Housecleaning Tips for the Out of Work Husbands-Laundry

When your wife is at work and the dirty laundry has piled up around you, that's a pretty good indication it's wash day. I don't know about you guys, but back when I had to wash my own laundry, I had one method. Shirts,pants,underwear,socks, didn't see the washing machine until they could walk to the laundry room. At which time, I would cram everything into the washing machine, add detergent, set it to heavy load, cold/cold for water temp (save on electricity), push the button to start, walk away and forget about it. Now that I'm married that easy housecleaning tip just ain't gonna work anymore.

First of all, as with everything else in housecleaning, wives are very particular about the proper method for doing the laundry. Everything has to be separated...dark clothes, white clothes, underwear, even towels all have their separate little pile. This means you have to monitor the washing machine, because now, you have four medium loads of laundry instead of just one big load. I know, time consuming, but necessary. And it's not like we have a choice. So, let's just git 'er dun.

Darks are separated from whites to prevent your favorite tee-shirts from turning kinda grey in color. I always thought washing everything in cold water would prevent that.

Wrong again.

Towels get separated out because they shed. Like a dog. That fuzzy lint on your jeans. Now you know how it got there.

Instead of using bleach for the whites, I read a housecleaning tip where you should use peroxide. This housecleaning tip makes sense because it will eliminate that obnoxious bleach smell from your clothes. One more thing. Wash the whites in hot water and the dark stuff in cold water. No, I don't know why. My wife says to wash it that way and that's all I need to know.

One more easy housecleaning tip. Spread the laundry out over the week so you're not taking (wasting) a whole day doing nothing but laundry. You gotta leave time for the important stuff. Like, doing nothing.