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Feb 25

BREAKING LAUNDRY UPDATE — must credit lakeneuron.com

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Well, as soon as I got home from work today, I took my laundry to the laundry room, and — incredibly — all three loads and both baskets of laundry were still in the same places they were last night. If this is one person’s laundry, or one family’s, they must be running around Shelbyville naked.

I pulled the wet laundry out of the washing machines and put mine in. I’m not sure what I’ll do with the laundry from the dryer, presuming that it will still be there by the time I’m ready to dry my clothes; I may put it in a trash bag so that I can set it next to the wet laundry.

Feb 24

I’ve been left behind

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The apartment complex where I live has, I think, 16 units, and it’s the oldest such complex in Shelbyville.

There’s a small laundry room with two coin-operated washers and one dryer.

Occasionally, I’ll go to do my laundry and the washers or the dryers will be occupied. There have been a few times when no one has retrieved their wash over an hour after it was finished, and I was in a hurry, and I had to take the extreme step of taking their wash out of the dryer and piling it on the counter nearby. I don’t like to do that, and I only do it if they’re more than an hour or an hour-and-a-half late and if I have somewhere I need to be (even if that somewhere is bed). I don’t think I’ve ever taken wet clothes out of the washer, only dry ones out of the dryer.

There have been a few times when I, too, have let time get away from me, although not usually by quite that long. I would like to think I’d understand if someone had to move my clothes.

Tonight, though, is a situation I’ve never seen before. Both washers are full of wet, washed clothes. The dryer is full of presumably-dry clothes. There are also two full laundry baskets sitting in the floor. When I first stopped by, two hours ago, the dryer was almost finished running. I’ve been back and forth several times to check, but nothing has changed since that time.

I can only assume that the rapture has occurred, and I’ve been left behind.

I feel much better today than I did yesterday but I still plan on getting to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. I also don’t want, in a worst-case scenario, to have to empty both washers and the dryer, because there’s not enough counter space. I brought my laundry back from the laundry room and I’m going to try to get by another day and do a load after play practice tomorrow night, or perhaps in between work and play practice.

Jun 25

Toilet paper shopping

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I had some time off from work this afternoon, and one thing I did was go shopping. Mostly, I was looking for things to take for the soapmaking workshop, but I picked up a few other mission trip essentials en route.

One, and I think I’ve blogged about it before, was travel toilet paper. They used to sell this as “Charmin TO GO” in the sample-size product aisle at Wal-Mart; I haven’t seen it there lately, but they sell pretty much the exact same product, sans the familiar brand name, in the outdoors department with the camping supplies. It’s a roll of toilet paper about 1″ in diameter — wound all the way to the center, with no inner core or spindle — which comes with a little clamshell plastic dispenser. When you travel to the developing world, in places where indoor plumbing is not a given, TP is also not a given, and it’s a great idea to have one of these travel rolls handy. I carry a backpack on trips, and so it’s always in my backpack.

I also looked in the sample size aisle for Tide sink packets — which I know I’ve blogged about before. These are little packets, about 1 1/2″ square, containing just enough of a liquid detergent for hand-washing clothes in a sink or large bucket. On a mission trip, you have to pack light. Sometimes your hosts will offer to do laundry for you or there will be someone in the community to pay to wash your clothes. Often, however, you’re on your own, and if you want clean clothes after the first day or two, these packets are a godsend.

The shelf location which was supposed to have the Tide sink packets had a completely different product — larger packets containing enough liquid detergent for one load in the washing machine. (And that’s a completely different product — the tiny packets are specifically formulated for hand-washing, while the large packets are the same stuff you would find in a jug on the laundry aisle.) Buried underneath the large packets were two small three-packs, one of them damaged, of the sink product for which I was looking.

I didn’t bother buying the one intact three-pack. Instead, I came home and found the sink packets online, at the Walgreens web site. I ordered enough for myself and some extras to share with my teammates if necessary.

I highly recommend these. They’re probably a good idea even for an extended vacation here in the U.S.