Life with teenagers

[hedgehog]

So I had all my blue jeans in the washer. My daughters went down and ran several loads of their laundry. I went down this morning and couldn't find my jeans anywhere. Finally I looked in the washer. There they were, ready to go into the dryer.

[Divameow77]

1. They can't even put them in the dryer for you?

I don't dry my jeans in the washer, is it possible they didn't know if you did?

[hedgehog]

2. I handed off the laundry to my husband when I went back to work

11 years ago. It hasn't been the same since. Somehow my jeans went from the washer to a basket with maybe a stop in the dryer and then back to the washer. Now that I work from home, I've got to get things organized again!I

[underpants]

3. Turn them inside out-they dry faster

but you probably already knew that.
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My wife has this insane thing going with the drier sheets. I find them all over the damned place and she knows how that drives me crazy.

[hedgehog]

4. I used to use Dreft soap and an oxygen bleach.

The clothes came out soft and static free. Alas, laundry soap seems to have joined the dinosaurs, although some of the ecological brands look interesting.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Hahaha! I do that to MrG all the time too. In fact,

there's one of the floor in the kitchen right now! You are not alone. perhaps you and MrG can start a support group.

[reyd reid reed]

5. At least they weren't in a pile on the floor.

If I have anything in the washer when #2 son goes to do his laundry, he takes it out and puts it on the floor in front of the machine.

And leaves it there.

:mad:

[Avalux]

6. Do we have the same children??

It would probably kill them to dry your jeans and fold them for you - I know it would mine. ;-)

[av8rdave]

7. ahhh yes...nothing like teens in the house

Although my last will leave next year....believe it or not, I'll miss her. I do miss my son

[hedgehog]

8. I should add that they're good kids

They really came through last week-end when we were cleaning some relatives' yards in Buffalo. And i was able to leave them on their own when we went on a trip. it's just that strange things happen in the basement when people are running laundry.

[av8rdave]

11. Mine are as well....

It's just that teens do have their moments. My son is a sophomore in college now, and I miss him terribly, but am so proud of him. I know I'll miss my daughter when she leaves next year.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. I went to do my daughter's laundry (yes I'm still stupid enough)

and there they were....just like last week and the 200 weeks before it...clean, folded clothes that were too difficult to put away. :banghead:

[hedgehog]

12. Years ago, I just sorted everyone's clothes into separate

wash baskets on a shelf downstairs, then folded them and put them away. Well, now the problem is that the three other people remaining in the house leave their clothes downstairs so there's no place to put clean clothes. It's understandable; this is an old house with no closets and small bedrooms. I think the habit started when my sons filled their dresser drawers with Legos instead of clothes!