laundry is where my sons both became self-sufficient early in life. After more than one of DH's work shirts got designed with really neat crayon squiggles from the crayons left in my 8 year old's pockets, everyone got to do their own laundry.
I did all the sheets/towels but each young (and old) male got to deal with his own clothing. really lightened MY load.
oh. they had to make their own lunches too. After witnessing children throwing away the lovely stuff their moms packed for them too many times; I just took mine to the store and told them to pick out the fruit,cookies, bread, sandwich filling... and then they made their own lunch every night before they went to bed all the way through highschool.
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09-14-2006, 12:28 PM #1
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09-14-2006, 01:07 PM #2
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Yeah, my husband and three sons always did their own laundry.
But only because I didn't want them to grow up thinking women were their slaves.
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09-14-2006, 02:30 PM #3
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My husband and I each do our own laundry. Hey, we have clothes that really require different settings! And we change the sheets together- much faster, and more fun.
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09-14-2006, 02:41 PM #4
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Brava, Lisa! DH and I each do our own laundry also. He throws all his stuff in together, no concern for color, cycle, water temp, or dryer temp, and I...don't. When we got married, he started out doing laundry for both of us (what a guy!), but after he shrunk three of my best shirts, that was the end of that. Hey, you don't think he planned it that way, do you?
Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.
But he does still do towels and sometimes bed linens. I guess he's a keeper after all.
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09-14-2006, 04:14 PM #5
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i think i better start using spell check on this forum. sorry i'm REALLY bad at spelling. i'm more of a numbers sort of girl.
and you mean zoomability isn't really a word? its my favorite made up word.
(sorry, i'm sure i have at least one word that is spelled wrong in this post.)"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it." – William C. Durant
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09-14-2006, 04:17 PM #6
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Today I caught myself calling something "gi-normous." Kill me now! Originally Posted by chickwhorips
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09-14-2006, 05:31 PM #7
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those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)
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09-14-2006, 07:18 PM #8
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But I like the word gi-normous!
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09-14-2006, 07:58 PM #9
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are you saying ga-zillion isn't an actual number?
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09-15-2006, 01:21 PM #10
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I'm a selective grammar vigilante... I'm not going to hold it against somebody who isn't *publishing* something - every body makes typos and errors. Failing to find an editor for your "scholarly publication," or using lousy grammar when you're a "newscaster..." that bugs me.
Heck, I don't even like it at all when the Weather Channel uses Impact as a verb, and that's at least 20 times a day~! (And... my fingers typed whether channel the first time through
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