I have two washing machines. Is that weird?!
I never really thought about it, but it came up in an ice breaker activity this week at my Cert 4 course.
An aside: Don’t you love how I just casually threw that in there?! Yes, as if I am not busy enough, I have enrolled in a Cert 4 in Small Business Management. The opportunity came along, the fees are heavily subsidised by the government, and it’s being held in my suburb. All going well I will have completed it by Christmas. Although I am super busy, I figure in the long run it will be worth it as it will help me to streamline and run my business more efficiently. Besides, after nearly 2 years in business I thought it was about time I figured out what I was actually doing, LOL!
Turns out having two washing machines is a bit of a novelty!
When we needed a new washing machine a few years ago, we found a front loader at a bargain price – and at the time the government was offering incentives on them, in a bid to help save water in the midst of the drought.
Now, front loaders as a general rule don’t have as big a capacity as top loaders. And, the wash cycle can take an hour or more. Ain’t nobody got time for that!
What can I say – it was cheap and we had the room – so hubster insisted we buy a second one, to help make my life easier (as the chief laundress in our household).
We’ve never looked back.
What does your Washing say about YOU?!
According to our trainer at the course, our laundry habits reveal a LOT about us!
For example, my tale of two washing machines, and the fact that pretty much everything that can be, goes straight onto hangers – meaning once dry, the clean clothes go straight in the wardrobe without any ironing – probably reveals the fact that I am generally an organised and efficient person. I really hate wasting time!
Or take people who are anal particular about hanging their laundry with matching pegs. They are likely to be more detail-oriented (or OCD, I’m not sure which!).
So what does your washing say about YOU?!
I’m doing it everyday and do one ironing session a week to get all items ironed that have been washed that week. We have a top loader but I bought an 8kg one so I could wash more clothes at once. 🙂
I read somewhere recently that the average household does 4 loads of washing PER DAY. That’s crazy!
I must confess that I hang things together because it is easier then to sort the laundry once dry. Plus, I used to match peg colours (but not anymore, thankfully!) I haven’t really hung clothing on hangers on the line, but I might try that to cut down on ironing. Good tip Janet!
Just don’t do it with wire hangers as they will leave rust marks 😉
I have never thought to hang clothes on the hanger – what a fab idea!!! Now that’s efficient! 🙂
I think Efficiency is my middle name 😉
I have one top loader which must be on its last legs (I’m whispering this because I don’t want it to overhear and get ideas) because it has to be about twenty years old. I only wash once a week because the kids do their own washing now. Yay!
Miss 17 has started doing a load of her own stuff every week or so. Mr 20 – nope. Luckily with the hubster on Long Service Leave, he has been playing Mr Mom and doing most of the washing lately!
OMG what a brilliant idea. When we shifted into our new home I bought a front loader and we still had our two girls living at home, we each had a dedicated wash day. Now that they have abonded me and live in their own homes it isn’t an issue anymore.
We’ve been putting items like tops and shirts on hangers then putting them straight into our wardrobe for many years now. As there’s just the two of us we tend to only wash about once a week. We hang all our clothes on the laundry lines in our garage so they’re out of the sun and there’s no hurry to take them in (which can be a bit of a trap though – they sometimes remain down there for a while). We have an ironing board set up in our laundry and just iron when we need to (we each do our own ironing).
Sounds very similar to our system June – we only iron when we need to as well.
Oh I’d love 2 machines. Though our Front loader cost a bomb.
I think we got both of ours for about $800, which is what we paid for our last top loader many years ago, so that seemed very reasonable to us!