I’ve never been a fan of laundry. It’s never ending. There’s always another load waiting to be washed or put away. I actually don’t have a problem with the laundering process itself, it’s the folding part that gets on my nerves. I hate doing it. I have to be in a special mood to want to fold laundry. In SC, while living in our duplex, our closet was a walk-in and large enough that I could hang pretty much all of my shirts – because, let’s face it, folding shirts is a pain in the ass. And not only is folding shirts a pain in my butt, but because our dresser drawers seem relatively small (that, or we have way too many shirts!), I roll them a la boot camp because it actually allows me to fit more of them in our drawers versus folding. Rolling shirts is a tad more labor intensive.

That’s not the point of this post. I will, however, add in this line complaining about the fact that we don’t have our bedroom furniture (or a lot of our other household goods for the matter) yet and I’m running out of room in our closet to put clean clothes. *bitch*moan*whine*cuss*.

*ahem* When I was apartment hunting with my mom for my husband’s and my move to San Diego, I was faced with the fact that whichever apartment we decided on would either come with an upright washer & dryer pair or we’d have to use a communal laundry room. Since I wasn’t eager to start the saving quarters bit for the communal laundry room, I was looking for an apartment I liked that came with its own washer & dryer. I found one, and in the particular apartment I decided on, the washer & dryer was missing due to replacement or maintenance. When we moved in, we were surprised with a washer/dryer COMBO. I’d never dealt with one of these monsters before, but my husband had during his FAA schooling in OKC. If you’re not familiar, let me explain… It’s ONE appliance that combines the abilities of a washer and a dryer. This may sound awesome, but due to the nature of this beast, it uses a steam drying method (so I’m led to believe) that takes forever to dry a load. Longer than a normal dry that uses electricity and/or gas. It’s either too hot and messes up shirt appliques (on the normal setting) or on the next lowest setting, takes even longer and doesn’t thoroughly dry the clothes.

All of this leads to it taking a lifetime to get through and wash all of our clothes & linens that have been in storage for the past year, as well as the fact that my PJ pants I’ve brought to my mom’s house to wear smell like dirty laundry even though they were in the last load of laundry I did. This means, once I’m back home in San Diego, I will have to wash that load again, which leaves me even further behind in getting our laundry finished.

Needless to say, I’m ready to give in and take our laundry to a laundromat. Luckily, I purchased a laundry cart not too long ago, but primarily for groceries and trips to Target when we have too much and heavy stuff to lug up to the 3rd floor. I hate making multiple trips up & down floors, even if there’s an elevator involved. I do have to say, the cart will probably be the best $40 I’ve spent on anything wheeled & collapsible!