socks, underwear, t-shirts and the like get put in a basket and brought upstairs to fold and put away.
That’s where the process breaks down. After a couple of days of digging through the baskets for underwear and P.E. uniforms, the socks make their way to the bottom of the basket like pebbles on the river bottom.
And there they sit, until we have absolutely no socks left in our drawers, and I have no choice but to sort them.
I may need to consider a twelve-step program.
Lisha Writes 
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I am so glad I found you. I’m Heather (deep breath, Heather, you can do this) and I have a sock problem too.
http://heatherl04.blogspot.com/2010/02/attack-of-socks.html
I need help. Real help. Like Sock gnomes. Or something.
Glad I’m not alone! My master bedroom is like that too.
Oh, no. We’re everywhere.
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I have got to get me some of that wrinkle remover! I am good at washing and drying, but the hanging clothes never get hung fast enough. This past week I have not had to fold anything as my clone (Aspie son) has been getting in a wee bit of trouble, and folding laundry has been a wonderful consequence to give him. But after a week of trouble, he usually does better controlling himself the following week, so I guess I’ll be back to folding next week!
Here it is, Heather:
http://www.downy.com/en-US/product/downy-wrinkle-releaser.jspx
Life just got a little easier!
Oh I hate matching socks, if someone could just fold it all and put it away I would be happy to wash and dry all day long.
Perhaps an entrepreneurial opportunity…. professional sock folder. I’d pay top dollar for someone to do it for me!
I have the exact same affliction. All of my husband’s dress socks are impossible to tell apart. I got him sock clips as a funny stocking stuffer and has he used them? No. Too much work, I guess? Ugh, they’d make laundry so much easier if he’s just USE them!
Oh – and my hanging clothes? They hang for weeks and weeks and weeks…
It is oh-so-comforting to know I’m not alone. 😉
Lisha, another thing in common! I do the same thing and my clean laundry just sits there…I wrote about it recently on my blog how I think it is karma.
http://ichoosehappynow.com/2012/01/02/cup-of-joy/the-intercom-the-labandera-and-laundry-duty-in-connecticut/
Cheers,
Louise
I LOVE that post! I think we may be long-lost sisters!
that’s for sure! Impressed you get the hanging stuff up each time. the socks and undies—who cares—set up drawers or bins and just dump them in the appropriate place. mission accomplished, right;-)
Right! I fold my things, put them away and they stay folded.
If I take the trouble to fold the boys’ things, they rummage wildly through the drawer leaving a jumbled mess when they looking for something. I’m liking the “dump” idea!
Wow, you are ahead of me if you hang things up so they don’t come out wrinkled. I have to keep a bottle of ‘wrinkle releaser’ on my dresser.
I have a bottle in my closet, because occasionally, Mr. Wonderful does a load, and his standards are lower than mine. 😉
Wait – wrinkle releaser? What? That would ease my wrinkled-clothing guilt. Because I have the same affliction as Lisha!
JD – I’m happy to share this little secret with you. (It’s my college son’s very best laundry friend!)
http://www.downy.com/en-US/product/downy-wrinkle-releaser.jspx
You are not alone. Find comfort in that.
Evidently! 🙂 Thanks for the support!
Periodically, I will make sure all the laundry is clean, and all my socks are sorted and paired up, then I take them all to Goodwill. Then I will buy about 12-18 pairs of identical white socks. I have too much to do (and am waaaaay too lazy) to spend time matching up WHITE socks!
I do that with The Trailblazer’s black school socks. I really don’t care if the left sock is a little more faded than the right. 😉
I think its only 6 steps..dump, match, fold,sort, put away. But the first and most important is….get the boys to do it!
I always forget that first step, Thalia!