Anyone else with a teenager at home? The Urban Dictionary came up with a good one today: it's time to "mow the laundry" which rather nicely and exactly describes the level of effort required when you leave it all weeks on end between loads.
Most teenagers don't do laundry (even fewer mow the lawn), and there are plenty of college kids who bring a duffel bag home full of “unmowed†laundry for mom to do. I would guess that this expression was created by sucker moms who don't want to burden their spoiled brat children with demeaning manual labor.
My wife does laundry on a big scale; I do it in smaller, more frequent batches. My teenage daughter and my son when he was a teenager do laundry my way. They're smart like their dad.
Whether you do a load of laundry at a time or a whole houseful may depend on whether you have your own washer and dryer. I found out long ago that it takes no longer to do six loads at the laundromat than to do just one.
I thought I had remembered a reference to "mowing the laundry" in a recent "Zits" comic strip, but this is as close as it gets:
http://www.arcamax.com/zits/s-570710-628582
I don't know, Ron. In the "good old days," when I used to go to laundromats, I remember seeing frequent fights over the biggest washers, and even more fights over the limited number of dryers. The meek may inherit the Earth, but they do not inherit the laundromat.
Six loads may take no longer than one load, but six separate regular size machines take a lot more quarters than one super size front loader laundry machine. They're so big I sometimes wash my car in them! 😉
Smart man. Smart car.