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<blockquote data-quote="HereWeGoAgain" data-source="post: 112907" data-attributes="member: 3485"><p>Oh yes I can certainly commiserate on the laundry. The trick with leaving clean clothes on the basement floor until they become dirty clothes again? been there done that. Or picking only her own clothes out of the dirties, washing and drying, and leaving them in the dryer which she then rummages through to find an outfit, leaving the rest strewn half-in, half-out on the floor. Also she only knows one setting on the washer, extra-large, eyeballs the detergent meaning she uses twice as much as necessary, only knows one setting on the dryer, high heat (every t-shirt I own has been shrunk to come only down to my navel), and her idea of "folding" would be any other person's idea of "wadding up into a ball".</p><p></p><p>This is one area where difficult child is still very GFGish, along with the leaving dirty dishes all over the house and apalling messes in the kitchen. She has been doing so well in the rest of her life that wife and I have rationalized letting her slide on this aspect. But we have been letting this go on too long. Laundry is supposed to be difficult child's chore, but I do more than half of it and virtually all of the sorting and folding, her idea of "running a load" being to pile the clothes in and push the button. The other day I said something about rinsing off dishes and she snapped at me that she does the laundry, the dishes are not her chore, and I came back with something like "well then <strong><em>do</em></strong> the d----d laundry." Not a shining moment. I need to start doing as has been suggested here, bag up her clothes from off the floor, clean and/or dirty, and haul 'em out to the garage. I can just see her in the morning, wrapped in 15 towels, running out through the minus 10 wind chill to the garage and rummaging through the bags for an outfit! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HereWeGoAgain, post: 112907, member: 3485"] Oh yes I can certainly commiserate on the laundry. The trick with leaving clean clothes on the basement floor until they become dirty clothes again? been there done that. Or picking only her own clothes out of the dirties, washing and drying, and leaving them in the dryer which she then rummages through to find an outfit, leaving the rest strewn half-in, half-out on the floor. Also she only knows one setting on the washer, extra-large, eyeballs the detergent meaning she uses twice as much as necessary, only knows one setting on the dryer, high heat (every t-shirt I own has been shrunk to come only down to my navel), and her idea of "folding" would be any other person's idea of "wadding up into a ball". This is one area where difficult child is still very GFGish, along with the leaving dirty dishes all over the house and apalling messes in the kitchen. She has been doing so well in the rest of her life that wife and I have rationalized letting her slide on this aspect. But we have been letting this go on too long. Laundry is supposed to be difficult child's chore, but I do more than half of it and virtually all of the sorting and folding, her idea of "running a load" being to pile the clothes in and push the button. The other day I said something about rinsing off dishes and she snapped at me that she does the laundry, the dishes are not her chore, and I came back with something like "well then [b][i]do[/i][/b] the d----d laundry." Not a shining moment. I need to start doing as has been suggested here, bag up her clothes from off the floor, clean and/or dirty, and haul 'em out to the garage. I can just see her in the morning, wrapped in 15 towels, running out through the minus 10 wind chill to the garage and rummaging through the bags for an outfit! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha! [/QUOTE]
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