Mundane Chores
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I love washing dishes in my sink with my own two hands. I love to iron, too.
Mundane to you? As a kid, I HATED doing those chores. As an adult, I realized that both of those chores are very theraputic.
Not to mention, no one bothers you! It's amazing how everyone can dissappear when it's time to do the dishes. I don't even own a dishwasher. There is a window over my sink, which I can observe the goings on in the neighborhood during the day.
We used to live in the country and I love watching the Martins (birds--not neighbors!) play while I did my dishes. Sometimes they'd get to pestering the squirrels so much, I'd laugh out loud at their antics. My husband wondered how washing dishes could be so funny!
When I take clothes from the dryer, I'm glad to see wrinkles. Weird, I know, but it's true.
Holding up a freshly pressed item, that I just ironed and is now smooth and wrinkle gives me a silly sense of satisfaction. I accomplished something in those few moments of steam-iron bliss. No one in my family ever left the house wearing wrinkled clothes.
I ask you all to try it: Those of you addicted to dishwashers; those of you that pull the clothes out of the dryer and shake them, ignoring any wrinkles that persist in remaing -- I DARE you to wash your dishes and iron your clothes
Wait until you've had a bad day....you'll be amazed at the results.
From Out of Pambo's Mind
Pambo
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I love washing dishes in my sink with my own two hands. I love to iron, too.
Mundane to you? As a kid, I HATED doing those chores. As an adult, I realized that both of those chores are very theraputic.
Not to mention, no one bothers you! It's amazing how everyone can dissappear when it's time to do the dishes. I don't even own a dishwasher. There is a window over my sink, which I can observe the goings on in the neighborhood during the day.
We used to live in the country and I love watching the Martins (birds--not neighbors!) play while I did my dishes. Sometimes they'd get to pestering the squirrels so much, I'd laugh out loud at their antics. My husband wondered how washing dishes could be so funny!
When I take clothes from the dryer, I'm glad to see wrinkles. Weird, I know, but it's true.
Holding up a freshly pressed item, that I just ironed and is now smooth and wrinkle gives me a silly sense of satisfaction. I accomplished something in those few moments of steam-iron bliss. No one in my family ever left the house wearing wrinkled clothes.
I ask you all to try it: Those of you addicted to dishwashers; those of you that pull the clothes out of the dryer and shake them, ignoring any wrinkles that persist in remaing -- I DARE you to wash your dishes and iron your clothes
Wait until you've had a bad day....you'll be amazed at the results.
From Out of Pambo's Mind
Pambo
You are crazy...nuts...a lunatic!! Mom, I just can't imagine ever enjoying doing the dishes or ironing (in fact, it is rare that I do any ironing...Brandon does most of it...but not until it is time to wear it, never when it is fresh out of the dryer!)
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