making a plan

The Problem with Laundry

I want to talk to you about your laundry situation. I have heard wives and mothers in all different walks of life vocalize how overwhelming laundry is to them. Most of us have whole rooms in our homes dedicated to laundry, along with two moderately expensive appliances whose only job in life is to wash and dry laundry.  So with all that, why are we all so overwhelmed with this? I believe laundry is hard for a few different reasons. Let’s only go over the most practical one right now.

 

How we all physically do laundry.

 

From what I can tell, this is how most of us do laundry. First, you go all over the house collecting all the dirty laundry, bringing it to one central location, and then wash and dry it. Most people then take it to another location; to the living room, bedroom, or wherever to fold it. Then, once it is folded into neat little piles, we have to go the distance of the whole house to deliver it back to it originating locations.  

Ok, just for a second, pretend you are running a business, and your chosen “product” is making clean laundry. Now, picture yourself sitting in a conference room trying to explaining to investors your system for getting your product made. If you told them the above system, they may call your job into question.The system is inefficient at best and the CEO, you,  are doing all of the product movement.

 

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Story Time

Shoe Problem

I think I had a hard day today.

After working full time since I was 19 (I'm not tell you how long ago that was)  I quit my job to stay home with my kids full time. Now to be honest I never thought staying at home was going to be easy, not for a second, and I knew that I would find new things that are hard.   What I didn't expect is how often I would be stumped with a problem that I just didn't know how to solve and I'm pretty sure I did not handle well.   Like today, we have a seemingly epic shoe problem.  There are 6 of us who wear shoes every day. That's 12 feet, and each foot has no less than 4 shoes that fit it, which means that  there is a minimum estimate of 48 shoes in my house at any time.

Now you would think with all those shoes it would be pretty easy to find at least 2 that fit your feet in any given moment, Especially with the "easy toss-them-in-this-bucket" system I have right by the front door. Nope. Still can't find any shoes, ever.

Today after for the 9th time of telling my older boys to put their shoes away so they could find them when they needed them, AND I didn't have to trip over them, I kinda snapped.
I picked up 4 sneakers and called their names as I walked to the front door. Then as they watched I stepped out onto the front porch and hurled the shoes one at a time as far as I could into the woods. I'm not proud of it, and I don't really think it did any good, except make the kids laugh and also maybe point out to me that I might need a different approach to my day if shoes are pushing me that close to the edge.

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