i've been washing my own laundry for 6 years now, and before that i did laundry for a couple as a second job. i've even washed clothes in a sink in a third world county before. i would say i'm an experienced clothes washer.
i typically dread doing laundry even when i have a washer and dryer and all i have to do is pick a setting, separate the clothes, add some soap and go. but today i was dreading it even more. i've decided i'm not a horrible hand washer but it is not something i enjoy. it was laundry day in india again. we are headed for a trip this weekend so there wouldn't be time then, and i figured i needed clothes for next week that did not stink. and so it became laundry night. it all was going well, none of my clothes were bleeding too bad, things were smelling clean and i was rinsing them much better than my first attempt only 4 days ago. but it all went downhill when i decided to wash my towel. i'm not sure how many more times i'm gonna attempt that in the next 6 weeks.
towels can hold a heck of a lot of water! and trying to rinse it out when you don't want it to touch your nasty shower floor or walls or really anything for that matter, is freaking hard. then you need to try and ring it out... man is that an arm workout. i was literally breaking into a sweat just trying to clean the towel. by the end of it i was sopping went from standing in the shower and the water splashing up. and then i realized the thing to dry me off was in my hands, more wet than i was.
luckily i have a hand towel and after washing myself up i used that to dry myself off. now everything is literally soaking and draped about my room. my fingers are crossed that my towel will dry by morning when i need to shower...
i typically dread doing laundry even when i have a washer and dryer and all i have to do is pick a setting, separate the clothes, add some soap and go. but today i was dreading it even more. i've decided i'm not a horrible hand washer but it is not something i enjoy. it was laundry day in india again. we are headed for a trip this weekend so there wouldn't be time then, and i figured i needed clothes for next week that did not stink. and so it became laundry night. it all was going well, none of my clothes were bleeding too bad, things were smelling clean and i was rinsing them much better than my first attempt only 4 days ago. but it all went downhill when i decided to wash my towel. i'm not sure how many more times i'm gonna attempt that in the next 6 weeks.
towels can hold a heck of a lot of water! and trying to rinse it out when you don't want it to touch your nasty shower floor or walls or really anything for that matter, is freaking hard. then you need to try and ring it out... man is that an arm workout. i was literally breaking into a sweat just trying to clean the towel. by the end of it i was sopping went from standing in the shower and the water splashing up. and then i realized the thing to dry me off was in my hands, more wet than i was.
luckily i have a hand towel and after washing myself up i used that to dry myself off. now everything is literally soaking and draped about my room. my fingers are crossed that my towel will dry by morning when i need to shower...
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