When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.
Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!
@RickiTarr When I was in my early 20s, my housemate and I would take our laundry to the local laundramat/drycleaners. There they would wash your clothes by the pound. After doing this for a few months, the lady who always helped us told us, very shy: we will wash your under clothes too. We laughed and said thank you. As we drove off, we said "if we wore any..." That was 48 years ago and it was ridiculously inexpensive.
If you get mad when you see employees at a business you are patronizing laughing, enjoying each other's company, and goofing off, you're a dick. Empathize with people working a shitty underpaid job, and let them enjoy what little fun they get.
The world shouldn’t support the far right, authoritarian, genocidal regime in charge of Israel any more than the world should support the U.S. if we should be taken over by fascists.
@RickiTarr And it was made in China for 47 cents, sold for $2.50 to a distributor, $4.85 to the retailer who will sell it to you for $9.95. So you are paying about 20x markup on the junk to boot.
It's not that we're so different from other girls, or boys for that matter. We've had our brains so infiltrated by gender stereotypes and ideals from such a young age, that by the time we get old enough to realize we are unique humans with our own distinctive character, we feel like we need to shout this from the rooftops. Every person is unique, no matter the gender, some just get more of a chance to exercise the right of individualism than others.
@RickiTarr I am my father's first son and as such was to live out all his masculine fantasies for his boy. I became artificially competitive. It has taken me most of my lifetime to evolve into my genuine self.