Laundry. The bane of many moms’ existences. I’m kinda weird in that I don’t really mind doing laundry. The sorting into piles, the loading and unloading; that’s all good. It’s always the folding that gets me.
In some ways, the summers are the prime laundry season. We rarely, if ever, wear socks, so the whites pile is automatically cut in half. And we rarely wear jeans or pants, so that helps to cut down on my weekly load count, too. The flip side of summertime is all the pool towels, though. Until you have a pool in your backyard, you don’t think about how many towels you will go through on a regular basis.
I can’t say I’ve ever put pen to paper on this before, but I’d say a “good” laundry week looks like this: 2 loads of bed sheets, 2 loads of bath towels, 1 load of whites, 1 load of lights, 1 load of darks, 1 load of workout clothes. That’s 8 loads of laundry if I’m lucky, with that count ticking upwards of 12 when I add in kitchen towels, jeans, pool towels or any guest room laundry.
We have a high-efficiency washer/dryer set, with the detergent and fabric softener being added into specific sections of the pull-out drawer. One issue that constantly nags at me, oftentimes even more so than folding the clean clothes does, is when I forget and pour the liquid fabric softener into its cubby hole in the washer drawer for a load of workout clothes. My husband is an avid cyclist and feels very strongly that all his exercise gear needs to be washed with detergent only and hung to dry. I guess that grabbing for 2 different bottles and loading up 2 different liquids with each load is such a habit for me that I have a hard time not doing it each time I wash his exercise stuff.
Bounce just came out with a dryer bar that actually sticks to the inside of your dryer’s drum, thus eliminating the extra step of adding either liquid fabric softener to your washer or a dryer sheet to your dryer.
To apply the Bounce Dryer Bar to your dryer, all you have to do is peel back a layer of paper to expose the sticky strip, then stick it and forget it!
Another great feature of the Bounce Dryer Bar is its ability to repel hair. We consider our chocolate Cocker Spaniel, Jack, to be the 5th member of our family and the only one of our kids who is allowed to share our bed on a regular basis. The first load of laundry I ran after installing the Bounce Dryer Bar were the sheets from our king size bed. When I pulled them out of the dryer, not only were they soft, but I noticed dozens of tiny, brown dog hairs clinging to the dryer bar.
I am excited to be hosting a giveaway for my readers that includes 1 Bounce Dryer Bar as well as a $50 Visa gift card from Bounce and BlogHer. To enter, see the giveaway rules below, and answer this question: What is your least favorite part of doing the laundry?
Also, for a list of FAQs and a video on using the Bounce Dryer Bar, check out the Facebook fan page. For more opportunities to win, visit the Bounce round-up page on BlogHer.com to read other bloggers’ reviews!
Rules:
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This giveaway is open to US Residents age 18 or older until Tuesday, 12/6 at 5:00 P.M. PST. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail. You have 72 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected. The Official Rules are available here.
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My least favorite part is folding and putting the clothes away.
I would say my least favorite is folding the clothes and putting them away.
i dislike running around the house to put it all away
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My least favorite part of doing the laundry is folding the clothes and putting them back to each person’s dresser.
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My least favorite part is seperating and going thru the boys pockets to make sure I don’t wash frogs, rocks, pens and whatever else may be hiding.
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12/5 tweet http://twitter.com/#!/cstironkat/status/143904041171288065
My least favorite part of doing laundry is folding stuff and putting it away
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My least favorite part of doing the laundry is folding the clothes and putting them away!
I hate folding clothes after they are clean and putting them away…I have a bad habit of letting the clean clothes sit clean in the basket for days! LOL
I tweeted here: https://twitter.com/#!/FotoMacro/status/144101894690840576
My least favorite part is doing it.
Thanks for the contest.
https://twitter.com/#!/slehan/status/144132065212891136
My least favorite part is folding. sweepmorey at gmail dot com
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I like ironing the least.
My least favorite thing about doing laundry is folding the laundry.