♫ Laundry is the devil.

CindyLou bought me a candle that smells like fresh laundry, bless her, because the rest of my laundry does not ever smell clean. Generally speaking, the pile of dirty laundry is much larger than the clean, so it wins.

I'm trying to figure out why I loathe it so hard. I've come up with the following reasons:

#1. It's never actually done. You can do it all day long every single day, and it never actually ends.

#2. The dryer bitch (as previously discussed on Twitter, if you have something in your dryer that steals socks, it does not deserve to be called a fairy) steals socks.

#3. It involves waiting. Every other chore can be done the MINUTE (or 15) that you get motivated to do it. Laundry? No. You have to find it all, sort it, wash it, dry it, put it away. One load is a waste of like...2 hours.

#4. It smells amazing...but only for like...20 minutes.

#5. The dryer itself collects lint dust. Yay, so I get to do laundry AND dust? Lucky me!

#6. ...and probably the most logical, I might actually be doing it wrong. Here's where you handy readers come in.

Everything I read says that the more you wash your clothes in cold water, the more energy efficient you're being, and the more environment you save. Yay!

I've also read that it gets clothes equally as clean if washed in cold. <--those people? Dirty liars. If I wash the dirtiest jeans everrrrrr (which I now live with) in cold water, they don't come even a little bit clean. And my whites are so much brighter after being washed in hot water.

I've also heard that powder laundry soap clogs drains, and therefore always use liquid. And then somebody else told me that liquid causes colors to fade. Le Sigh. I need to hang out with Martha Stewart, for real.

So....my questions for you (and I expect comments, people! Show me the laundry love!) are:

#1. Do you sort your laundry, or does everything get thrown in the same pile and washed the same?

#2. Do you dry anything?

#3. Do you change the temperature of your water?

#4. Do you use liquid or powder soap?

#5. Do you use fabric softener (you should, because OMG DOWNY SMELLS SO GOOD)?

Anything else you'd like to add would be just lovely. <3

Yours Truly,
Nomz

♫ If you're OCD, you're probably sexy too.

My mom is one skinny forty-something year old. Because she's also adopted, we're clueless on what her genes and health are or will be. So I'm like, "Dear Jesus, please let her post-kid body be genetic...". THEN a friend forwarded me this article, and I realized that whether that is genetic or not, her OCD definitely is. Her floors, toilets, and everything but the top of the refrigerator, and inside her desk (According to her, piles of crap IS considered organized, as long as SHE knows where the stuff is) is so clean you can literally eat off their surfaces.



Anyway..., what I've learned in the last few weeks is that the reasons she, and me, and every other one of my fungshwayed, OCD friends are so skinny, is because cleaning is one of the best things you can do for YOU!

According to Healthy Living on Yahoo News, 30 minutes of housecleaning every single day can make a big difference for your health and your house!

More fun facts from them:

* Mopping floors burns 112 calories in 30 minutes
* Scrubbing the bath burns 200 calories in 30 minutes
* Making beds burns 130 calories in 30 minutes
* Cleaning windows burns 125 calories in 30 minutes
* Vacuuming burns 90 calories in 30 minutes
* Dusting burns 50 calories in 30 minutes

While the list of things to do around the house is often thought of as "women's chores", we're actually very lucky. Chores indeed...it's also a free gym membership, AND you might be lucky enough to have your guests eat off your floor as a compliment! So clean on, my domestic goddesses!

I love vacuuming. And dusting. And doing the dishes. I loathe laundry. Obviously, because it burns so little calories that it didnt' even make the Yahoo! list.



What's your favorite chore? Least favorite? Why?

Yours Truly,
Nomz