The part I despise the most is putting them in the closet. I’ve tried many solutions, but I’ve not found any that made the job less tedious.
When I was a student, I just threw my clothes into various shelves based on the type and considered that good enough. I did not fold clothes ever. I just threw the boxers in one shelf, the socks in another, T-shirts in another, pants in another.
As an adult with a family, this won’t be accepted anymore.
I had a period in which I had a dryer, but I did not find that it saved me a lot of time because the fastest way to get the laundry into the shelves and the hangers is by sorting it first. And if I had to sort it anyways, I could just sort it on the drying rack and put it on the hangers on the drying rack.
I think it’s fairly hard to find solutions to fix this.
I have considered mapping out each step, and then try to identify the pain points. Then find ways to remove as much friction as possible. Kind of like how an UX designer would handle this.
Next time I’ll just roll a die to decide who does the laundry.
As an adult with a family, this won’t be accepted anymore.
This right here is the real problem. Can you explain what’'s unacceptable about it and why you’re not asking, “How do I convince my spouse to accept this?”
That probably isn’t even necessary. If OP doesn’t mind doing dishes, they can share responsibilities. OP does dishes and puts them away, spouse does laundry and puts clothes away. Everything is now clean and tidy and nobody HAS to do the thing they hate.
Nakedness. Ideally find a work from home situation. Careful answering the door.
Converting my family into nudists does not seem to be the right solution here.
However, the idea of trying to reduce the amount of clothes that are worn daily might be on the right track.
Start with pants. You can wear one pair of bluejeans for a week.
…. Only a week?
My partner’s dad had a pair that stood on their own. Not frozen, just gross. Gotta admire the dedication I guess.
Are these people regularly shitting themselves while wearing jeans? Doing yard work in jeans?
Why are they being washed every week - are they heavily soiled?
Shit, even my pair I do construction work in, I only wash when they get too soiled.
My off work pair I wash like once every 8 months.
Pretty sure a lot of jeans just tell you to wash once every 6 months unless you really soil them, or just use a brush to remove debris and throw in a ziplock in the freezer if they smell.
A week? Rookie numbers
You’re supposed to wear raw jeans for at least half a year before ever washing them.
The heck? I do have like ten pair of jeans and don’t wash them unless I get something on them, but still end up washing a pair of jeans every second week at least. Always manage to get them dirty in some way.
My husband used to not wash his much but got a rash on his thighs & the doctor said to wash them more often. Not like every time you wear them, but not just twice a year.
I don’t know about six months, but you’re really not supposed to wash denim frequently at all.
I’ve seen some people go as far as to suggest putting them in the freezer as a way to kill germs instead of washer and dryer, as it’s less damaging to the material.
I dunno about all that though.
Start with pants? Then what, work up to undies?
If you gotta do it, you could consider matching socks / underwear / undershirts. Then pants and shirts can be worn multiple times to cut back?
I advocate getting your family to do the laundry and put it away instead and you can do something someone else doesn’t like: cooking, or dishes, or lawn and garden care or something.
My grandpa wore coveralls, he had a rack of identical coveralls and I can’t remember him ever wearing anything else.
My parents were always naked at home. Like, always. And it was that way pretty much until I grew up.
This is called a Haberdasher Stand. When you undress you hang you clothes on it. Wear the same clothes as many days in a row as you can. Much less laundry per week.
I bet you smell bad
nice try fbi
This is not an acceptable response from Poem_for_your_sprog. Do better.
Where did OP say they don’t shower? Unless they have a particularly stinky job, clothes don’t need to be washed after a single wear.
if wearing the same thing 3 days in a row makes you stink, you should probably talk to a doctor.
I mean, it depends greatly on what you’re doing in those clothes
Oh yeah let me do a 45 minute workout in a T-shirt and then wear it to work the next 3 days in a hot factory.
I used to dislike laundry in the past, until I figured out that the part that I disliked was the monotony and lack of mental stimulation. This could be solved by listening to podcasts or audiobooks while doing the laundry. Now I no longer dislike it, because it’s really only an opportunity to listen to podcasts for 30-40 minutes (hang-drying/folding time)
podcasts ftw for any house chores
I love music, and spend hours listening to tunes with my ridiculously expensive IEMs while working but for some reason it doesn’t cut the mustard with house admin
Become a nudist.
I’m a nudist and this is actually legit. I only wear clothes to go outside sometimes and often only briefly so I’ll usually just hang them back up when I’m done. I only do a single small load of laundry once a month or so. My wife isn’t so she has to do like 4 loads a month of her clothes.
This is actually so interesting lol. It raises so many questions for me. Like, did your current wife know you were a nudist before marrying you? How did she take it when she found out? Something you had to break to her or did you know she’d be fine with it? She doesn’t think it’s annoying to accommodate you nudism in her home? Like, people coming over unannounced is harder etc? Stuff on the furniture and so on?
Please answer any, all, or none, however you see fit. 😁
Yeah she knew the whole time. It’s never a problem at all. We have separate rooms and I can always just throw a sarong on it need be. I’m not sure why you would assume there would be problems. There aren’t any.
Well, I’m not assuming there are, just wondering if there are. 🙂 Anyway, that’s great for you.
The separate rooms thing, is that something you both want because of the nudism?
No, it has nothing to do with it. We just both prefer having our own bedrooms. Nudism is completely not an issue for me.
Interesting. I could never imagine wanting a separate room to my wife. To each their own. 😊
Yep, that’s totally valid. We are both people who don’t like physical contact all the time so sharing a bed is not great for us. We do enjoy it from time to time and sleep together (especially while camping).
How do you deal with body soil on furniture?
Sheets on the couch, covers on chairs.
Soooo how often do you wash those sheets that are the equivalent of your underwear?
Once a month or so. But I’m the only person that sits in that spot naked so take that how you will. You’re gonna gross yourself out from your own worldview no matter what I say.
Edit: Didn’t your momma tell you that nekiid bodies are disgusting?
This is maybe tmi, but female bodies produce secretions down there even while not on their period. It’s called cervical mucous and is most notable once a month (a week or two after your period ends), but can sometimes occur at other times. I understand that you are male. But as someone with female parts, I just wonder if it would be embarrassing standing up and there is a stain on the sheets on the couch.
That’s a very good point!
As an adult with a family, this won’t be accepted anymore.
Says who? Like if it’s your clothes your room your life, do it your way.
Signed. A couple who hasn’t folded clothes in months
Become a nudist.
No clothes = no laundry.
become a nudist
There are nudist reserves you can move to, to live forever. While most of them go out to earn. I know of a person that runs a restaurant/food corner in nudist reserve and leaves the reserve like once a month. He was my favorite colleague when he was still living with us normies. Now I see him like once every two years.bHe even got married to lady who also lived in nudist reserve,
I never asked, but I doubt he does laundry. Let me text him. Will edit to say what he replies.
Edit: He replied right away, his kind neighbor has been doing his laundry last six years. He doesn’t even own a washing machine. It makes sense, his neighbors both work outside the reserve, they do laundry every 2-3 days, they don’t mind taking on two additional clothes every month.
P.S. He said two, Motherfucker has been going commando every time we met, hasn’t he? Curse you for making me learn this knowledge.
Live out of a laundry basket. If anyone questions it just curl yourself around the laundry basic and scream like a possum protecting its nest of young. Maintain solid eye contact throughout. Defecate if necessary.
They’ll never mention it again and probably warn others. you can then live out of that laundry basket free of judgement.
Follow me for more info about living life with the freedom of a possum .
Lower your standards. Half-ass fold things. Don’t use hangers. I drape over the drying rack and have gotten pretty adept at a quick lift and couple of shitty folds into a stack. Another tip is to have clothing that don’t care about wrinkles (synthetics, sports clothing). Then you can just throw them into a drawer. I have pretty homogeneous clothing (all the same featureless t-shirt in black, white, grey, same underwear, etc). This helps with the organizing on to the drying rack. I know exactly how many of each goes where and it is trivial to color coordinate so the half ass folding naturally collates the stacks.
I wait to do laundry every couple of weeks. It all fits in one load most of the time (bought largest high efficiency machine, 12kg capacity). Some clothing gets more than one use before washing, and it entirely depends on how active I am in that clothing.
All of this helps me personally mitigate my extreme disdain at the task. Oh, and getting absolutely stoned out of my mind. Put on some tunes, it ain’t so bad either the draping (largest things first), or the shitty folding.
This is the total opposite of what you should do. Letting it pile up and doing it sloppily is like pulling off the bandaid as slowly and painfully as possible.
I do all menual labour tasks like that while listening to podcasts, makes it far less annoying.
Maybe consider not washing things so often? Underwear, socks and t shirt I wear one day, but an outer shirt I might wear twice, pants or shorts for a week, towels last one to two weeks.
Some fabrics, like denim aren’t even meant to be routinely laundered. Lots of fabrics hold up well to fewer washes or more wears between washings, as long as it’s not stinky or obviously dirty there’s no actual reason to wash something.
This is what I used to do… then we had a kid 😭
it gets better. kids now upper single/lower double digits, and I can reuse stuff for dayzz where it was previously multiple changes per day
bonus trauma memory: just about to go to work, no wait I need a new shirt, tie and jacket
now I’m late ¯\(ツ)/¯
Single type of socks so you don’t need to pair them.
Dry shirts/t-shirts etc on hangers, then just hang up the hangers. You can extend this to trousers etc if you have the hanging space.
Single type of socks so you don’t need to pair them.
I didn’t even realize what a life hack this actually is despite having been doing it for like 15 years.
People keep gifting me fancy sports socks… They just go in the misc socks draw and don’t get used 😭
nah anatomical L/R socks are god tier, they are my sensory delight and demand
Invest in merinos and wool / hemp / tencel-lyocell clothing . They retain less odor, evacuate sweat better, plus, more adapted to heat/cold regulations. Even wool can be cool in summer. Avoid cotton first layer like t-shirts, you almost need to wash them after one use. They tend to smell quickly. A merinos shirt can be used Monday, be hanged Tuesday, used Wednesday and so on. Invest in a good pair on denim jeans if wear this kind of pants and remember that it doesn’t need to be washed unless it’s stained or smell bad. Denim should just be hanged on reverse side outside from time to time to take fresh air. Use merinos socks too. Work the same as tshirt. You will still need to wash, but less often.
The cons are merinos and other wool need to be hand washed at best (there wool program on machine, but I don’t risk it). And merinos is more fragile than cotton or synthetic fabric.
And if you don’t like folding, use hangers. That how I do.
Alpaca > Merino. Better temperature regulation and softer feel.
Check out Paka. They have fully traceable alpaca gear, also in tencel/merino blends.
Tanks for the recommendations, never had the chance to try alpaca. I’ll check Paka.
Also, I forgot to mention linen for summer.
