The Laundry Monolith

I don't know about you, but I pretty much have a pile of clean laundry at the back of my lounge-room all the time.  Every morning as I'm digging through the pile to find clothes for the kids I think 'this is so inefficient, I really must fold and put away this laundry'.  Of course this really only happens when we have visitors coming over or funnily enough if I have sick kids and can't get out of the house.  I really will do anything to get out of folding this washing.

And you know what - I think this is OK.  People put so much pressure on themselves to have the immaculate house - to please who?  Ask yourself the question.  If the answer is to please someone else (including other immediate family members who live with you), then give yourself a break and play with the kids instead!  Set yourself free from such a chore.  It will still be there tomorrow.  I have learnt to live with and embrace my pile of laundry as a bit of a monolith of honour. 

By the way, I don't iron either.  The only time the ironing board comes out is when my husband irons his shirts for work, and if we are going to a wedding (and even then it would have to be one where we are involved somehow).

A friend of mine said to me once, when I was apologising for the state of my house 'I've come to see you and the kids, not the house'.  I now take this saying with me and use it all the time.  People, especially mothers feel the need to apologise all the time for not doing a job that we all know we hate doing.  Don't apologise, embrace it as part of your life and lose the guilt I say!

After all this, if you really can't stand it for yourself, and you want to do something about it, then have a look a this post from The Organised Housewife.

As for me - it's nice when it's put away, but I'm not going to stress or feel guilty about it when it's not.

Ash.