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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 508265" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>When the kids lived weeks with bio and weekends with us, I'd go collect them, wash, fold, put the folded ones on their beds.</p><p></p><p>Until their piles for TWO DAYS were bigger than mine <strong>and</strong> husband's for a week. Made them start taking them downstairs and sorting. This also happened about the time we got residential. If they didn't make it down into the proper baskets by Friday night, I didn't wash them.</p><p></p><p>Then Onyxx started buying inappropriate stuff she didn't want me seeing, so she started doing her own. After a few months of lots of gray (used-to-be-white) tank tops, she figured out that you can't just wash it all together. (Someday, she'll realize that washing jeans with bras is not a good idea, but it's not my problem right now... She gets 3 new bras a year. That's it. She knows it.)</p><p></p><p>Jett "forgot"... And then would CRY when he didn't have clean pants because I refused to retrieve them from his room. Bio's idea of when to wash clothing and mine do NOT match. Me? Jeans - wear two days - one IF they got something nasty on them like mud, three if I could still smell fabric softener (happens a LOT with my jeans). Undies, one day. Bras, probably two, depending. Shirts, only one because of sweating. Bio's idea? If you put it on, it's dirty, even if it gets taken off within 5 minutes.</p><p></p><p>My biggest issue was Jett having 20 pairs of underwear and running out on a regular basis. UMMMM??? One pair a day, right? Well, no. He'd put on a clean pair after his shower, a new clean pair in the morning, and another new clean pair after school. Three a day?!</p><p></p><p>This weekend, he informed husband he had done all of his chores (one of which is wash, dry, fold & put away his laundry). This morning, I pointed out to him, "Hmm, looks like you didn't get your chores done LAST WEEKEND, hmm?" He actually TOLD husband he had done his laundry. On Saturday. (I had the washer and dryer tied up ALL DAY Saturday... Onyxx on Sunday... No, he did not.)</p><p></p><p>As long as they're not in anyone else's way, let 'em sit. If they're in the hallway? Fair game for the garbage can. And I'd put them in one she SEES, hanging out the side.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 508265, member: 6705"] When the kids lived weeks with bio and weekends with us, I'd go collect them, wash, fold, put the folded ones on their beds. Until their piles for TWO DAYS were bigger than mine [B]and[/B] husband's for a week. Made them start taking them downstairs and sorting. This also happened about the time we got residential. If they didn't make it down into the proper baskets by Friday night, I didn't wash them. Then Onyxx started buying inappropriate stuff she didn't want me seeing, so she started doing her own. After a few months of lots of gray (used-to-be-white) tank tops, she figured out that you can't just wash it all together. (Someday, she'll realize that washing jeans with bras is not a good idea, but it's not my problem right now... She gets 3 new bras a year. That's it. She knows it.) Jett "forgot"... And then would CRY when he didn't have clean pants because I refused to retrieve them from his room. Bio's idea of when to wash clothing and mine do NOT match. Me? Jeans - wear two days - one IF they got something nasty on them like mud, three if I could still smell fabric softener (happens a LOT with my jeans). Undies, one day. Bras, probably two, depending. Shirts, only one because of sweating. Bio's idea? If you put it on, it's dirty, even if it gets taken off within 5 minutes. My biggest issue was Jett having 20 pairs of underwear and running out on a regular basis. UMMMM??? One pair a day, right? Well, no. He'd put on a clean pair after his shower, a new clean pair in the morning, and another new clean pair after school. Three a day?! This weekend, he informed husband he had done all of his chores (one of which is wash, dry, fold & put away his laundry). This morning, I pointed out to him, "Hmm, looks like you didn't get your chores done LAST WEEKEND, hmm?" He actually TOLD husband he had done his laundry. On Saturday. (I had the washer and dryer tied up ALL DAY Saturday... Onyxx on Sunday... No, he did not.) As long as they're not in anyone else's way, let 'em sit. If they're in the hallway? Fair game for the garbage can. And I'd put them in one she SEES, hanging out the side. [/QUOTE]
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