Week 2 Day 5: Wash your sheets

It's so hard to remember to wash sheets - I'm confident that's the dirty (literally and figuratively) secret that we all hold near to our hearts. So round 'em up and wash 'em. Comforters, quilts, bottom sheets, middle sheets... also couch slipcovers, if you have them and they'll fit.

Achievement: While you're at it, complete a (mostly) unrelated but helpful task: find all your socks. You heard (read?) me. I'm absent minded and somehow socks turn up everywhere: the kitchen, the bottom of the stairs, the bathroom, under stuff, inside stuff... if you have this problem at all, grab all the socks while you're gathering the sheets, and wash them, too.

Or put them away if they're clean, but that seems unlikely. If you do this, you may notice that your house looks a lot cleaner; like throwing away scraps, it's the little things that make a big difference! Plus you'll get karma points with the Laundry Cardinal for gathering the flock.

Trivia: Laundry Cardinals work on a karma based system, instead of a tithing system. Although I guess real Cardinals don't do the tithing thing anymore either? My information seems to be several hundred years out of date.

They also have really deformed thumbs, but like to give thumbs-ups anyway.

Day Five: Do Laundry. Just the whites.

Thursday Edit: I meant Friday. Last week we did not actually have two Thursdays in a row, to my knowledge. means we need to have a talk about a very serious subject. That subject is laundry. If you're going to clean up after yourself, you must include the stuff on your body. As an added bonus, if your laundry is clean and put away, then your floor will probably be 90% better. However, I can guess that there would be resistance to this concept. How will you maintain your scruffy and disreputable demeanor if you wash your shorts? How will anyone take you seriously as a pirate?

First, stop that. You're probably choosing a different career now. Second, you can always just not shave. Of course if you're female that might lead to some strange looks, depending on location. Both your location and the non-shaving locations. But you don't care, you're a pirate!
Ahem. Back on topic. With sharing time! I have enough socks and underwear and bras to last me... well, it's probably upsetting, so I won't make an estimate. But on the plus side, between me and the Male Compatriot, we have enough undergarments to make a respectable load, especially if we add in sheets (I've heard that's a cardinal laundry sin, but too bad) Before Male Compatriot came along, I did all of my laundry in one load. And I mean all of it. Except wool stuff, that you're supposed to hand wash. Although now that I have a washer that has a no-tumble setting, I ignore that rule too. I commit a lot of laundry sins, basically. The Laundry Cardinal disapproves, but I just remind him of the pirate thing and it's kind of a free pass.

 

This is a Laundry Cardinal (of the Order of the Lost Sock, of course)

...Back to topic again? I think so.
The topic is, gather a load of white laundry and do it. Unless you don't have enough whites, then do it all. This might take a while, but that's ok. I found some stuff I forgot I owned today, which is always nice. Just take 15 minutes and do it. Sock Cardinals aside, you'll feel much better about everything.

Achievement: Can you tell that the Order of the Lost Sock is both a Lost Sock and revere the Sign of the Lost Sock as seen on their necklace thingy (a Catholic I am not). Turns out socks are hard to draw in Paint and that small. Also that Lost Sock Cardinals are quite self-absorbed, revering themselves and judging me for my laundry sins. Jerks.